MA(Otago) PhD(C Sturt)
Pro-Vice-Chancellor Humanities
Contact details
Tel +64 3 479 8749
Email hugh.campbell@otago.ac.nz
Hugh Campbell has held a Chair in Sociology since 2011. Prior to that he was Director of the Centre for Sustainability (CSAFE) from 2000–2010 (www.csafe.org.nz).
Hugh has been the leader or co-leader of four major projects:
- Greening Food, which studied the political economy of new commercial alternatives in agri-food systems (like organic agriculture).
- The 12-year ARGOS project which studied sustainability dynamics on 100+ New Zealand farms and orchards.
- New Rural Economies, working with researchers in Europe, Canada and Australasia to theorise alternatives to neoliberal policy models for rural development.
- Biological Economies, which engaged in a radical re-theorising of rural economies using post-structural and more-than-human approaches to the relationship between biology and economy in land-based industries in New Zealand.
Professor Campbell is also a member of Food Waste Innovation, a University of Otago Research Theme which measures food waste, develops reduction strategies, applies innovative technology, and works to modify producer and consumer behaviour.
Teaching
I co-ordinate and teach:
SOCI 202 Big Ideas in Sociology
SOCI 319 The Global Politics of Food
I teach sections of:
AGRI 101 Agricultural Innovation
SOCI 101 Sociology of New Zealand Society
SOCI 103 Crime, Deviance and Social Transformation
SOCI 208 Environmental Sociology
Areas of postgraduate supervision
- Sociology of agriculture and food
- Environmental dynamics in food and agriculture
- Social dimensions of sustainability
- Food and agricultural governance and neoliberalisation
Postgraduate students
- Katharine Cresswell Riol (PhD in Centre for Sustainability)
Right to food, and hunger in New Zealand - Rudi Kresna (PhD in Centre for Sustainability)
Developing economic, social and environmental responsive policies for sustainability of dairy farming in Indonesia - Karly Burch (PhD in Sociology)
Fighting for food safety in post Fukushima Japan - Cinzia Piatti (PhD in Geography)
Enacting the alter-native: A theoretical reframing of local food initiatives in Aotearoa New Zealand - Angga Dwiartama (PhD in Geograpy)
Investigating the resilience of agriculture and food systems: insights from two theories and two case studies - David McKay (PhD in Geography)
Education for Survival and Sustainability - Stephanie Rotarangi (PhD in Geography)
Planted Forests on Ancestral Land: The Experiences and Resilience of Maori Land Owners - David Reynolds (MA in Sociology)
The Depoliticisation of Deprivation: Food Insecurity in Aotearoa New Zealand - Madeline Hall (MA in Environmental Sociology)
From 'Producers' to 'Polluters: Farmers' experience in the Lake Taupō Water Quality Trading Programme - Ali Stoddart (MA in Environmental Sociology)
A Matter of Waste: Making experiences and perceptions of food waste visible - Elizabeth Simmons (MA in Environmental Sociology)
The philosophy and pragmatics of sustainable agriculture