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DOCTORAL RESEARCHER, BMBF JUNIOR RESEARCH GROUP

Lea Zentgraf is a doctoral researcher in the junior research group Food for Justice: Power, Politics and Food Inequalities in a Bioeconomy (2019-2025), funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Lea holds a bachelor’s degree in translation studies from Heidelberg University. From 2015 to 2016, she spent an academic year abroad at the faculty of Letras & Ciências Humanas at the University of São Paulo. She then completed her master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies at the Institute for Latin American Studies (LAI) at Freie Universität Berlin with a profile in political and social sciences. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the Otto-Suhr-Institute of Freie Universität Berlin. In her Ph.D. project, Gender. Power. Food: women's claims and actions in Food Movements in Germany, she wants to identify how the subject of gender is mobilized in food movements and which different demands and actions are disputed in the public sphere. Lea's experience includes working as an assistant at the Department for Literatures and Cultures of Latin America of FU Berlin and in PR and communications at the German-Brazilian Chamber of Industry and Commerce São Paulo (AHK São Paulo).

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Research

Her research interests are social movement studies, environmental studies, food studies, digital food activism, gender studies, feminist theories, intersectionality, ecofeminism, digital media studies, postcolonialism, and critical whiteness.

Publications

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Articles
  • De Castro, Ana Maria; Zentgraf, Lea Loretta; Luquine Jr., Cézar; Metaferia, Ribka; Conde, Daniel (2024): “SUSTAINABLE INTERVENTIONS TO MANAGE RETAIL FOOD WASTE: A SCOPING REVIEW”. In: Detrius – Multidisciplinary Journal for Circular Economy and Sustainable Management of Resuides, Italy. 
  • Zentgraf, Lea Loretta and Kalix Garcia, Thalita. (2023) “Food Movements, Resistance, and new digital repertoires in (post-)pandemic times”, The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food. Paris, France, 29(2), pp. 133–156. 
  • Zentgraf, Lea (2022): "#EleNão #NotHim – a feminist strike". In: FKW Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, special issue: "how :// do we speak #feminism? // new global challenges“, Berlin. 
Book Chapters
  • Zentgraf, Lea (under revision): "Essen. Macht. Frauen. – Die Rolle von Gender und Care in Food Movements in Deutschland“. In: Rückert-John, J.; Wember, C.: Geschlecht und Ernährung: Perspektiven sozialen Wandels, Reihe des Gender- und Frauenforschungszentrum der Hessischen Hochschulen, Verlag Barbara Budrich.
  • De Castro, Ana Maria; Conde, Daniel; Luquine Jr., Cézar; Metaferia, Ribka; Zentgraf, Lea Loretta (2024): “Sustainable interventions to manage retail food waste in São Paulo and London”. In: Cowley, Robert and Costa, Sérgio and Kon, Fabio; Rethinking Sustainability in Urban Areas: São Paulo, London, Berlin. 
  • Estrada Suárez, Marcela, Zentgraf, Lea Loretta, & Juárez, Yulissa(2024): “The Vicious Spiral of Violence and Resistance: Backlash and Hate Speech Against Feminism in Brazil and Mexico”. Género y violencias en América Latina, 201.
Working Papers 
  • Zentgraf, Lea Loretta and Motta, Renata (2024): Working Paper 11 “Food movements in Germany: Analysis of actors in the socio-ecological transformation of the food system”. Food for Justice Working Paper Series (Nr. 11). Heidelberg: Food for Justice: Power, Politics, and Food Inequalities in a Bioeconomy.
  • Motta, Renata, Peuker, Birgit, Zentgraf, Lea Loretta; Müller, Judith (2024). Working Paper 10 “Kurzauswertung Befragung „Wir haben es satt!“ 2024”. Food for Justice Working Paper Series (Nr. 10). Heidelberg: Food for Justice: Power, Politics, and Food Inequalities in a Bioeconomy.
  • Teixeira, Marco Antonio, Motta, Renata, Rennó, Lúcio, Galiza Pereira de Souza, Marcelo, Zentgraf, Lea (2021): “Marcha das Margaridas 2019: alimentação, mobilização social e gênero”. Food for Justice Working Paper Series (Nr. 2). Berlin: Food for Justice: Power, Politics, and Food Inequalities in a Bioeconomy.
Publications in Magazines and Websites and Interviews
  • Zentgraf, Lea (2023): “We are fed up! Towards Social and Ecological Justice in Food Systems”. In: Magazine Rural Futures by ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius + The Link.
  • Zentgraf, Lea; Gombert, Alina (2023): „Das Emanzipatorische Landwirtschafts-Netzwerk ‘ELAN’: Ein Bericht zur Entstehung, aktuellen Projekten und dem Frühjahrstreffen 2023“. In: Feministisches Geo-RundMail. Informationen rund um feministische Geographie. Nr. 93 | Juni
  • Hansen, Lina, Neubauer, Marvin, Reuter, Leonie, Schröder, Ronja, Zentgraf, Lea Loretta (2023): "Reflektionen zur NGU-Nachwuchstagung TRANSFORMATION für wen?//durch wen?//mit wem? *** Episteme_Agencies_Institutionen_politische_Ökonomie & [_]". In: Blog Soziologie und Nachhaltigkeit (SuN). Uni Münster.
  • Zentgraf, Lea (2023): “Gender. Power. Food. – Warum die Ernährungskrise eine Gender-Care-Krise ist”. In: Politk und Ökonomie. Beiträge zur politischen Ökonomie.
  • Zentgraf, Lea, Masson, Federico (2022): „First 100 Days of Government: Agrarian politics and the impact of the war in Ukraine“. In: Featured Stories//Campus.leben, FU Berlin.

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Lea Zentgraf

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Email: lea.zentgraf(at)uni-heidelberg.de

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