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Merle Müller-Hansen M.A.

Doktorandin und Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Drittmittelprojekt "NUTRIAIDE - Aufbau smarter Ernährungsumfelder für eine bessere Ernährung"
Urbane Klimaresilienz
Phone: +49 821 598 3901
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Room: 1207 (I)
Address: Universitätsstraße 12, 86159 Augsburg
About me
 
 
Hello, I am Merle Müller-Hansen, an academic researcher with a focus on agriculture and food studies. I am currently working on my dissertation in the transdisciplinary Indian-German NutriAIDE project, in which I aim to understand the urban food environments in South Asia (India) and Latin America (Mexico) from a consumption practices perspective.
 
 
As an AgriFood researcher, I am deeply concerned about the impacts of climate change on ecological diversity and food system sustainability. Climate change is affecting agriculture in multiple ways, such as shifting crop production patterns, reducing yields, and increasing the incidence of pests and diseases. These changes are having significant impacts on the availability, accessibility, and affordability of food, which is a key challenge for ensuring food sovereignty under the economic and political pressures of the current food regime.
 
 
My previous work has focussed on tensions arising from GM crops and pesticide toxicity in land use changes of Maya and Mennonite communities in Mexico. I now aim to bridge the gap between academic research and on-the-ground activism to empower marginalized communities and promote gender and social equity in urban resilience planning.
 
 
In the NutriAIDE project, I am working to understand the complex dynamics of food systems in urban areas, including the factors that influence food choices and consumption patterns. By examining the relationship between urbanization, food systems, and consumption practices, we hope to identify strategies to promote healthy and sustainable diets in urban areas.
 
 
My work is also deeply informed by feminist and socio-ecological justice perspectives. I believe that food systems must be transformed in ways that promote gender and social equity, by empowering women and marginalized groups and challenging patriarchal norms. By working to understand the challenges facing urban food systems, I hope to contribute to the development of more just and sustainable food systems that promote the health and well-being of all people.

Research foci

  • Food and agricultural systems
  • Nutrition and health
  • Food movements
  • Social inequalities (with a focus on gender)

Publications

-> Scientific Articles:

 

  • Die Erde (2023)

-First Author

Open Access: Interdisciplinary research on food environments: the key to transforming unhealthy food consumption practices and unsustainable food systems

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  • Leibniz Sozietät (2019)

- Second Author (German Language Article)

"Integration - ein einseitiges Konzept? Interkulturelle Wahrnehmungswelten in der Berliner Geflüchtetenarbeit"

In "Migration und Interkulturalität. Theorien - Methoden - Praxisbezüge", Edition K. Störl

 

 

-> Media Articles:

 

  • New York Times (2024)

- research assistance in an ongoing project

 

  • National Geographic (2021)

- research assistance

"Cultivos de la discordia en Campeche. Mayas y menonitas colisionan por la tierra y su futuro"

(Cover Story der Print Version Lateinamerika, Juni)

 

  • National Geographic (2019)

- research assistance

"An unlikely feud between beekeepers and Mennonites simmers in Mexico"

(Online, World Press Awards 2019: 2. Platz Umweltreportage)

 

 

-> Past Public Presentations:

 

  • Summer School 'Critical Social Science Perspectives on Climate Change' of the Center for Climate Resilience (CCR) Augsburg 2024 - Gender and Affect in an App-Food-Human Assemblage
  • Neue Kulturgeographie (NKG) Münster 2024 - Space-Time-Sustainability (STS) Cubes: An Urban Political Ecology of Food Environment Research, zusammen mit Katharina Gröne und Sebastian Purwins
  • AK Agri-Food meets AK Geographische Handelsforschung Würzburg 2024 - STS Cubes: Food Environment Visualization with Space Time Sustainability (STS) Cubes
  • AK Südasien Augsburg 2024 - Disrupting Colonial Trauma through the Hyper Consumption of Outside Foods in India? A Digital Food Consumer Citizenship
  • DKG Frankfurt 2023 - 'Healthy-Wealthy-Chubby' and 'Outside Foods' in Urban Food Environments : Evidence from India and Mexico
  • ECPR Prag 2023 - Panel "Local Pathways to Sustainable Foodsystems" - An app-based approach to transforming unhealthy consumption practices and unsustainable food systems : 'Healthy-Wealthy-Chubby' and 'Outside Foods' in Urban Food Environments
  • Umweltbildungszentrum Augsburg 2023 - Aufbau smarter Ernährungsumfelder für gesunde und nachhaltige Ernährung - Einblicke aus Indien und Mexiko
  • AK Südasien Berlin 2023 - 'Healthy-Wealthy-Chubby' and 'Outside Foods' in New Urban Food Environments : Evidence from India and Mexico

 

-> Organisation: 

 

  • Summer School Center for Climate Resilience (CCR) 2024 "Critical social science perspectives on climate change: Governmentality, Political Ecology, and New Materialism"
  • Interactive Science Fair Contributions at the Long Night of Science (LNDW, German Accronym) Augsburg
  • Specialty Group Meeting South Asia Augsburg 2024

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