Winner: Pablo Lapegna. 2016. Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina. Oxford University Press.
Honorable mention: Tianna S. Paschel. 2016. Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Columbia and Brazil. Princeton University Press.
Honorable mention: Terence McDonnell. 2016. Best Laid Plans: Cultural Entropy and the Unraveling of AIDS Media Campaigns. University of Chicago Press.
FACULTY ARTICLE AWARD
Winner: Michael Levien. 2015. “Social Capital as Obstacle to Development: Brokering Land, Norms, and Trust in Rural India.” World Development 74:77-92.
Honorable mention: Şahan Savaş Karataşlı. 2017. “The Capitalist World-Economy in the Longue Durée: Changing Modes of the Global Distribution of Wealth, 1500–2008.” Sociology of Development 3(2):163-96.
STUDENT ARTICLE AWARD
Manuel Rosaldo. 2016. “Revolution in the Garbage Dump: The Political and Economic Foundations of the Colombian Recycler Movement, 1986-2011.” Social Problems 63: 351 – 372.
THANK YOU!
A huge thanks to these Development Sociology Section Award Committee Members:
Book Award
Jennifer Fish (Chair), Maryann Bylander, Xiaoshuo Hou, Yan Long, Craig Van Pelt
Faculty Article Award
Rachel Sullivan Robinson (Chair), Edwin Ackerman, Besnik Pula, Robert Wyrod
Student Article Award
Robert V. Clark (Chair), Ray Jussaume, Smitha Radhakrishnan, Kristen Shorette, Lorna Zukas
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