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Étienne Sinotte

PhD Candidate in political science.

etienne.sinotte@mail.mcgill.ca

JI am currently pursuing a PhD in Political Science at McGill University, under the direction of Professors Juan Pablo Luna and Megan Bradley. 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. My dissertation project, titled “Displacement and the Politics of Recognition: Democracy in the Andes’ Extractive Frontier,” examines how the (non-) recognition of extraction-driven displacement affects the democratic citizenship of those it displaces. More broadly, I am interested in issues of citizenship and democracy, displacement, criminal politics and governance, extractivism, and Latin American politics.

I am affiliated with the McGill Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID), the McGill Refugee Research Group (MRRG), the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC), and the ÉRIGAL.

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://etiennesinotte.ca 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/etiennesinotte/