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Agrarian Extractivism in Latin America (Paperback)
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Agrarian Extractivism in Latin America (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Critical Development Studies
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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.
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