Simón Escoffier is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His research focuses on social movements, citizenship, conservative counter-movements, political exclusion, human rights, public policy, urban democracy, and Latin America.
'Throughout the world the urban poor struggle against oppression and dispossession by organising in their neighbourhoods. Simon Escoffier's study of two contrasting neighbourhoods in Santiago, Chile, shows how people mobilise citizenship for cultivating radical democratic activism. This shift to mobilising citizenship in the neighbourhood is brilliant and inspiring.' Engin Isin, Queen Mary University of London