Seeds of power : environmental injustice and genetically modified soybeans in Argentina
著者
書誌事項
Seeds of power : environmental injustice and genetically modified soybeans in Argentina
Duke University Press, 2020
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 件 / 全1件
-
該当する所蔵館はありません
- すべての絞り込み条件を解除する
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-194) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In 1996 Argentina adopted genetically modified (GM) soybeans as a central part of its national development strategy. Today, Argentina is the third largest global grower and exporter of GM crops. Its soybeans-which have been modified to tolerate being sprayed with herbicides-now cover half of the country's arable land and represent a third of its total exports. While soy has brought about modernization and economic growth, it has also created tremendous social and ecological harm: rural displacement, concentration of landownership, food insecurity, deforestation, violence, and the negative health effects of toxic agrochemical exposure. In Seeds of Power Amalia Leguizamon explores why Argentines largely support GM soy despite the widespread damage it creates. She reveals how agribusiness, the state, and their allies in the media and sciences deploy narratives of economic redistribution, scientific expertise, and national identity as a way to elicit compliance among the country's most vulnerable rural residents. In this way, Leguizamon demonstrates that GM soy operates as a tool of power to obtain consent, to legitimate injustice, and to quell potential dissent in the face of environmental and social violence.
目次
Acronyms ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. The Roots of the Soy Model 29
2. Revolution in the Pampas 59
3. The Elephant in the Field 92
4. Against the Grain 112
Conclusion 139
Notes 151
Bibliography 177
Index
「Nielsen BookData」 より
