JoAnn Jaffe

I'm a rural development sociologist who teaches and researches in the areas of sociology of environment, agriculture, development, gender, rural political economy, and social theory and has conducted research in Haiti, Saskatchewan, East Africa, Latin America, the United States, Grenada, and Israel/Palestine. A long-time activist, I have often collaborated or worked in partnership with non-academic or community groups, as well as pursued a more academic research program. My recent research and publishing have been collaborative studies on the intersectional impacts of cooperatives in Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda; social practices related to food production and food security in Ethiopia; the role of public and common goods in creating infrastructures for development; and the restructuring of rural life and agriculture in Saskatchewan. I was a Review Editor for the Global Volume of the UN International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science, and Technology for Development (IAASTD), co-editor and author of Divided: Populism, Polarization and Power in the New Saskatchewan (Fernwood), Farm Communities at the Crossroads (UR Press) and Contesting Fundamentalisms (Fernwood), as well as editor of the journal, Prairie Forum. I'm also a part-time organic crop and livestock farmer.

Recent Publications:

Jaffe, JoAnn, Patricia W. Elliott and Cora Sellers, eds. 2021. Divided: Populism, Polarization and Power in the New Saskatchewan. Halifax: Fernwood. (Includes “Preface: Spoiled Harvest: Sowing Division on the Canadian Prairie” by J. Jaffe, P.W. Elliott and C. Sellers; “Not Your Grandparents’ Rural Saskatchewan” by J. Jaffe and A. Quark, and “Cutting the Lifeline: Shuttering the Saskatchewan Transportation Company” by C. Hanson and J. Jaffe.)

Hanson, Cindy and JoAnn Jaffe. 2021. Decolonizing Adult Education. In 2020 Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education, T. S. Rocco, M. C. Smith, R. C. Mizzi, L. R. Merriweather, and J. D. Hawley, eds. Sterling, VA: Stylus.

Jaffe, J., L. Hammond Ketilson, J. Mugisha, B. Obaa, D. Namwanje, and M. Nimusiima. 2019. Co-operatives, Agricultural Livelihoods, Gender, and Differentiation in Rural Uganda. Review of International Co-operation.

Gertler, Michael, JoAnn Jaffe, and Mary Beckie. 2018. Dueling Discourses of Sustainability: Neo-Conventional and Organic Farming on the Canadian Prairies. In Contested Sustainability Discourses in the Agrifood System, Constance, D., M. Hatanaka, and J. Konefal, eds. Routledge/Earthscan.

Iles, A., M. Montenegro, A. Shattuck, H. Wittman, J. Jaffe, M. D. Anderson, M. J. Chappell, M. Huambachano, and R. Tarlau. 2018. Comment by transdisciplinary team of scientists working in food and agriculture systems. Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition. http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/cfs-hlpe/discussions/agroecology_innovation-v0

Jaffe, JoAnn and Michael Gertler. 2017. Rural Sociology. The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology. Kathleen Korgen, ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Jaffe, JoAnn. 2017. Knowledge Equity as Social Justice. Rural Sociology 82(3) 391-410.

Jaffe, JoAnn and Amy Kaler. 2016. Coffee ceremonies, gender and food security in two Ethiopian villages. Pp. 117-137 in Transforming Gender and Food Security in the Global South, edited by J. Njuki, J. Parkin, J., and A. Kaler, eds. New York: Routledge.

Anastase, B., S. Chambo, J. Jaffe, S. Javan, C. Hanson, G. Habiyameye, L. Hammond Ketilson, A. Mchopa, J. Mugisha, D. Namwanje, M. Nimusiima, B. Obaa, V. Rutaremara, E. Towo. 2016. Examining Success Factors for Sustainable Rural Development through the Integrated Co-operative Model Final Research Report. Canadian Co-operative Association and International Development Research Centre. March 31, 2016.

Jaffe, JoAnn and Terra Brockett. 2016. Cooperatives and Rural Development in East Africa. Centre for the Study of Co-operatives. University of Saskatchewan. Saskatoon, SK. (CCA/IDRC.)

Brocket, Terra and JoAnn Jaffe. 2016. Annotated Bibliography of the Determinants of Cooperative Success in Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. Centre for the Study of Co-operatives. University of Saskatchewan. Saskatoon, SK. (CCA/IDRC.)

Jaffe, JoAnn. 2015. Deskilling. The Sage Encyclopedia of Food Issues. Ken Albala, ed. Sage.

Jaffe, JoAnn. 2015. IAASTD Studies. The Sage Encyclopedia of Food Issues. Ken Albala, ed. Sage.

Jaffe, JoAnn. 2015. Landrace. The Sage Encyclopedia of Food Issues. Ken Albala, ed. Sage.

Roba, A. C., K. G/Michael, G. A. Zello, J. Jaffe, S. J. Whiting and C. J. Henry. 2015. A Low Pulse Food Intake May contribute to the Poor Nutritional Status and Low Dietary Intakes of Adolescent Girls in Rural Southern Ethiopia. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 00:1-15.

Recent Scholarly Talks and Conference Presentations:
J. Jaffe. 2019. Decolonizing Rural Sociology. Invited Panelist. Collaborative Ethnography. Annual Meetings of the Rural Sociological Society, Richmond, VA, August 9, 2019.

J. Jaffe. 2019. Family Strategy, Farm Enterprise Strategy: A Theoretical Tango. Annual Meetings of the Rural Sociological Society, Richmond, VA, August 8, 2019.

Jaffe, J. 2018. Invited Panelist. Spirited Environmental Action?: Why? How? By Whom?. Saskatoon, SK. November 29, 2018.

J. Jaffe and M. Gertler. 2018. Primitive Privatization: Dismantling the Commons and the Common Carrier in Saskatchewan, Society for Socialist Studies, Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, Regina, May 29, 2018.

J. Jaffe and M. Gertler. 2018. Privatizing Rural Public Transportation: Structural Adjustment Saskatchewan (Party) Style, Annual Meetings of the Rural Sociological Society, Portland, July 28, 2018.

Jaffe, JoAnn. 2017. Crowns, Cuts, and STC: A conversation about public goods, budget cuts, and resisting the austerity agenda. NFU Regional Convention. Saskatoon, SK. June 27, 2017.

Jaffe, JoAnn, Bernard Obaa, Lou Hammond Ketilson, and Johnny Mugisha. 2017. Engendering and Differentiating Rural Ugandan Livelihood Pathways within Context of the Integrated Co-operative Model. Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation (CASC). Toronto. June 1, 2017.

Gertler, Michael, JoAnn Jaffe, and Mary Beckie. 2017. Organic Farming in Saskatchewan: Making Sense of Complex Realities. Spring Workshop on Organic Research. April 7, 2017 Swift Current Research and Development Centre. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Hammond Ketilson, Lou, JoAnn Jaffe, Cindy Hanson, Bernard Obaa, Diane Namwanje, Johnny Mugisha. 2016. Examining Success Factors for Sustainable Rural Development through the Integrated Co-operative Model. Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation (CASC). Calgary, AB. June 2, 2016.

Gertler, Michael and JoAnn Jaffe. 2016. Grazing Co-operatives in the Organizational Ecology of Rural Saskatchewan. Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation (CASC). Calgary, AB. June 2, 2016.

Jaffe, JoAnn and Bernard Obaa. 2016. Engendering and Differentiating Ugandan Rural Development: livelihood pathways and trajectories in interaction with the integrated cooperative model. Annual Meetings of the Rural Sociological Society. Toronto: Ryerson University. August 8, 2016.

JoAnn Jaffe. 2106. Invited Panelist. Author Meets Critics: “Concentration and Power in the Food System: Who Controls What We Eat” By Phil Howard. Annual Meetings of the Rural Sociological Society. Toronto: Ryerson University. August 9, 2016.

Jaffe, JoAnn. 2016. Invited Plenary Panelist. World Regions: Key Rural Challenges and Transitions in the Neoliberal Era. World Congress of Rural Sociology. Toronto: Ryerson University. August 11, 2016.

Gertler, Michael, Mary Beckie, and JoAnn Jaffe. 2016. Dueling Discourses of Sustainability and the Trajectory of Organic Farming on the Canadian Prairies. World Congress of Rural Sociology. Toronto: Ryerson University. August 12, 2016.

Jaffe, J and T. Brockett. 2015. Cooperative Rural Development through public and common goods. Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation (CASC). Ottawa, June 2-4, 2015.

M. Gertler and J. Jaffe. 2015. Co-operation with Cows: Reinventing the Prairie Grazing Commons. Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation (CASC). June 2-4, 2015. Ottawa.

Jaffe, J. 2015. Collaborative Research and the Integrated Cooperative Model in the Context of the Commons: Promise and Praxis. International Association for the Study of the Commons. May 25-29, 2015. Edmonton, AB.

M. Gertler and J. Jaffe. 2015. Re-forming the Western Canadian Grazing Commons: Community and Co-operative Pastures under Neoliberal Restructuring. International Association for the Study of the Commons. May 25-29, 2015. Edmonton, AB.