Nora Nagels
Professor of Development and International Cooperation at the Department of Political Science, l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)
My research is in the field of comparative politics, feminist studies and social policies in Latin America.
My research and teaching activities focus on development policies, actors and issues as well as gender and social policies in Latin America. My research focuses on social assistance policies such as conditional cash transfer programs as well as family policies such as parental leave and early childhood care. In addition, I am working on the mechanisms of appropriation the norm of Free Prior and Informed Consent of indigenous people in Bolivia.
My recent work shows that anti-poverty policies, while they are gender-sensitive, reproduce inequalities between men and women. Moreover, in Peru and Bolivia, these policies reinforce neocolonialism.
My current research follows five main themes
Social assistance policies
Family policies
Free and informed prior consent
Gender
Conditional cash transfers
Recent research projects
CRSH développement-savoir 2019-2021 "Genre et politiques familiales au Costa-Rica, au Mexique et au Pérou : vers plus d’égalité?
CRSH savoir avec Martin Papillon et Francoise Montambeault 2017-2023 "Peuples autochtones, territoires et ressources : une analyse comparée des mécanismes de traduction du consentement préalable, libre et éclairé"
FRQSC Établissement de nouveaux professeurs-chercheurs 2015-2020 "Euphémisation du genre dans la diffusion des programmes de transferts conditionnés en Amérique latine"
Recent publications
Nagels, Nora. (à venir). Gender, World Bank and Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America, International Feminist Journal of Politics.
Nagels, Nora. (2018). Incomplete Universalization? Peruvian Social Policy Reform, Universalism, and Gendered Outcomes. Social Politics. 25(3): 410-431
Jenson, Jane et Nora Nagels. (2018). Social Policy Instruments in Motion. Conditional Cash Transfers from Mexico to Peru. Social Policy & Administration. 52(1): 323-342.