This book explores the political ecology of agrofuels as an
encompassing socio-spatial transformation process consisting of a
series of changing contexts, political reconfigurations, and the
restructuring of social and labour relations. It includes
conceptual chapters as well as case studies from different world
regions (North America, Europe, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa,
Asia) and levels (local, national, transnational).
"
The Political Ecology of Agrofuels" advances a conceptualisation
of agrofuels that helps to fill existing research gaps. It covers
global food regimes and agrarian politics as well as political
arenas such as energy, climate, transport and trade. It reflects on
the biophysical materiality of agrofuels, new forms of nature
appropriation, struggles, discursive framings, the building of
hegemony, shifting geopolitical constellations, socio-spatial
configurations of power, the construction of territory, the agency
of social movements and the different ways in which agrofuels are
politicized at different scales.
This book asks how patterns of mobility, emissions regulation,
food and energy production and consumption, and social relations
(e.g. labour, class and gender relations) are shaped and re-shaped
by the materiality and representations of agrofuels in both the
Global South and North. The book provides tools for thinking about
the diversity of the conflicts, struggles and spatial,
socio-ecological and politico-economic reconfigurations and
perpetuations engendered by current production and consumption
patterns in the agrofuel sector.
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