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This book presents studies from across Latin America to take up the
challenge of exploring the plurality of social inequalities from a
global perspective. Accordingly, it identifies the structural
forces of social inequalities on a world scale as they shape
asymmetries observed in a wide array of phenomena, such as racial
and gender inequality, urbanization, migration, commodity
production, indigenous mobilization, ecological conflicts, and the
"new middle class". A rich contribution to the study of the
interconnections between the global social structure and multiple
local and national hierarchies, Global Entangled Inequalities
brings consistently together a variety of conceptual approaches,
ranging from ethnographies to legal genealogies, and will therefore
appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in
social theory, power analysis, intersectionality studies, urban
studies, and global social and environmental justice.
This book explores the transformation of Brazil and Argentina into
two of the world's largest producers of genetically modified (GM)
crops. Systematically comparing their stories in order to explain
their paths, differences, ruptures and changes, the author reveals
that the emergence of the two nations as leading producers of GM
crops cannot be explained by technological superiority of
biotechnology; rather, their trajectories are the results of
political struggles surrounding agrarian development, in which
social movements and the rural poor contested the advancement of
biotechnologically-based agrarian models, but have been silenced,
ignored, or demobilized by a network of actors in favour of GM
crops. Based on rich interview and media material collected amongst
activists, the author highlights the importance of political
struggles over GM crops not only to debates on agrarian futures and
food security, but also as illustrations of the challenges faced by
contemporary democracies. An international comparative study, this
book raises the question of how social mobilization and rights
claims can counter the systemic imperatives of global capitalism
and political interests, at a time when regional governments are
reliant on commodity booms, whilst globally, governments are
obliged to introduce programmes of austerity. As such it will
appeal to scholars of sociology, political science and geography
with interests in social movements, development, globalization,
inequality and political economy.
This book presents studies from across Latin America to take up the
challenge of exploring the plurality of social inequalities from a
global perspective. Accordingly, it identifies the structural
forces of social inequalities on a world scale as they shape
asymmetries observed in a wide array of phenomena, such as racial
and gender inequality, urbanization, migration, commodity
production, indigenous mobilization, ecological conflicts, and the
"new middle class". A rich contribution to the study of the
interconnections between the global social structure and multiple
local and national hierarchies, Global Entangled Inequalities
brings consistently together a variety of conceptual approaches,
ranging from ethnographies to legal genealogies, and will therefore
appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in
social theory, power analysis, intersectionality studies, urban
studies, and global social and environmental justice.
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