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Dan Furukawa Marques holds a Ph.D. in political thought from the University of Ottawa. He served as the holder of the Alban D'Amours Chair in Teaching Leadership in Sociology of Cooperation at Laval University from 2018 to 2024. Marques is an associate researcher at the Centre for the Study of Social Movements (CEMS) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and regularly collaborates with the Research Center on Social Innovations (CRISES) and the Research Team on Governance and Inclusion in Latin America (ÉRIGAL). He co-founded CRITIC, a collective focused on reflections and interventions regarding the transformations of commons and institutions. His early works, inspired by political phenomenology, examined the construction of cooperative communities and political subjectivities grounded in collective work, participatory democracy, and solidarity economy, using ethnographic research within an agricultural cooperative linked to the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil. At Laval University, he teaches courses on political and social philosophy, globalization, citizenship, and social and political context in Latin America, alongside the sociopolitical dynamics in Quebec.
Laval University • Quebec City, QC, Canada
Teaching and research in sociology, focusing on cooperation and social movements.
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