Simon Granovsky-Larsen

Simon Granovsky-Larsen is an Assistant Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Regina, and a fellow of both the Latin American Research Centre and the York University Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean. His research draws on more than ten years of collaboration with grassroots movements and human rights defenders in Guatemala, and focuses on political violence and social movements since the end of armed conflict in 1996. Currently, he is completing a project on the Guatemalan campesino movement and beginning another on the role of paramilitary groups in supporting “mega-development” projects such as mines and hydroelectric dams. Dr. Granovsky-Larsen is working on two book manuscripts: Dealing with Peace: The Guatemalan Campesino Movement and the Post-War Neoliberal State, which is under advanced contract with University of Toronto Press, and Organized Violence and the Expansion of Capital, an edited volume in progress.