Stephanie Eccles

Concordia University

Based in

Canada
North America

Stephanie Eccles is a PhD candidate at Concordia University in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment. She is a geographer interested in the political economy of the waste frontier on industrial animal production farms. She is interested in how farm waste, a heterogenous material, generated both routinely and during disasters, is being rendered a renewable energy feedstock valued for its methane-production potential. Through ethnographic fieldwork in North Carolina, her research seeks to make visible the waste frontier on industrial farms, the policies and financial incentives that enable it, and the challenges it poses to both the local communities and the broader environmental and climate justice movement(s) as ‘Factory Farm Gas’ perversely leads to the entrenchment and expansion of industrial agriculture and fossil fuel industries.

Stephanie is also a labour organizer, who is interested to examine more closely on the role of labour –both animal and human– in these contexts.