Elizabeth Fitting
Biographic Data
| ID | 96829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Fitting |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Fitting |
| SIGNATURE | FITTING E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6849-3695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“We Were in Solidarity with Each Other”
This paper explores identifying, "coming out" and "coming in" as Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and/or queer (2SLGBTQ+) during the AIDS crisis in Canada (1981-1997). We conducted 30 oral history interviews about this unique historical moment between 2022 and 2025 with participants from eight Canadian provinces. Informed by queer oral history, we approached community as multiple, and at times, contradictory. We sought interviews from r…
Structured exclusions, partial inclusions
The transnational agricultural care chains of migrant farmworkers
Re-centering labour in local food
This article explores the labour behind local food in the Canadian Atlantic province of Nova Scotia. Based on surveys and interviews with farmers, migrant farmworkers, and farmers' market consumers in the province, we suggest that the celebration of local food by government and industry is a form of "local washing." Local washing hides key aspects of the social relations of production: in this case, it hides insufficient financial and policy supp…
Democratizing CRISPR? Stories, practices, and politics of science and governance on the agricultural gene editing frontier
Many trends in agricultural biotechnology have extended fluidly from the first era of genetic modification using recombinant DNA techniques to the era of gene editing. But the high-profile, explicit, and assertive discourse of democratization with gene editing — especially CRISPR-Cas9 — is something new. In this paper, I draw on semi-structured interviews with gene editors, policy analysts, and communications experts as well as with critical acad…
Tensions at the boundary
A host of technologies is rapidly entering agriculture. These new technologies—particularly gene editing—represent multifaceted shifts beyond “genetic modification” (GM), and are outpacing both public understanding and the capacity of regulatory regimes. This paper employs the case of the organic sectors in Canada and the United States, strongholds of GM resistance, to examine conversations about gene-editing technologies unfolding within the org…
The Red de Semillas Libres
The Red de Semillas Libres (Network of Free Seeds) in Colombia contests the expansion of, and dominant narratives on, agricultural biotechnology and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protections on seed - or what has been called 'biohegemony'. We argue that despite its challenges, the Network contests 'biohegemony' through lawsuits, supporting 'seed sovereignty', and reframing the often taken-for-granted discourse on local seed varieties as raw…
Latin America
Nicole Mottier, Karl Gerth, Don Garden, J. L. Anderson, Mitch Aso, George Gale, Paulina Rytkönen, Erland Mårald, Clare Griffiths, Book Reviews, Agricultural History, Vol. 86, No. 3 (Summer 2012), pp. 130-142
The Struggle for Maize
La Economía "Natural" Enfrenta a La Global? Desafíos a Los Debates Sobre El Maíz Mexicano
Este artículo revisa las contradicciones principales en los debates sobre la producción y consumo de maíz en México. Presta especial atención a las controversias en relación con el maíz genéticamente modificado, considerando los méritos científicos, políticos e ideológicos de las posiciones encontradas. Al hacerlo se ofrece una crítica tanto de los argumentos esgrimidos como de las imágenes de sociedad que proyectan y sus inconsistencias política…
Importing Corn, Exporting Labor
The political uses of culture
In the Mexican debates over genetically modified (GM) corn, critics reject the official narrative about risk expertise and the inefficiency of maize production. Corn is used to symbolize the Mexican countryside and traditional culture threatened by the forces of neo-liberal globalization. At times, however, both GM critics and proponents portray maize-based livelihoods as a culture of use-values beyond the reach of the market. This article explor…
Cultivating knowledge
Andrew Flachs’ Cultivating Knowledge is a compelling and wonderfully written ethnography on the failures of neoliberalism and the difficult choices faced by cotton farmers in the Telangana district
Importing Corn, Exporting Labor
The Red de Semillas Libres
The Red de Semillas Libres (Network of Free Seeds) in Colombia contests the expansion of, and dominant narratives on, agricultural biotechnology and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protections on seed - or what has been called 'biohegemony'. We argue that despite its challenges, the Network contests 'biohegemony' through lawsuits, supporting 'seed sovereignty', and reframing the often taken-for-granted discourse on local seed varieties as raw…
The transnational agricultural care chains of migrant farmworkers
The political uses of culture
In the Mexican debates over genetically modified (GM) corn, critics reject the official narrative about risk expertise and the inefficiency of maize production. Corn is used to symbolize the Mexican countryside and traditional culture threatened by the forces of neo-liberal globalization. At times, however, both GM critics and proponents portray maize-based livelihoods as a culture of use-values beyond the reach of the market. This article explor…
Re-centering labour in local food
This article explores the labour behind local food in the Canadian Atlantic province of Nova Scotia. Based on surveys and interviews with farmers, migrant farmworkers, and farmers' market consumers in the province, we suggest that the celebration of local food by government and industry is a form of "local washing." Local washing hides key aspects of the social relations of production: in this case, it hides insufficient financial and policy supp…
Importing Corn, Exporting Labor
The political uses of culture
In the Mexican debates over genetically modified (GM) corn, critics reject the official narrative about risk expertise and the inefficiency of maize production. Corn is used to symbolize the Mexican countryside and traditional culture threatened by the forces of neo-liberal globalization. At times, however, both GM critics and proponents portray maize-based livelihoods as a culture of use-values beyond the reach of the market. This article explor…
La Economía "Natural" Enfrenta a La Global? Desafíos a Los Debates Sobre El Maíz Mexicano
Este artículo revisa las contradicciones principales en los debates sobre la producción y consumo de maíz en México. Presta especial atención a las controversias en relación con el maíz genéticamente modificado, considerando los méritos científicos, políticos e ideológicos de las posiciones encontradas. Al hacerlo se ofrece una crítica tanto de los argumentos esgrimidos como de las imágenes de sociedad que proyectan y sus inconsistencias política…
The Struggle for Maize
Latin America
Nicole Mottier, Karl Gerth, Don Garden, J. L. Anderson, Mitch Aso, George Gale, Paulina Rytkönen, Erland Mårald, Clare Griffiths, Book Reviews, Agricultural History, Vol. 86, No. 3 (Summer 2012), pp. 130-142
The Red de Semillas Libres
The Red de Semillas Libres (Network of Free Seeds) in Colombia contests the expansion of, and dominant narratives on, agricultural biotechnology and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protections on seed - or what has been called 'biohegemony'. We argue that despite its challenges, the Network contests 'biohegemony' through lawsuits, supporting 'seed sovereignty', and reframing the often taken-for-granted discourse on local seed varieties as raw…
Democratizing CRISPR? Stories, practices, and politics of science and governance on the agricultural gene editing frontier
Many trends in agricultural biotechnology have extended fluidly from the first era of genetic modification using recombinant DNA techniques to the era of gene editing. But the high-profile, explicit, and assertive discourse of democratization with gene editing — especially CRISPR-Cas9 — is something new. In this paper, I draw on semi-structured interviews with gene editors, policy analysts, and communications experts as well as with critical acad…
Tensions at the boundary
A host of technologies is rapidly entering agriculture. These new technologies—particularly gene editing—represent multifaceted shifts beyond “genetic modification” (GM), and are outpacing both public understanding and the capacity of regulatory regimes. This paper employs the case of the organic sectors in Canada and the United States, strongholds of GM resistance, to examine conversations about gene-editing technologies unfolding within the org…
Re-centering labour in local food
This article explores the labour behind local food in the Canadian Atlantic province of Nova Scotia. Based on surveys and interviews with farmers, migrant farmworkers, and farmers' market consumers in the province, we suggest that the celebration of local food by government and industry is a form of "local washing." Local washing hides key aspects of the social relations of production: in this case, it hides insufficient financial and policy supp…
Cultivating knowledge
Andrew Flachs’ Cultivating Knowledge is a compelling and wonderfully written ethnography on the failures of neoliberalism and the difficult choices faced by cotton farmers in the Telangana district
Structured exclusions, partial inclusions
The transnational agricultural care chains of migrant farmworkers
“We Were in Solidarity with Each Other”
This paper explores identifying, "coming out" and "coming in" as Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and/or queer (2SLGBTQ+) during the AIDS crisis in Canada (1981-1997). We conducted 30 oral history interviews about this unique historical moment between 2022 and 2025 with participants from eight Canadian provinces. Informed by queer oral history, we approached community as multiple, and at times, contradictory. We sought interviews from r…
Political science (10 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (7 works) · Biology (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Genetically Modified Organisms Research (4 works)