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Dr. Yvon Grenier

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Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Professor

Department of Political Science

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I teach and write about Latin American politics, art and politics, and Canadian foreign policy. I published several books, four as author, one as co-author, and one as editor, among other publications.

ygrenier@stfx.ca

Recent Publications​​

  • "Opportunities to Promote Human Rights and Democratic Values Abroad: the Case of Canadian Foreign Policy toward Cuba," American Review of Canadian Studies, 53, no.2 (2023), 204-217.

  • "Culture, Identity, and the State in Cuba," Latin American Research Review 58, No. 1(2023): 203-214.

  • "Submission and the Possibility of Low-Intensity Totalitarianism in France," in Decline and Submission:  Michel Houellebecq, The Cassandra of Freedom, ed. Michael S. Kochin and Alberto Spektorowski (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2022), 85-104.

  • "The Prophet of Dystopia at Rest: Margaret Atwood in Cuba," Quillette (July 2021); Spanish version, "La profeta de la dystopia en suspenso: Margaret Atwood en Cuba," Rialta, 5 July 2021.

  • "Opportunities to Promote Human Rights and Democratic Values Abroad: The Case of Canadian Foreign Policy Toward Venezuela," International Journal 76, no.3 (2021): 446–464.

  • “Fidel Castro’s ‘Words to Intellectuals’ at 60: Nothing to Celebrate,” Literal, Latin American Voices, July, 2021.

  • “Emergency and Opportunities: Canada and the Venezuela Crisis,” in External Powers in Latin America, Gian Luca Gardini and Gonzalo S. Paz eds. (Routledge, 2021).

  • “La política como ciencia y como tabúe,” Foro Cubano (Bogota) 4, no.29 (Feb. 2021).

  • "Cuban Studies: the Siren Song of La Revolución," Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos, 49 (2020): 310-329.

  • With Jorge Domínguez, Julio César Guanche, Jennifer Lambe, Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Silvia Pedraza and Rafael Rojas, "¿Cuándo terminó la Revolución cubana? Una discusión," Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos 47 (2019): 143-165.

  • "Canada and the Venezuela Crisis," Oasis 30 (July-Dec. 2019): 55-75.

  • "Ciencias sociales y humanidades en Cuba: Parametración y despolitización," in Gisela Kozak Rovero and Armando Chaguaceda eds., La izquierda como autoritarismo en el siglo XXI (CADAL and Universidad de Guanajuato, 2019), 173-201.

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Department of Political Science, Mulroney Hall, Rm 4067, St. Francis Xavier University, 2329 Notre Dame Avenue, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada B2G 2W5. Phone 902 867 3940

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