The Government of Beans : Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops /

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"THE GOVERNMENT OF BEANS is a multispecies ethnography on the proliferation of the vast soybean monocrop in Paraguay and its ensuing effects on the government, agriculture, population, and environment. As Kregg Hetherington shows, soy monocropping, which was expanding at an average of 200,000 s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hetherington, Kregg (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Soyfoods industry.
Soybean industry.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Agriculture durable > Aspect politique > Paraguay.
Soja (Aliment) > Industrie > Paraguay.
Soja > Industrie > Paraguay.
Sustainable agriculture > Political aspects > Paraguay.
Soyfoods industry > Paraguay.
Soybean industry > Paraguay.
Paraguay.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The accidental monocrop
  • Killer soy
  • The absent state
  • A living barrier
  • The plant health service
  • A vast tofu conspiracy
  • Capturing the Civil Service
  • Citizen participation
  • Regulation by denunciation
  • Citation, sample, and parallel states
  • Tactical sovereignty
  • A massacre where the army used to be
  • Plant health versus biopolitics
  • Life philosophy
  • Cotton, welfare, and genocide
  • Immunizing welfare
  • Dummy huts, rented fields and the labor of killing.

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