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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hetherington, Kregg (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Soybean industry > Paraguay.
Soyfoods industry > Paraguay.
Sustainable agriculture > Political aspects > Paraguay.
Soja > Industrie > Paraguay.
Soja (Aliment) > Industrie > Paraguay.
Agriculture durable > Aspect politique > Paraguay.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Soybean industry.
Soyfoods industry.
Paraguay.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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