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 Dr. Gavin FridellAssociate Professor and CHAIR Trent University CC G2 Webpage: Gavin Fridell Profile Gavin Fridell received his Ph.D. in Political Science from York University in 2005 after receiving an MA in World History (1998) and a Bachelor of Environmental Design (1996) from the University of Manitoba. His areas of interest include global political economy, international trade and development, fair trade, global value chains, global governance, the politics of Latin America and the Global South, development theory, world history and North-South relations.
Click here to see Professor Fridell on The Agenda with Steve Paikin: "Ethical Consumerism: Voting with Your Dollars"
Prof. Fridell will be teaching the following courses in 2011-12: POST-IDST 4270Y: Democracy and the Global Order POST 1000Y: Democracy, Power & Resistance (Winter Term) POST 3430H/WI: Latin American Politics (Winter Term)
Recent Publications Books 2007. Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice (University of Toronto Press: Toronto)
Edited Books Forthcoming with Martijn Konings, Contemporary Icons: the Cultural Politics of Neoliberal Capitalism (University of Toronto Press).
Publications/Chapters Forthcoming, "The Case Against Cheap Bananas: Lessons from the EU-Caribbean Banana Agreement", Critical Sociology [Earlier draft published as part of CERLAC Working Paper Series, March 10, http://www.yorku.ca/cerlac/Fridell.pdf] Forthcoming. “Coffee and Commodity Fetishism,” in Power and Everyday Practices, D. Brock, R. Raby, and M. Thomas, eds., Toronto: Nelson. 2010. “Fair Trade, Free Trade, and the State,” New Political Economy 15:3, p. 457-470. 2009. “The Cooperative and the Corporation: Competing Visions of the Future of Fair Trade” Journal of Business Ethics 86, p. 81-95. 2009. “Free Trade and Fair Trade,” in Introduction to International Development Studies: Approaches, Actors and Issues, P. Haslam, J. Schafer, and P. Beaudet, eds., Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press Canada, p. 271-286. 2007. “Fair Trade Coffee and Commodity Fetishism: The Limits of Market-Driven Social Justice,” Historical Materialism 15: 4, p. 79-104. 2006. “Fair Trade and Neoliberalism: Assessing Emerging Perspectives,” Latin American Perspectives 33: 6 (November), p. 8-28. 2006. “Comercio justo, neoliberalismo, y desarrollo rural: Una valoración histórica,” [Fair Trade, Neoliberalism, and Rural Development: An Historical Assessment], ÍCONOS 10: 1, journal of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Ecuador. 2006. “Fair Trade and the International Moral Economy: Within and Against the Market,” in Global Citizenship and Environmental Justice, T. Shallcross and J. Robinson, eds., Amsterdam: Rodopi, p. 81-94. 2004. “The Fair Trade Network in Historical Perspective,” Canadian Journal of Development Studies 25: 3, p. 411-428. 2004. “The University and the Moral Imperative of Fair Trade Coffee,” Journal of Academic Ethics 2: 1, p. 141-159. Book Reviews Forthcoming. Review of Fair Bananas: Farmers, Workers, and Consumers Strive to Change an Industry (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009), by Henry J. Frundt, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 2008. Review of The Future Control of Food: A Guide to International Negotiations and Rules on Intellectual Property, Biodiversity and Food Security (London and Sterling, VA: Earthscan, 2008), by Geoff Tansey and Tasmin Rajotte (eds.), Development and Change 39: 4, 715-717. 2007. Review of Organic Coffee: Sustainable Development by Mayan Farmers (Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2006), by Maria Elena Martinez-Torres, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 32: 64, p. 234-235. 2007. Review of Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority (Halifax: Fernwood, 2005), by Yves Engler and Anthony Fenton, New Dawn: Journal of Black Canadian Studies 2:1, p. 72-73. 2002. Review of A No-nonsense guide to Fair Trade (Toronto: New Internationalist, 2001), by David Ransom, Canadian Journal of Development Studies 23:1, p. 161-163. Also published in Problematique 7 (fall 2001): 150-153. Short Articles 2009. “Fair trade? Boycotts, branding and apartheid,” Rabble.ca, January 22, 2008. “How free trade fuels ‘banana wars’,” Rabble.ca, August 13,
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