Joshua J. Ramisch

Joshua J. Ramisch currently lives in Ottawa, where he is an Associate Professor at the School of International Development and Global Studies (University of Ottawa). He has lived and worked extensively in Africa since the early 1990s, particularly Kenya where he first worked as an intern researching agroforestry trees and herbal medicine, and later served (2001-2006) as the Social Science Officer of the Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute (TSBF-CIAT). For his doctoral research (1995-1998), he lived in a small village of southern Mali to understand the environmental impacts of relationships between herders and farmers. His current research and writing address the dynamics of "local" knowledge and its interactions with other global knowledges, political ecology and actor network theories, participatory and action research methodologies, food security and environmental justice in developing and North American contexts, and understanding and supporting local responses to climate change.