Pablo Lapegna

Soybeans and Power (eBook, ePUB)

Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Although Argentina's use of genetically modified (GM) soybean seeds has spurred a major agricultural boom, it has also had a negative impact on many communities. In Soybeans and Power, Pablo Lapegna explores the ways in which these communities have coped with GM soybean expansion. Peasants initially resisted, yet ultimately adapted to the new agricultural technologies, playing an active role in their own demobilization in order to maneuver the situation to their advantage. A rare glimpse into the life cycle of a social movement, Soybeans and Power gives voice to the communities most adversely affected by GM technology and the strategies that they have enacted in order to survive.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190215163
• Artikelnr.: 45723710

Autorenporträt

Pablo Lapegna is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Georgia

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* GM Crops, Global Ethnography, and the Dynamics of De-Mobilization
* Chapter One: The Dark Side of the Boom
* Neoliberalization, GM Soybeans, and Environmental Change in Argentina
* Chapter Two: Emergence
* Peasants, Politics, and Patrons: Rural Social Movements in Formosa
(1970s-2000s)
* Chapter Three: Contention
* Peasants Confronting GM Soybeans and Agrochemical Exposure (2003)
* Chapter Four: Demobilization
* Peasants, Governments, and Constituents Across Political Scales
(2004-2013)
* Chapter Five: Accommodation
* Peasants Negotiating GM Crops and Agrochemical Exposure (2009-2013)
* Conclusion: Companion Planting
* The Crucible of GM Crops, Global Processes, and Social Movements
* Appendix: On the Ethnographic Craft