Social Mobilization, Global Capitalism and Struggles Over Food: A Comparative Study of Social Movements

ISBN-13: 9781138358799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 204 str.

Renata Motta

Opis

This book explores the transformation of Brazil and Argentina into two of the world’s largest producers of genetically modified (GM) crops.The author reveals that this transformation cannot be explained by superiority of biotechnology. Rather, it is the result of political struggles whereby social movements and the rural poor are silenced, ignored, or demobilized.

Using interviews and media material, these struggles are used add to debates on agrarian futures, and illustrate challenges faced by contemporary democracies. It will appeal to scholars of sociology, political science and geography with interests in social movements, development, globalisation, inequality and political economy.

O autorze

Renata Motta is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Latin American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.