Pablo Lapegna

Pablo Lapegna is Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Georgia. He teaches and writes about social movements, environmental issues, critical agrarian studies, development, and global processes, with a focus on Argentina and using qualitative methods. His book "Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina" (Oxford University Press, 2016) has won the 2017 Best Book Award of the Sociology of Development Section, American Sociological Association. His current project (with Dr. Johana Kunin, UNSAM/CONICET, Argentina) examines how middle-size farmers and people living in rural towns of the Argentine plains reconcile the socio-economic benefits afforded by herbicide-resistant crops, and its environmental and health impacts.