The Silences of Dispossession - Agrarian Change and Indigenous Politics in Argentina (Paperback)

This book explores omissions, or silences, in previous investigations of agrarian transformations by foregrounding indigenous experiences of capitalist development. Providing a rich and detailed ethnographic study, Mercedes Biocca shows how capitalist processes are perceived, experienced, and either confronted or accepted depending on the different ways in which dispossession, resistance and negotiation have become embedded in the collective local memory. Challenging accounts that efface the agency of subalterns in shaping rural dynamics, and ignore the diversity of perspectives within indigenous groups, Biocca untangles the connections between global, national and local spatial scales in her analysis of accumulation by dispossession. Using two case studies, the Qom People in Pampa del Indio and the Moqoit people in Las Tolderías, she presents the main transformations that have taken place in the Argentine agricultural sector during the hegemony of post-neoliberalism while centring the perceptions and roles of subalterns within these transformations.

General

Imprint:	Pluto Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Mercedes Biocca
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-0-7453-4306-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Local government > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic systems > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
LSN:	0-7453-4306-6
Barcode:	9780745343068

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