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Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina (Global and Comparative Ethnography) - Softcover

Lapegna, Pablo

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9780190215149: Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina (Global and Comparative Ethnography)
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ISBN 10: 0190215143 ISBN 13: 9780190215149
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Although Argentina's use of genetically modified (GM) soybean seeds has spurred a major agricultural boom, it has also had a negative impact on many communities. In Soybeans and Power, Pablo Lapegna explores the ways in which these communities have coped with GM soybean expansion. Peasants initially resisted, yet ultimately adapted to the new agricultural technologies, playing an active role in their own demobilization in order to maneuver the situation to their advantage. A rare glimpse into the life cycle of a social movement, Soybeans and Power gives voice to the communities most adversely affected by GM technology and the strategies that they have enacted in order to survive.

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About the Author

Pablo Lapegna is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Georgia

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0190215143
ISBN 13 
9780190215149
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
248
Rating
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