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I received my PhD in Sociology from Memorial University in 2017. Prior to joining 91porn, I was an assistant professor at San Diego State University in the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
My current research projects center on the social-ecological dimensions of the fisheries and aquaculture industries in the United States, Mexico, and Norway, of which labour migration, mobility, and climate justice are a central focus. By drawing on existing feminist scholarship and anti-oppressive intersectional frameworks, I explore how ecological, economic, technological, political, and corporate influences (across multiple scales) reconfigure ocean spaces and coastal communities in unequal ways. These explorations allow me to investigate interactions among labour mobility regimes, resource-dependent communities, government policies, global corporate capitalism, and animal enclosure and commodification. Environmental concerns and regulation of the fishery relate not only to employment opportunities connected to mobility/immobility, but also to the spatial reorganization of communities and resources. Therefore, my most recent research examines how past, new, and emerging blue economy (i.e., ocean-based industries such as fisheries and offshore wind) policies, practices, and processes challenge or reinforce systems of inequities and oppression.
I am willing to supervise graduate students in the areas of feminist political economy/ecology, feminist science and technology studies, migrant labour, animal studies, and social-ecological dimensions of fisheries.
Castillo, Liliana Sierra, Christine Knott, Anastasia CE Quintana, Ana K. Spalding, Erendira Aceves-Bueno, Jessica Blythe, Antonella Rivera, and Bonnie Basnett. "Community-centered approaches to aquaculture in small-scale fisheries." Ambio 55, no. 6 (2026): 1304-1321.
Knott, Christine, Alejandro Garcia Lozano, Marta Maria Maldonado, Wilf Swartz, Khanh Tran, and Juana Eslava-Bejarano. "Why seafood processing labor matters to emerging Blue economies in the United States." Maritime Studies 24, no. 2 (2025): 30.
Lowitt, Kristen, Charles Z. Levkoe, Bryan Dale, Colin Dring, Omamuyovwi Gbejewoh, Alesandros Glaros, Hannah L. Harrison et al. "Advancing basic income as a policy tool for food systems sustainability." Agriculture and Human Values 42, no. 2 (2025): 773-785.
Knott, Christine, Leah M. Fusco, Jack Daly, Evan Andrews, and Gerald Gurinder Singh. "Equity zombies in Canada’s blue economy: a critical feminist analysis for equitable policy implementation." Frontiers in marine science 11 (2024): 1277581.
Knott, Christine, Melanie G. Wiber, and Charles Mather. "Aquaculture’s offshore frontier: Learning from the Canadian courts on ocean grabbing, ocean privatization, and property as process." Maritime Studies 23, no. 1 (2024): 5.
Knott, Christine, Nicole Power, Barbara Neis, and Katia Frangoudes. "North Atlantic fishy feminists and the more-than-human approach: a conversation." Gender, Place & Culture 29, no. 12 (2022): 1767-1787.
Fusco, Leah M., Christine Knott, Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor, Gerald G. Singh, and Ana K. Spalding. "Blueing business as usual in the ocean: Blue economies, oil, and climate justice." Political Geography 98 (2022): 102670.
Knott, Christine, and Charles Mather. "Ocean frontier assemblages: Critical insights from Canada's industrial salmon sector." Journal of Agrarian Change 21, no. 4 (2021): 796-814.
Martin, Sarah J., Charles Mather, Christine Knott, and Dean Bavington. "‘Landing’salmon aquaculture: Ecologies, infrastructures and the promise of sustainability." Geoforum 123 (2021): 47-55.
Knott, Christine. "The rhythm of making cheaps: a case study of rhythmanalysis and qualitative labour shortages in Canadian fisheries." Applied Mobilities 6, no. 2 (2021): 202-219.