Miguel Gonzalez (PhD, York University) is a faculty in the International Development Studies program at York University, Toronto, Canada.

Research Interests

• PhD, York University - 2008
• MA, York University - 2001
• BA, National School of History and Anthropology of Mexico - 1995

Current Courses

Miguel Gonzalez (PhD, York University) is a faculty in the International Development Studies program at York University, Toronto, Canada.

Miguel Gonzalez (PhD, York University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science and the current Coordinator of the International Development Studies program at York University, Toronto, Canada. In recent years Miguel has taught both in the undergraduate and graduate programs in International Development at York University. His current research and teaching relate to three broad themes and projects:

First, indigenous self-governance and territorial autonomous regimes in Latin America. On this question he has published extensively and co-edited a themed issue for a specialized academic journal in the field on indigenous studies (http://www.alternative.ac.nz); in addition, he co-edited a thematic issue of the Latin America and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Journal (LACES) on the topic of Indigenous Autonomies in Latin America (2014). The most recent publication is an edited volume entitled Indigenous Territorial Autonomy and Self-Government in the Diverse Americas (University of Calgary Press, 2023). In 2021 Miguel served as Principal Investigator of a SSHRC Connection Grant that focused on emancipatory autonomies practiced by Indigenous and Afro-descendant organizations in Central America which resulted in a free access publication (accessible here: https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/items/0eb4d45d-a0da-4b86-b1d3-530397486d66).

Miguel’s second area of interest is the governance of small-scale fisheries (SSF) in the global south, with a particular geographical concentration in the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast. On this question he published a chapter in the edited volume Viability and Sustainability of Small-Scale Fisheries in Latin America and The Caribbean (Editors: Silvia Salas, Maria José Barragán-Paladines, & Ratana Chuenpagdee, New York: Springer, 2018) that revolves around the health-related impacts of commercial lobster diving on the Miskitu Coast. Miguel is also a researcher associated with the Global Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries Research (http://toobigtoignore.net) and with the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) at York University.

Miguel’s third area of academic interest revolves around emerging authoritarianisms and the reduction of autonomous public spheres in Latin America, including restrictions to academic freedom and research, criminalization of civil society organizing, and persecution of independent journalism. On this topic he recently published an article on neo-structuralism and political authoritarianism in the journal Globalizations (20:1, 76- 93, DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2022.2065050, 2022). He is currently devoted to completing a paper on authoritarianism and restriction to research in Nicaragua, to be published as part of an edited volume entitled Decolonizing Fieldwork: A Practical Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences, editors: Kira Jumet (Hamilton College) and Merouan Mekouar (York University); Oxford University Press, (forthcoming 2024)

Degrees

Research Interests

Awards

• PhD, York University - 2008
• MA, York University - 2001
• BA, National School of History and Anthropology of Mexico - 1995

Current Courses