Étienne Sinotte
PhD Candidate in political science.
I am currently pursuing a PhD in Political Science at McGill University, under the direction of Professors Manuel Balán and Juan Pablo Luna. My dissertation project is entitled Displacement as Violence: The Impacts of Extractivism-Related Relocation on Andean Communities. I obtained an MA in Political Science from the Université de Montréal in 2024 and a BA in Applied Political Studies from the Université de Sherbrooke in 2021.
I primarily work in Comparative Politics, with a regional focus on Latin America and, particularly, Peru. Mon projet de thèse s’intitule « Displacement as Violence: the Impacts of Extractivism-Related Relocation on Communities’ Activism in the Andes ». My research examines how people and organizations mobilize in zones and periods of state scarcity, despite having incomplete citizenship rights and being subjected to various types of violence. I am particularly interested in instances of criminal governance, environmental activism, and collaborative governance taking place in this context.
Languages : French, English, Spanish
Political Science PhD Student at McGill University.Main research areas
- Democracy and citizenship
- Extractivism
- Environmental activism
- Citizen participation
- Criminal politics
Publications
Sinotte, Étienne. 2025. “Climate Displacement. By Jamie Draper.” Journal of Refugee Studies. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feaf008.
Sinotte, Étienne. 2024. “Recognition Politics: Indigenous Rights and Ethnic Conflict in the Andes: By Lorenza B. Fontana, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 250 Pp., US$99.99 (Hardcover), ISBN 9781009265515.” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue Canadienne Des Études Latino-Américaines et Caraïbes 49 (1): 117–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2023.2281102.
Sinotte, Étienne. 2023. “Voice and Inequality: Poverty and Political Participation in Latin American Democracies, de Carew Boulding et Claudio A. Holzner, New York, Oxford University Press, 2021, 244 p.” Politique et Sociétés 42 (3): 218. https://doi.org/10.7202/1106146ar.
Sinotte, Étienne. 2023. “À la reconquête de la souveraineté : mouvements autochtones en Amérique latine et en Océanie, sous la direction de Natacha Gagné, Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, coll. « Mondes autochtones », 250 p.” Politique et Sociétés 42 (1): 181–83. https://doi.org/10.7202/1097172ar.
Website
https://www.linkedin.com/in/etiennesinotte/