Agrarian Extractivism in Latin America

Agrarian extractivism is a concept that examines the predatory extractivist features of dominant agricultural development models, which erode the autonomy of resourcedependent working people, dispossess the rural poor, exhaust and expropriate nature, and concentrate value in a few hands. It is subsidized and/or supported by the state and dependent on the unpaid labor of women, children, and elders, exacerbating unequal class, gender, and generational relations. This collection points to the diversity of extractivist features of corporate-led, external-input-dependent plantation agriculture across distinct socio-ecological formations in Latin America.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 214 pages
\n Publication date: 31 May 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Amid the escalating demands for a shift towards sustainable agriculture, this book presents and delves into the concept of agrarian extractivism to aid in identifying and exposing the predatory extractivist characteristics of dominant agricultural development models. The concept extends beyond the more visible aspects of monocultures and raw material exports to examine the underlying logic and functioning of a model predicated on the appropriation of an ever-expanding range of commodified and non-commodified human and non-human nature in an extractivist manner. This process undermines the autonomy of resource-dependent working people, dispossesses the rural poor, exhausts and expropriates nature, and concentrates value in the hands of a few as a result of the insatiable pursuit of profit by large corporations. In numerous instances, such extractivist dynamics are subsidized and/or directly supported by the state, while also being reliant on the unpaid, productive, and reproductive labor of women, children, and elders, exacerbating unequal class, gender, and generational relations. Instead of a universal definition of agrarian extractivism, this collection highlights the diversity of extractivist features of corporate-led, external-input-dependent plantation agriculture across distinct socio-ecological formations in Latin America. This timely challenge to the destructive dominant models of agricultural development will captivate scholars, activists, researchers, and students from diverse fields such as critical development studies, rural studies, environmental and sustainability studies, and Latin American studies, among others.

\n Weight: 352g\n
Dimension: 155 x 233 x 19 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781032006079\n \n