Publications
Books
Leguizamón, Amalia. 2020. Seeds of Power: Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Read the Introduction
Leguizamón, Amalia. 2022. Las semillas del poder: Injusticia ambiental en la Argentina sojera. Trans. Gerardo Losada. Buenos Aires: UNSAM Edita. Read the Introduction (Spanish)
Leguizamón, Amalia. 2023. Sementes de poder: injustiça ambiental e soja geneticamente modificada na Argentina. Trans. Gabriela Moncau. São Paulo: Elefante Editora. Read the Introduction (Portuguese)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Perlin, Liat, and Amalia Leguizamón. 2024. “Agriculture-Driven Deforestation in Ecuador’s Mache-Chindul Ecological Reserve: The Farmers’ Perspective.” Journal of Rural Studies 107: 103263. Download PDF
Busscher, Nienke, Eva L. Colombo, Lidewij van der Ploeg, Julia I. Gabella, and Amalia Leguizamón. 2020. “Civil Society Challenges the Global Food System: The International Monsanto Tribunal.” Globalizations 17 (1): 16–30. Download PDF
Leguizamón, Amalia. 2019. “The Gendered Dimensions of Resource Extractivism in Argentina’s Soy Boom.” Latin American Perspectives 46 (2): 199–216. Download PDF
Revised and updated as “The Gendered Dimensions of Soybean Extractivism in Argentina,” in Latin American Extractivism: Dependency, Resource Nationalism, and Resistance in Broad Perspective, ed. Steven Ellner. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.
Leguizamón, Amalia. 2016. “Disappearing Nature? Agribusiness, Biotechnology, and Distance in Argentine Soybean Production.” Journal of Peasant Studies 43 (2): 313–330. Download PDF
Winner, Robert Boguslaw Award for Technology and Humanism, Environmental Sociology Section, American Sociological Association.
Leguizamón, Amalia. 2016. “Environmental Injustice in Argentina: Struggles Against Genetically Modified Soy.” Journal of Agrarian Change 16 (4): 684–692. Download PDF
Leguizamón, Amalia. 2014. “Modifying Argentina: GM Soy and Socio-Environmental Change.” Geoforum 53: 149–160. Download PDF
Book Chapters
Leguizamón, Amalia. 2026. “The Future of Food.” In Environmental Sociology Now, 208–221. University of California Press.
Leguizamón, Amalia. 2025. “Corporations and the Environment.” In Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology. Oxford University Press.
Leguizamón, Amalia. 2023. “The Political Economy of the Environment in Latin America.” In Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment, 101–111. Routledge.
Leguizamón, Amalia. 2023. “Treadmill of Production.” In Handbook of Inequality and the Environment, 11–27. Edward Elgar Publishing. Download PDF
Leguizamón, Amalia. 2022. “Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality.” In Ten Lessons in Introductory Sociology, 238–272. Oxford University Press. Download PDF
Other Selected Academic Publications
Encyclopedia entry
Leguizamón, Amalia. 2026. “Genetically Modified Crops.” In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Environmental Justice, ed. Dorceta E. Taylor. SAGE.
Encyclopedia entry
Leguizamón, Amalia. 2024. “Treadmill of Production.” Pp. 560–563 in Encyclopedia of Environmental Sociology, ed. Christine Overdevest. Edward Elgar Publishing. Download PDF
En Español
Busscher, Nienke, Eva Lía Colombo, Lidewij van der Ploeg, Julia Inés Gabella, and Amalia Leguizamón. 2019. “Tribunal Internacional Monsanto: La sociedad civil desafía al sistema alimentario mundial.” Revista Administración Pública y Sociedad 8 (Julio-Diciembre): 3–21. Download PDF
Leguizamón, Amalia. 2016. “Las luchas por la justicia ambiental en la Argentina sojera.” Estudios Críticos del Desarrollo 6 (11): 129–149. Download PDF