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Cross appointments

• Environment, Sustainability and Society
  
• Gender and Women's Studies
• International Development Studies

Education

• BA, University of Toronto
• MA, PhD, New School for Social Research

Research interests

Liz Fitting is a social anthropologist interested in how social, cultural, and political practices are shaped through, and in turn, shape --or even challenge and transform-- capitalist processes and formations, particularly in relation to migration, food, and agriculture. She has researched various aspects of the political economy of food, ranging from the regulation of, and public debate around, transgenic maize in Mexico, the effects of structural adjustment and trade liberalization policies on agricultural livelihoods and labour migration to activist responses to seed regulations in Colombia and Mexico. Her current research focuses on the livelihoods of seasonal agricultural workers from Mexico and Jamaica who are employed in Atlantic Canada, and explores questions related to the food system, social reproduction, and uneven histories and geographies of the global economy.

Dr. Fitting is a principal investigator for the Warming Oceans, Changing Livelihoods project, part of the Climate Justice: Values and Vulnerabilities Lab.听听 She has also contributed, with Dr. Catherine Bryan, to the听, an interdisciplinary network of academic and community researchers focused on migration and mobility in Nova Scotia.

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In a smaller project, Dr. Fitting worked with collaborators Dr. Margaret Robinson and Dr. Nick J. Mule, and RAs Joseph Lahey and Dani Sherwood, to collect 30 first-hand accounts of coming out or being out as 2SLGBTQ+ during the AIDS crisis in Canada.

Selected publications听听 听

• 2025. 鈥淭he agricultural care chains of migrant farmworkers: land, livelihoods and social reproduction鈥�, .听
• Fitting, E. 2024. in Jeannie Whayne (ed.) . Pp 251-268. Oxford University Press. 听
• Fitting, E., Bryan, C., Foster, K. and Ellsworth, J. 2022. Re-centering labour in local food: local washing and the growing reliance on permanently temporary migrant farmworkers in Nova Scotia. .
• Fitting, Elizabeth, Laura Guti茅rrez Escobar, and Tamara Wattnem,听2021. 鈥淐ontesting seed standards: The Red de Semillas Libres in Colombia鈥� in Graham, J.E., Holmes, C.P., McDonald, F., and Darnell, R. (eds). 2021. The Social Life of Standards. UBC Press. Pp. 141-158.
• 2018. "鈥� in eds. Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J. Bosco, Food and Place: A Critical Exploration. Rowman & Littlefield. Pp. 52-66.
• Guti茅rrez Escobar, L., and Fitting, E. 2016 The Red de Semillas Libres: Contesting Biohegemony in Colombia. Journal of Agrarian Change, doi: .
• 2016听 in eds. Meredith Abarca and Consuelo Salas, Latin@s' Presence in the Food Industry: Changing How We Think about Food University of Arkansas Press. Pp. 77-100.
• 2014 in (eds) Carole Counihan and Valeria Siniscalchi, Food Activism: Agency, Democracy and Economy. Berg.
• 2012 听Japanese translation of The Struggle for Maize, with new preface. Translator: Minoru Satomi. Nobunkyo, Rural Culture Association.
• 2011听 , Duke University Press.