Articles
2020-present
- Efe Can G羹rcan and Gerardo Otero. 2025. "Philosophical and Practical Dimensions of Gramsci's Conjunctural Analysis: A Contribution to Case Study Research." Qualitative Research Journal. doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-10-2024-0244.
- Carmel Dowling y Gerardo Otero. 2025. Miracles or Mirages? Lithium Extraction and the Just Energy Transition.&紳莉莽梯;Energy Research and Social Sciences. Volume 119:.
- Efe Can G羹rcan and Gerardo Otero. 2024. "" St. Anthony's International Review. 19(1):32-62.
- Efe Can G羹rcan, Gerardo Otero, and 襤layda 襤sabetli Fidan. 2024. "Was there a Left Turn in Latin America? Building a Social Democracy Index." Latin American Perspectives. Issue 252. 50(5):162-184.
- Gerardo Otero. 2024. Food Sovereignty in the Interregnum to a New Regime. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 49(3):467-468.
- Gerardo Otero. 2024. "." The Nation. February 29.
- Gerardo Otero. 2024. "." Nexos. Enero 1.
- Gerardo Otero. 2023. "". Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Rurales. 8(19):1-36.
- Gerardo Otero. 2023. "Blaming the Victim or Structural Conditioning: COVID-19, Obesity and the Neoliberal Diet." Journal of Agrarian Change. e12564. DOI: 10.1111/joac.12564.
- Gerardo Otero. 2023. "." Revista Tlaltelolco. Vol. 1. N繳m. 2, enero-junio.
- Gerardo Otero. 2022. "." (Edici籀n biling羹e/Bilingual edition.) Cuadernos de cultura alimentaria, salud y medio ambiente #1. Introducci籀n de Elena Reygadas. M矇xico: Rosetta.
- Gerardo Otero. 2021. "" LASA Forum. 51(4):15-20.
- Gerardo Otero. 2021. "." LASA Forum. 51(3):22-24.
- Enrique de la Garza Toledo and Gerardo Otero. 2020. "Work and Unionism in Mexico: Challenges for MORENA and the Fourth Transformation Government." The Jus Semper Global Alliance. November.
- Enrique de la Garza Toledo y Gerardo Otero. 2020. "Trabajo y sindicalismo en M矇xico: Retos para MORENA y el gobierno de la Cuarta Transformaci籀n." La Alianza Global Jus Semper. Noviembre.
2010-2019
- Gerardo Otero. 2019. "Migration or Immigration? Commentary on Leigh Binford's Article." Dialectical Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-019-09555-4.
- Gerardo Otero. 2019. MORENA and Mexicos Fourth Transformation. LASA Forum. 50(2):30-34.
- Emma Pauliina Pietilainen and Gerardo Otero. 2019. "." Journal of Peasant Studies. 46(6):1142-1166.
- Gerardo Otero, Gabriela Pechlaner, Giselle Liberman, and Efe Can G羹rcan. 2018. "." Journal of Agrarian Change. DOI:10.1111/joac.12252. (Early view published on 15 January.)
- Gerardo Otero. 2017. "Contesting Neoliberal Globalism:" A Comment on 'Re-Evaluating Food Systems and Food Security: A Global Perspective." Journal of Sociology. 53(4):797-799. (Invited comment on an article by Geoffrey Lawrence, former president of the Sociology of Agriculture and Food section of the International Sociological Association, in same issue.)
- Gerardo Otero. 2017. "In Pursuit of Real Utopias: Kerry Preibisch as a Organic Public Sociologist." Canadian Review of Sociology. 54(3):353-359.
- Weiler, Anelyse M., Otero, Gerardo, & Wittman, Hannah. 2016. Rock Stars and Bad Apples: Moral Economies of Alternative Food Networks and Precarious Farm Work Regimes. Antipode, 48(4):1-23.
- Pablo Lapegna y Gerardo Otero. 2017. "Cultivos transg矇nicos en Latinoam矇rica: Expropiaci籀n, valor negativo y el Estado." Estudios Cr穩ticos del Desarrollo 6(11):19-43. (descargar el n繳mero completo aqu穩, con varios art穩culos sobre el tema - v矇ase la versi籀n en ingl矇s abajo).
- Gerardo Otero and Pablo Lapegna. 2016. "" (Introduction to special section on transgenic crops in Latin America) Journal of Agrarian Change. 16:4(665-674). Doi: 10.1111/joac.12159.
- Gerardo Otero, Gabriela Pechlaner, Efe Can G羹rcan and Giselle Liberman. 2015. The Neolibral Diet and Inequality in the United States. Social Science and Medicine. 142:47-55.
- Kerry Preibisch and Gerardo Otero. 2014. and Gerardo Otero. 2014. "Does Citizenship Status Matter in Canadian Agriculture? Workplace Health and Safety for Migrant and Immigrant Workers." Rural Sociology. 79(2):174-199.
- Gerardo Otero. 2013. El r矇gimen alimentario neoliberal y su crisis: Estado, agroempresas multinacionales y biotecnolog穩a. Ant穩poda, Revista de Antropolog穩a y Arqueolog穩a, No. 17, Bogot獺, julio-diciembre, pp. 48-78.
- Gerardo Otero, Gabriela Pechlaner, and Efe Can G羹rcan. 2013. The Political Economy of Food Security: Uneven and Combined Dependency. Rural Sociology. 78(3):263-289.
- Efe Can G羹rcan and Gerardo Otero. 2013. Mobilizing Ideas. (Invited review essay of two books: John Holloways 2010 Change the World without Taking Power; and Ra繳l Zibechis 2010 Dispersing Power: Social Movements as Anti-State Forces. May 29.
- Gerardo Otero, Manuel Poitras and Gabriela Pechlaner. 2012. .&紳莉莽梯;Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura 20(2):333-363.
- Gerardo Otero. 2012. The Neoliberal Food Regime in Latin America: State, Agribusiness Transnational Corporations and Biotechnology. Canadian Journal of Development Studies. 33(3):282-294.
- Gerardo Otero. 2011. Transnational Globalism or Internationalist Nationalism? Neoliberal Capitalism and Beyond Latin American Perspectives 38(6):109-116 (an invited book-review essay of William Robinsons 2008. Global Capitalism and Latin America: A Critical Globalization Perspective. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.)
- Gerardo Otero. 2011. Neoliberal Globalization, NAFTA and Migration: Mexicos Loss of Food and Labor Sovereignty.Journal of Poverty 15(4):384-402.
- Gerardo Otero. 2011. Toward Deglobalization and Food Sovereignty? Capital & Class 35(2):311352 (invited review essay on: Walden Bello. 2009. Food Wars: London: Verso).
- Noela Invernizzi and Gerardo Otero. 2010. "Introduction: Neo-liberal Brazil and Beyond: Challenges and Alternatives for Development in the Twenty-First Century." Canadian Journal of Development Studies, xxix (3-4): 241-244. (Introduction to guest-edited special section on Brazil with six articles.)
- Gabriela Pechlaner and Gerardo Otero. 2010. The Neoliberal Food Regime: Neoregulation and the New Division of Labor in North America. Rural Sociology. (PDF) 75(2):179208.
2000-2009
- Gerardo Otero and Gabriela Pechlaner. 2009. Is Biotechnology the Answer? The Evidence from NAFTA. NACLA Report on the Americas. (PDF) 42(3):27-31.
- Armando Bartra and Gerardo Otero. 2008. Rebeld穩a contra el globalismo neoliberal y el TLCAN en el M矇xico rural: 聶Del Estado corporativista a la formaci籀n pol穩tico-cultural del campesinado? Textual. (PDF) Num. 50, July-December 2007 (published in 2008), pp. 1-34.
- Gabriela Pechlaner and Gerardo Otero. 2008, The Third Food Regime: Neoliberal Globalism and Agricultural Biotechnology in North America. Sociologia Ruralis. (PDF) 48(4):351-371.
- Gerardo Otero. 2007. Class or Identity: A False Dichotomy. International Journal of Comparative Sociology. (PDF) 48(1):73-80.
- Gerardo Otero. 2006a. .&紳莉莽梯;Iconos: Revista de Ciencias Sociales. (FLACSO-Ecuador.) N繳m. 26, pp. 131-146.
- Gerardo Otero and Gabriela Pechlaner. 2005 Food for the Few: The Biotechnology Revolution in Latin America. (PDF)Canadian Journal of Development Studies 26(4):867-887. Full article, PDF.
- Gerardo Otero. 2004. Global Economy, Local Politics: Indigenous Struggles, Civil Society and Democracy. (PDF)Canadian Journal of Political Science. (PDF) 37(2):325-346.
- Gerardo Otero and Heidi Jugenitz. 2003. Challenging National Borders from Within: The Political Class Formation of Indigenous Peasants in Latin America. (PDF) Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology. 40(5):503-524. Special Issue.
- Gerardo Otero. 2003. The Indian Question in Latin America: Class, State, and Ethnic Identity Construction. (PDF) Latin American Research Review. (PDF) 38(1): 248-266.
- Gerardo Otero and Janice OBrian. 2002. Cuba in Transition: Civil Societys Challenge to the Castro Regime. (PDF) Latin American Politics and Society. 44(4): 29-57.
- Gerardo Otero. 2002. "Los indios en Brasil." Memoria: Revista mensual de cultura y pol穩tica. N繳m. 164. October.
- Gilbreth, Chris, and Gerardo Otero. 2001. Democratization in Mexico: The Zapatista Uprising and Civil Society. (PDF) Latin American Perspectives. Issue 117. 28(4): 7-29.
- Gerardo Otero. 2000. Neoliberal Reform in Rural Mexico: Social-Structural and Political Dimensions. Latin American Research Review. 35(1):187-207.
1990-1999
- Gerardo Otero and Junko Otomo. 1999. La transferencia del sistema japon矇s de producci籀n hacia un pa穩s en desarrollo: El caso de la Honda de M矇xico. Regi籀n y Sociedad. Vol. IX, n繳m. 18: 3-34. (PDF.)
- Gerardo Otero. 1998. Atencingo Revisted: Political Class Formation and Economic Restructuring in Mexicos Sugar Industry. Rural Sociology. 63(2):272-299. (PDF.)
- Gerardo Otero. 1995. Mexicos Political Future(s) in a Globalizing Economy. (PDF) Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology. 32(3):319-343.
- Gerardo Otero. 1994. Neoliberalismo y globalizaci籀n: Retos para la educaci籀n superior agr穩cola en M矇xico. Ciencia y Desarrollo. (Mexico City). 20(118):12-17.
- Gerardo Otero. 1991a. The Coming Revolution of Biotechnology: A Critique of Buttel. (PDF) Sociological Forum. (Ithaca, NY), 6(3):551-565.
- Gerardo Otero. 1990a. Biotecnolog穩a y reestructuraci籀n econ籀mica mundial. Alimentos para Chile y Latinoam矇rica.(Santiago) 12(3):37-44.
- Gerardo Otero. 1990b. El nuevo movimiento agrario: Hacia la autogasti籀n y la producci籀n democr獺tica. (PDF) Revista Mexicana de Sociolog穩a. 52(2):93-124 (Spanish version of 1989, below)
1978-1989
- Gerardo Otero. 1989. The New Agrarian Movement: Toward Self-Management and Democratic Production. (PDF) Latin American Perspectives. 16(4):29-59.
- Jack Kloppenburg, Jr., Daniel L. Kleinman and Gerardo Otero. 1988. Reestructuraci籀n de la agricultura: la biotecnolog穩a en Estados Unidos y el Tercer Mundo. (PDF) Revista Mexicana de Sociolog穩a. (Mexico City) 50(1):97-120.
- Roger Bartra and Gerardo Otero. 1988. Crisis agraria y diferenciaci籀n social en M矇xico. (PDF) Revista Mexicana de Sociolog穩a. 50(1):13-50.
- Roger Bartra and Gerardo Otero. 1987. Agrarian Crisis and Social Differentiation in Mexico. Journal of Peasant Studies.(London) 14(3):334-362.
- Gerardo Otero. 1978. Econom穩a campesina y articulaci籀n-destrucci籀n de modos de producci籀n. Cathedra. (Monterrey, Mexico) 4(7):31-46.