Simon Escoffier

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About Simon Escoffier

Simón Escoffier is a political sociologist who studies social movements, citizenship, and civil society in Latin America through qualitative and mixed-methods research. His work investigates how collective action simultaneously challenges and strengthens contemporary democracies and guides strategies that empower marginalized communities. He is the author of Mobilizing at the Urban Margins: Citizenship and Patronage Politics in Post-Dictatorial Chile (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and co-editor of The Right against Rights in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2023). Escoffier serves as Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work and as a member of the Centre for Global Change at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He earned a DPhil in Sociology from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Sociology from the London School of Economics. His scholarship appears in leading journals, and he has advised the Chilean government and the Inter-American Development Bank on inclusive policy design.