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| Dr. Philip Oxhorn, a PhD graduate from ], specializes in the areas of civil society, democracy and citizenship and is particularly active in Latin American comparative politics. As a graduate student in the 1980s Oxhorn wrote his dissertation on the Chilean civilian uprisings against dictator Augusto Pinochet.<ref name= FosteringDemocracy >{{cite web |url= http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2009/03/phil-oxhorn-director-of-the-institute-for-the-study-of-international-development/ |title = Fostering Democracy | accessdate=10 Jul 2012}}</ref> Since his dissertation, Oxhorn has published over 75 articles, chapter selections and books.<ref name= ScholarlyPubs >{{cite web |url= http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=bGJt6D4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&pagesize=100 |title= Scholarly Publications| accessdate=21 Aug 2012}}</ref> His most recent book, ''Sustaining Civil Society: Economic Change, Democracy and the Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America'', released in 2011, discusses and analyzes citizenship in Latin America, its impacts on economic change, democracy and what it means for the future.<ref name=" SustainingCivilSociety">{{cite book |url= http://books.google.ca/books?id=ABSHQL10Ku8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Sustaining+Civil+Society:+Economic+Change,+Democracy+and+the+Social+Construction+of+Citizenship+in+Latin+America&source=bl&ots=p3nGv5kh9Q&sig=qFWLYe-S2YzBq6_M3e3xY0UT7Sc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=H6MyUN_2L6qUywGO54DABA&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Sustaining%20Civil%20Society%3A%20Economic%20Change%2C%20Democracy%20and%20the%20Social%20Construction%20of%20Citizenship%20in%20Latin%20America&f=false |title= Sustaining Civil Society | accessdate=11 Sept 2012}}</ref> Other notable publications include ''What Kind of Democracy? What Kind of Market? Latin America in the Age of Neoliberalism''.<ref name=" WhatKindofDemocrcy">{{cite book |url= http://books.google.ca/books?id=nzpOGmEcHxcC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false|title= What Kind of Democrcy| accessdate=17 Aug 2012}}</ref> and “What We Still Need to Know: Why and How People Become Committed Democrats,”. | Dr. Philip Oxhorn, a PhD graduate from ], specializes in the areas of civil society, democracy and citizenship and is particularly active in Latin American comparative politics. As a graduate student in the 1980s Oxhorn wrote his dissertation on the Chilean civilian uprisings against dictator Augusto Pinochet.<ref name= FosteringDemocracy >{{cite web |url= http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2009/03/phil-oxhorn-director-of-the-institute-for-the-study-of-international-development/ |title = Fostering Democracy | accessdate=10 Jul 2012}}</ref> Since his dissertation, Oxhorn has published over 75 articles, chapter selections and books.<ref name= ScholarlyPubs >{{cite web |url= http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=bGJt6D4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&pagesize=100 |title= Scholarly Publications| accessdate=21 Aug 2012}}</ref> His most recent book, ''Sustaining Civil Society: Economic Change, Democracy and the Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America'', released in 2011, discusses and analyzes citizenship in Latin America, its impacts on economic change, democracy and what it means for the future.<ref name=" SustainingCivilSociety">{{cite book |url= http://books.google.ca/books?id=ABSHQL10Ku8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Sustaining+Civil+Society:+Economic+Change,+Democracy+and+the+Social+Construction+of+Citizenship+in+Latin+America&source=bl&ots=p3nGv5kh9Q&sig=qFWLYe-S2YzBq6_M3e3xY0UT7Sc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=H6MyUN_2L6qUywGO54DABA&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Sustaining%20Civil%20Society%3A%20Economic%20Change%2C%20Democracy%20and%20the%20Social%20Construction%20of%20Citizenship%20in%20Latin%20America&f=false |title= Sustaining Civil Society | accessdate=11 Sept 2012}}</ref> Other notable publications include ''What Kind of Democracy? What Kind of Market? Latin America in the Age of Neoliberalism''.<ref name=" WhatKindofDemocrcy">{{cite book |url= http://books.google.ca/books?id=nzpOGmEcHxcC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false|title= What Kind of Democrcy| accessdate=17 Aug 2012}}</ref> and “What We Still Need to Know: Why and How People Become Committed Democrats,”. | ||
| ⚫ | Dr. Oxhorn is the Editor-in-Chief of the Latin American Research Review (LARR), the scholarly journal of the Latin American Studies Association.<ref name=" LARR" /> Dr. Oxhorn has been actively engaged with the journal since granted editorship in 2008, positioning LARR as an influential platform for promoting research exchanges between Northern and Southern Academics.<ref name= HAPI >{{cite web |url= http://hapi.ucla.edu/web/free/journalprofile20120413.php?token=53055d7178fcd0c0b6bc2f788186b6bf|title= LAPI Oxhorn Inerview | accessdate=10 Sep 2012}}</ref> | ||
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| Dr. Oxhorn is the Founding Director of the ] and a Full Professor in the department of political science at ]. He has overseen the design, implementation and growth of the interdisciplinary ISID, since its founding in 2008 to include courses and programs across six disciplines. ISID has been a research and teaching center dedicated the themes of democratic government, economic development, states and institutional capacity building and civil society.<ref name= FosteringDemocracy /> | |||
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| Dr. Oxhorn’s democratic advocacy is illustrated by interviews by several newspapers regarding the Chilean student protests in 2011.<ref name= Pinochet >{{cite web |url= http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2011/11/29/commandant-camilas-uprising/#more-34257|title= Pinochet Education Reform | accessdate=14 Aug 2012}}</ref> In the spring of 2012, Dr. Oxhorn was interviewed regarding the similarities and difference of Montreal students’ protests over tuition fees to protests in Chile the previous year.<ref name= ChileanProtests >{{cite web |url= http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/27/casseroles-montreal-quebec-pots-and-pans-protests_n_1548619.html |title= Chilean Protests | accessdate=29 Aug 2012}}</ref> He has also been interviewed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada about Canada-Latin America trade relations.<ref name= DefiningCanadasRoleintheHemisphere >{{cite web |url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J8dEcAml3w|title= Defining Canada’s Role in the Hemisphere| accessdate=28 Jul 2012}}</ref> | Dr. Oxhorn’s democratic advocacy is illustrated by interviews by several newspapers regarding the Chilean student protests in 2011.<ref name= Pinochet >{{cite web |url= http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2011/11/29/commandant-camilas-uprising/#more-34257|title= Pinochet Education Reform | accessdate=14 Aug 2012}}</ref> In the spring of 2012, Dr. Oxhorn was interviewed regarding the similarities and difference of Montreal students’ protests over tuition fees to protests in Chile the previous year.<ref name= ChileanProtests >{{cite web |url= http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/27/casseroles-montreal-quebec-pots-and-pans-protests_n_1548619.html |title= Chilean Protests | accessdate=29 Aug 2012}}</ref> He has also been interviewed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada about Canada-Latin America trade relations.<ref name= DefiningCanadasRoleintheHemisphere >{{cite web |url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J8dEcAml3w|title= Defining Canada’s Role in the Hemisphere| accessdate=28 Jul 2012}}</ref> | ||
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Dr. Philip Oxhorn is a professor, academic and author, specializing in international development and societal isues in Latin America and worldwide. Oxhorn is the founding director of the Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID) at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Dr. Oxhorn is also a professor of political science at McGill and the Editor-in-Chief of the Latin American Research Review.
Career
Research
Dr. Philip Oxhorn, a PhD graduate from Harvard University, specializes in the areas of civil society, democracy and citizenship and is particularly active in Latin American comparative politics. As a graduate student in the 1980s Oxhorn wrote his dissertation on the Chilean civilian uprisings against dictator Augusto Pinochet. Since his dissertation, Oxhorn has published over 75 articles, chapter selections and books. His most recent book, Sustaining Civil Society: Economic Change, Democracy and the Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America, released in 2011, discusses and analyzes citizenship in Latin America, its impacts on economic change, democracy and what it means for the future. Other notable publications include What Kind of Democracy? What Kind of Market? Latin America in the Age of Neoliberalism. and “What We Still Need to Know: Why and How People Become Committed Democrats,”.
Dr. Oxhorn is the Editor-in-Chief of the Latin American Research Review (LARR), the scholarly journal of the Latin American Studies Association. Dr. Oxhorn has been actively engaged with the journal since granted editorship in 2008, positioning LARR as an influential platform for promoting research exchanges between Northern and Southern Academics.
Dr. Oxhorn’s democratic advocacy is illustrated by interviews by several newspapers regarding the Chilean student protests in 2011. In the spring of 2012, Dr. Oxhorn was interviewed regarding the similarities and difference of Montreal students’ protests over tuition fees to protests in Chile the previous year. He has also been interviewed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada about Canada-Latin America trade relations.
In March 2012 Dr. Oxhorn openly supported the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) for engaging in public-private partnerships with mining companies as a means to foster sustainable development, a controversial policy in Canadian media.
References
- "ISID". Retrieved 10 Jul 2012.
- ^ "Latin American Research Review". Retrieved 30 AugJul 2012.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - "Fostering Democracy". Retrieved 10 Jul 2012.
- "Scholarly Publications". Retrieved 21 Aug 2012.
- Sustaining Civil Society. Retrieved 11 Sept 2012.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - What Kind of Democrcy. Retrieved 17 Aug 2012.
- "LAPI Oxhorn Inerview". Retrieved 10 Sep 2012.
- "Pinochet Education Reform". Retrieved 14 Aug 2012.
- "Chilean Protests". Retrieved 29 Aug 2012.
- "Defining Canada's Role in the Hemisphere". Retrieved 28 Jul 2012.
- "Aid Partnerships". Retrieved 22 Aug 2012.