Dr Jesse McEntee

PhD Title

Shifting Rural Food Geographies and the Spatial Dialectics of Just Sustainability

Research Interests

"Dr. McEntee completed his Ph.D. from Cardiff University's School of City and Regional Planning in August 2011. His research interests include:
•    Food Systems
•    Rural Geography
•    Rural Economic Development
•    Human-Environment Interactions
•    GIS methods in the social sciences"

Career Experience and Qualifications:

Jesse McEntee holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of New Hampshire (2003; Durham, NH, USA) and a Master of Arts in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University (2007; Medford-Boston, MA, USA). While at the University of New Hampshire, Jesse wrote his honors B.A. thesis on the transnational immigration experience of South Asian immigrants of southern New Hampshire. At Tufts University, Jesse specialized in environmental justice, land use law, and geographic information systems (GIS). His M.A. thesis investigated the food access issues facing the state of Vermont, USA. Framing this issue as one which falls into the contemporary paradigm of ‘just sustainability,’ Jesse developed a GIS methodology used to identify food deserts. Dr. McEntee has taught in a variety of academic and professional settings. He has been a College Instructor, Teaching Assistant, student body officer, and energy consultant; he has taught ethnographic and grounded theory research methods to undergraduates, led seminars on advocacy strategies, and taught upper management executives and lawyers about the legality of energy transmission in the Western U.S. .

Publications

Articles in Refereed Journals

Franklin, A., Newton, J., and McEntee, J. (2011), Moving Beyond the Alternative: Sustainable Communities, Rural Resilience and the Mainstreaming of Local Food. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability (forthcoming in special issue Sustainable Communities).

McEntee, J. (2010) Contemporary and traditional localism: A conceptualization of rural local food. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability 15(9); 785-803.

Amsden, B. and McEntee, J. (2010) Agrileisure: Re-imagining the relationship between agriculture, leisure and social change. Leisure/Loisir 35(1): 37-48.

McEntee, J. and Agyeman, J. (2010) Towards the development of a GIS method for identifying rural food deserts: geographic access in Vermont, USA.  Applied Geography 30(1): 165-176.

McEntee, J. (2009) Highlighting Food Inadequacies: Does the Food Desert Metaphor Help this Cause? British Food Journal 111(4): 349-363.

McEntee, J. and Ogneva-Himmelberger, Y. (2008) Diesel particulate matter, lung cancer, and asthma incidences along major traffic corridors in MA, USA: A GIS analysis Journal of Health and Place, 14(4): 817-828.

Published Refereed Book Chapters

McEntee, J. (2011) Realizing Rural Food Justice: Divergent Locals in the Northeastern United States. In: Alkon, A and Agyeman, J (eds) ‘Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class and Sustainability'. Cambridge: MIT Press.

McEntee, J. and Vazquez Brust, D. (2011) Surveying the Field: Applying the Just Sustainability Paradigm to Survey Research. In: Franklin, A and Blyton, P. (eds) ‘Researching Sustainability: A Guide to Social Science Methods and Practice’. pp. 137-158.  London: Earthscan.

Agyeman, J. and McEntee, J. (forthcoming, 2012) Spatial justice and the just sustainability paradigm. In: Haas, T. (ed) ‘Sustainable Urbanism and Beyond: Rethinking cities for the future’. New York: Rizzoli.

McEntee, J., Castronovo, D., Jagai, J., Chui, K. and Naumova, E.N. (2011) Application of novel analytical tools in global disease monitoring: remote sensing in public health research and practice. In: Finkel, M.L. (eds) ‘Public Health in the 21st Century. Volume 3: Current Issues in Public Health Policy’.  pp. 253-266. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Press.

McEntee, J., Castronovo, D., and Naumova, E.N. (forthcoming, 2012) Volcanic Ash Tracking and Respiratory Response. In: Morain,S. et al. (eds) ‘Environmental Tracking for Public Health Surveillance’. New York: Taylor & Francis Press."

Contact Details:

Email: jesse.mcentee@gmail.com