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Dr Ekaterina Gladkova

Assistant Professor

Department: Social Sciences

I am an interdisciplinary researcher and am currently an assistant professor in sociology. My specialism is in critical understandings of practices, politics and human/other-than-human entanglements in food production. I analyse the existing industrialised food system and draw on an art practice as a method to explore the potential for a socio-environmental transformation.

My research interests include:

- industrial farming and industrially farmed animals (pigs specifically)

- re-imagining the food system through a creative practice

- urban farming

- political economy of food production

- environmental, ecological and multispecies justice

Ekaterina Gladkova

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Environmental (in)justice and the post-political, Gladkova, E. 1 Feb 2025, In: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
  • More-than-human urban food growing imaginaries: engaging with the senses, Gladkova, E. 7 Feb 2025, In: Social & Cultural Geography
  • Spatializing zoonotic disease dynamics from a political ecology perspective: Reconceptualizing spillover as structure, Masse, F., Gladkova, E. 16 Feb 2025, In: Journal of Political Ecology
  • ‘What is visible… and what isn’t’: A public art intervention for re-imagining the food system, Gladkova, E., Matsuda, N. 18 Mar 2025, In: Area
  • Why Is There a Huge Pig in Canary Wharf? The Story of SOW, Gladkova, E., Matsuda, N. 29 Jan 2025, In: Geohumanities
  • Criminal enforcement of environmental laws cannot deter ecological harm or achieve environmental justice, Stretesky, P., Gladkova, E., Stephens-Griffin, N. 16 Jul 2024, Research Handbook on Environmental Crimes and Criminal Enforcement, Cheltenham, Glos., Edward Elgar
  • Reimagining Pigs – a multispecies, ecofeminist research method, Gladkova, E., Matsuda, N. 2024, In: Australian Feminist Studies
  • Farming intensification in Northern Ireland – a state-corporate environmental harm?, Gladkova, E. 1 Jun 2023, In: Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime
  • Image-maker in Residence: Ekaterina Gladkova, Gladkova, E., Kalivis, G. 6 Oct 2023
  • Re: Pig – ways of reimagining (industrially farmed) pigs, Gladkova, E., Matsuda, N. 12 Sep 2023

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Invited talk: Research Café - Animals in Civic Futures at University of Manchester 2024
  • Invited talk: Guest Lecture for MSc Sociology students at Durham University 2024
  • Visiting an external academic institution: University College London 2023
  • Invited talk: Industrial farming, environment, and animals - Rising Stars seminar series at University of Hull 2023
  • Invited talk: Food for Thought: How Can One's Diet Contribute to a More Sustainable Future? 2019

  • Sociology PhD March 31 2021
  • Geography MSc August 31 2016


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