Journal
JOURNAL OF AGRARIAN CHANGE
Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 116-147Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/joac.12057
Keywords
agribusiness; socio-environmental conflicts; accumulation by dispossession; neo-extractivism; deforestation
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- Directorate For Geosciences [1138881] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Drawing upon the concept of accumulation by dispossession', this paper analyses the expansion of agrarian capital in Argentina. A case study illustrates the social and environmental impacts of the expansion of agribusiness in central Argentina and the social struggle - both rural and urban - that has arisen to resist this process. Although government policies after the 2001 crisis differ in many ways from those of the 1990s, current agrarian policies are not significantly distinct from those followed during the pre-crisis neoliberal period. Rather than post-neoliberal', the new model could thus be better described as neo-extractivist'. With the connivance of the state, agribusiness is producing the largest-ever transformation of natural capital into economic capital in the history of the region. Moreover, the latest policy developments suggest that Argentina is on the threshold of a new and deeper stage of agrarian capital expansion and wealth concentration, this time operating at a much larger scale.
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