Department of Sociology

Lapegna, Pablo

Assistant Professor
315 Baldwin Hall
Athens, GA 30602-1611
706-542-3196 (office) • plapegna [at] uga [dot] edu
Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Pablo Lapegna is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies. He joined the University of Georgia in 2011, after receiving his PhD. in Sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His specialty areas include social movements, ethnography and qualitative methods, Latin American Studies, environmental sociology, and political sociology. His current work focuses on the socio-environmental consequences of the expansion of genetically modified (GM) crops in Argentina, and on the relationship between poor people’s movements, patronage politics, and processes of demobilization.

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

Lapegna, Pablo and Javier Auyero. Forthcoming. “Democractic Processes, Patronage Politics, and Contentious Collective Action in El Alto, Bolivia.” In Hilgers, Tina (ed.) Democratizing Clientelism? Lessons from Latin America, 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. 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).