Aisha Ismail
Aisha is a PhD candidate in food politics at the University of Melbourne. Her research project utilises an everyday political economy lens to understand how ultra-processed food companies have transformed urban retail foodscapes in the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca de Juárez and how communities navigate, respond to and resist these changes. Aisha was awarded the 2024 David Burch prize for her presentation entitled ‘The ultra-processed foodscape in context: situating dietary transitions within processes of neoliberal urbanism’.