Bettina Hilgers
Associate Professor
Department: Political Science
Faculty: Arts and Science
Phone: | (514) 848-2424 ext. 2137 | |
Email: | tina.hilgers@concordia.ca | |
Website(s): |
Personal Website Lab for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LLACS) Research Team on Inclusion and Governance in Latin America (ÉRIGAL) Google Scholar Profile |
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Expertise:
security; violence; poverty; informal politics; patronage and clientelism; Latin America; Caribbean; Brazil; Jamaica; Mexico
Language(s) spoken:
English, French (able to conduct interviews in French), German, Spanish
Professional associations:
PhD
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).