Kregg Hetherington

The Government of Beans

Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9781478006893
• ISBN-10: 1478006897
• Artikelnr.: 57837914

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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