Gavin Fridell

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Gavin is a Professor of Political Science and Global Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax and a member of the Trade and Investment Research Project at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. His research focuses on fair trade and free trade, global political economy, and critical social and psychoanalytic theory. He has published widely, including co-authoring, with Ilan Kapoor, Rethinking Development Politics (Edward Elgar Publishing 2024) and, with Ilan Kapoor, Maureen Sioh, and Pieter de Vries, Global Libidinal Economy (SUNY Press 2023) and co-editing, with Zack Gross and Sean McHugh, The Fair Trade Handbook: Building a Better World, Together (Fernwood Press 2021).

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Political Science and Global Development Studies, Saint Mary’s University

Education

  • 2005 
    York University, PhD in Political Science

Publications

  • 2024
    Rethinking Development Politics, Edward Elgar
  • 2023
    Global Libidinal Economy, SUNY Press
  • 2021
    The Fair Trade Handbook: Building a Better World, Together, Fernwood Press
  • 2014
    Coffee, Polity Press
  • 2013
    Alternative Trade: Legacies for the Future, Fernwood Press
  • 2007
    Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice, University of Toronto Press

Grants and Contracts

  • 2026
    Sustainable Trade, Between Token and Substantive Change: Rethinking North American Trade
    Role:
    Principle Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Social Science and Humanities Research Council

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