Municipal Elections
Montreal, September 22, 2025—Our experts are available to comment on the municipal elections and offer their analysis on a variety of issues.
**This list will be updated regularly.
Here is an overview of the topics they can speak on:
Diversity
Chedly Belkhodja, professor, School of Community and Public Affairs, looks at issues related to diversity, immigration, intercultural dynamics and integration policies in a municipal administration context.
Chedly.belkhodja@concordia.ca
Urban politics and citizen participation
Meghan Joy, professor, Department of Political Science, is available to discuss urban politics, local public policies and citizen participation as well as the role of the not-for-profit sector.
meghan.joy@concordia.ca
Municipal libertarianism, militancy and social economy
Anna Kruzynski, professor, School of Community and Public Affairs, is a specialist in the development of community economies. She can discuss topics related to municipal libertarianism, community organizing, feminism, post-capitalism and social inclusion.
anna.kruzynski@concordia.ca
Urban planning and homelessness
Ted Rutland, professor, Department of Geography, Urban Planning and Environment, can analyse the history of urban planning, impacts related to social identity, social class and gender in cities, as well as citizen engagement and the methodologies of participative research.
ted.rutland@concordia.ca
Darla Fortune, professor, Applied Human Sciences, can discuss issues related to inclusion and belonging and community spaces, especially as they involved stigmatized or excluded people.
darla.fortune@concordia.ca
Ecological transition and social movements
Vijay Kolinjivadi, assistant professor in Sustainable and Equitable Economies, School of Community and Public Affairs, looks at the political economy of services connected to ecosystems, biodiversity and carbon credits. His research also looks at temporalities in the ecological crisis, social movements and forms of eco-resistance.
vijay.kolinjivadi@concordia.ca
Equity, inclusion and citizen mobilizations around green spaces
Amy R. Poteete, professor, Department of Political Science, looks at dimensions of urban dynamics such as gentrification and homelessness. Her research perspective is founded in feminist public policy, municipal governance and citizen participation. She examines citizen mobilizations around saving green spaces, participation in their protection and aspects of social inclusion.
amy.poteete@concordia.ca
Social economy
Jason Prince, lecturer, School of Community and Public Affairs, is focused on social economies, housing and the development of small businesses and community groups.
jason.prince@concordia.ca