Social Mobilization, Global Capitalism and Struggles over Food

A Comparative Study of Social Movements

Renata Motta (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

204 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-35879-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Renata Motta is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Latin American Studies at the Freie UniversitÃ¤t Berlin, Germany.

Introduction

1. Theorizing and research disputes over GMOs;

2. A silenced revolution (1996-2002); Increasing noise (2003-2013)

3. The unexpectedly contentious Brazilians (1996-2002)

4. The politics of faits accomplis (2003-2013)

5. Many tales of GMOs: a comparison

6. Conclusions

Appendix

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	Entangled Inequalities: Exploring Global Asymmetries
Zusatzinfo	4 Tables, black and white; 10 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	380 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
ISBN-10	1-138-35879-7 / 1138358797
ISBN-13	978-1-138-35879-9 / 9781138358799
Zustand	Neuware