Book ID: CBB565774565

Soy, globalization, and environmental politics in South America (2018)

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Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira (Editor)
Hecht, Susanna B. (Editor)


Routledge


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 367
Language: English

Soy in South America constitutes one of the most spectacular booms of agro-industrial commodity production in the world. It is the pinnacle of modernist agro-industrial practices, serving as a key nexus in food-feed-fuel production that underpins the agribusiness-conservationist discourse of 'land sparing' through intensification. Yet soy production is implicated in multiple problems beyond deforestation, ranging from pesticide drift and contamination to social exclusion and conflicts in frontier zones, to concentration of wealth and income among the largest landowners and corporations. This book explores in depth the complex dynamics of soy production from its diverse social settings to its transnational connections, examining the politics of commodity and knowledge production, the role of the state, and the reach of corporate power in everyday life across soy landscapes in South America. Ultimately, the collection encourages us to search and struggle for agroecological alternatives through which we may overcome the pitfalls of this massive transnational capitalist agroindustry. This book was originally published as The Journal of Peasant Studies. (Publisher)

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Authors & Contributors
Know, Hannah
Petit, Patrick
Motta, Renata
Amalia Leguizamón
Anne Marie Todd
Wolfe, Mikael
Concepts
Environment
Agriculture
Ecology
Globalization; internationalization
Technology and society
Environmental history
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
Places
Argentina
South America
United States
California (U.S.)
Mexico
South Asia
Institutions
United States. National Security Agency
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