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Social Mobilization, Global Capitalism and Struggles over Food on Hardback by Renata Motta
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A Comparative Study of Social Movements
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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.

Author Biography:

Renata Motta is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Latin American Studies at the Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany.
Release date NZ
May 13th, 2016
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Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Undergraduate
Illustrations
4 Tables, black and white; 10 Line drawings, black and white
Pages
204
Dimensions
156x234x18
ISBN-13
9781472479082
Product ID
25041496

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