Publications

Books and Articles

“Brazil’s Long Revolution: Radical Achievements of the Landless Workers Movement.” Forthcoming. University of Arizona Press. 2018.

“The Contradictions of Neo-extractivism and Social Policy: The Role of Raw Material Exports in the Brazilian Political Crisis.” Third World Quarterly (2018): 1-19.

“From Hostile Skepticism to Strategic Utilization: How the Brazilian Landless Movement Learned from Repression to use Legislation.” Social Movement Studies 17, no. 2 (2018): 175-188.

“The Changing Terrain of Rural Contention in Brazil: Institutionalization and Identity Development in the Landless Movement’s Educational Project.” Latin American Politics and Society 59, no. 3 (2017): 3-26.

“Agrarian Reform and the Radicalization of Food Politics.” New Politics.
Vol. XVI, No. 3. Summer (2017).

“The Brazilian Crisis: Corruption, Neoliberalism, and the Primary Sector.” Monthly Review Magazine 68, no. 9 (2017): 43-54.

w/ Tarlau, Rebecca eds. Brazilian Agrarian Social Movements. Routledge. (2016).

“Institutionalizing Economies of Opposition: Explaining and Evaluating the Success of the MST’s Cooperatives and Agroecological Repeasantization.” The Journal of Peasant Studies 42, no. 6 (2015): 1087-1107.

w/ Tarlau, Rebecca and Wendy Wolford. “Understanding Rural Resistance: Contemporary Mobilization in the Brazilian Countryside.” The Journal of Peasant Studies. 42, no. 6 (2015): 1069-1085.

“The MST’s Educational Program on a World Stage.” In eds Woods. Brazil in Twenty-first Century Popular Media: Culture, Politics, and Nationalism on the World Stage. Lexington Books. (2014).

Editorials

“Farmers Want Fair Trade, Not Handouts.” The Progressive. 2018.

“AMLO Should Threaten to Leave NAFTA.” Counterpunch. 2018.

“Donald Trump is Wrong on Dairy Policies.” The Cap Times. 2018.

“Make Tariffs Work for Wisconsin Farmers.” Wisconsin State Journal. 2018.

“On Farmer and Farmworker Solidarity: In Words and Actions.” The Defender. 2018.

w/Mark Hoffman “Ending Sanctuary Cities would be a Job Killer.” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 2016.

“The Brazilian Crisis.” The Defender. 2016.

“What Happened to the Rural Middle Class?” Wisconsin State Farmer. 2014.

“A Confused Ideology on Family and Government.” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 2012.

“Agroecological Seed Co-ops.” NFFC: The Family Farm Agenda. 2011.

w/Mark Hoffman “Digger Deeper: The Chilean Mining Crisis.” Counterpunch. 2010.

“Climate Change and the Environment: Voices from the MST.” NFFC: The Family Farm Agenda. 2010.

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