About the CST

Brieg Capitaine

Brieg Capitaine is associate professor at the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies of the University of Ottawa. He holds a PhD in sociology from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris) and is a member of the scientific council of the Research Center on the Future Cities. His research focuses on social movements, cultural trauma and solidarities. He coordinated the book Power through Testimony. Reframing Residential Schools in an Age of Reconciliation (University of British Columbia Press, 2017) as well as Mouvements sociaux. Quand le sujet devient acteur (Éditions de la FMSH, 2016).

He is currently working on flooding, the civil sphere and the cultural dimensions of the technical infrastructures of risk regulation.