Lecture with Gabriel Hetland

Lecture title and description are forthcoming.

Gabriel Hetland
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director
Department of Africana, Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies
University at Albany, State University of New York

Gabriel Hetland is a political sociologist who received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2015 and uses ethnographic and comparative historical methods to study democracy, the state, urban and national politics, labor, and social movements in Latin America and the US. He is currently working on a book, based on his dissertation, that compares participatory democracy in Venezuelan and Bolivian cities governed by Left and Right parties. This project challenges prevailing assumptions by demonstrating that participatory reform can succeed under Right-wing governance and in contexts where civil society lacks autonomy from the state and ruling party.