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Pablo Lapegna

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ID89126
NAMEPablo Lapegna
GIVEN NAMESPablo
FAMILY NAMELapegna
SIGNATURELAPEGNA P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Georgia
ORCID0000-0003-3196-2897
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS28
TOTAL CITATIONS200
AUTHOR COUNT28
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX8
  • Informal Land Tenure and Livelihood Resilience in the Chaco Salteño, Argentina

    Alejandro Collins, J Abrams et al.•ARTICLE•Society & Natural Resources•2024•Cited by: 3•References: 11

  • Between Regulation and Practice: Situated Pesticide Governance in Argentina

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna, Johana Kunin et al.•ARTICLE•Studies in Comparative…•2024•Cited by: 4•References: 46

  • A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides

    Open Access•Becky Mansfield, Marion Werner et al.•ARTICLE•Agriculture and Human Values•2023•Cited by: 21•References: 15

    The global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous generics sector, shifts in geographies of pesticide production, and dynamics of agrarian change have led to more pesticide use, expanding to farm systems that hitherto used few such inputs. Declining effectiveness due to pesticide resistance and anemic institutional support for non-chemical alternatives al…

  • Rural Mobilisation and Agrarian Political Economy in Argentina, 2001-2020

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna, Tomás Palmisano•ARTICLE•Bulletin of Latin American Research•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 30

    In this article, we reconstruct the mobilisations of rural actors both from 'below' and from 'above' and their connections to Argentina's agrarian political economy between 2001 and 2020. We divide the analysis into three periods and review key protest events and the actions of movements and organisations, paying special attention to two dimensions. First, we consider how rural movements and organisations engaged with institutional politics and t…

  • Alternative Organizational Survival: A Comparison of Two Worker-Recuperated Businesses in Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Open Access•K Sobering, Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Social Problems•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 45

    It is widely accepted that economic indicators like efficiency, productivity, and profitability are key to explaining why some businesses survive and others do not. Yet not all work organizations ascribe to capitalist assumptions about ownership, authority, and even what constitutes success itself. Worker-recuperated businesses (WRBs) in Argentina-organizations closed by their private owners, occupied by their workers, and restarted as worker coo…

  • Norma Giarracca: Working Toward “A World Where Many Worlds Fit”

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Alternautas•2022

    Norma Giarracca had a deep and wide trajectory as a social researcher, especially as a rural sociologist. But she mostly published in Spanish, and thus her work is not readily accessible to many readers around the world. I am deeply grateful to the compañeras and compañeros of Alternautas to offer other researchers the opportunity to access the many insights of Norma’s work. Her winding trajectory hints at her intellectual curiosity and her openn…

  • Ambiguities at Sites of Acceptance: Agrarian Neoliberalism and Herbicide Exposure in Argentina

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna, Johana Kunin•ARTICLE•Environmental Justice•2022

    In this article, we study how dominant ideas on herbicide-dependent agriculture are reappropriated and recreated at different scales in farming towns of the Argentine Pampas . First, we analyze the discourses of national reach, to show how herbicide use is institutionally justified, promoted, and legitimized, while also being downplayed or minimized. Second, and based on our interviews with people who benefit from herbicide-dependent agriculture,…

  • The poor’s struggle for political incorporation: The piquetero movement in Argentina

    Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Social movement studies•2020•Cited by: 1

    The poor’s struggle for political incorporation: the piquetero movement in Argentina." Social Movement Studies, 19(1), pp. 106–107

  • Genetically modified crops and seed/food sovereignty in Argentina: Scales and States in the Contemporary Food Regime

    Pablo Lapegna, Tamara Perelmuter•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2020•Cited by: 15•References: 37

    With more than half of its arable land planted with genetically modified soybeans, Argentina presents a strategic research site to investigate contestations of intellectual property rights on seeds and the enclosure of seeds as common resources. In this contribution, we tackle Argentina as a case study to address three issues. First, we discuss the sweeping expansion of genetically modified crops to illustrate its associated role in (a) the confl…

  • Revolutionizing Repertoires: The Rise of Populist Mobilization in Peru

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•2019

  • La cuestión agraria y los gobiernos de izquierda en América Latina: Campesinos, Agronegocio Y Neodesarrollismo

    Open Access•Leandro Vergara‐camu, Carmen Diana Deere et al.•BOOK•La cuestión agraria y los…•2018•Cited by: 6•References: 50

    Este libro analiza las politicas agrarias de los gobiernos de izquierda de las primeras decadas del siglo XXI. Desde una perspectiva de economia politica agraria critica se hace un balance de los logros, las limitaciones y las contradicciones de este periodo. En la coyuntura actual de reflujo y crisis de estas experiencias, este libro ofrece reflexiones acerca de como los gobiernos de izquierda y los movimientos rurales lidiaron con el poder del …

  • Popular Participation and Governance in the Kirchners' Argentina and Chávez's Venezuela: Recognition, Incorporation and Supportive Mobilisation

    Open Access•Rebecca Hanson, Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Journal of Latin American Studies•2018•Cited by: 3•References: 53

    How did governance in Kirchner's Argentina and Chávez's Venezuela interact with popular mobilisation? How have popular sectors engaged with and participated in Left-of-centre governance? Using ethnographic data, we argue that the answers to these questions lie in three social mechanisms that we call recognition, incorporation and selective mobilisation. We analyse how activists and participants interpreted and contested these mechanisms, paying a…

  • The political economy of the agro-export boom under the Kirchners: Hegemony and passive revolution in Argentina

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Journal of Agrarian Change•2017•Cited by: 12•References: 26

    Since the mid-1990s, the economy and politics of Argentina have been closely intertwined with the expansion of agro-exports-a process initiated with neoliberalization and continued under "post-neoliberal" governments. The administrations of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner are among the left-of-centre, neo-developmental governments that were elected to power in Latin America in recent decades. This paper engages Gramsci's concep…

  • Food Systems in an Unequal World. Pesticides, Vegetables, and Agrarian Capitalism in Costa Rica ‐ by Galt, Ryan

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Bulletin of Latin American Research•2016

  • Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina

    Pablo Lapegna•BOOK•Soybeans and Power•2016

  • Transgenic Crops in Latin America: Expropriation, Negative Value and the State

    Open Access•G Otero, Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Journal of Agrarian Change•2016•Cited by: 10•References: 27

    This paper introduces a symposium on transgenic crops and neoliberalism in Latin America. We address the question: What is the relationship between the neoliberal food regime and transgenic crops in Latin American agriculture? Our goals are, first, to provide the main conceptual definitions and analytical parameters to contextualize the case studies that follow; and, second, using the findings of our contributors as our empirical stepping stone, …

  • Genetically modified soybeans, agrochemical exposure, and everyday forms of peasant collaboration in Argentina

    Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2016•Cited by: 24•References: 67

    Since the 2000s, both the production of genetically modified (GM) soybeans and the cases of agrochemical exposure have grown exponentially in Argentina. Drawing on ethnographic research, I analyze how peasant social movements understand the socio-environmental problems caused by the expansion of GM soybeans. I argue that at national, provincial, and local scales, the institutional recognition of peasant social movements and the performative actio…

  • Breaking Down the State: Protestors Engaged

    Open Access•Afp Photo, Genya Savilov et al.•BOOK•Breaking down the State•2015

    Recent years have seen an explosion of protest movements around the world, and academic theories are racing to catch up with them. This series aims to further our understanding of the origins, dealings, decisions, and outcomes of social movements by fostering dialogue among many traditions of thought, across European nations and across continents. All theoretical perspectives are welcome. Books in the series typically combine theory with empirica…

  • Popular Demobilization, Agribusiness Mobilization, and the Agrarian Boom in Post-Neoliberal Argentina

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Journal of World-Systems Research•2015•Cited by: 4•References: 15

    Based on ethnographic research, archival data, and a catalog of protest events, this article analyzes the relationship between popular social movements, business mobilization, and institutional politics in Argentina during the post-neoliberal phase, which arguably began circa 2003. How did waves of popular mobilization in the 1990s shape business mobilization in the 2000s? How did contentious politics influence institutional politics in the post-…

  • Global Ethnography and Genetically Modified Crops in Argentina: On Adoptions, Resistances, and Adaptations

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary Ethnography•2014•Cited by: 8•References: 50

    Drawing on fieldwork developed between 2003 and 2011, this article examines the expansion of genetically modified (GM) crops in Argentina and its consequences, namely, cases of pesticide drifts affecting rural communities. I compare cases in which peasants in northern Argentina protested against pesticide drifts (in 2003) to cases in which they did not react contentiously when facing environmental contamination (2009). I analyze these cases to ad…

  • Social Movements and Patronage Politics: Processes of Demobilization and Dual Pressure

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Sociological Forum•2013•Cited by: 16•References: 37

    Why might social movements be highly contentious at one point in time and demobilize shortly after? Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article examines the dynamics of demobilization of popular movements in a context of patronage politics. I argue that demobilization in these contexts results from relational processes creating a “dual pressure” stemming “from below” and “from above.” In social environments where patronage is pervasive, poor pe…

  • Democratic Processes, Patronage Politics, and Contentious Collective Action in El Alto, Bolivia

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna, J Auyero•CHAPTER•Clientelism in Everyday Latin…•2012

    I n February 2003, Bolivian president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada sent Congress an income tax proposal intended to curb the fiscal deficit, a goal set by the International Monetary Fund (see Shultz 2009). On February 12, the rank and file of the national police initiated a strike that spread from La Paz to other cities. From that afternoon and throughout the following day, hundreds of people filled the streets of downtown La Paz, looting and burnin…

  • Contestation et patronage: Intersections et interactions au microscope

    J Auyero, Pablo Lapegna et al.•ARTICLE•Revue internationale de politique…•2010•Cited by: 4•References: 1

    Revisitant des observations ethnographiques antérieures et s’appuyant sur des recherches qualitatives actuelles sur les pauvres et la politique, cet article montre que la politique de patronage routinière et l’action collective non-routinière ne devraient pas être considérées comme des phénomènes politiques qui s’opposent et entrent en conflit, mais plutôt comme des processus dynaniques qui entretiennent entre eux une relation d’interaction. A tr…

  • Ethnographers of the WorldUnited? Current Debates on the Ethnographic Study of Globalization

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Journal of World-Systems Research•2009•Cited by: 10•References: 76

    How does ethnography come to terms with our current global condition ? Being a method characterized by its in-depth knowledge of a bounded space, how does ethnography cope with a world scale? How does the global condition affect the definitions of key ethnographic concepts? In this article, I first reconstruct ethnographic debates regarding the status of the global, showing how ethnography can contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the bin…

  • Patronage Politics and Contentious Collective Action: A Recursive Relationship

    Open Access•J Auyero, Pablo Lapegna et al.•ARTICLE•Latin American Politics and Society•2009•Cited by: 56•References: 40

    Based on ethnographic reanalysis and on current qualitative research on poor people's politics, this article argues that routine patronage politics and nonroutine collective action should be examined not as opposite and conflicting political phenomena but as dynamic processes that often establish recursive relationships. Through a series of case studies conducted in contemporary Argentina, this article examines four instances in which patronage a…

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  • Patronage Politics and Contentious Collective Action: A Recursive Relationship

    Open Access•J Auyero, Pablo Lapegna et al.•ARTICLE•Latin American Politics and Society•2009•Cited by: 56•References: 40

    Based on ethnographic reanalysis and on current qualitative research on poor people's politics, this article argues that routine patronage politics and nonroutine collective action should be examined not as opposite and conflicting political phenomena but as dynamic processes that often establish recursive relationships. Through a series of case studies conducted in contemporary Argentina, this article examines four instances in which patronage a…

  • Genetically modified soybeans, agrochemical exposure, and everyday forms of peasant collaboration in Argentina

    Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2016•Cited by: 24•References: 67

    Since the 2000s, both the production of genetically modified (GM) soybeans and the cases of agrochemical exposure have grown exponentially in Argentina. Drawing on ethnographic research, I analyze how peasant social movements understand the socio-environmental problems caused by the expansion of GM soybeans. I argue that at national, provincial, and local scales, the institutional recognition of peasant social movements and the performative actio…

  • A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides

    Open Access•Becky Mansfield, Marion Werner et al.•ARTICLE•Agriculture and Human Values•2023•Cited by: 21•References: 15

    The global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous generics sector, shifts in geographies of pesticide production, and dynamics of agrarian change have led to more pesticide use, expanding to farm systems that hitherto used few such inputs. Declining effectiveness due to pesticide resistance and anemic institutional support for non-chemical alternatives al…

  • Social Movements and Patronage Politics: Processes of Demobilization and Dual Pressure

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Sociological Forum•2013•Cited by: 16•References: 37

    Why might social movements be highly contentious at one point in time and demobilize shortly after? Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article examines the dynamics of demobilization of popular movements in a context of patronage politics. I argue that demobilization in these contexts results from relational processes creating a “dual pressure” stemming “from below” and “from above.” In social environments where patronage is pervasive, poor pe…

  • Genetically modified crops and seed/food sovereignty in Argentina: Scales and States in the Contemporary Food Regime

    Pablo Lapegna, Tamara Perelmuter•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2020•Cited by: 15•References: 37

    With more than half of its arable land planted with genetically modified soybeans, Argentina presents a strategic research site to investigate contestations of intellectual property rights on seeds and the enclosure of seeds as common resources. In this contribution, we tackle Argentina as a case study to address three issues. First, we discuss the sweeping expansion of genetically modified crops to illustrate its associated role in (a) the confl…

  • The political economy of the agro-export boom under the Kirchners: Hegemony and passive revolution in Argentina

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Journal of Agrarian Change•2017•Cited by: 12•References: 26

    Since the mid-1990s, the economy and politics of Argentina have been closely intertwined with the expansion of agro-exports-a process initiated with neoliberalization and continued under "post-neoliberal" governments. The administrations of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner are among the left-of-centre, neo-developmental governments that were elected to power in Latin America in recent decades. This paper engages Gramsci's concep…

  • Transgenic Crops in Latin America: Expropriation, Negative Value and the State

    Open Access•G Otero, Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Journal of Agrarian Change•2016•Cited by: 10•References: 27

    This paper introduces a symposium on transgenic crops and neoliberalism in Latin America. We address the question: What is the relationship between the neoliberal food regime and transgenic crops in Latin American agriculture? Our goals are, first, to provide the main conceptual definitions and analytical parameters to contextualize the case studies that follow; and, second, using the findings of our contributors as our empirical stepping stone, …

  • Ethnographers of the WorldUnited? Current Debates on the Ethnographic Study of Globalization

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Journal of World-Systems Research•2009•Cited by: 10•References: 76

    How does ethnography come to terms with our current global condition ? Being a method characterized by its in-depth knowledge of a bounded space, how does ethnography cope with a world scale? How does the global condition affect the definitions of key ethnographic concepts? In this article, I first reconstruct ethnographic debates regarding the status of the global, showing how ethnography can contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the bin…

  • Global Ethnography and Genetically Modified Crops in Argentina: On Adoptions, Resistances, and Adaptations

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary Ethnography•2014•Cited by: 8•References: 50

    Drawing on fieldwork developed between 2003 and 2011, this article examines the expansion of genetically modified (GM) crops in Argentina and its consequences, namely, cases of pesticide drifts affecting rural communities. I compare cases in which peasants in northern Argentina protested against pesticide drifts (in 2003) to cases in which they did not react contentiously when facing environmental contamination (2009). I analyze these cases to ad…

  • La cuestión agraria y los gobiernos de izquierda en América Latina: Campesinos, Agronegocio Y Neodesarrollismo

    Open Access•Leandro Vergara‐camu, Carmen Diana Deere et al.•BOOK•La cuestión agraria y los…•2018•Cited by: 6•References: 50

    Este libro analiza las politicas agrarias de los gobiernos de izquierda de las primeras decadas del siglo XXI. Desde una perspectiva de economia politica agraria critica se hace un balance de los logros, las limitaciones y las contradicciones de este periodo. En la coyuntura actual de reflujo y crisis de estas experiencias, este libro ofrece reflexiones acerca de como los gobiernos de izquierda y los movimientos rurales lidiaron con el poder del …

  • Between Regulation and Practice: Situated Pesticide Governance in Argentina

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna, Johana Kunin et al.•ARTICLE•Studies in Comparative…•2024•Cited by: 4•References: 46

  • Popular Demobilization, Agribusiness Mobilization, and the Agrarian Boom in Post-Neoliberal Argentina

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Journal of World-Systems Research•2015•Cited by: 4•References: 15

    Based on ethnographic research, archival data, and a catalog of protest events, this article analyzes the relationship between popular social movements, business mobilization, and institutional politics in Argentina during the post-neoliberal phase, which arguably began circa 2003. How did waves of popular mobilization in the 1990s shape business mobilization in the 2000s? How did contentious politics influence institutional politics in the post-…

  • Contestation et patronage: Intersections et interactions au microscope

    J Auyero, Pablo Lapegna et al.•ARTICLE•Revue internationale de politique…•2010•Cited by: 4•References: 1

    Revisitant des observations ethnographiques antérieures et s’appuyant sur des recherches qualitatives actuelles sur les pauvres et la politique, cet article montre que la politique de patronage routinière et l’action collective non-routinière ne devraient pas être considérées comme des phénomènes politiques qui s’opposent et entrent en conflit, mais plutôt comme des processus dynaniques qui entretiennent entre eux une relation d’interaction. A tr…

  • Informal Land Tenure and Livelihood Resilience in the Chaco Salteño, Argentina

    Alejandro Collins, J Abrams et al.•ARTICLE•Society & Natural Resources•2024•Cited by: 3•References: 11

  • Popular Participation and Governance in the Kirchners' Argentina and Chávez's Venezuela: Recognition, Incorporation and Supportive Mobilisation

    Open Access•Rebecca Hanson, Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Journal of Latin American Studies•2018•Cited by: 3•References: 53

    How did governance in Kirchner's Argentina and Chávez's Venezuela interact with popular mobilisation? How have popular sectors engaged with and participated in Left-of-centre governance? Using ethnographic data, we argue that the answers to these questions lie in three social mechanisms that we call recognition, incorporation and selective mobilisation. We analyse how activists and participants interpreted and contested these mechanisms, paying a…

  • Rural Mobilisation and Agrarian Political Economy in Argentina, 2001-2020

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna, Tomás Palmisano•ARTICLE•Bulletin of Latin American Research•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 30

    In this article, we reconstruct the mobilisations of rural actors both from 'below' and from 'above' and their connections to Argentina's agrarian political economy between 2001 and 2020. We divide the analysis into three periods and review key protest events and the actions of movements and organisations, paying special attention to two dimensions. First, we consider how rural movements and organisations engaged with institutional politics and t…

  • Alternative Organizational Survival: A Comparison of Two Worker-Recuperated Businesses in Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Open Access•K Sobering, Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Social Problems•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 45

    It is widely accepted that economic indicators like efficiency, productivity, and profitability are key to explaining why some businesses survive and others do not. Yet not all work organizations ascribe to capitalist assumptions about ownership, authority, and even what constitutes success itself. Worker-recuperated businesses (WRBs) in Argentina-organizations closed by their private owners, occupied by their workers, and restarted as worker coo…

  • The poor’s struggle for political incorporation: The piquetero movement in Argentina

    Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Social movement studies•2020•Cited by: 1

    The poor’s struggle for political incorporation: the piquetero movement in Argentina." Social Movement Studies, 19(1), pp. 106–107

  • Essay 3: The Limits of the Connected Lives Theory

    Open Access•Louis Edgar Esparza, Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Sociological Forum•2007•Cited by: 1•References: 6

  • The Politics of the Past in an Argentine Working-Class Neighbourhood

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•2006

    The Politics of the Past in an Argentine Working-Class Neighbourhood. Lindsay DuBois. Toronto: Toronto Press, 2005. 283 pp

  • Essay 3: The Limits of the Connected Lives Theory

    Open Access•Louis Edgar Esparza, Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Sociological Forum•2007•Cited by: 1•References: 6

  • Ethnographers of the WorldUnited? Current Debates on the Ethnographic Study of Globalization

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Journal of World-Systems Research•2009•Cited by: 10•References: 76

    How does ethnography come to terms with our current global condition ? Being a method characterized by its in-depth knowledge of a bounded space, how does ethnography cope with a world scale? How does the global condition affect the definitions of key ethnographic concepts? In this article, I first reconstruct ethnographic debates regarding the status of the global, showing how ethnography can contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the bin…

  • Patronage Politics and Contentious Collective Action: A Recursive Relationship

    Open Access•J Auyero, Pablo Lapegna et al.•ARTICLE•Latin American Politics and Society•2009•Cited by: 56•References: 40

    Based on ethnographic reanalysis and on current qualitative research on poor people's politics, this article argues that routine patronage politics and nonroutine collective action should be examined not as opposite and conflicting political phenomena but as dynamic processes that often establish recursive relationships. Through a series of case studies conducted in contemporary Argentina, this article examines four instances in which patronage a…

  • El Alto, Rebel City: Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia

    Pablo Lapegna•REVIEW•Hispanic American Historical Review•2009

    Sian Lazar’s goal in El Alto, Rebel City is to examine the tensions between collective and individual senses of self, citizenship, and political agency. Lazar argues that liberal (and ultimately also communitarian) perspectives of citizenship overemphasize individualism, failing to capture the collectivist traditions actualized in the practices of civil society’s organizations in Bolivia. Assuming that citizenship is as much a status as a practic…

  • Contestation et patronage: Intersections et interactions au microscope

    J Auyero, Pablo Lapegna et al.•ARTICLE•Revue internationale de politique…•2010•Cited by: 4•References: 1

    Revisitant des observations ethnographiques antérieures et s’appuyant sur des recherches qualitatives actuelles sur les pauvres et la politique, cet article montre que la politique de patronage routinière et l’action collective non-routinière ne devraient pas être considérées comme des phénomènes politiques qui s’opposent et entrent en conflit, mais plutôt comme des processus dynaniques qui entretiennent entre eux une relation d’interaction. A tr…

  • Democratic Processes, Patronage Politics, and Contentious Collective Action in El Alto, Bolivia

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna, J Auyero•CHAPTER•Clientelism in Everyday Latin…•2012

    I n February 2003, Bolivian president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada sent Congress an income tax proposal intended to curb the fiscal deficit, a goal set by the International Monetary Fund (see Shultz 2009). On February 12, the rank and file of the national police initiated a strike that spread from La Paz to other cities. From that afternoon and throughout the following day, hundreds of people filled the streets of downtown La Paz, looting and burnin…

  • Social Movements and Patronage Politics: Processes of Demobilization and Dual Pressure

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Sociological Forum•2013•Cited by: 16•References: 37

    Why might social movements be highly contentious at one point in time and demobilize shortly after? Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article examines the dynamics of demobilization of popular movements in a context of patronage politics. I argue that demobilization in these contexts results from relational processes creating a “dual pressure” stemming “from below” and “from above.” In social environments where patronage is pervasive, poor pe…

  • Global Ethnography and Genetically Modified Crops in Argentina: On Adoptions, Resistances, and Adaptations

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary Ethnography•2014•Cited by: 8•References: 50

    Drawing on fieldwork developed between 2003 and 2011, this article examines the expansion of genetically modified (GM) crops in Argentina and its consequences, namely, cases of pesticide drifts affecting rural communities. I compare cases in which peasants in northern Argentina protested against pesticide drifts (in 2003) to cases in which they did not react contentiously when facing environmental contamination (2009). I analyze these cases to ad…

  • Breaking Down the State: Protestors Engaged

    Open Access•Afp Photo, Genya Savilov et al.•BOOK•Breaking down the State•2015

    Recent years have seen an explosion of protest movements around the world, and academic theories are racing to catch up with them. This series aims to further our understanding of the origins, dealings, decisions, and outcomes of social movements by fostering dialogue among many traditions of thought, across European nations and across continents. All theoretical perspectives are welcome. Books in the series typically combine theory with empirica…

  • Popular Demobilization, Agribusiness Mobilization, and the Agrarian Boom in Post-Neoliberal Argentina

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Journal of World-Systems Research•2015•Cited by: 4•References: 15

    Based on ethnographic research, archival data, and a catalog of protest events, this article analyzes the relationship between popular social movements, business mobilization, and institutional politics in Argentina during the post-neoliberal phase, which arguably began circa 2003. How did waves of popular mobilization in the 1990s shape business mobilization in the 2000s? How did contentious politics influence institutional politics in the post-…

  • Food Systems in an Unequal World. Pesticides, Vegetables, and Agrarian Capitalism in Costa Rica ‐ by Galt, Ryan

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Bulletin of Latin American Research•2016

  • Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina

    Pablo Lapegna•BOOK•Soybeans and Power•2016

  • Transgenic Crops in Latin America: Expropriation, Negative Value and the State

    Open Access•G Otero, Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Journal of Agrarian Change•2016•Cited by: 10•References: 27

    This paper introduces a symposium on transgenic crops and neoliberalism in Latin America. We address the question: What is the relationship between the neoliberal food regime and transgenic crops in Latin American agriculture? Our goals are, first, to provide the main conceptual definitions and analytical parameters to contextualize the case studies that follow; and, second, using the findings of our contributors as our empirical stepping stone, …

  • Genetically modified soybeans, agrochemical exposure, and everyday forms of peasant collaboration in Argentina

    Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2016•Cited by: 24•References: 67

    Since the 2000s, both the production of genetically modified (GM) soybeans and the cases of agrochemical exposure have grown exponentially in Argentina. Drawing on ethnographic research, I analyze how peasant social movements understand the socio-environmental problems caused by the expansion of GM soybeans. I argue that at national, provincial, and local scales, the institutional recognition of peasant social movements and the performative actio…

  • The political economy of the agro-export boom under the Kirchners: Hegemony and passive revolution in Argentina

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Journal of Agrarian Change•2017•Cited by: 12•References: 26

    Since the mid-1990s, the economy and politics of Argentina have been closely intertwined with the expansion of agro-exports-a process initiated with neoliberalization and continued under "post-neoliberal" governments. The administrations of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner are among the left-of-centre, neo-developmental governments that were elected to power in Latin America in recent decades. This paper engages Gramsci's concep…

  • La cuestión agraria y los gobiernos de izquierda en América Latina: Campesinos, Agronegocio Y Neodesarrollismo

    Open Access•Leandro Vergara‐camu, Carmen Diana Deere et al.•BOOK•La cuestión agraria y los…•2018•Cited by: 6•References: 50

    Este libro analiza las politicas agrarias de los gobiernos de izquierda de las primeras decadas del siglo XXI. Desde una perspectiva de economia politica agraria critica se hace un balance de los logros, las limitaciones y las contradicciones de este periodo. En la coyuntura actual de reflujo y crisis de estas experiencias, este libro ofrece reflexiones acerca de como los gobiernos de izquierda y los movimientos rurales lidiaron con el poder del …

  • Popular Participation and Governance in the Kirchners' Argentina and Chávez's Venezuela: Recognition, Incorporation and Supportive Mobilisation

    Open Access•Rebecca Hanson, Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Journal of Latin American Studies•2018•Cited by: 3•References: 53

    How did governance in Kirchner's Argentina and Chávez's Venezuela interact with popular mobilisation? How have popular sectors engaged with and participated in Left-of-centre governance? Using ethnographic data, we argue that the answers to these questions lie in three social mechanisms that we call recognition, incorporation and selective mobilisation. We analyse how activists and participants interpreted and contested these mechanisms, paying a…

  • Revolutionizing Repertoires: The Rise of Populist Mobilization in Peru

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•2019

  • The poor’s struggle for political incorporation: The piquetero movement in Argentina

    Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Social movement studies•2020•Cited by: 1

    The poor’s struggle for political incorporation: the piquetero movement in Argentina." Social Movement Studies, 19(1), pp. 106–107

  • Genetically modified crops and seed/food sovereignty in Argentina: Scales and States in the Contemporary Food Regime

    Pablo Lapegna, Tamara Perelmuter•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2020•Cited by: 15•References: 37

    With more than half of its arable land planted with genetically modified soybeans, Argentina presents a strategic research site to investigate contestations of intellectual property rights on seeds and the enclosure of seeds as common resources. In this contribution, we tackle Argentina as a case study to address three issues. First, we discuss the sweeping expansion of genetically modified crops to illustrate its associated role in (a) the confl…

  • Norma Giarracca: Working Toward “A World Where Many Worlds Fit”

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna•ARTICLE•Alternautas•2022

    Norma Giarracca had a deep and wide trajectory as a social researcher, especially as a rural sociologist. But she mostly published in Spanish, and thus her work is not readily accessible to many readers around the world. I am deeply grateful to the compañeras and compañeros of Alternautas to offer other researchers the opportunity to access the many insights of Norma’s work. Her winding trajectory hints at her intellectual curiosity and her openn…

  • Ambiguities at Sites of Acceptance: Agrarian Neoliberalism and Herbicide Exposure in Argentina

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna, Johana Kunin•ARTICLE•Environmental Justice•2022

    In this article, we study how dominant ideas on herbicide-dependent agriculture are reappropriated and recreated at different scales in farming towns of the Argentine Pampas . First, we analyze the discourses of national reach, to show how herbicide use is institutionally justified, promoted, and legitimized, while also being downplayed or minimized. Second, and based on our interviews with people who benefit from herbicide-dependent agriculture,…

  • A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides

    Open Access•Becky Mansfield, Marion Werner et al.•ARTICLE•Agriculture and Human Values•2023•Cited by: 21•References: 15

    The global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous generics sector, shifts in geographies of pesticide production, and dynamics of agrarian change have led to more pesticide use, expanding to farm systems that hitherto used few such inputs. Declining effectiveness due to pesticide resistance and anemic institutional support for non-chemical alternatives al…

  • Rural Mobilisation and Agrarian Political Economy in Argentina, 2001-2020

    Open Access•Pablo Lapegna, Tomás Palmisano•ARTICLE•Bulletin of Latin American Research•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 30

    In this article, we reconstruct the mobilisations of rural actors both from 'below' and from 'above' and their connections to Argentina's agrarian political economy between 2001 and 2020. We divide the analysis into three periods and review key protest events and the actions of movements and organisations, paying special attention to two dimensions. First, we consider how rural movements and organisations engaged with institutional politics and t…

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