Publications

In this article published in Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, I analyze the impression management strategies used by various white supremacist organizations that make up the Alt-Right movement in the United States.

In this article, published in a Mobilization, we look at the global solidarity movement for East Timor’s use of strategic, nationally grounded motivational framing and their efforts to gain concessions from their national governments.

In this article published in Social Movement Studies, I look at the longetivity of the Québec student movement and its resisitance to the Iron Law of Oligarchy. A combination of organizational prowess, legal protections and adherence to a militant ideology known as ‘combative syndicalism’ helps to keep the organziations which comprise the Québec student movement radical and maintain their mobilization potential.

This article, published in Recherches sociographiques, focuses on the micro-level processes in community organizations which can both help or hinder mobilization and the capacity to gain concessions from elites. Using ethnographic methods on two community housing groups in Montréal, we find that the creation of collective identity, emotional energy and the maintenance of social infrastructures are integral in maintaining movement unity, cohesion, avoiding burnout and more.

In this article I look at the rise of right-wing and left-wing populist parties in Europe and argue that both speak to the large democratic deficit subjectively felt in European Union countries.

Le sociologue Erik Olin Wright a rédigé, au cours des quatre dernières décennies, de nombreux livres et articles caractérisés à la fois par une grande rigueur intellectuelle et une imagination remarquable sur des questions telles que les classes sociales, la démocratie et le renouvellement du projet émancipateur de la gauche à l’aube du XXIe siècle.

Books reviewed: How to Be an Anticapitalist in the 21st Century, d’Erik Olin Wright, Londres et New York, Verso, 2019. Feminism for the 99 % : A Manifesto, de Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya et Nancy Fraser, Londres et New York, Verso, 2019.

Book reviewed: Palaces for the People : How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life, d’Eric Klinenberg, New York, Crown, 2018

Dans un article paru en 2017, l’historien Robert Brenner souligne que la gauche semble paralysée par une double impasse. D’une part, on observe des mouve- ments sociaux qui, en aspirant à une autonomie complète par rapport aux institu- tions établies, se condamnent trop souvent à l’isolement politique.