Andrea Mathez
Graduate assistant - doctoral fellow

University of Lausanne
Institute of geography and sustainability
Mouline - Géopolis 3552
CH-1015 Lausanne
 
 
 
Phone +41 21 692 3571
andrea.mathez@unil.ch

Research fields


Research fields, projects and collaborations

Key words:

Agri-food studies, critical development studies, human geography, Political Ecology, agroecology, geopolitics of food, imaginaries and utopias, embodied epistemologies, Morocco, Switzerland

Other work, projects and collaborations (current and past):

  • 2025: The body the great forgotten ? - Embodied epistemologies. Conception and co-animation of a 3-day CUSO workshop for PhD students in anthropology, geography, and gender studies, in collaboration with the actor Soufiane Guerraoui et the researchers Leila Chakroun et Lise Landrin.
  • 2024: Conception and organisation of the project "Peasant agroecology – Science-Society Dialogue and Crossing Perspectives between Moroccan and Swiss Actors", bringing together researchers and farmers from Morocco and Switzerland for one week in Switzerland. Funded by the IGD and the Price Christophe Pralong et Oliver Cadot.
  • 2022 - 2023: Agroecology and Inner transition (contribution to the scientific content of Lenten Campaign of the Protestant Church Aid in Switzerland)
  • 2021 - 2022: Imaginaires des futures possibles 3 (seminarist in a collective research seminar bringing together a group of artists and researchers, co-organized by the Théâtre de Vidy-Lausanne and the University of Lausann)
  • 2020: Endless modernisation : power and knowledge in the Green Morocco Plan (Master thesis at King's college)
  • 2018 - 2019: Institutionalisation and narratives of pastoralism at FAO (research paper at the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) in Rome)
  • 2017 - 2018: The territorial transitions towards local food circuits (PAT) in France (co-management of a student research project on, in collaboration with the International Urban Food Network (IUFN), Recherche et Evaluation de Solutions Innovantes et Sociales (RESOLIS), Institut de recherche et débat sur la gouvernance (IRG), and Sciences Po Paris)
  • 2016: The development and adaptation of modern super market chains in Rabat-Salé (Bachelor thesis in collaboration with a research project by the French Agency of Development and the CIRAD on Mutations de la gouvernance des systèmes alimentaires urbains. Le cas de l'agglomération de Rabat-Salé)