Amelia Veitch

Amelia Veitch is a Visiting Research scholar at Yale’s Program in Agrarian Studies, and a Mobi.Doc Fellow of the University of Lausanne. She is completing a joint PhD in anthropology at Lausanne and the EHESS (Paris). Her research interests include land politics, property relations, environmental history, agricultural policies, and feminist epistemologies.

Her doctoral research investigates how social relationships with land have changed in the context of intensive livestock production in coastal France. Based on ethnographic work with farmers, agrarian institutions and state bodies, her dissertation examines land abandonment, intensification, and the rise of social-environmental movements contesting productivist models.

In a recent article in the Journal of Peasant Studies, she offers an ethnographic analysis of the 2024 French farmer protests, exploring grassroots challenges to conventional union authority.

Amelia Veitch is also a photographer whose visual work reflects her ethnographic fieldwork across France, Moldova, and Kyrgyzstan, bridging anthropological insight with visual storytelling.