Faculty Details

Becky Mansfield
Address: 1160 Derby Hall
Phone: 247-7264
Email: mansfield.32@osu.edu
Current CV: Download (PDF)
Personal Webpage: http://www.geography.osu.edu/faculty/bmansfield
Interests: Political Economy of the Environment; Neoliberalism, Globalization

Current Research: My interests are in Nature-Society Relations, Health and the Body, Political Economy, and Politics of the Environment. I draw from feminist, poststructuralist, and Marxist theoretical approaches to conduct research in four main areas: biopolitics of environmental health, postnatural socio-natures of the 21st Century, neoliberalism and nature, and challenging dominant discourses of human-environment interactions.

Courses Taught:
Geography 3800-Geographical Perspectives on Environment and Society
Geography 5802-Globalization and Environment
Geography 7101-Research Design

Select Publications:
Mansfield, B, 2012. Environmental health as biosecurity: "seafood choices," risk, and the pregnant woman as threshold. Annals of the Association of American Geographers (Forthcoming in the Special Issue on the Geography of Health).

Mansfield, B, 2012. Gendered biopolitics of public health: regulation and discipline in seafood consumption advisories. Forthcoming in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.

Mansfield, B, 2011. Is fish health food or poison? Farmed fish and the material production of un/healthy nature. Antipode 43(2): 413-434.

Mansfield, B., Munroe, D.K., and McSweeney, K, 2010. Does economic growth cause environmental recovery? Geographical explanations of forest regrowth. Geography Compass 4/5: 416-427.

Mansfield, B. (ed), 2008. Privatization: Property and the Remaking of Nature-Society Relations. Malden, MA: Blackwell.