Dr Leandro Vergara-Camus
BA (UQAM, Montréal) MA (UNAM, México) PhD (York, Toronto)
Overview
Department of Development Studies
Lecturer in the Theory, Policy and Practice of Development
SOAS Food Studies Centre
Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre
- Name:
- Dr Leandro Vergara-Camus
- Email address:
- l.vergara-camus@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4228
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 260
- Office Hours:
- Tuesday 3-5pm
Biography
Before joining the SOAS, Leandro taught on development and international political economy at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. Prior to this, he taught on Latin American politics, comparative politics, political violence, social movements and social change at the University of Ottawa, McMaster University and York University in Canada. He has conducted research on the Latin American left, the Zapatista movement in Chiapas and the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil, peasant agriculture, and the history of land struggles over property rights in Latin America. His fields of expertise include theories of development, political economy of development, and historical sociology of state and class formation. His current research is on the impact of the internationalisation of the Brazilian sugarcane ethanol industry on African peasants.
Leandro has degrees in political science from York University (PhD), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (MA), and Université du Québec à Montréal (BA).
Teaching
Courses Taught
Publications
Book Chapters
Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2012) 'Sugarcane Ethanol: the Hen of the Golden Eggs? Agrarian Capital and the State under Lula’s Presidency.' In: Spronk, S. and Webber, J., (eds.), Crisis and Contradiction: Marxist Perspectives on Latin America in the Global Economy. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. (Forthcoming)
Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2012) 'Against the Current: Revolution in Times of Neoliberal Hegemony. The Political Strategy of the MST in Brazil and the EZLN in Mexico.' In: Carr, B. and Webber, J., (eds.), The Resurgence of Latin American Radicalism: Between Cracks in the Empire and an Izquierda Permitida. Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield. (Forthcoming)
Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2007) 'EZLN.' In: Anderson, G. L. and Herr, K. G., (eds.), Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, Vol. 2. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp. 511-513.
Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2007) 'MIR, Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria.' In: Anderson, G. L. and Herr, K. G., (eds.), Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, Vol. 2. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp. 963-964.
Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2007) 'La Nueva Canción.' In: Anderson, G. L. and Herr, K. G., (eds.), Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, Vol. 2. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp. 823-824.
Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2007) 'Marcos, Subcomandante.' In: Anderson, G. L. and Herr, K. G., (eds.), Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, Vol. 2. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp. 899-900.
Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2007) 'Partido dos Trabalhadores, Workers Party.' In: Anderson, G. L. and Herr, K. G., (eds.), Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, Vol. 3. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp. 1094-1095.
Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2002) 'Impérialisme.' In: Macleod, A. and Dufault, E. and Dufour, G., (eds.), Relations Internationales: Théories et Concepts. Outremont, Quebec: Athéna, pp. 76-80.
Articles
Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2011) 'Globalización, tierra, resistencia y autonomía: el EZLN y el MST.' Revista Mexicana de Sociología, 73 (3). pp. 387-414.
Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2011) 'Globalização, terra e autonomía na luta do EZLN e do MST.' Lutas Sociais, 27 .
Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2009) 'The MST and the EZLN’s Struggle for Land: New Forms of Peasant Rebellions.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 9 (3). pp. 365-391.
Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2009) 'The Politics of the MST: Autonomous Rural Communities, the State and Electoral Politics.' Latin American Perspectives, 36 (4). pp. 178-191.
Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2005) 'The Zapatistas in Power: More than a Movement, Much More than a Party.' Relay, 6 . pp. 26-28.
Vergara-Camus, Leandro and Hevia-Pacheco, P. (2005) 'Éducation populaire et émancipation: l’expérience des travailleurs ruraux sans-terre au Brésil.' Education Canada, 45 (3). pp. 11-15.
Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2005) 'The Experience of the Landless Workers Movement and the Lula Government.' INTERthesis, 2 (1).
Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2004) 'Partido socialista chileno: adeus ao povo.' Lutas Sociais, 11-12 . pp. 136-147.
Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2001) 'Entre la crisis y la pared: Zapatismo y la renovación de la izquierda latinoamericana.' Trayectorias, 3 (4/5). pp. 164-184.
Vergara-Camus, Leandro (1999) 'Chile, ¿‘el Jaguar de Suramérica’?: mito y realidad.' Quorum, 67 . pp. 205-213.
Book Reviews
Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2012) 'Book Review of "This Land is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil", by Wendy Wolford.' Historical Materialism, 10 . (Forthcoming)
Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2011) 'Book Review of "Land, Protest, and Politics: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil", by Gabriel Ondetti.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 11 (1). pp. 129-132.
Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2010) 'Book Review of "Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization", edited by June Borras, Marc Edelman and Crístobal Kay.' European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 88 . pp. 128-130.
Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2009) 'Book Review of "Peasants and Globalization: Political Economy, Rural Transformation and the Agrarian Question”, edited by A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi and Cristóbal Kay.' Journal of Peasant Studies, 36 (3). pp. 711-713.
Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2009) 'Book Review of "Accountability Politics: Power and Voice in Rural Mexico" by Jonathan Fox.' Bulletin of Latin American Research, 28 (3). pp. 463-464.
