Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina

ISBN-13: 9780190215149 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 248 str.

Pablo Lapenga; Pablo Lapegna

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Pablo Lapegna's book, Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina, offers a deeply theorized and beautifully written ethnography of how peasants and their organizations in the northern part of Argentina have experienced, understood, mobilized against, and ultimately accommodated themselves to the arrival of transgenic soy... Ultimately, Soy and Power is an excellent and intellectually stimulating read.

O autorze

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