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Authored Books

Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2014) Land and freedom : the MST, the Zapatistas and peasant alternatives to neoliberalism. London: Zed Books.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Kay, Cristóbal and Vergara-Camus, Leandro, eds. (2018) La cuestión agraria y los gobiernos de izquierda en América Latina. Buenos Aires: CLACSO.

Vergara-Camus, Leandro and Kay, Cristóbal, eds. (2017) Special Issue: Peasants, Agribusiness, Left-wing Governments and Neo-Developmentalism in Latin America: Exploring the Contradictions. Oxford: Wiley. (Journal of Agrarian Change; 17 (2))

Book Chapters

Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2017) 'Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism.' In: Veltmeyer, Henry and Bowles, Paul, (eds.), The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp. 426-434. (Routledge Critical Development Studies)

Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2015) 'Sugarcane Ethanol: the Hen of the Golden Eggs? Agrarian Capital and the State under Lula’s Presidency.' In: Spronk, Susan and Webber, Jefferey, (eds.), Crisis and Contradiction: Marxist Perspectives on Latin America in the Global Economy. Leiden: Brill, pp. 211-235. (Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 79)

Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2014) 'Taking Control: Decommodification and Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism in Mexico and Brazil.' In: Marois, Thomas and Pradella, Lucia, (eds.), Polarising development : alternatives to neoliberalism and the crisis. London: Pluto Press, pp. 169-179.

Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2014) 'Tomando el Control: Autonomía, subsistencia y de-mercantilización. Gérmenes de Otra Economía en las luchas de los Zapatistas en Chiapas y los Sin Tierra en Brasil.' In: Coraggio, José-Luis and Laville, Jean-Luis, (eds.), Economía, Sociedad y Política. Volumen 2: Los desafíos de la economía social y solidaria. Los Polvorines, Buenos Aires: UNGS-Imago Mundi. (Forthcoming)

Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2013) 'Against the Current: Revolution in Times of Neoliberal Hegemony. The Political Strategy of the MST in Brazil and the EZLN in Mexico.' In: Carr, Barry and Webber, Jefferey, (eds.), The New Latin American Left: Cracks in the Empire. Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 95-115.

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) '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) '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) '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., Dufault, E. and Dufour, G., (eds.), Relations Internationales: Théories et Concepts. Outremont, Quebec: Athéna, pp. 76-80.

Journal Article

Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2017) 'Capitalism, Democracy, and the Degrowth Horizon.' Capitalism Nature Socialism, 30 (2). pp. 217-233.

Vergara-Camus, Leandro and Kay, Cristóbal (2017) 'Agribusiness, peasants, left-wing governments, and the state in Latin America: An overview and theoretical reflections.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 17 (2). pp. 239-257.

Vergara-Camus, Leandro and Kay, Cristóbal (2017) 'The agrarian political economy of left-wing governments in Latin America: Agribusiness, peasants, and the limits of neo-developmentalism.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 17 (2). pp. 415-437.

Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2013) 'Review Essay. Rural Social Movements in Latin America: In the Eye of the Storm.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 13 (4). pp. 590-606.

Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2012) 'The Legacy of Social Conflicts over Property Rights in Rural Brazil and Mexico: Current Land Struggles in Historical Perspectives.' Journal of Peasant Studies, 39 (5). pp. 1133-1158.

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: A Socialist Project Review, 6. pp. 26-28.

Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2005) 'The Experience of the Landless Workers Movement and the Lula Government.' INTERthesis, 2 (1).

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 (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: revista de ciencias sociales de la Universidad Nacional de Nuevo León, 3 (4/5). pp. 164-184.

Vergara-Camus, Leandro (1999) 'Chile, ¿‘el Jaguar de Suramérica’?: mito y realidad.' Quorum, 67. pp. 205-213.

Monographs and Working Papers

Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2016) Why social movements matter for addressing inequalities and ensuring social justice. Paris: UNESCO.

Book Reviews

Vergara-Camus, Leandro (2013) 'Review Article: This Land is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil, Wendy Wolford, Durham, NC.: Duke University Press, 2010.' Historical Materialism, 21 (2). pp. 169-178.

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 "Accountability Politics: Power and Voice in Rural Mexico" by Jonathan Fox.' Bulletin of Latin American Research, 28 (3). pp. 463-464.

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.