91´«Ã½

 

 Department of Geography
 91´«Ã½
 St. John's, NL
 A1B 3X9

 Office: SN 2017
 Tel: (709) 864-8193
 Fax: (709) 864-3119
 cmather[at]mun[dot]ca

 Research

	Globalization, Economy & Resources
	Sustainable Communities & Regions
	Health & Well-being

My research is broadly situated within the field of agri/aqua-food politics. Previously, my research focused on the political economy/ecology of salmon aquaculture in Canada and beyond. While I continue to research this issue, my more recent research is connected to a project on feed and feeding in animal agri-aquaculture. This is a collaborative project with Sarah Martin, a colleague in the Department of Political Science at 91´«Ã½. Our most recent contribution on this theme is a recent paper in Progress in Environmental Geography. Theoretically and conceptually, I work at the intersection between STS and political economy. I am also an active participant in STSFAN, a network of scholars across disciplines interested in the relationship between STS and food and agri/aqua-culture ().

Education

My first degree was from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg where I majored in Geography and Industrial Sociology. I subsequently received an MA from the University of British Columbia, and a PhD from Queen’s in Kingston.

Selected Publications

Mather, C., Martin, S. 2025, The antinomies of feed and feeding in animal agriculture. Progress in Environmental Geography, 0(0). 

Kolavani, N.J., Mather, C. 2025, Regulating a ‘fish out of place’: A global assessment of farmed salmon escape policies and frameworks. Marine Policy, 173. 

Mather, C., Singh, G. 2024, When maximizing food production manufactures disaster risk. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 

Mather, C. 2024, Phasing out open net-pen salmon farming in British Columbia. Science Advances, 10(42), eadt4568.

Adjemian, M., Janes, H., Martin, S.J., Mather, C. and White, M.J. 2024, Protein politics: Sustainable protein and the logic of energy. CFS/RCÉA, 11(1), 47–65. 

Singh, G.G., Sajid, Z. and Mather, C. 2024, Quantitative analysis of mass mortality events in salmon aquaculture shows increasing scale of fish loss events around the world. Sci Rep 14, 3763.  

Knott, C., Wiber, M.G. and Mather, C. 2024, Aquaculture’s offshore frontier: learning from the Canadian courts on ocean grabbing, ocean privatization, and property as process. Maritime Studies 23, 5.

Martin, S.J. and Mather, C. 2023, ‘Finprint’ technopolitics and the corporatisation of global food governance. Area, 00, 1–8. 

Guthman, J., Butler, M., Martin, S.J., Mather, C. and Biltekoff, C., 2022. In the name of protein, Nature Food, .

Power, N., Melvin, J., Mather, C. 2021. : Nature and Space.

Schoot, I. and Mather, C. 2021. , Science, Technology and Human Values.

Wiber, M.G., Mather, C., Knott, C. and Gómez, M.A.L., 2021. Regulating the Blue Economy? Challenges to an effective Canadian aquaculture act. Marine Policy, 131, p.104700.

Knott, C. and Mather, C., 2021.Ocean frontier assemblages: Critical insights from Canada's industrial salmon sector, Journal of Agrarian Change. 

Martin, S.J., Mather, C., Knott, C. and Bavington, D., 2021. ‘. Geoforum, 123, pp.47-55.

Foley, P., Mather, C., Dawe, N. and Snook, J. (2019) Creative and constrained hybridisations in subarctic Inuit communities: Communal fishery development in Nunatsiavut, Canada. In C. Patrick Heidkamp and John Morrissey (eds) Towards Coastal Resilience and Sustainability, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 309-326. Click here for access.

Mather, C. and Fanning, L. 2019. Is social licence ?going rogue’?, , 185(4), 498-504.

Foley, P. and Mather, C., 2019. , Territory, Politics and Governance, 7(3), 297-315.

Mather, C. and Fanning, L., 2019. towards a research agenda, Marine Policy, 99, 275-282.

Mather, C., Johnsen, J.P., Sonvisen, S., Sridhar, A. and Stephen, J. 2017. Introduction to the themed issue – poststructural approaches to fisheries, Maritime Studies, 16:20. .

Daniels, J. and Mather, C., 2017. Conservation and care: material politics and Atlantic salmon on Newfoundland’s Gander River, Maritime Studies, 16:17.

Daniels, J. and Mather, C., 2017. Conserving Atlantic salmon ‘after nature’ on Newfoundland’s Gander River, British Journal for the History of Science, DOI: .