MA(Otago) PhD(C Sturt)
Chair in Sociology
Contact details
Room 6C13, Richardson Building
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:
1) Greening Food, which studied the political economy of new commercial alternatives in agri-food systems (like organic agriculture).
2) The 12-year ARGOS project which studied sustainability dynamics on 100+ New Zealand farms and orchards.
3) New Rural Economies, working with researchers in Europe, Canada and Australasia to theorise alternatives to neoliberal policy models for rural development.
4) 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
Postgraduate supervision
- Sociology of agriculture and food
- Environmental dynamics in food and agriculture
- Social dimensions of sustainability
- Food and agricultural governance and neoliberalisation
Current and recent 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
Publications
Campbell, H., Evans, D., & Murcott, A. (2017). Measurability, austerity and edibility: Introducing waste into food regime theory. Journal of Rural Studies, 51, 168-177. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.01.017
Campbell, H., & Rosin, C. (2011). After the 'Organic Industrial Complex': An ontological expedition through commercial organic agriculture in New Zealand. Journal of Rural Studies, 27(4), 350-361. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2011.04.003
Campbell, H. (2009). Breaking new ground in food regime theory: Corporate environmentalism, ecological feedbacks and the 'food from somewhere' regime? Agriculture & Human Values, 26(4), 309-319. doi: 10.1007/s10460-009-9215-8
Rosin, C., & Campbell, H. (2009). Beyond bifurcation: Examining the conventions of organic agriculture in New Zealand. Journal of Rural Studies, 25(1), 35-47. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2008.05.002
Campbell, H. R., & Liepins, R. (2001). Naming organics: Understanding organic standards in New Zealand as a discursive field. Sociologia Ruralis, 41(1), 21-39.
Edited Book - Research
Forney, J., Rosin, C., & Campbell, H. (Eds.). (2018). Agri-environmental governance as an assemblage: Multiplicity, power, and transformation. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 236p.
Le Heron, R., Campbell, H., Lewis, N., & Carolan, M. (Eds.). (2016). Biological economies: Experimentation and the politics of agri-food frontiers. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 274p.
Evans, D., Campbell, H., & Murcott, A. (Eds.). (2013). Waste matters: New perspectives on food and society. Malden, MA: Wiley, 250p.
Rosin, C., Campbell, H., & Stock, P. (Eds.). (2012). Food systems failure: The global food crisis and the future of agriculture. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 242p.
Almås, R., & Campbell, H. (Eds.). (2012). Rethinking agricultural policy regimes: Food security, climate change and the future resilience of global agriculture. Bingley, UK: Emerald, 250p.
Campbell, H., Bell, M. M., & Finney, M. (Eds.). (2006). Country boys: Masculinity and rural life. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 322p.
Law, R., Campbell, H. R., & Dolan, J. C. (Eds.). (1999). Masculinities in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 259p.
Chapter in Book - Research
Lewis, N., Le Heron, R., & Campbell, H. (2017). The mouse that died: Stabilizing economic practices in free trade space. In V. Higgins & W. Larner (Eds.), Assembling neoliberalism: Expertise, practices, subjects. (pp. 151-170). New York, NY: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-58204-1_8
Lewis, N., Le Heron, R., Carolan, M., Campbell, H., & Marsden, T. (2016). Assembling generative approaches in agri-food research. In R. Le Heron, H. Campbell, N. Lewis & M. Carolan (Eds.), Biological economies: Experimentation and the politics of agri-food frontiers. (pp. 1-19). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Stock, P. V., Phillips, C., Campbell, H., & Murcott, A. (2016). Eating the unthinkable: The case of ENTO, eating insects and bioeconomic experimentation. In R. Le Heron, H. Campbell, N. Lewis & M. Carolan (Eds.), Biological economies: Experimentation and the politics of agri-food frontiers. (pp. 157-169). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Campbell, H., Le Heron, R., Lewis, N., & Carolan, M. (2016). Conclusion: Biological economies as an academic and political project. In R. Le Heron, H. Campbell, N. Lewis & M. Carolan (Eds.), Biological economies: Experimentation and the politics of agri-food frontiers. (pp. 256-270). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Campbell, H. (2015). Spurlock's vomit and visible food utopias: Enacting a positive politics of food. In P. V. Stock, M. Carolan & C. Rosin (Eds.), Food utopias: Reimagining citizenship, ethics and community. (pp. 195-215). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Lawrence, G., & Campbell, H. (2014). Neoliberalism in the antipodes: Understanding the influence and limits of the neoliberal political project. In S. A. Wolf & A. Bonanno (Eds.), The neoliberal regime in the agri-food sector: Crisis, resilience, and restructuring. (pp. 263-283). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Evans, D., Campbell, H., & Murcott, A. (2013). A brief pre-history of food waste and the social sciences. In D. Evans, H. Campbell & A. Murcott (Eds.), Waste matters: New perspectives on food and society. (pp. 5-26). Malden, MA: Wiley.
Campbell, H. (2013). Food and the audit society. In A. Murcott, W. Belasco & P. Jackson (Eds.), Handbook of food research. (pp. 177-191). London, UK: Bloomsbury.
Muirhead, B., & Campbell, H. (2012). The worlds of dairy: Comparing dairy frameworks in Canada and New Zealand in light of future shocks to food systems. In R. Almås & H. Campbell (Eds.), Rethinking agricultural policy regimes: Food security, climate change and the future resilience of global agriculture. (pp. 147-168). Bingley, UK: Emerald. doi: 10.1108/S1057-1922(2012)0000018009
Rosin, C., & Campbell, H. (2012). The complex outcomes of neoliberalization in New Zealand: Productivism, audit and the challenge of future energy and climate shocks. In R. Almås & H. Campbell (Eds.), Rethinking agricultural policy regimes: Food security, climate change and the future resilience of global agriculture. (pp. 191-210). Bingley, UK: Emerald. doi: 10.1108/S1057-1922(2012)0000018011
Campbell, H. (2012). Let us eat cake? Historically reframing the problem of world hunger and its purported solutions. In C. Rosin, P. Stock & H. Campbell (Eds.), Food systems failure: The global food crisis and the future of agriculture. (pp. 30-45). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Campbell, H., Rosin, C., Norton, S., Carey, P., Benge, J., & Moller, H. (2010). Examining the mythologies of organics: Moving beyond the organic/conventional binary? In G. Lawrence, K. Lyons & T. Wallington (Eds.), Food security, nutrition and sustainability. (pp. 238-251). London: Earthscan.
Rosin, C., Campbell, H., & Hunt, L. (2008). Audit me this! Kiwifruit producer uptake of the EurepGAP audit system in New Zealand. In C. Stringer & R. Le Heron (Eds.), Agri-food commodity chains and globalising networks. (pp. 61-74). Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
Campbell, H., & Le Heron, R. (2007). Supermarkets, producers and audit technologies: The constitutive micro-politics of food, legitimacy and governance. In D. Burch & G. Lawrence (Eds.), Supermarkets and agri-food supply chains: Transformations in the production and consumption of foods. (pp. 131-153). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Campbell, H., Lawrence, G., & Smith, K. (2006). Audit cultures and the Antipodes: The implications of EurepGAP for New Zealand and Australian agri-food industries. In T. Marsden & J. Murdoch (Eds.), Between the local and the global: confronting complexity in the contemporary agri-food sector (Research in rural sociology and development: Vol. 12). (pp. 69-93). Amsterdam: Elsevier JAI. doi: 10.1016/s1057-1922(06)12004-1
Campbell, H., McLeod, C., & Rosin, C. (2006). Auditing sustainability: The impact of EurepGAP in New Zealand. In G. Holt & M. Reed (Eds.), Sociological perspectives of organic agriculture: From pioneer to policy. (pp. 157-173). Wallingford, UK: CABI. doi: 10.1079/9781845930387.0157
Campbell, H., Bell, M. M., & Finney, M. (2006). Masculinity and rural life: An introduction. In H. Campbell, M. M. Bell & M. Finney (Eds.), Country boys: Masculinity and rural life. (pp. 1-22). The Pennsylvannia State University Press.
Campbell, H. (2006). Real men, real locals, and real workers: Realizing masculinity in small-town New Zealand. In H. Campbell, M. M. Bell & M. Finney (Eds.), Country boys: Masculinity and rural life. (pp. 87-104). The Pennsylvannia State University Press.
Campbell, H. R., & Stuart, A. (2005). Disciplining the organic commodity. In V. Higgins & G. Lawrence (Eds.), Agricultural governance: Globalization and the new politics of regulation. (pp. 84-97). London: Routledge.
Campbell, H. R., & Lawrence, G. (2002). Assessing the neoliberal experiment in Antipodean agriculture. In R. Almås & G. Lawrence (Eds.), Globalization, localization and sustainable livelihoods. (pp. 89-101). Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
Journal - Research Article
Hale, J., Legun, K., Campbell, H., & Carolan, M. (2019). Social sustainability indicators as performance. Geoforum, 103, 47-55. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.03.008
Sautier, M., Legun, K. A., Rosin, C., & Campbell, H. (2018). Sustainability: A tool for governing wine production in New Zealand? Journal of Cleaner Production, 179, 347-356. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.194
Campbell, H., Evans, D., & Murcott, A. (2017). Measurability, austerity and edibility: Introducing waste into food regime theory. Journal of Rural Studies, 51, 168-177. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.01.017
Rosin, C., Campbell, H., & Reid, J. (2017). Metrology and sustainability: Using sustainability audits in New Zealand to elaborate the complex politics of measuring. Journal of Rural Studies, 52, 90-99. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.02.014
Rosin, C. J., Legun, K. A., Campbell, H., & Sautier, M. (2017). From compliance to co-production: Emergent forms of agency in sustainable wine production in New Zealand. Environment & Planning A, 49(12), 2780-2799. doi: 10.1177/0308518X17733747
Campbell, H. (2016). In the long run, will we be fed? Agriculture & Human Values, 33(1), 215-223. doi: 10.1007/s10460-015-9639-2
Lewis, N., Le Heron, R., Campbell, H., Henry, M., Le Heron, E., Pawson, E., … Rosin, C. (2013). Assembling biological economies: Region-shaping initiatives in making and retaining value. New Zealand Geographer, 69(3), 180-196. doi: 10.1111/nzg.12031
Campbell, H., Rosin, C., Hunt, L., & Fairweather, J. (2012). The social practice of sustainable agriculture under audit discipline: Initial insights from the ARGOS project in New Zealand. Journal of Rural Studies, 28(1), 129-141. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2011.08.003
Campbell, H., & Rosin, C. (2011). After the 'Organic Industrial Complex': An ontological expedition through commercial organic agriculture in New Zealand. Journal of Rural Studies, 27(4), 350-361. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2011.04.003
Campbell, H., Murcott, A., & MacKenzie, A. (2011). Kosher in New York City, halal in Aquitaine: Challenging the relationship between neoliberalism and food auditing. Agriculture & Human Values, 28(1), 67-79. doi: 10.1007/s10460-010-9260-3
Pretty, J., Sutherland, W. J., Ashby, J., Auburn, J., Baulcombe, D., Bell, M., … Campbell, H., … Pilgrim, S. (2010). The top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 8(4), 219-236. doi: 10.3763/ijas.2010.0534
Fairweather, J. R., Rosin, C. J., Hunt, L. M., & Campbell, H. R. (2009). Are conventional farmers conventional? Analysis of the environmental orientations of conventional New Zealand farmers. Rural Sociology, 74(3), 430-454.
Campbell, H. (2009). Breaking new ground in food regime theory: Corporate environmentalism, ecological feedbacks and the 'food from somewhere' regime? Agriculture & Human Values, 26(4), 309-319. doi: 10.1007/s10460-009-9215-8
Campbell, H., & Dixon, J. (2009). Introduction to the special symposium: Reflecting on twenty years of the food regimes approach in agri-food studies. Agriculture & Human Values, 26(4), 261-265. doi: 10.1007/s10460-009-9224-7
Haggerty, J., Campbell, H., & Morris, C. (2009). Keeping the stress off the sheep? Agricultural intensification, neoliberalism, and 'good' farming in New Zealand. Geoforum, 40(5), 767-777. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2008.12.003
Rosin, C., & Campbell, H. (2009). Beyond bifurcation: Examining the conventions of organic agriculture in New Zealand. Journal of Rural Studies, 25(1), 35-47. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2008.05.002
Campbell, H. (2009). A sociology of agriculture for crunch times: Sustainability, dialogue, and the disciplinary politics of knowledge production in New Zealand farming. New Zealand Sociology, 24(2), 12-38.
Campbell, H. (2006). Consultation, commerce and contemporary agri-food systems: Ethical engagement of new systems of governance under reflexive modernity. Integrated Assessment Journal, 6(2), 117-136.
Campbell, H. R. (2005). The rise and rise of EurepGAP: European (re)invention of colonial food relations? International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture & Food, 13(2), 6-19.
Willis, S., & Campbell, H. (2004). The chestnut economy: The praxis of neo-peasantry in rural France. Sociologia Ruralis, 44(3), 317-331.
Stuart, A., & Campbell, H. (2004). ″Business as usual″: Contextualising the GM/organic conflict within the history of New Zealand agriculture. New Zealand Sociology, 19(2), 220-231.
Murcott, A., & Campbell, H. (2004). Teoria agro-alimentare e sociologia dell'alimentazione (Agri-food theory and the sociology of food). Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 4, 571-602.
Campbell, H. R., & Liepins, R. (2001). Naming organics: Understanding organic standards in New Zealand as a discursive field. Sociologia Ruralis, 41(1), 21-39.
