Kenneth MacDonald, University of Toronto

Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of Toronto profile.

Cultural identity Politics Culture and Biodiversity Conservation Environment and Development Ethics and Development Exploitation of Mountaineering Porters Kashmir Natural Hazards and Vulnerability

Latest papers

Unpacking farmers’ multiple values in grapevine variety choice
Agriculture and Human Values · 2025
Navigating human–plant reciprocity: Commercial harvesting by professionals of a medicinal plant fosters multi‐actor landscape management
People and Nature · 2025
Correction to: Unpacking farmers’ multiple values in grapevine variety choice
Agriculture and Human Values · 2025

All 84 publications

Latest funding

Resilient Urban Communities & Local Food Systems after COVID-19: Developing Knowledge Partnerships Beyond the Pandemic
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$199,755
Tasting the global city: multicultural histories of Toronto's cuisines
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
$143,720
Foodways: diasporic diners, transnational tables and culinary connections
SSHRC · 2012 · Principal investigator
$24,170

All 5 grants and awards

84 publications.

01

Unpacking farmers’ multiple values in grapevine variety choice

Antoine Doncieux, Marilou Demongeot, Kenneth Iain MacDonald, Delphine Renard, Sophie Caillon

Agriculture and Human Values20258 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1007/s10460-025-10718-z

02

Navigating human–plant reciprocity: Commercial harvesting by professionals of a medicinal plant fosters multi‐actor landscape management

Jonathan Locqueville, Doyle McKey, Kenneth Iain MacDonald, Sylvain Coq, Sophie Caillon

People and Nature20254 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10791

03

Correction to: Unpacking farmers’ multiple values in grapevine variety choice

Antoine Doncieux, Marilou Demongeot, Kenneth Iain MacDonald, Delphine Renard, Sophie Caillon

Agriculture and Human Values2025Open Access

DOI: 10.1007/s10460-025-10740-1

04

7. Sociology within the Statistical Account of Scotland

Kenneth Iain MacDonald

Edinburgh University Press eBooks20242 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1515/9781399512350-009

05

Shifting to quality wine production in France's Midi: Ethnographic notes from the Department of the Hérault

Scott Prudham, Kenneth Iain MacDonald, Sophie Caillon

Journal of Rural Studies20241 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103327

06

3. Adventitious Sociology: Dispassion and Insight in the Scottish Enlightenment

Kenneth Iain MacDonald

Edinburgh University Press eBooks2024First author

DOI: 10.1515/9781399512350-005

07

Adventitious Sociology: Dispassion and Insight in the Scottish Enlightenment

Kenneth Iain MacDonald

Edinburgh University Press eBooks2024First author

DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781399512336.003.0003

08

The marginal adjustment of mobility tables, revisited

Kenneth Iain MacDonald

20233 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/z4u2d

09

Assessing human well‐being constructs with environmental and equity aspects: A review of the landscape

Erin C. Betley, Amanda Sigouin, Puaʻala Pascua, Samantha H. Cheng, Kenneth Iain MacDonald, Felicity Arengo, Yildiz Aumeeruddy‐Thomas, Sophie Caillon, Marney E. Isaac, Stacy D. Jupiter, Alexander Mawyer, Manuel Mejia, Alex C. Moore, Delphine Renard, Léa Sébastien, Nadav Gazit, Eleanor Jane Sterling

People and Nature202160 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10293

10

Stata’s mishandling of missing values in logical and relational expressions; and a solution.

Kenneth Iain MacDonald

Academia Letters2021First author

DOI: 10.20935/al3622

Resilient Urban Communities & Local Food Systems after COVID-19: Developing Knowledge Partnerships Beyond the Pandemic

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Sharma, Jayeeta

Keywords: urban food systems; resiliency; sustainability; local communities; global knowledge sharing; digital infrastructure; public dissemination

$199,755

Tasting the global city: multicultural histories of Toronto's cuisines

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Pilcher, Jeffrey

Keywords: food studies; multiculturalism; urban studies; immigrant entrepreneurship

$143,720

Foodways: diasporic diners, transnational tables and culinary connections

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012Connection Grants

Principal investigators: MacDonald, Kenneth Iain

Keywords: diaspora; transnationalism; food; identity; cultural politics; consumption; sensory experience

$24,170

Markets: From the Bazaar to eBay

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: MacDonald, Kenneth Iain

Keywords: markets; bazaars; exchange; modernity; consumption; identity; e-commerce; migration; diaspora; transnationalism; place; creativity; virtuality

$18,000

Memories of Tibet: transnationalism and transculturation in the production of collective identity in Northern Pakistan

Principal investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: MacDonald, Kenneth Iain

Keywords: identity politics; cultural identity; transnationalism; transculturation; cultural politics of place; representational practice; cultural production; tibet studies; baltistan studies; pakistan studies

$62,613

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

Frequent collaborators

Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies
Department of Human Geography
Department of Geography & Planning
Forest & Conservation Sciences and Botany
Centre for Urban Environments
Guelph Institute of Development Studies

Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Ken MacDonald

Department of Human Geography

84 shared papers, latest 2025

Scott Prudham

Department of Geography & Planning

2 shared papers, latest 2024

Marney Isaac

Centre for Urban Environments

1 shared papers, latest 2021

Alexandria Moore

Forest & Conservation Sciences and Botany

1 shared papers, latest 2021

Noella Gray

Guelph Institute of Development Studies

1 shared papers, latest 2014

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