Dan Furukawa Marques holds a doctorate in political thought from the University, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Laval University and holder of the Alban D’Amours Chair in Teaching Leadership in Sociology of Cooperation. He is also an affiliate professor at the Center for the Studies of Social Movements (CEMS) of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His work focuses on building cooperative communities and social movements, including the Landless Movement in Brazil. He has notably taught courses on political and social philosophy, as well as on globalization, citizenship and development, on the political and social context of Latin America, as well as on Quebec society and its ideologies. His new research projects reflect on the articulation between the solidarity economy and the commons in Montreal, Quebec and Barcelona.