Projects
- SFB 1199 - SP C04: Reimaginations of Land and Agriculture in the Context of Digitization ()
Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Sonderforschungsbereich | Project Number: SFB 1199/2, C04 - Migration, Food and Gentrification - Comparative Studies of (Post-)Migrant Gastronomies in Amsterdam and Münster – MFG ()
Own Resources Project - Land imaginations: the repositioning of farming, productivity, and sovereignty in Australia ()
Project Carried out outside the University Münster: DFG - Sonderforschungsbereich
- SFB 1199 - SP C04: Reimaginations of Land and Agriculture in the Context of Digitization ()
Publications
- Schrobenhauser, Maximilian, and Lütke, Petra. . “"They Will Make It Center’: Navigating Food Gentrification in Amsterdam's Javastraat.” Urban Planning 2025 (10): 1–21. doi: 10.17645/up.9706.
- Schrobenhauser, Maximilian, and Lütke, Petra. . “Food Gentrification in der Migrationsgesellschaft. Ambivalente Gentrifizierungsrealitäten migrantisch-bezogener Gastronomien in Münster.” Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde 98 (2-3): 131 –159. doi: 10.25162/bgl-2025-0012.
- Schrobenhauser, Maximilian, Lecszcyinski, Nora, Mertens, Leonard, Mlejnek, Marius, and Lütke, Petra. . “Wahrnehmungen der Fluchtmigration aus postmigrantischer Perspektive - Allianzen, Antagonisten und Ambivalenzen in Everswinkel.” Raumforschung und Raumordnung 81 (2): 107–123. doi: 10.14512/rur.159.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . “Infrastructures of farmland valuation in Australia.” Ethnos 2023: 1–18. doi: 10.1080/00141844.2022.2163275.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . “Tackling land’s ‘stubborn materiality’: the interplay of imaginaries, data and digital technologies within farmland assetization.” Agriculture and Human Values 2023. doi: 10.1007/s10460-023-10439-1.
- Burch, Karly, Gugganig, Mascha, Guthman, Julie, Reisman, Emily, Comi, Matt, Brock, Samara, Kagliwal, Barkha, Freidberg, Susanne, Baur, Patrick, Heimstädt, Cornelius, Sippel, Sarah Ruth, Speakman, Kelsey, Marquis, Sarah, Argüelles, Lucía, Biltekoff, Charlotte, Broad, Garrett, Bronson, Kelly, ·Faxon, Hilary, Frohlich, Xaq, Ghosh, Ritwick, Halfon, Saul, Legun, Katharine, and Martin, Sarah J. . “Cultivating intellectual community in academia: reflections from the Science and Technology Studies Food and Agriculture Network (STSFAN).” Agriculture and Human Values 2023. doi: 10.1007/s10460-023-10439-1.
- Aue, Rosa; Kettner, Le-Lina; Schrobenhauser, Maximilian; Lütke, Petra. . “Bahnhöfe - Mikropolitiken der (Un-)Sichtbarmachung.” Magazin Innenstadt, Themenheft Soziale Innenstadt Münster.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and Lea, Bauer. . “Finanzialisierung von Landwirtschaft sichtbar machen? Zum reflexiven und epistemischen Potential experimenteller Visualisierung.” Working paper series des SFB 1199 an der Universität Leipzig № 24. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . “Agri-investment cashing in on COVID-19.” in Beyond Global Food Supply Chains: Crisis, Disruption, Regeneration, edited by Victoria Stead and Melinda Hinkson. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and Dolinga, Moritz. . “Constructing agri-food for finance: Startups, venture capital and food future imaginaries.” Agriculture and Human Values 2022. doi: 10.1007/s10460-022-10383-6.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and Böhme, Michaela. . “Gemeinschaftliches Gut, nationales Territorium, Finanzanlageobjekt: Aktuelle Neuaushandlungen von Land.” in Ungleiche ländliche Räume. Widersprüche, Konzepte und Perspektiven, edited by Bernd Belina, Andreas Kallert, Michael Mießner and Matthias Naumann. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. doi: 10.14361/9783839460139-008.
- Calo, Adam, McKee, Annie, Perrin, Coline, Gasselin, Pierre, McGreevy, Steven, Sippel, Sarah Ruth, Desmarais, Annette Aurélie, Shields, Kirsteen, Baysse-Lainé, Adrien, Magnan, André, Beingessner, Naomi, and Kobayashi, Mai. . “Achieving food system resilience requires challenging dominant land property regimes.” Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 5: 1–7. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2021.683544.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and Michaela, Böhme. . Dialektik des Globalen. Kernbegriffe, Vol. 7, Land Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110645583.
- Visser, Oane, Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and Thiemann, Louis. . “Imprecision farming? Examining the (in)accuracy and risks of digital agriculture.” Journal of Rural Studies 86: 623–632. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.07.024.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and Visser, Oane. . “Introduction to symposium ‘Reimagining land: materiality, affect and the uneven trajectories of land transformation’.” Agriculture and Human Values 38: 271–282. doi: 10.1007/s10460-020-10152-3.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and Weldon, Timothy. . “Redefining land’s investability: towards a neonationalization of resources in Australia?” Territory, Politics, Governance 9 (2): 306–323. doi: 10.1080/21622671.2019.1703797.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and Larder, Nicolette. . “Bridging divides: Constructing food sovereignty in Australia.” Journal of Peasant Studies 48 (2): 368–386. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2019.1655638.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and Visser, Oane, eds. . “Reimagining land: materiality, affect and the uneven trajectories of land transformation.” Special Issue Agriculture and Human Values.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . “Historical grounding, political contexts, material hurdles: Towards more in-depth understandings of ‘finance going farming’.” Journal of Agrarian Change 2021: 1–19. doi: 10.1111/joac.12451.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . “Wenn Agrarland nur noch Rendite bringen soll.” Welternährung - Das Fachjournal der Welthungerhilfe Dez 2021.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . “The radical contribution of what's in between M and M’.” Dialogues in Human Geography 12 (1): 1–3. doi: 10.1177/20438206211057321.
- Lawrence, Geoffrey, Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and Larder, Nicolette. . “State-led and finance-backed farming endeavours: Changing contours of investment in Australian agriculture.” in Finance or Food? The Role of Cultures, Values, and Ethics in Land Use Negotiations, edited by Hilde Bjørkhaug, Bruce Muirhead and Philip McMichael. Toronto: Toronto University Press. doi: 10.3138/9781487517236-009.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and Böhme, Michaela. . “Dis/articulating agri-food spaces: The multifaceted logics of agro-investments.” in Spatial Formats Under the Global Condition, Vol. 1 of Dialectics of the Global, edited by Matthias Middell and Steffi Marung. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110643008-013.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . “Financialising farming as a moral imperative? Renegotiating the legitimacy of land investments in Australia.” Environment and Planning A 50 (3): 549–568. doi: 10.1177/0308518X17741317.
- Larder, Nicolette, Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and Argent, Neil. . “The redefined role of finance in Australian agriculture.” Australian Geographer 49 (3): 397–418. doi: 10.1080/00049182.2017.1388555.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth, Böhme, Michaela, and Gharios, Cynthia. . “Strategic financialization? The emergence of Sovereign Wealth Funds in the global food system.” in Financialisation, Food Systems and Rural Transformation, edited by Hilde Bjorkhaug, André Magnan and Geoffrey Lawrence. London: Routledge.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . “Verflüssigungen, Fixierungen und Neukonfigurationen von Orten: Trans-MENA-Perspektiven am Beispiel von Agrarräumen.” in Jenseits etablierter Meta-Geographien. Der Nahe Osten und Nordafrika in transregionaler Perspektive, edited by Steffen Wippel and Andrea Fischer-Tahir. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth (section head). . ‘Global economic entanglements, area studies, and transregional perspectives’ and ‘Transregional mobilities, migratory systems, and diasporas’, in: Middell, M. (ed.) Handbook of Transregional Studies, London: Routledge.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth, Larder, Nicolette, and Lawrence, Geoffrey. . “Grounding the financialization of farmland: Perspectives on financial actors as new land owners in rural Australia.” Agriculture and Human Values 34: 251–265. doi: 10.1007/s10460-016-9707-2.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . “Marokkos Träume vom Agrarexport. Auswirkungen auf ländliche Existenzsicherung, Arbeitsmärkte und Ernährungssicherheit.” Geographische Rundschau 12: 12–17.
- Sippel, and Ruth, Sarah. . “‘On a commencé petit-à-petit’: des entreprises agricoles multi-familiales dans l’export des fruits et légumes dans le Souss.” Alternatives Rurales 5: 1–14.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth, Lawrence, Geoffrey, and Burch, David. . “The financialization of farming: The Hancock company of Canada and its embedding in rural Australia.” in Transforming the Rural. Global Processes and Local Futures, Vol. 24 of Research in Rural Sociology and Development, edited by Mara Miele, Vaughan Higgins, Hilde Bjørkhaug and Monica Truninger. Bingley: Emerald Publishing. doi: 10.1108/S1057-192220170000024001.
- Sippel, and Ruth, Sarah. . “Breaking ground: Multi-family farm entrepreneurs in Moroccan export agriculture.” Journal of Rural Studies 45: 279–291. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.03.013.
- Gertel, Jörg, and Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . “The financialisation of agriculture and food.” in International Handbook of Rural Studies, edited by Mark Shucksmith and David L. Brown. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4337/9780857939838.00023.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . “Contested red gold: The tomato in the context of European–Moroccan relations.” in Migration and Agriculture. Mobility and Change in the Mediterranean Area, edited by Alessandra Corrado, Carlos de Castro and Domenico Perrotta. London: Routledge.
- Larder, Nicolette, Sippel, Sarah Ruth Sippel, and Lawrence, Geoffrey. . “Finance capital, food security narratives and Australian agricultural land.” Journal of Agrarian Change 15 (4): 592–603. doi: 10.1111/joac.12108.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . “Food security or commercial business? Gulf State investments in Australian agriculture.” Journal of Peasant Studies 42 (5): 981–1001. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2014.990448.
- Reiher, Cornelia, and Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . Umkämpftes Essen. Produktion, Handel und Konsum von Lebensmitteln in globalen Kontexten Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . “All you need is export? Moroccan farmers juggling global and local markets.” in Handbook on the Globalisation of Agriculture, edited by Guy M. Robinson and Doris A. Carson. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Lawrence, Geoffrey, Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and Burch, David. . “The financialisation of food and farming.” in Handbook on the Globalisation of Agriculture, edited by Guy M. Robinson and Doris A. Carson. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . “Kampf ums ‘rote Gold’: Die Tomate im Spannungsfeld europäisch-marokkanischer Interessenkonflikte.” in Umkämpftes Essen. Produktion, Handel und Konsum von Lebensmitteln in globalen Kontexten, edited by Cornelia Reiher and Sarah Ruth Sippel. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. doi: 10.13109/9783666301704.67.
- Reiher, Cornelia, and Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . “Einleitung: Umkämpftes Essen in globalen Kontexten.” in Umkämpftes Essen. Produktion, Handel und Konsum von Lebensmitteln in globalen Kontexten, edited by Cornelia Reiher and Sarah Ruth Sippel. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. doi: 10.13109/9783666301704.9.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . Export(t)räume. Bruchzonen marokkanischer Landwirtschaft Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
- Gertel, Jörg, and Sippel, Sarah Ruth, eds. . Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture. The Social Costs of Eating Fresh London: Routledge.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . “Disrupted livelihoods? Intensive agriculture and labour markets in the Moroccan Souss.” in Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture. The Social Costs of Eating Fresh, edited by Jörg Gertel and Sarah Ruth Sippel. London: Routledge.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and Gertel, Jörg. . “Shared insecurities? Farmers and workers in Bouches-du-Rhône.” in Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture. The Social Costs of Eating Fresh, edited by Jörg Gertel and Sarah Ruth Sippel. London: Routledge.
- Gertel, Jörg, and Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . “Super/markets: Beyond buyer-drivenness in Southern France.” in Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture. The Social Costs of Eating Fresh, edited by Jörg Gertel and Sarah Ruth Sippel. London: Routledge.
- Gertel, Jörg, and Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . “Introduction: Seasonality and temporality in intensive agriculture.” in Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture. The Social Costs of Eating Fresh, edited by Jörg Gertel and Sarah Ruth Sippel. London: Routledge.
- Gertel, Jörg, and Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . “Epilogue: The social costs of eating fresh.” in Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture. The Social Costs of Eating Fresh, edited by Jörg Gertel and Sarah Ruth Sippel. London: Routledge.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth, and Kemmerling, Birgit. . “Power geometries of food security: A critical area studies perspective.” in Self-Reflexive Area Studies, edited by Matthias Middell. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . “‘On a commencé petit à petit’: Globalisierte Agrarproduktion und soziale Mobilität im Souss.” in Alltagsmobilitäten: Aufbruch marokkanischer Lebenswelten, edited by Ingo Breuer and Jörg Gertel. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. doi: 10.14361/transcript.9783839409282.269.
- Sippel, Sarah Ruth. . “Doreen Massey.” in Theoretiker der Globalisierung, edited by Matthias Middell and Ulf Engel. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.
Talks
- Schrobenhauser, Maximilian; Lütke, Petra : “Food (In)Justices: Navigating Middle-Class Sensibilities in the Foodscape of Javastraat, Amsterdam”. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2025, Birmingham, .
- Schrobenhauser, Maximilian; Lütke, Petra : “Food Gentrification in Münster’s Hansaviertel: Unpacking the ‘Urban Food Machine’”. Migration and Societal Change Conference 2025, University of Utrecht, .
- Schrobenhauser, Maximilian : “'Foodscapes as Sensescapes' — Conflicting Accounts of Food Gentrification from the Hansaviertel and Train Station Area of Münster, Germany”. 2025 AAG Annual Meeting, Detroit, Michigan, .
- Schrobenhauser, Maximilian; Lütke, Petra : “(Post)Migrant Gastronomes Navigating Gentrification — Lived Accounts from a Rapidly Changing Foodscape in the City of Münster, Germany (Poster)”. International Geographical Congress 2024, Session C.02: Agri Geography / Land Engineering: Foodscapes - complex relationships of food production, distribution and consumption, Dublin, .
- Schrobenhauser, Maximilian : „(Post‐)Migrantische Gastronomien im Zeichen von Gentrifizierung und geschmacklich‐sozialer Transformation“. Session: Kritische Food Geographies: Ernährung in der nachhaltigen Stadt, Tagung Neue Kulturgeographie (NKG), Münster, .
- Schrobenhauser, Maximilian; Lütke, Petra : „(Post-)Migrantische Gastronomien als dynamisch-ambivalente Begegnungsorte der urbanen Migrationsgesellschaft, Session "Orte der Begegnung in der Migrationsgesellschaft (3/3)", Fachsitzung 368: Orte der Begegnung in der Migrationsgesellschaft (3/3)“. 62. Deutschen Kongress für Geographie (DKG), Frankfurt am Main, .
- Gasparro, Donatella : “Memories and hunches of life otherwise: re-valuing rurality and subsistence for degrowth futures, learning from the Souths-within-the-North. ”. 9th International Degrowth Conference, Zagreb, .
- Gasparro, Donatella : “Memories and glimpses of life otherwise: revaluing rurality and subsistence for degrowth futures.” 3rd European Rural Geographies Conference, "Rural Geographies in Transition", University of Groningen, .
- Gasparro, Donatella : “Salvaging the Future: an Introduction to Degrowth”. Limits to Growth. Lecture in preparation for the PINK! Congress, Amsterdam, .
- Bolokan, Dina : „Saisonarbeit in der Landwirtschaft. Ein Blick auf prekäre Arbeitsverhältnisse, Reproduktion und Merfachdiskriminierungen“. Saisonarbeit in der Landwirtschaft, online, .
- Gasparro, Donatella : “Degrowth: an ecofeminist perspective”. Rethinking our Routines. Day of Sustainability 2022, Delft University of Technology, .
Professorship of human geography with specialisation in economic geography and globalisation research (Prof. Sippel)
Heisenbergstr. 2
48149 Münster
T: +49 251 83-30026
sarah.sippel@uni-muenster.de