My research interests lie in urban and grassroots informal politics and my projects focus on clientelism, violence, and forms of resistance and resilience in marginalized communities in Latin America and the Caribbean. While my training is in comparative politics, my work is multidisciplinary, situated at the intersections of political science, sociology, geography, and anthropology.
I have held several Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Fonds de recherche du Québec grants, including a current SSHRC Insight Grant for a project with Jean François Mayer, "Informality, Violence, and Resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean". I am also a researcher on the Fonds de recherche du Québec funded Équipe de recherche sur l'inclusion et la gouvernance en Amérique latine (Research Team on Inclusion and Governance in Latin America, erigal.org).
I direct Concordia's Lab for Latin American and Caribbean studies (llacs.ca) as well as the Informal Cities Working Group, and am a member of the Montreal Latin American Studies Network / Réseau d'études latino-américaines de Montréal (RÉLAM).
Research interests
Comparative Politics; Political Sociology; Informal Politics; Subnational Politics; Urban Politics; Clientelism; Urban Violence; Developing Areas; Latin America; Caribbean; Brazil; Jamaica; Mexico
Poli204 - Introduction to Canadian Politics
Poli356 - Political Parties in Canada
Poli488 - Nationalism & Elections in Quebec, Ireland, and Canada
Poli392 - Research Design
Publications
FORTHCOMING:
* Gill, Donal & Vanessa Gordon, "Power, Politics, and the Common Good" 7th edition, Pearson Publishing
UNDER REVIEW:
* Burstein, Alon & Donal Gill, “The Age of Xenophobia: Understanding White Power Terrorism,” Terrorism and Political Violence
* Gill, Donal, “Imagined Solidarities: The Boer War in Ulysses.” The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies
PUBLISHED:
* Gill, Dónal. 2020. “Travel as Education: Gulliver the Traveller and the Potential Corruptions of Seeking Betterment Abroad,” Lumen: Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 39: 239-260.
* Gill, Dónal. 2021. “Swift’s Critique of the Narrative of Progress” in The Artistic Foundations of Nations and Citizens: Art, Literature and the Political Community, edited by Ann Ward. Routledge.
