@article{smolski_clark_2024, title={The Cropland Expansionary Dynamics of Agricultural Production in Latin America: A Panel Study of Fourteen Countries, 1970-2016}, ISSN={["1552-678X"]}, DOI={10.1177/0094582X241242785}, journal={LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES}, author={Smolski, Andrew R. and Clark, Timothy P.}, year={2024}, month={Apr} }
 @article{smolski_schulman_2023, title={Navigating Farm Stress: Traumatic and Resilient Dimensions of the Black Agrarian Frame}, volume={11}, ISSN={["1545-0813"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.1080/1059924X.2023.2280090}, DOI={10.1080/1059924X.2023.2280090}, abstractNote={ABSTRACT The current period of economic and social instability in the farm economy has generated renewed interest in the framing processes used by farmers to interpret and ascribe blame for the distress they have experienced. Studies show that agrarian frames are differentiated into types based on farmers’ historical and contemporary racialized experiences. To investigate the role that agrarian frames play in navigating farm stress, we conducted a thematic analysis using data from interviews with 15 Black farmers from three Southern states. The results identify a Black Agrarian frame with two dimensions: traumatic and resilient. The traumatic dimension provides a system-blame narrative that highlights financial risk driven by institutions and racism as a core factor in farm stress. The resilient dimension describes collective action as a key coping strategy linked to understanding the farm as a multi-faceted asset. In conclusion, research on differentiated agrarian frames is an important component towards understanding how diverse populations navigate farm stress and the development of culturally appropriate resources for addressing it.}, journal={JOURNAL OF AGROMEDICINE}, author={Smolski, Andrew R. and Schulman, Michael D.}, year={2023}, month={Nov} }
 @article{clark_smolski_allen_hedlund_sanchez_2022, title={Capitalism and Sustainability: An Exploratory Content Analysis of Frameworks in Environmental Political Economy}, volume={9}, ISSN={["2329-4973"]}, DOI={10.1177/23294965211043548}, abstractNote={A critical divide within environmental sociology concerns the relationship between capitalism and the environment. Risk society and ecological modernization scholars advance a concept of reflexive political economy, arguing that capitalism will transition from a dirty, industrial stage to a green, eco-friendly stage. In contrast, critical political economy scholars suggest that the core imperatives of capitalist accumulation are fundamentally unsustainable. We conduct a content analysis of 136 journal articles to assess how these frameworks have been implemented in empirical studies. Our analysis provides important commentary about the mechanisms, agents, magnitude, scale, temporality, and outcomes these frameworks analyze and employ, and the development of a hybrid perspective that borrows from both these perspectives. In addition, we reflect on how and why reflexive political economy has not answered key challenges leveled in the early 21st century, mainly the disconnect between greening values and the ongoing coupling of economic growth and environmental destruction. We also reflect on the significance of critical political economy, as the only framework we study that provides analysis of the roots of ecological crisis. Finally, we comment on the emergent hybrid perspective as a framework that attempts to reconcile new socioecological configurations in an era of increasing environmental instability.}, number={2}, journal={SOCIAL CURRENTS}, author={Clark, Timothy P. and Smolski, Andrew R. and Allen, Jason S. and Hedlund, John and Sanchez, Heather}, year={2022}, month={Apr}, pages={159–179} }
 @article{smolski_sethness_ross_2022, title={Case Studies in the Sociology of Absence and Emergence: Anarcho-Populism in Russia and Mexico}, volume={15}, ISSN={["1937-0237"]}, DOI={10.3798/tia.1937-0237.2201}, abstractNote={This paper practices Sousa Santos’ sociology of absences and emergences by establishing the absence of anarchism in populism studies and the presence of anarcho-populism as a concrete yet underappreciated type of populism. We conduct a comparative case study analysis of a set of historical cases, Zemlya i Volya and the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM). We define the term “anarchopopulism,” and analyze the relationship between anarchism and populism through a discursive and ideological theory of populism as a thin-centered ideology reliant on a rhetoric of the people. The results of our case studies demonstrate the existence of anarcho-populism in both Russia and Mexico, however not in all cases examined. Our findings challenge conceptualizations of populism that circumscribe populism within representative democracy and the logic of state sovereignty, highlighting the utility of anarchism in understanding a type of populism rooted in direct democracy and the sovereignty of federated communes.}, number={1}, journal={THEORY IN ACTION}, author={Smolski, Andrew R. and Sethness, Javier and Ross, Alexander Reid}, year={2022}, month={Jan}, pages={1–24} }
 @article{smolski_2022, title={Interrogating Structural Conditions for Agricultural Production A Comparative-Historical Study of Cuban Incorporation, Delinking and Exile}, volume={28}, ISSN={["1076-156X"]}, DOI={10.5195/JWSR.2022.1117}, abstractNote={An important, contemporary focus of scholarship is on the necessary structural conditions to promote a sustainable transition in agriculture. This study examines the possible role of anti-systemic structures, delinked and exilic, in conditioning transitions to agroecological production. I conduct a comparative-historical analysis of two periods, 1959–1991 and 1992–2016, within a single case, Cuba. The results provide evidence that the prevalence of delinking with incorporation maintains an industrial model of agricultural production, even while bringing the law of value under sovereign control. In this way, the existence of delinking as one type of anti-systemic structure is not a sufficient condition for increasing agroecological production; although data suggests that delinking can provide important tools to support sustainable transitions in future periods. In the second period characterized by increasing prevalence of an exilic structure in conjunction with delinking, results demonstrate that anti-systemic structures operate complementary to one another and can maintain partial incorporation while increasing the application of agroecological production. As such, this study provides a rationale for future research and action on anti-systemic structural mixture conditioning sustainable transitions.}, number={2}, journal={JOURNAL OF WORLD-SYSTEMS RESEARCH}, author={Smolski, Andrew R.}, year={2022}, pages={359–390} }
 @article{smolski_2021, title={Class Struggle and Violence in Latin American Cities}, volume={48}, ISSN={["1552-678X"]}, DOI={10.1177/0094582X19860470}, number={1}, journal={LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES}, author={Smolski, Andrew R.}, year={2021}, month={Jan}, pages={280–284} }
 @article{smolski_lorenzen_2021, title={Violence, Capital Accumulation, and Resistance in Contemporary Latin America Introduction}, volume={48}, ISSN={["1552-678X"]}, DOI={10.1177/0094582X20975005}, abstractNote={This issue’s focus is on the structural roots of violence in Latin America and on violence’s connections with capitalism and colonialism. After decades of neoliberalization—the retreat of the state from its social obligations, the privatization of public goods and services, deregulation in favor of business, a regressive fiscal policy shifting the tax and fee burden onto the general population, and stagnation in wages and benefits—it appears that the state’s remaining function in the region is social control in the service of profit justified as a fight against crime (Lorenzen and Orozco, 2016; Paley, 2015). Critical scholarship counters this crime-fighting narrative by theoretically and empirically demonstrating that the varied expressions of violence follow from a structural and institutional arrangement to facilitate capital accumulation by subjugating workers, peasants, black people, indigenous people, and any social group deemed materially expendable by a hegemonic ideology that converts victims into deviants. As Marx (1909 [1867]: 785) wrote to explain the creation of the first masses of capital—so-called primitive accumulation—that set capital accumulation in motion, “In actual history it is notorious that conquest, enslavement, robbery, murder, briefly force, play the great part.” Paley (2014: 38, 50) echoes Marx with a similar formulation of accumulation-driven violence when she writes, “it becomes easier to understand how the drug war facilitates the continuation of a capitalist economic model . . . by [fostering] state and non-state militarization and . . . the ability of transnational corporations to exploit labor and natural}, number={1}, journal={LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES}, author={Smolski, Andrew R. and Lorenzen, Matthew}, year={2021}, month={Jan}, pages={4–27} }
 @article{garzon_smolski_2020, title={Episcopal Farmworker Ministry and disaster response to COVID-19}, volume={9}, ISSN={["2152-0801"]}, DOI={10.5304/jafscd.2020.094.002}, abstractNote={Farmworkers in the US confront numerous challenges They receive poverty wages and have high rates of wage theft, precarious immigration status, and a high risk of injury and fatality They also face rampant food insecurity, with 40 to 70 percent of farmworkers experiencing a lack of reliable access to nutritious meals Add to these challenges poor mental health from social isolation for guest workers who hold H2-A visas for agricultural work, the potential of working under dangerous and abusive conditions, and substandard housing The general picture is of a workforce vulnerable to exploitation that does not receive the same benefits and protections as other workers due to agriculture's exemption from many labor regulations These challenges have been exacerbated by the current pandemic, which has hit farmworker communities particularly hard Episcopal Farmworker Ministry (EFWM) is on the front lines of addressing these challenges EFWM, which is located in Dunn NC, is a joint ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina and the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina EFWM provides direct services, leadership development programs, and educational and advocacy programs aimed toward a systemic change of the policies that affect farmworkers and their families}, number={4}, journal={JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SYSTEMS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT}, author={Garzon, Lariza and Smolski, Andrew R.}, year={2020}, pages={191–196} }
 @article{oceguera_grandon_smolski_2020, title={Two Stories about Extractivism}, ISSN={["1552-678X"]}, DOI={10.1177/0094582X20975010}, abstractNote={In Ernesto Cabellos Damián’s documentary Hija de la laguna we see an iteration of the dynamics inherent to capitalist accumulation: the struggle between the owners of the product and the people. In the penultimate scene the camera records dozens of community members walking through a valley singing “The water belongs to the people and not the miners.” They arrive at a place on the shore of Cajamarca’s Blue Lagoon whose ownership is in dispute. The protesters stand on a hilltop declaring their communal right to the property, and the director gives us a panoramic view in which we can see, as they can, the Yanacocha mine’s private security forces and the federal riot police awaiting them in the valley. Next comes a distance shot in which the community members are distributing food and talking. In contrast, the security forces and the police are shot from several meters away, generating a distance and thus locating them in the eyes of the protesters and increasing the dramatic tension between the oppressed and their oppressors. Attention is then directed to the arrival of the representatives of the Attorney General’s Office, who are trying to end the mobilization although they profess to be neutral. Next the director, in silence, foregrounds the faces of some community members to illustrate the tension, showing their anguish and determination. A medium shot shows the protagonist, Nélida Ayay, informing a local radio station of a possible police attack on the protesters. Finally, and without explanation, the police and the security forces go away. This is a story of a momentary victory against capital. The filmmaker is telling the story of a social struggle in Cajamarca, Peru, against gold extraction in the Conga lagoons by the Yanacocha mine (which is controlled by a joint venture involving the World Bank, the Peruvian company Buenaventura, and the U.S. Newmont Mining Corporation). He tells it from the experience of the activist Nélida Ayay. If Yanacocha wins, Ayay and her people will run out of water and may be displaced, with the area ending up contaminated. Tangentially, the documentary shows another mining conflict in Bolivia, where the town has already run out of water because of mining pollution (Figure 1). The documentary does a good job in giving pride of place to a woman’s story without overlooking those of the others involved. It shows how Ayay, who is studying to be a lawyer, listens to locals and explains their rights to them while connecting us to a}, journal={LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES}, author={Oceguera, Emilia Cordero and Grandon, Daniela Garcia and Smolski, Andrew R.}, year={2020}, month={Dec} }
 @article{smolski_castro_ross_2018, title={Lessons from exits foreclosed: An exilic interpretation of the Mexican and Russian Revolutions, 1910-1924}, volume={42}, ISSN={["2041-0980"]}, DOI={10.1177/0309816818759229}, abstractNote={We apply a typology of exile to factions involved in the Mexican and Russian Revolutions of the early 20th century. Our typology is based on Grubačić and O’Hearn’s theory of exile, which seeks to explain how alternative social institutions based on mutual aid, substantive reproduction, and egalitarian, direct democracy come into being and sustain themselves. We argue for exile as a determinant of revolutionary outcomes and the state (de)formation process and that we must understand exile-in-rupture as a moment when structures are at maximal flux due to the existence of exilic factions. By doing so, we offer a novel approach to understanding revolutions and state (de)formation based upon the alliances between exilic and incorporative factions. Through descriptions of loyalty bargains made, maintained, and broken during the Mexican and Russian Revolutions, we demonstrate how factions representing autonomy and exit are excluded from the resulting political-economic order post-Revolution, while their energy and power are leveraged during revolution itself. Based on this, we argue that exile is a key component of radical strategy, but that it is often precariously based on loyalty bargains that underpin it. Due to exile’s precarity, revolutions are foreclosed by reincorporation into the capitalist world-system as states are (re)formed by incorporative factions. Therefore, exile is both a necessary and contingent component of revolution and state (de)formation.}, number={3}, journal={CAPITAL AND CLASS}, author={Smolski, Andrew R. and Castro, Javier Sethness and Ross, Alexander Reid}, year={2018}, month={Oct}, pages={453–488} }
 @article{pensado-leglise_smolski_2017, title={An eco-egalitarian solution to the capitalist consumer paradox: Integrating short food chains and public market systems}, volume={7}, number={9}, journal={Agriculture-Basel}, author={Pensado-Leglise, M. D. and Smolski, A.}, year={2017} }
 @misc{smolski_2016, title={Dixie Be Damned: 300 years of insurrection in the American South}, volume={58}, number={2}, journal={Race & Class}, author={Smolski, A.}, year={2016}, pages={104–108} }
 @misc{smolski_2016, title={Killing Trayvons: An anthology of American violence}, volume={58}, DOI={10.1177/0306396816657738}, number={2}, journal={Race & Class}, author={Smolski, A.}, year={2016}, pages={104–108} }