A Pahnke
Biographic Data
| ID | 57195 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Pahnke |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Pahnke |
| SIGNATURE | PAHNKE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7447-4386 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How to Vaccinate a Fish: Merck, the Pharmaceutical Industry and Developing Surveillance Capitalism within the Blue Revolution
This article discusses the strategic evolution of the transnational pharmaceutical firm Merck in the animal agriculture sector, focusing especially on aquaculture. This evolution began in 2019 with Merck's development of ‘big data’ technologies (for example, cloud computing, mobile data and artificial intelligence) to control supply chains through real‐time interventions in fish monitoring and tracking, disease treatment and operation maintenance…
Race, the Ballot, and Hegemony: What the Struggle over Immigrant Voting Teaches Us About Rightwing Mobilization in the U.S
While there has been an increase in rhetoric and efforts to block expanding voting rights to noncitizens around the United States, there is a relative lack of academic research examining the ideology, political actors, and strategy behind such efforts. In addressing this gap, we explore anti-immigrant voting rights campaigns as they relate to broader rightwing mobilization and voter suppression efforts. We draw upon the literature on Gramsci’s co…
From creating to confronting racial hierarchies: The evolving role of the US state in land policy
From systemically dispossessing Indigenous people of their territory for Euro‐American settlement to routinely denying African American farmers operating loans in the 20th century, the US government's complicity in creating racial hierarchies in terms of land access is well documented. Less understood is how land policies oriented towards racial equity, namely, the Justice for Black Farmers Act (JBFA), and other initiatives that deal with land ac…
The Political Economy of Learning in Agrarian Contention: Transnational Networks and Interracial Alliance Formation
This article explains how an interracial alliance that promotes a radical restructuring of agriculture, featuring African American small-scale producers, farmers of Euro-American descent, Latino farmworkers, and Indigenous people, has come into existence. As I argue, this coalition formed due to changes in international political economy and within transnational activist networks. Specifically, the implementation of neoliberal international trade…
From rent-seeking to rent-producing: Explaining Cargill’s strategy to control value chains by proliferating links within them
Neo-Brandeisians and Marxists Unite: Reevaluating the Nature of Power and Markets in Competition Policy
This article engages ongoing policy debates concerning the relationship between concentrated economic power, democracy, and the rule of law, focusing on competition policy - known in the United States as Anti-Trust law. I analyze how Neo-Brandeisian jurists and advocates (who are named after the late, Progressive Era U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis), have raised critical concerns in their critiques of how Chicago School jurists have co…
The Revolutionary Potential of Food Sovereignty: Applying Lenin’s Insights on Dialectics, the State, and Political Action
This essay elaborates a conception of sovereignty that highlights its revolutionary potential. Its argument addresses the nature of different movement strategies in the ongoing struggle for food sovereignty and how movements ought to confront the state while simultaneously using it to create a transformative, potentially anticapitalist form of governance. This claim is built from critiques of the state and sovereignty in studies of radical democr…
Regrounding Critical Theory: Lenin on Imperialism, Nationalism, and Strategy
We live at a time of heightened nationalism on the political right and left, from the mobilization of anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States and Europe, to promoting Palestinian liberation. This article, focusing on Lenin's work concerning imperialism, shows the importance, yet shortcomings of foregrounding the nation in calling for social transformation. The piece reads Lenin's contributions on imperialism, highlighting his understanding …
The Brazilian Crisis and the New Authoritarianism
Three decades after liberal democracy replaced the military dictatorship of 1964–85, the far right in Brazil has made a comeback, most starkly with the electoral victory of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. Bolsonaro, however, is not an isolated individual; rather, his government is characterized by an authoritarian style of neoliberalism built on a series of alliances, a prominent one of which is with the judiciary. This coalition boasts connections with …
Social Movement Consolidation and Strategic Shifts: The Brazilian Landless Movement during the Lula and Dilma Administrations
During the center-left Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers' Party-PT) governments of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2002-2010) and Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016), the Brazilian Landless Movement took advantage of particular governmental changes-increased access to education, improved small-farmer support programs, and expanded agrarian reform development policies-to strengthen its leadership and organization. Instead of expanding, the movement turned inwa…
Lenin's Critical Engagement with Liberal Democracy: From Opportunism to Self-Determination and Dictatorship
This article analyzes how Lenin developed core tenets concerning revolutionary political action from his critical engagement with liberal democracy. He notes that two modes of action—one, in favor of national self-determination, and the other, for mass, proletarian dictatorship—potentially arise from, yet surpass, the opportunist form of politics that liberal institutions promote. Rather than neglect elements of liberal democratic society, includ…
Response to Federico M. Rossi’s review of Brazil’s Long Revolution: Radical Achievements of the Landless Workers Movement
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Sovereignty and Capitalist Accumulation in Brazil's Primary Sector
Sovereignty conditions all aspects of the extractive process. That it underpins the dynamics of capitalist accumulation is apparent in the power that governments have to classify space, alienate certain areas for investment, and charge rents. A review of the large-scale land acquisitions and changes in the mining and oil and gas industries in Brazil from 2002 to 2016 shows that initiatives intended to curtail foreign investment actually stimulate…
Brazil's Long Revolution: Radical Achievements of the Landless Workers Movement
The contradictions of neo-extractivism and social policy: The role of raw material exports in the Brazilian political crisis
This article explores how contradictory development tendencies within Brazil’s primary sector have contributed to the country’s enduring political crisis. I show that President Rousseff, when dealing with declining royalty payments from natural resource exports and a decrease in tax revenue from imports, financed social policies in ways that her opponents branded as unconstitutional to remove her from power. After documenting the central players …
From hostile skepticism to strategic utilization: How the Brazilian landless movement learned from repression to use legislation
This paper explores the evolution of the Landless Movement’s practices with respect to legislation and public policy from the 1980s to the Temer government, which took power after Dilma Rousseff was removed from the Presidency in 2016. The main argument is that the movement has learned over time, from viewing government with hostile skepticism, to understanding its relationship with different administrations in terms of strategic utilization. Cen…
The Brazilian Crisis: Corruption, Neoliberalism, and the Primary Sector
In discussing the Brazilian situation, it is easy to focus on the dramas of individual politicians and institutions. But to look only at this level of the crisis is to ignore the deeper economic conditions that have driven the country's politics to the edge.... The deeper contradiction, however, lies with the natural-resource economy, in which government revenue and social spending require royalties that are controlled by a small, unaccountable e…
The Changing Terrain of Rural Contention in Brazil: Institutionalization and Identity Development in the Landless Movement's Educational Project
Studies of the Brazilian Landless Movement, particularly the MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, Landless Rural Workers' Movement), note two periods of collective action: the time when tactics such as land occupations are deployed to acquire land (luta pela terra) and subsequent mobilizations to develop territory (luta na terra). The latter period, which includes fostering educational opportunities and coordinating economic product…
Understanding rural resistance: Contemporary mobilization in the Brazilian countryside
Contradictions between impressive levels of economic growth and the persistence of poverty and inequality are perhaps nowhere more evident than in rural Brazil. While Brazil might appear to be an example of the potential harmony between large-scale, export-oriented agribusiness and small-scale family farming, high levels of rural resistance contradict this vision. In this introductory paper, we synthesize the literature on agrarian resistance in …
Institutionalizing economies of opposition: Explaining and evaluating the success of the MST's cooperatives and agroecological repeasantization
Dominant conceptions of social movements consider their constitutive feature the disruption of order, not practices around building it. In this paper, I challenge this notion by analyzing the Landless Workers' Movement (MST)'s relatively successful efforts to institutionalize the practices of agricultural production developed by its members in cooperatives and agroecology. Through this analysis, I show that the movement's administration of a demo…
A representação da violência autoritária no cinema brasileiro
O objetivo desse ensaio é desenvolver o conceito da “violência autoritária” através da análise de alguns textos chaves da disciplina de Ciência Política e de dois filmes: A Cidade de Deus e A Tropa de Elite. Analiso o papel central que a violência tem no Estado moderno através de uma discussão de como a violência é concebida por Max Weber, Sergio Buarque de Hollanda, Guillermo O’Donnell e Paulo Sergio Pinheiro. Depois de formar o conceito da viol…
Understanding rural resistance: Contemporary mobilization in the Brazilian countryside
Contradictions between impressive levels of economic growth and the persistence of poverty and inequality are perhaps nowhere more evident than in rural Brazil. While Brazil might appear to be an example of the potential harmony between large-scale, export-oriented agribusiness and small-scale family farming, high levels of rural resistance contradict this vision. In this introductory paper, we synthesize the literature on agrarian resistance in …
Institutionalizing economies of opposition: Explaining and evaluating the success of the MST's cooperatives and agroecological repeasantization
Dominant conceptions of social movements consider their constitutive feature the disruption of order, not practices around building it. In this paper, I challenge this notion by analyzing the Landless Workers' Movement (MST)'s relatively successful efforts to institutionalize the practices of agricultural production developed by its members in cooperatives and agroecology. Through this analysis, I show that the movement's administration of a demo…
The contradictions of neo-extractivism and social policy: The role of raw material exports in the Brazilian political crisis
This article explores how contradictory development tendencies within Brazil’s primary sector have contributed to the country’s enduring political crisis. I show that President Rousseff, when dealing with declining royalty payments from natural resource exports and a decrease in tax revenue from imports, financed social policies in ways that her opponents branded as unconstitutional to remove her from power. After documenting the central players …
Race, the Ballot, and Hegemony: What the Struggle over Immigrant Voting Teaches Us About Rightwing Mobilization in the U.S
While there has been an increase in rhetoric and efforts to block expanding voting rights to noncitizens around the United States, there is a relative lack of academic research examining the ideology, political actors, and strategy behind such efforts. In addressing this gap, we explore anti-immigrant voting rights campaigns as they relate to broader rightwing mobilization and voter suppression efforts. We draw upon the literature on Gramsci’s co…
From rent-seeking to rent-producing: Explaining Cargill’s strategy to control value chains by proliferating links within them
The Brazilian Crisis and the New Authoritarianism
Three decades after liberal democracy replaced the military dictatorship of 1964–85, the far right in Brazil has made a comeback, most starkly with the electoral victory of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. Bolsonaro, however, is not an isolated individual; rather, his government is characterized by an authoritarian style of neoliberalism built on a series of alliances, a prominent one of which is with the judiciary. This coalition boasts connections with …
Social Movement Consolidation and Strategic Shifts: The Brazilian Landless Movement during the Lula and Dilma Administrations
During the center-left Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers' Party-PT) governments of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2002-2010) and Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016), the Brazilian Landless Movement took advantage of particular governmental changes-increased access to education, improved small-farmer support programs, and expanded agrarian reform development policies-to strengthen its leadership and organization. Instead of expanding, the movement turned inwa…
From hostile skepticism to strategic utilization: How the Brazilian landless movement learned from repression to use legislation
This paper explores the evolution of the Landless Movement’s practices with respect to legislation and public policy from the 1980s to the Temer government, which took power after Dilma Rousseff was removed from the Presidency in 2016. The main argument is that the movement has learned over time, from viewing government with hostile skepticism, to understanding its relationship with different administrations in terms of strategic utilization. Cen…
The Changing Terrain of Rural Contention in Brazil: Institutionalization and Identity Development in the Landless Movement's Educational Project
Studies of the Brazilian Landless Movement, particularly the MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, Landless Rural Workers' Movement), note two periods of collective action: the time when tactics such as land occupations are deployed to acquire land (luta pela terra) and subsequent mobilizations to develop territory (luta na terra). The latter period, which includes fostering educational opportunities and coordinating economic product…
A representação da violência autoritária no cinema brasileiro
O objetivo desse ensaio é desenvolver o conceito da “violência autoritária” através da análise de alguns textos chaves da disciplina de Ciência Política e de dois filmes: A Cidade de Deus e A Tropa de Elite. Analiso o papel central que a violência tem no Estado moderno através de uma discussão de como a violência é concebida por Max Weber, Sergio Buarque de Hollanda, Guillermo O’Donnell e Paulo Sergio Pinheiro. Depois de formar o conceito da viol…
Understanding rural resistance: Contemporary mobilization in the Brazilian countryside
Contradictions between impressive levels of economic growth and the persistence of poverty and inequality are perhaps nowhere more evident than in rural Brazil. While Brazil might appear to be an example of the potential harmony between large-scale, export-oriented agribusiness and small-scale family farming, high levels of rural resistance contradict this vision. In this introductory paper, we synthesize the literature on agrarian resistance in …
Institutionalizing economies of opposition: Explaining and evaluating the success of the MST's cooperatives and agroecological repeasantization
Dominant conceptions of social movements consider their constitutive feature the disruption of order, not practices around building it. In this paper, I challenge this notion by analyzing the Landless Workers' Movement (MST)'s relatively successful efforts to institutionalize the practices of agricultural production developed by its members in cooperatives and agroecology. Through this analysis, I show that the movement's administration of a demo…
The Brazilian Crisis: Corruption, Neoliberalism, and the Primary Sector
In discussing the Brazilian situation, it is easy to focus on the dramas of individual politicians and institutions. But to look only at this level of the crisis is to ignore the deeper economic conditions that have driven the country's politics to the edge.... The deeper contradiction, however, lies with the natural-resource economy, in which government revenue and social spending require royalties that are controlled by a small, unaccountable e…
The Changing Terrain of Rural Contention in Brazil: Institutionalization and Identity Development in the Landless Movement's Educational Project
Studies of the Brazilian Landless Movement, particularly the MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, Landless Rural Workers' Movement), note two periods of collective action: the time when tactics such as land occupations are deployed to acquire land (luta pela terra) and subsequent mobilizations to develop territory (luta na terra). The latter period, which includes fostering educational opportunities and coordinating economic product…
Brazil's Long Revolution: Radical Achievements of the Landless Workers Movement
The contradictions of neo-extractivism and social policy: The role of raw material exports in the Brazilian political crisis
This article explores how contradictory development tendencies within Brazil’s primary sector have contributed to the country’s enduring political crisis. I show that President Rousseff, when dealing with declining royalty payments from natural resource exports and a decrease in tax revenue from imports, financed social policies in ways that her opponents branded as unconstitutional to remove her from power. After documenting the central players …
From hostile skepticism to strategic utilization: How the Brazilian landless movement learned from repression to use legislation
This paper explores the evolution of the Landless Movement’s practices with respect to legislation and public policy from the 1980s to the Temer government, which took power after Dilma Rousseff was removed from the Presidency in 2016. The main argument is that the movement has learned over time, from viewing government with hostile skepticism, to understanding its relationship with different administrations in terms of strategic utilization. Cen…
Lenin's Critical Engagement with Liberal Democracy: From Opportunism to Self-Determination and Dictatorship
This article analyzes how Lenin developed core tenets concerning revolutionary political action from his critical engagement with liberal democracy. He notes that two modes of action—one, in favor of national self-determination, and the other, for mass, proletarian dictatorship—potentially arise from, yet surpass, the opportunist form of politics that liberal institutions promote. Rather than neglect elements of liberal democratic society, includ…
Response to Federico M. Rossi’s review of Brazil’s Long Revolution: Radical Achievements of the Landless Workers Movement
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Sovereignty and Capitalist Accumulation in Brazil's Primary Sector
Sovereignty conditions all aspects of the extractive process. That it underpins the dynamics of capitalist accumulation is apparent in the power that governments have to classify space, alienate certain areas for investment, and charge rents. A review of the large-scale land acquisitions and changes in the mining and oil and gas industries in Brazil from 2002 to 2016 shows that initiatives intended to curtail foreign investment actually stimulate…
Regrounding Critical Theory: Lenin on Imperialism, Nationalism, and Strategy
We live at a time of heightened nationalism on the political right and left, from the mobilization of anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States and Europe, to promoting Palestinian liberation. This article, focusing on Lenin's work concerning imperialism, shows the importance, yet shortcomings of foregrounding the nation in calling for social transformation. The piece reads Lenin's contributions on imperialism, highlighting his understanding …
The Brazilian Crisis and the New Authoritarianism
Three decades after liberal democracy replaced the military dictatorship of 1964–85, the far right in Brazil has made a comeback, most starkly with the electoral victory of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. Bolsonaro, however, is not an isolated individual; rather, his government is characterized by an authoritarian style of neoliberalism built on a series of alliances, a prominent one of which is with the judiciary. This coalition boasts connections with …
Social Movement Consolidation and Strategic Shifts: The Brazilian Landless Movement during the Lula and Dilma Administrations
During the center-left Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers' Party-PT) governments of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2002-2010) and Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016), the Brazilian Landless Movement took advantage of particular governmental changes-increased access to education, improved small-farmer support programs, and expanded agrarian reform development policies-to strengthen its leadership and organization. Instead of expanding, the movement turned inwa…
The Revolutionary Potential of Food Sovereignty: Applying Lenin’s Insights on Dialectics, the State, and Political Action
This essay elaborates a conception of sovereignty that highlights its revolutionary potential. Its argument addresses the nature of different movement strategies in the ongoing struggle for food sovereignty and how movements ought to confront the state while simultaneously using it to create a transformative, potentially anticapitalist form of governance. This claim is built from critiques of the state and sovereignty in studies of radical democr…
Neo-Brandeisians and Marxists Unite: Reevaluating the Nature of Power and Markets in Competition Policy
This article engages ongoing policy debates concerning the relationship between concentrated economic power, democracy, and the rule of law, focusing on competition policy - known in the United States as Anti-Trust law. I analyze how Neo-Brandeisian jurists and advocates (who are named after the late, Progressive Era U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis), have raised critical concerns in their critiques of how Chicago School jurists have co…
From creating to confronting racial hierarchies: The evolving role of the US state in land policy
From systemically dispossessing Indigenous people of their territory for Euro‐American settlement to routinely denying African American farmers operating loans in the 20th century, the US government's complicity in creating racial hierarchies in terms of land access is well documented. Less understood is how land policies oriented towards racial equity, namely, the Justice for Black Farmers Act (JBFA), and other initiatives that deal with land ac…
The Political Economy of Learning in Agrarian Contention: Transnational Networks and Interracial Alliance Formation
This article explains how an interracial alliance that promotes a radical restructuring of agriculture, featuring African American small-scale producers, farmers of Euro-American descent, Latino farmworkers, and Indigenous people, has come into existence. As I argue, this coalition formed due to changes in international political economy and within transnational activist networks. Specifically, the implementation of neoliberal international trade…
From rent-seeking to rent-producing: Explaining Cargill’s strategy to control value chains by proliferating links within them
Race, the Ballot, and Hegemony: What the Struggle over Immigrant Voting Teaches Us About Rightwing Mobilization in the U.S
While there has been an increase in rhetoric and efforts to block expanding voting rights to noncitizens around the United States, there is a relative lack of academic research examining the ideology, political actors, and strategy behind such efforts. In addressing this gap, we explore anti-immigrant voting rights campaigns as they relate to broader rightwing mobilization and voter suppression efforts. We draw upon the literature on Gramsci’s co…
How to Vaccinate a Fish: Merck, the Pharmaceutical Industry and Developing Surveillance Capitalism within the Blue Revolution
This article discusses the strategic evolution of the transnational pharmaceutical firm Merck in the animal agriculture sector, focusing especially on aquaculture. This evolution began in 2019 with Merck's development of ‘big data’ technologies (for example, cloud computing, mobile data and artificial intelligence) to control supply chains through real‐time interventions in fish monitoring and tracking, disease treatment and operation maintenance…
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