Articles
2020-present
- Efe Can G眉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. 鈥淢iracles or Mirages? Lithium Extraction and the Just Energy Transition.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Energy Research and Social Sciences. Volume 119:.
- Efe Can G眉rcan and Gerardo Otero. 2024. "" St. Anthony's International Review. 19(1):32-62.
- Efe Can G眉rcan, Gerardo Otero, and 陌layda 陌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. 鈥Food Sovereignty in the Interregnum to a New Regime.鈥 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煤m. 2, enero-junio.
- Gerardo Otero. 2022. "." (Edici贸n biling眉e/Bilingual edition.) Cuadernos de cultura alimentaria, salud y medio ambiente #1. Introducci贸n de Elena Reygadas. M茅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茅xico: Retos para MORENA y el gobierno de la Cuarta Transformaci贸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. 鈥MORENA and Mexico鈥檚 Fourth Transformation.鈥 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眉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. 鈥Rock Stars and Bad Apples: Moral Economies of Alternative Food Networks and Precarious Farm Work Regimes鈥. Antipode, 48(4):1-23.
- Pablo Lapegna y Gerardo Otero. 2017. "Cultivos transg茅nicos en Latinoam茅rica: Expropiaci贸n, valor negativo y el Estado." Estudios Cr铆ticos del Desarrollo 6(11):19-43. (descargar el n煤mero completo aqu铆, con varios art铆culos sobre el tema - v茅ase la versi贸n en ingl茅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眉rcan and Giselle Liberman. 2015. 鈥The Neolibral Diet and Inequality in the United States鈥. 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. 鈥淓l r茅gimen alimentario neoliberal y su crisis: Estado, agroempresas multinacionales y biotecnolog铆a.鈥 Ant铆poda, Revista de Antropolog铆a y Arqueolog铆a, No. 17, Bogot谩, julio-diciembre, pp. 48-78.
- Gerardo Otero, Gabriela Pechlaner, and Efe Can G眉rcan. 2013. 鈥淭he Political Economy of 鈥楩ood Security鈥: Uneven and Combined Dependency.鈥 Rural Sociology. 78(3):263-289.
- Efe Can G眉rcan and Gerardo Otero. 2013. Mobilizing Ideas. (Invited review essay of two books: John Holloway鈥檚 2010 Change the World without Taking Power; and Ra煤l Zibechi鈥檚 2010 Dispersing Power: Social Movements as Anti-State Forces. May 29.
- Gerardo Otero, Manuel Poitras and Gabriela Pechlaner. 2012. 鈥.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura 20(2):333-363.
- Gerardo Otero. 2012. 鈥淭he Neoliberal Food Regime in Latin America: State, Agribusiness Transnational Corporations and Biotechnology.鈥 Canadian Journal of Development Studies. 33(3):282-294.
- Gerardo Otero. 2011. 鈥淭ransnational Globalism or Internationalist Nationalism? Neoliberal Capitalism and Beyond鈥 Latin American Perspectives 38(6):109-116 (an invited book-review essay of William Robinson鈥檚 2008. Global Capitalism and Latin America: A Critical Globalization Perspective. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.)
- Gerardo Otero. 2011. 鈥淣eoliberal Globalization, NAFTA and Migration: Mexico鈥檚 Loss of Food and Labor Sovereignty.鈥Journal of Poverty 15(4):384-402.
- Gerardo Otero. 2011. 鈥淭oward Deglobalization and Food Sovereignty?鈥 Capital & Class 35(2):311鈥352 (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. 鈥淭he Neoliberal Food Regime: Neoregulation and the New Division of Labor in North America.鈥 Rural Sociology. (PDF) 75(2):179鈥208.
2000-2009
- Gerardo Otero and Gabriela Pechlaner. 2009. 鈥淚s Biotechnology the Answer? The Evidence from NAFTA.鈥 NACLA Report on the Americas. (PDF) 42(3):27-31.
- Armando Bartra and Gerardo Otero. 2008. 鈥淩ebeld铆a contra el globalismo neoliberal y el TLCAN en el M茅xico rural: 驴Del Estado corporativista a la formaci贸n pol铆tico-cultural del campesinado?鈥 Textual. (PDF) Num. 50, July-December 2007 (published in 2008), pp. 1-34.
- Gabriela Pechlaner and Gerardo Otero. 2008, 鈥淭he Third Food Regime: Neoliberal Globalism and Agricultural Biotechnology in North America.鈥 Sociologia Ruralis. (PDF) 48(4):351-371.
- Gerardo Otero. 2007. 鈥淐lass or Identity: A False Dichotomy.鈥 International Journal of Comparative Sociology. (PDF) 48(1):73-80.
- Gerardo Otero. 2006a. 鈥.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Iconos: Revista de Ciencias Sociales. (FLACSO-Ecuador.) N煤m. 26, pp. 131-146.
- Gerardo Otero and Gabriela Pechlaner. 2005 鈥淔ood for the Few: The Biotechnology Revolution in Latin America.鈥 (PDF)Canadian Journal of Development Studies 26(4):867-887. Full article, PDF.
- Gerardo Otero. 2004. 鈥淕lobal Economy, Local Politics: Indigenous Struggles, Civil Society and Democracy.鈥 (PDF)Canadian Journal of Political Science. (PDF) 37(2):325-346.
- Gerardo Otero and Heidi Jugenitz. 2003. 鈥淐hallenging National Borders from Within: The Political Class Formation of Indigenous Peasants in Latin America.鈥 (PDF) Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology. 40(5):503-524. Special Issue.
- Gerardo Otero. 2003. 鈥淭he 鈥業ndian Question鈥 in Latin America: Class, State, and Ethnic Identity Construction.鈥 (PDF) Latin American Research Review. (PDF) 38(1): 248-266.
- Gerardo Otero and Janice O鈥橞rian. 2002. 鈥淐uba in Transition: Civil Society鈥檚 Challenge to the Castro Regime.鈥 (PDF) Latin American Politics and Society. 44(4): 29-57.
- Gerardo Otero. 2002. "Los indios en Brasil." Memoria: Revista mensual de cultura y pol铆tica. N煤m. 164. October.
- Gilbreth, Chris, and Gerardo Otero. 2001. 鈥淒emocratization in Mexico: The Zapatista Uprising and Civil Society.鈥 (PDF) Latin American Perspectives. Issue 117. 28(4): 7-29.
- Gerardo Otero. 2000. 鈥淣eoliberal Reform in Rural Mexico: Social-Structural and Political Dimensions.鈥 Latin American Research Review. 35(1):187-207.
1990-1999
- Gerardo Otero and Junko Otomo. 1999. 鈥淟a transferencia del sistema japon茅s de producci贸n hacia un pa铆s en desarrollo: El caso de la Honda de M茅xico.鈥 Regi贸n y Sociedad. Vol. IX, n煤m. 18: 3-34. (PDF.)
- Gerardo Otero. 1998. 鈥淎tencingo Revisted: Political Class Formation and Economic Restructuring in Mexico鈥檚 Sugar Industry.鈥 Rural Sociology. 63(2):272-299. (PDF.)
- Gerardo Otero. 1995. 鈥淢exico鈥檚 Political Future(s) in a Globalizing Economy.鈥 (PDF) Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology. 32(3):319-343.
- Gerardo Otero. 1994. 鈥淣eoliberalismo y globalizaci贸n: Retos para la educaci贸n superior agr铆cola en M茅xico.鈥 Ciencia y Desarrollo. (Mexico City). 20(118):12-17.
- Gerardo Otero. 1991a. 鈥淭he Coming Revolution of Biotechnology: A Critique of Buttel.鈥 (PDF) Sociological Forum. (Ithaca, NY), 6(3):551-565.
- Gerardo Otero. 1990a. 鈥淏iotecnolog铆a y reestructuraci贸n econ贸mica mundial.鈥 Alimentos para Chile y Latinoam茅rica.(Santiago) 12(3):37-44.
- Gerardo Otero. 1990b. 鈥淓l nuevo movimiento agrario: Hacia la autogasti贸n y la producci贸n democr谩tica.鈥 (PDF) Revista Mexicana de Sociolog铆a. 52(2):93-124 (Spanish version of 1989, below)
1978-1989
- Gerardo Otero. 1989. 鈥淭he New Agrarian Movement: Toward Self-Management and Democratic Production.鈥 (PDF) Latin American Perspectives. 16(4):29-59.
- Jack Kloppenburg, Jr., Daniel L. Kleinman and Gerardo Otero. 1988. 鈥淩eestructuraci贸n de la agricultura: la biotecnolog铆a en Estados Unidos y el Tercer Mundo.鈥 (PDF) Revista Mexicana de Sociolog铆a. (Mexico City) 50(1):97-120.
- Roger Bartra and Gerardo Otero. 1988. 鈥淐risis agraria y diferenciaci贸n social en M茅xico.鈥 (PDF) Revista Mexicana de Sociolog铆a. 50(1):13-50.
- Roger Bartra and Gerardo Otero. 1987. 鈥淎grarian Crisis and Social Differentiation in Mexico.鈥 Journal of Peasant Studies.(London) 14(3):334-362.
- Gerardo Otero. 1978. 鈥淓conom铆a campesina y articulaci贸n-destrucci贸n de modos de producci贸n.鈥 Cathedra. (Monterrey, Mexico) 4(7):31-46.