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- The first book to address world agriculture from the perspective of political ecology and environmental philosophy
- A pioneering work for the growing global agro-ecological movement
- Makes a political diagnosis of the power relations in contemporary agriculture and an analysis of the social processes for the scale-up of agroecology
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
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Conacyt - El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico
Omar Felipe Giraldo
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Political Ecology of Agriculture
Book Subtitle: Agroecology and Post-Development
Authors: Omar Felipe Giraldo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11824-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-11823-5Published: 07 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-11824-2Published: 28 February 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 150
Additional Information: Original Spanish edition published by El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico, 2018
Topics: Environmental Politics, Environmental Sociology, Agriculture, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Science and Technology Studies, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights