Political Ecology of Agriculture Agroecology and Post-Development /

• Main Author: Giraldo, Omar Felipe (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Environmental policy.; Environmental sociology.; Agriculture.; Conservation biology.; Ecology .; Technology-Sociological aspects.; Social justice.; Human rights.; Environmental Politics.; Environmental Sociology.; Conservation Biology/Ecology.; Science and Technology Studies.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.

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 o...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Agroextractivism: the desert grows
• The economic rationality of agroextractivism
• Territorial control and geographical expansion of agribusiness
• The government of the affects
• Agroecology in post-development settings
• Re-inhabiting the skin of the earth through agro-ecology
• The future, behind.