Associate Professor, Sociology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies Dr. Pablo Lapegna obtained his Licenciatura in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires, and his PhD in Sociology from the State University of New York (Stony Brook). He teaches and writes about social movements, environmental issues, critical agrarian studies, and global processes, with a focus on South America and using qualitative methods. He holds a joint appointment with the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute. His book Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina(Oxford University Press, 2016) investigates the sweeping expansion of genetically modified soybeans and the ways in which rural populations think, feel, and act when affected by environmental problems and quotidian hardships. Drawing on ethnography and focusing on northern Argentina, the book scrutinizes mechanisms of demobilization and the decline of contention in cases of agrochemical exposure. Soybeans and Power also examines the case of Argentina to analyze the social consequences and the environmental suffering brought about by the contemporary “commodity boom” in Latin America. Soybeans and Power has won the 2017 Best Book Award of the Sociology of Development Section, American Sociological Association. Other on-going projects involve the impact of genetically modified crops in Latin America; research on riots, repression, and patronage politics in Bolivia; and analyses of occupied workplaces that have been transformed into cooperatives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a member of the editorial boards of Qualitative Sociology, Contemporary Sociology, and the Journal of Agrarian Change. At the University of Georgia, he co-organizes the Georgia Workshop on Culture, Power, and History and the Latin American Sustainable Agriculture Initiative, and he also serves on the Faculty Advisory Board of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Education Education: Ph.D., Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2011 M.A., Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2007 Licenciatura en Sociología (BA in Sociology), University of Buenos Aires, 2001 Selected Publications Selected Publications: Lapegna, Pablo. 2017. “The Political Economy of the Agro-Export Boom Under the Kirchners: Hegemony and Passive Revolution in Argentina.” Journal of Agrarian Change 17(2): 313-329. Disponible en español aquí: https://www.clacso.org.ar/libreria-latinoamericana/libro_detalle.php?id_libro=1415 Hanson, Rebecca and Pablo Lapegna. 2018. “Popular Participation and Governance in Kirchner’s Argentina and Chávez’s Venezuela: Recognition, Incorporation, and Supportive Mobilisation.” Journal of Latin American Studies 50(1): 153-182. Lapegna, Pablo. 2017. “Agricultural Boom, Subnational Mobilization, and Variations of Violence in Argentina.” In Tina Hilgers and Laura Macdonald (eds.) Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean: Subnational Structures, Institutions, and Clientelism. New York: Cambridge University Press. Lapegna, Pablo. 2016. Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina. New York: Oxford University Press. Otero, Gerardo and Pablo Lapegna. 2016. “Transgenic Crops in Latin America: Expropriation, Negative Value, and the State.” Journal of Agrarian Change 16(4): 665-674. Introduction to the special symposium "Neoliberalism and Transgenic Crops in Latin America." Disponible en español aquí: http://www.estudiosdeldesarrollo.mx/ecd/revista_ecd.html Lapegna, Pablo. 2016. “Neoliberal politics and moral riots in Bolivia’s ‘Black February’: Understanding the transition to post-neoliberalism in South America.” E-Symposium 6(2): 1-11 (Publication of the International Sociological Association). Lapegna, Pablo. 2016. “Genetically Modified Soybeans, Agrochemical Exposure, and Everyday Forms of Peasant Collaboration in Argentina.” Journal of Peasant Studies 43(2): 517-536. Lapegna, Pablo. 2015. “Popular Demobilization, Agribusiness Mobilization, and the Agrarian Boom in Post-Neoliberal Argentina.” Journal of World-Systems Research 21(1): 69-87. Lapegna, Pablo. 2014. “Global Ethnography and Genetically Modified Crops in Argentina: On Adoptions, Resistances, and Adaptations.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 43(2): 202-227. Lapegna, Pablo. 2014. “The problem with ‘cooptation’.” States, Power, and Societies 20(1): 7-9 Lapegna, Pablo. 2013. “Social Movements and Patronage Politics: Processes of Demobilization and Double Pressure.” Sociological Forum 28(4 ): 842-863. Lapegna, Pablo. 2013. “The Expansion of Transgenic Soybeans and the Killing of Indigenous Peasants in Argentina.” Societies without Borders: Human Rights and the Social Sciences, 8(2): 291-308. Lapegna, Pablo and Javier Auyero. 2012. “Democratic Processes, Patronage Politics, and Contentious Collective Action in El Alto, Bolivia.” In Hilgers, Tina (Ed.) Clientelism in Everyday Latin American Politics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Auyero, Javier, Pablo Lapegna and Fernanda Page Poma. 2010. “Patronage Politics and Contentious Collective Action: A Recursive Relationship.” Latin American Politics and Society 51(3):1-31. Lapegna, Pablo. 2009. “Ethnographers of the World… United? Current Debates on the Ethnographic Study of ‘Globalization’.” Journal of World-Systems Research XV(1): 3-24. Lapegna, Pablo and Santiago Canevaro. 2009. “Cruzando márgenes: segregación territorial y relaciones de poder en un barrio de Buenos Aires.” In Grimson, Alejandro, Cecilia Ferraudi Curto and Ramiro Segura (Eds.) La vida política en los barrios populares de Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires: Prometeo. Lapegna, Pablo. 2007. “Transgénicos, ‘desarrollo sustentable’ y (neo)liberalismo en Argentina.” In Mato, Daniel and Fermín Maldonado (Eds.) Cultura y transformaciones sociales en tiempos de globalización. Buenos Aires: CLACSO (Latin American Council of Social Sciences). Domínguez Diego, Pablo Lapegna, and Pablo Sabatino. 2006. “Un futuro presente: las luchas territoriales” Nómadas 24. Universidad Central-IESCO, Bogotá, Colombia. Lapegna, Pablo. 2005. “Transformaciones sociales y nuevas articulaciones agroalimentarias. Las Ferias Francas de la provincia de Misiones.” In Giarracca, Norma and Miguel Teubal (Eds.) El campo argentino en la encrucijada. Estrategias y resistencias sociales, ecos en la ciudad. Buenos Aires: Alianza. Domínguez, Diego, Pablo Lapegna and Pablo Sabatino. 2005. “Agriculturas en tensión en Colonia Loma Senes, provincia de Formosa.” In Giarracca, Norma and Miguel Teubal (Eds.) El campo argentino en la encrucijada. Estrategias y resistencias sociales, ecos en la ciudad. Buenos Aires: Alianza. Barbetta, Pablo N. and Pablo Lapegna. 2004. “Tierra y ciudadanía: un estudio comparativo entre el Movimiento Campesino de Santiago del Estero (Argentina) y la Federación Nacional Campesina (Paraguay).” In Giarracca, Norma and Bettina Levy (Eds.) Ruralidades Latinoamericanas. Identidades y luchas sociales. Buenos Aires: CLACSO (Latin American Council of Social Sciences). Lapegna, Pablo and Pablo Barbetta. 2001. “Cuando la protesta toma forma: los cortes de ruta en el Norte salteño.” In Giarracca, Norma (Ed.) La Protesta Social en la Argentina: Transformaciones económicas y crisis social en el interior del país. Buenos Aires: Alianza. Awards, Honors and Recognitions Of note: 2016 Research Seminar Fellowship. Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, UGA. 2015 LASA Travel Grant for Tenure-Track Faculty, to participate in the XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2014 Research Seminar Fellowship. Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, UGA. Travel Grant to participate in the International Sociology Association World Congress. National Science Foundation and American Sociological Association. 2013 Sarah H. Moss Fellowship. Center for Teaching and Learning, UGA. Research Fellowship. Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, UGA. 2012 Research Seminar Fellowship. Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, UGA. Provost Summer Research Grant, UGA. 2009 Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF), Social Science Research Council (SSRC)