Gerardo Otero and other eleven Simon Fraser University scholars have been named to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC)—nine of them as fellows of the society and two as members of the society’s College of New Scholars, Scientists and Artists.
Gerardo Otero, President of the Latin American Studies Association (2021-2022), is a leading authority in the sociology of economic change and development, political sociology, and the political economy of food and agriculture. Author of Farewell to the Peasantry? he has provided an influential analysis of political-cultural class formation. His theory and empirical analysis of the neoliberal food regime and its diet informs policy and practice in global food security.
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