EAN: 9783030118235

POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF AGRICULTURE - OMAR FELIPE ...

This study discusses an original proposal aimed at critically analyzing the power relations
that exist in contemporary agriculture. The author endeavors herein to clarify some of the
strategies that industrial agribusiness  in collusion with the state and multilateral
structures  sets in motion in order to functionalize the lives of millions of farmers  so that
their bodies  enunciations  and sensibilities can be repurposed in accordance with the dynamics
of capital accumulation. The argument is based on the idea that agro-extractivism cannot be
thought of exclusively as an economic-political and technological system  but as a complex
interweaving of cultural meanings  aesthetics  and affections  which  amalgamated under the
abstract name of development  act as a support for the whole system's scaffolding. The book
also explores the other side of the coin  describing how  and under what conditions  social
movements are responding to the calamities generated by this model. The central thesis is that
many ongoing agroecological processes are providing one of the most interesting guidelines at
present for visualizing transitions towards post-development  post-extractivism  and the
construction of multiple worlds beyond the sphere of capital. Political ecology of agriculture
joins the calls that question the cultural project of modernity and the predatory sense imposed
by the globalized food empire  and invites recognition of the importance of agroecology in the
context of the end of the fossil-fuel era and the likely collapse of our industry-based
civilization.

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