Dr Agatha Herman
Lecturer
School of Geography and Planning
- hermana@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 4728
- 1.81, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WA
I am a human geographer with interests in the geographies of ethics and justice; in particular, my research explores and analyses questions and relations of power, social resilience and social practices through a focus on production spaces. I currently hold a Leverhulme Trust early career fellowship (2014-17) in which I am investigating the capacity of certified Fairtrade to promote resilient and ethical development within, and beyond, its producer communities. This focuses on the wine sector and has involved overseas fieldwork in Argentina, Chile, Germany, Finland, South Africa and Sweden. I am currently working on a Routledge monograph drawing on this provisionally titled Practising Empowerment in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Wine, Ethics and Development alongside developing research collaborations to further my interests in ethical commodity networks, Fairtrade, food justice and capacity-building development.
Qualifications
- Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, Plymouth University (2012)
- PhD in Human Geography, University of Exeter (with affiliation to the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) (2010)
- MSc in Society and Space, University of Bristol (2006)
- BSc (Hons) Geography, University of Bristol (2005)
Career
- Lecturer in Human Geography & Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading (2013-16)
- Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth University (2011-13)
- Research Assistant, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of the West of England (2011)
- Postdoctoral Contract Researcher, Department of Planning, University of Groningen, The Netherlands (2010)
Professional memberships
- Treasurer and founder member of the Food Geographies Working Group, RGS-IBG
- Treasurer of the Geographies of Justice Research Group, RGS-IBG
- Fellow of The Higher Education Academy
- Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers
2019
- Herman, A. 2019. Asymmetries and opportunities: power and inequality in Fairtrade wine global production networks.. Area 51(2), pp. 332-339. (10.1111/area.12467)
- Herman, A. 2019. Governing Fairtrade: ethics of care and justice in the Argentinean wine industry. Social and Cultural Geography (10.1080/14649365.2019.1593493)
- Herman, A. 2019. Assembling Fairtrade: practices of progress and conventionalisation in the Chilean wine industry. Environment and Planning A 51(1), pp. 51-68. (10.1177/0308518X18805747)
2018
- Herman, A., Lahdesmaki, M. and Siltaoja, M. 2018. Placing resilience in context: Investigating the changing experiences of Finnish organic farmers. Journal of Rural Studies 58, pp. 112-122. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.12.029)
- Herman, A. and Goodman, M. K. 2018. New spaces of food justice [Editorial]. Local Environment 23(11), pp. 1041-1046.
- Herman, A., Goodman, M. K. and Sage, C. 2018. Six questions for food justice [Commentary]. Local Environment 23(11), pp. 1075-1089. (10.1080/13549839.2018.1532401)
2017
- Herman, A. 2017. Practising empowerment in post-apartheid South Africa: wine, ethics and development. Routledge.
2016
- Herman, A. 2016. 'More-than-human' resilience(s)? Enhancing community in Finnish forest farms. Geoforum 69, pp. 34-43. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.12.005)
2015
- Herman, A. 2015. Enchanting resilience: Relations of care and people-place connections in agriculture. Journal of Rural Studies 42, pp. 102-111. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2015.10.003)
- Goodman, M. K. and Herman, A. 2015. Connections in fair trade food networks. In: Raynolds, L. T. and Bennett, E. A. eds. Handbook of Research on Fair Trade. Elgar Original Reference Edward Elgar, pp. 139-156., (10.4337/9781783474622.00017)
- Herman, A. and Yarwood, R. 2015. From warfare to welfare: veterans, military charities and the blurred spatiality of post-service welfare in the United Kingdom. Environment and Planning A 47(12), pp. 2628-2644. (10.1177/0308518X15614844)
2014
- Herman, A. 2014. Are we there yet? Exploring empowerment at the microscale in the South African wine industry. Environment and Planning A 46(8), pp. 1927-1945. (10.1068/a46293)
- Herman, A. and Yarwood, R. 2014. From services to civilian: The geographies of veterans' post-military lives. Geoforum 53, pp. 41-50. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.02.001)
2012
- Herman, A. 2012. Tactical ethics: How the discourses of Fairtrade and Black Economic Empowerment change and interact in wine networks from South Africa to the UK. Geoforum 43(6), pp. 1121-1130. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.07.006)
- Herman, A.et al. 2012. Spaces of Postsecular Engagement in Cities. In: Beaumont, J. and Cloke, P. eds. Faith-Based Organisations and Exclusion in European Cities. Bristol: The Policy Press, pp. 59-80.
2010
- Herman, A. 2010. Death has a touch of class: society and space in Brookwood Cemetery, 1853-1903. Historical Geography 36(3), pp. 305-314. (10.1016/j.jhg.2009.11.001)
- Herman, A. 2010. Connecting the complex lived worlds of Fairtrade. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 12(4), pp. 405-422. (10.1080/1523908X.2010.532939)
I contribute to the following modules:
- CP0221 Culture, Space and Place
- CP0341 Geographies of the Developing World
- CP0360 Researching Contemporary Issues in Tanzania
I am interested in supervising PhD students in a number of areas:
- Food politics, ethics and justice
- Fairtrade/fair trade
- Producers, commodity networks and 'following' methodologies
- Social practices
- Power, empowerment and international development
- Social resilience
- South Africa, Latin America and Europe