Dr. Judith Bopp

Judith Bopp is a human geographer with a particular interest in organic farming practices and the interrelations of food, health, and ecology.

She studied cultural geography, French, and sociology at the Universities of Würzburg and Rennes, conducting her master’s thesis on socio-spatial dynamics in a high-rise neighborhood as catalyzed by its architectural features. She received her PhD in human geography from the University of Cologne through her empirical research “New Momentum to Bangkok’s Organic Food Movement: Inter-spersed Scenes Lead by Mindful Pioneers” in 2016. In 2017, she was a postdoctoral fellow for the Indo-German Center for Sustainability IGCS at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), and she worked as research assistant at Kiel University (2018–20) and University of Vechta (2020–23).

For “Fostering the Health-Nutrition-Ecology Nexus: Organic Farming Practices and Household Resilience in Rural Bangladesh and Thailand,” she received a three-year research grant (2023–26) from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). In this project, she investigates how rural smallholder households improve their resilience to overlapping social-ecological crises through adopting organic farming practices.

Her overarching interest lies in environmental discourses and how to shape relatable narratives to live by (cf. ecolinguistics). She is a member of the International Ecolinguistics Association IAE.

RCC Research Project: Fostering the Health-Nutrition-Ecology Nexus: Organic Farming Practices and Household Resilience in Rural Bangladesh and Thailand

Selected Publications:

• with Kanokwalee Suteethorn.“Tourism Without Governance: WWOOF.” In Tourism Governance: A Critical Discourse on a Global Industry, edited by Amir Gohar,  301–20. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110638141-018.
• with Anna Lena Bercht. “Considering Time in Climate Justice.” Geographica Helvetica 76, no. 1 (2021): 29–46. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-29-2021.
• “Local Notions of Alternative Practices: Organic Food Movements in Bangkok, Thailand and Chennai, India.” Sustainability 12, no. 5 (March 2020): 1952. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12051952.
• “Civil Stakeholder Engagement for Healthy Food and Mindful Living in Bangkok.” Urbana 20 (December 2019): 1–12. www.urbanauapp.org/2019-volume-xx/.
• “New Momentum to Bangkok’s Organic Food Movement: Interspersed Scenes Led by Mindful Pioneers.” PhD diss., University od Cologne, 2016. kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/6935/.
• “Die Architektur der grands ensembles—räumliche und soziale Aspekte einer französischen Großwohnsiedlung der 1960er Jahre” [Architecture of the Grands Ensembles—Spatial and Social Aspects of a French Large Housing Estate in the 1960s]. Europa Regional 18, no. 4 (2012): 150–62. www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/31489.