Amelia Veitch
- Laboratoire d’anthropologie politique – Approches interdisciplinaires et critiques des mondes contemporains, UMR 8177 (LAP)
- Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne (UNIL)
- École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
- Laboratoire d'anthropologie culturelle et sociale (LACS)
Présentation
I am a PhD candidate in anthropology currently in the 4th year of an international joint thesis and a visiting research scholar at the University of Yale (Agrarian Studies). I also work as a photographer and have combined anthropology and photography in different projects. CURRENT POSITION
2021 - … PhD candidate in anthropology at EHESS, Political Anthropology Laboratory (LAP) & UNIL, Institute of Social Sciences (ISS)
Teaching assistant to Prof. Mark Goodale at the University of Lausanne
Advisors: Birgit Müller (EHESS) and Mark Goodale (UNIL) Thesis topic : Political anthropology of relationships to abandoned farmland in Brittany, France Abstract : Initiatives to "reclaim agricultural land" are multiplying in France. Their aim is to restore farmland that has been uncultivated for decades. Clearing the land often makes it possible to set up agro-ecological projects in response to strong social demands for the relocation of food production. Based on a 15-month ethnography in a rural community in Finistère that has initiated a project to "reclaim idle land", this thesis examines the power relations that develop around agricultural land in the light of environmental and social questions about the future of agriculture. It is based on two complementary field sites : with the people involved in the "reconquest" project, and in the regional arenas of agricultural land governance. Combining political and environmental anthropology with the interdisciplinary field of multi-species studies, this research offers a polyphonic reading of the issues surrounding abandoned farmland in the context of rational land use by a highly intensive form of agriculture. Research interests : anthropology of land, property relations, multispecies ethnographies, environmental history, agricultural policies, ecofeminism, green politics, institutions & regulations. EDUCATION
2020: Master Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology, EHESS, Paris. MA thesis topic: agropastoral modernisation in post-soviet Kyrgyzstan (based on a 4 months fieldwork in the Tian Shan mountain range with families of profesional shepherds)
2018: Bachelor in Philosophy and in Political Science, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
ORGANIZATION OF WORKSHOPS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES 2024 2023 2021 FUNDING & GRANTS TEACHING
*Undergraduate * *Graduate * PHOTOGRAPHY
You can check out some of my projects here : https://www.ameliaveitch.com/
Domaines de recherche
Publications
Publications
Unions out of their league? Ethnographic insights into the 2024 French farmer protestsJournal of Peasant Studies, 2025, Grassroots Voices, pp.1-19. ⟨10.1080/03066150.2025.2457081⟩ |
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« Reconquête de friches » et assemblages résistants de la terreA contrario. Revue interdisciplinaire de sciences sociales, 2023, n° 34 (1), pp.81-107. ⟨10.3917/aco.222.0081⟩ |
Friches en partage. Ecologie et politique en littoral breton.Territoria Naturalia. Aménager sans altérer, entre partage et réserve, Métis Presses, pp.173-186, 2026 |