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Marie-Josée Massicotte is an associate professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her research primarily focuses on social movements, collective action, and international political economy, specifically alternative economies and food politics. She also engages with themes of social and environmental justice. Massicotte directs the Institute of Feminist Gender Studies and the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Study of Food within the Faculty of Social Sciences. Her current projects investigate student food activism on Canadian post-secondary campuses and food politics in Mexico. Past research explored the practices and discourses of peasant movements in Brazil and Mexico related to agricultural trade politics. Massicotte is particularly interested in the methodologies linked to action research, interaction between theory and practice, and knowledge production arising from emerging activist practices at multiple scales, including the processes of the World Social Forum since 2001.
Department of History