Pascale Dufour is Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Montreal and Director of the Research Center on Politics and social development (www.cpds.umontreal.ca). She works on social movements and collective action in comparative perspective. Her emerging research examines student 2012 mobilizations in Quebec (Canada). Her work has been published in Research in Social Movement, Conflict and Change, European Political Science review, Social Movement Studies, French Politics, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Canadian Journal of Sociology, Mobilization, and Social Science Quarterly. Her last book was published in 2013, Trois espaces de protestation mondiale. France, Canada, Québec, Montreal: PUM.