Kregg Hetherington uses Paraguay's turn of the twenty-first century adoption of massive soybean production and the regulatory attempts to mitigate the resulting environmental degradation as a way to show how the tools used to drive economic growth exacerbate the very environmental challenges they were designed to solve.
Kregg Hetherington uses Paraguay's turn of the twenty-first century adoption of massive soybean production and the regulatory attempts to mitigate the resulting environmental degradation as a way to show how the tools used to drive economic growth exacerbate the very environmental challenges they were designed to solve.
Kregg Hetherington is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University. He is the editor of Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene and author of Guerrilla Auditors: The Politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay, both also published by Duke University Press.
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Acknowledgments vii Introduction. Governing the Anthropocene 1 Part I. A Cast of Characters 19 1. The Accidental Monocrop 23 2. Killer Soy 32 3. The Absent State 43 4. The Living Barrier 53 5. The Plant Health Service 62 6. The Vast Tofu Conspiracy 70 Part II. An Experiment in Government 81 7. Capturing the Civil Service 85 8. Citizen Participation 96 9. Regulation by Denunciation 106 10. Citation, Sample, and Parallel States 120 11. Measurement as Tactical Sovereignty 130 12. A Massacre Where the Army Used to Be 144 Part III. Agribiopolitics 157 13. Plant Health and Human Health 163 14. A Philosophy of Life 174 15. Cotton, Welfare, and Genocide 184 16. Immunizing Welfare 194 17. Dummy Huts and the Labor of Killing 203 Conclusion. Remains of Experiments Past 216 Notes 223 Bibliography 257 Index 277
Acknowledgments vii Introduction. Governing the Anthropocene 1 Part I. A Cast of Characters 19 1. The Accidental Monocrop 23 2. Killer Soy 32 3. The Absent State 43 4. The Living Barrier 53 5. The Plant Health Service 62 6. The Vast Tofu Conspiracy 70 Part II. An Experiment in Government 81 7. Capturing the Civil Service 85 8. Citizen Participation 96 9. Regulation by Denunciation 106 10. Citation, Sample, and Parallel States 120 11. Measurement as Tactical Sovereignty 130 12. A Massacre Where the Army Used to Be 144 Part III. Agribiopolitics 157 13. Plant Health and Human Health 163 14. A Philosophy of Life 174 15. Cotton, Welfare, and Genocide 184 16. Immunizing Welfare 194 17. Dummy Huts and the Labor of Killing 203 Conclusion. Remains of Experiments Past 216 Notes 223 Bibliography 257 Index 277
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