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      Agrarian Extractivism in Latin America
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      Agrarian Extractivism in Latin America book

      Edited ByBen M. McKay, Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2021
      eBook Published 31 May 2021
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367822958
      Pages 226
      eBook ISBN 9780367822958
      Subjects Area Studies, Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Environment & Agriculture, Environment and Sustainability, Global Development, Politics & International Relations
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      McKay, B.M., Alonso-Fradejas, A., & Ezquerro-Cañete, A. (Eds.). (2021). Agrarian Extractivism in Latin America (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367822958

      ABSTRACT

      Amid the growing calls for a turn towards sustainable agriculture, this book puts forth and discusses the concept of agrarian extractivism to help us identify and expose the predatory extractivist features of dominant agricultural development models.

      The concept goes beyond the more apparent features of monocultures and raw material exports to examine the inherent logic and underlying workings of a model based on the appropriation of an ever-growing range of commodified and non-commodified human and non-human nature in an extractivist fashion. Such a process erodes the autonomy of resourcedependent working people, dispossesses the rural poor, exhausts and expropriates nature, and concentrates value in a few hands as a result of the unquenchable drive for profit by big business. In many instances, such extractivist dynamics are subsidized and/or directly supported by the state, while also dependent on the unpaid, productive, and reproductive labour of women, children, and elders, exacerbating unequal class, gender, and generational relations. Rather than a one-size-fits-all definition of agrarian extractivism, this collection points to the diversity of extractivist features of corporate-led, external-input-dependent plantation agriculture across distinct socio-ecological formations in Latin America.

      This timely challenge to the destructive dominant models of agricultural development will interest scholars, activists, researchers, and students from across the fields of critical development studies, rural studies, environmental and sustainability studies, and Latin American studies, among others.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |20 pages

      Introduction

      ByBen M. McKay, Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete

      chapter 1|24 pages

      The Biotechnological Agrarian Model in Argentina

      Fighting against capital within science
      ByCarla Poth

      chapter 2|19 pages

      Extractive dynamics of agrarian change in Bolivia

      ByBen M. McKay, Gonzalo Colque

      chapter 3|21 pages

      Agrarian extractivism in the Brazilian Cerrado

      BySérgio Sauer, Karla R.A. Oliveira

      chapter 4|14 pages

      Social reproduction, dispossession, and the gendered workings of agrarian extractivism in Colombia

      ByDiana Ojeda

      chapter 5|18 pages

      Agrarian extractivism and sustainable development

      The politics of pineapple expansion in Costa Rica
      ByAndrés León Araya

      chapter 6|22 pages

      Gender inclusion in the sugarcane production of agro-fuels in coastal Ecuador

      Illusionary promises of rural development within a new agrarian extractivism
      ByNatalia Landívar García

      chapter 7|26 pages

      Life purging agrarian extractivism in Guatemala

      Towards a renewable but unlivable future?
      ByAlberto Alonso-Fradejas

      chapter 8|21 pages

      Extractive agave and tequila production in Jalisco, Mexico

      ByDarcy Tetreault, Cindy McCulligh, Carlos Lucio

      chapter 9|22 pages

      Forestry extractivism in Uruguay

      ByMarkus Kröger, Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes
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