Books by Jacques Gelinas

Jacques B. Gelinas is a writer and lecturer on Third World issues and globalisation. He trained originally as a sociologist at the Universities of Ottawa and Laval in Canada, and subsequently at the University of Chile. He spent some time as a researcher with FLACSO, the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. For over a decade (1959-71) he worked in popular education and community development in the Bolivian Andes, during which time he collaborated with Paulo Freire and Ivan Illich. He then became a university teacher during the 1970s at the University of Ottawa's Institute for International Cooperation, where he taught the Sociology of Development, and at the Universite Nationale du Benin. Jacques Gelinas moved on in the 1980s to work for the Quebec Government's Ministry of International Affairs, covering at different times Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa. In 1992 he helped found, and became the first managing director of, a new publishing house, Les Editions Ecosociete, which is dedicated to publishing on the political and social issues of a sustainable society.