Publications

Book

Democracy on the Ground: Local Politics in Latin America’s Left Turn. 2023. Columbia University Press. Use code CUP20 to get a 20% discount when ordering directly from CUP.

Peer-review journal articles:

  1. “The Rise and Fall of Radical Democracy in Torres, ‘Venezuela’s First Socialist City.” Espacio Abierto: Cuaderno Venezolano de Sociogía. Vol 31 Num 2.
  1. “The Crisis in Venezuela.” Social Text Online. June 20. (Part of “Crisis in Venezuela: The US Left, Solidarities, and What is to be Done?” with Macarena Gómez-Barris and George Ciccariello-Maher [note: each author wrote a stand-alone solo-authored piece]
  1. “The Promise and Perils of Radical Left Populism: The Case of Venezuela.” Journal of World Systems Research 24(2): 277-292. Lead Article.

2017. “From System Collapse to Chavista Hegemony: The Evolution of the Party System in Bolivarian Venezuela.” Latin American Perspectives 44(1):17-36. Lead Article.

2015. “The Labour of Learning: Overcoming the Obstacles Facing Union-Worker Centre Collaborations”. Work, Employment and Society. Online First. DOI: 10.1177/0950017015577898

  • Best Graduate Paper Award (Honorable Mention), Labor & Labor Movements Section, American Sociological Association, 2009.

2014. “The Crooked Line: From Populist Mobilization to Participatory Democracy in Chávez-era Venezuela”. Qualitative Sociology 37(4): 373-401. Lead Article.

  • Outstanding Faculty Article Award, Sociology of Development Section, American Sociological Association, 2015.
  • Best Article Award (Honorable Mention), Venezuelan Studies Section, Latin American Studies Association, 2015.

Articles Under Review

Revise and Resubmit (Third Round). “The Art of the Impossible: Utopia and Instrumentalism in Contemporary Electoral Politics.” Theory and Society.

Book Chapters:

*Forthcoming (expected 2025). “Seeking Socialism in a World on Fire” in Capitalism on Earth: Reconstructions of Michael Burawoy’s Sociology, edited by Ching Kwan Lee, Zach Levenson, Mike Levien, Seán Ó Riain, Jeff Sallaz, Marcel Paret, and Z. Fareen Parvez.

*Forthcoming (expected 2024). Chapter on Neoliberalism and Post-Neoliberalism in The Elgar Companion to the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean, ed. Francisco Rodriguez.

*Forthcoming. [Expected 2024]. “Within and Against the State: Navigating Venezuela’s Halfway Revolution,” in Democratic Socialism in Global Perspective, edited by Daniel Chávez, Patrick Barrett, and Pete Ramand. Volume under consideration by University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, and Pluto Press; Spanish edition forthcoming from CLASCO.]

2022. “Was Hugo Chávez an Autocrat?” in Dictators and Autocrats, edited by Klaus Larres. Routledge.

*2018. “Two Decades of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution: Achievements and Limits,” pp. 143-163 in Reframing Latin American Development, edited by Ronaldo Munck and Raul Delgado Wise. Routledge Press.

2016. “From Illustrating Problems to Providing Solutions: Latin America as a Source of Global Social Innovation.” Pp. 72-88 in Global Latin America, edited by Matthew Gutmann and Jeffrey Lessing, Berkeley: University of California Press. (First author with Peter Evans) (Please email me for a copy)

2015. “Emergent Socialist Hegemony in Bolivarian Venezuela: The Role of the Party.” In From Crisis to Crises: Marxist Perspectives on Latin America in the Global Economy, edited by Jeffrey Webber and Susan Spronk. Brill Academic Press.

2013. “The Strange Disappearance of Capitalism from Social Movement Studies.” In Marxism and Social Movements, edited by Colin Barker, Laurence Cox, John Krinsky and Alf Nilsen. Brill Academic Press. (Equal co-author with Jeff Goodwin)

2008. “Liberation Movements.” In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Detroit: MacMillan Reference. (Equal co-author with Jeff Goodwin) (Please email me for a copy)