Green deserts on new opportunities? : competing and complementary views on the soybean expansion in Uruguay, 2002-2013 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Suecia :
Stockholm,
2014.
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| Series: | Stockholm studies in economic history ;
64 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Outline of the thesis.
- Research design, assumptions, methods and sources : Conceptualizing soybean expansion as a discursive struggle
- Outlining the discursive field
- What kind of knowlegde is (re)produced in the interview?
- Analyzing the texts.
- Theoretical perspectives and discussions on development : An immanent approach to development, current orthodoxy
- An intentional approach to development, a reformist challenge
- A postdevelopmental approach to development, a radical counterpoint
- The development perspectives situated in a broader context and main fault lines.
- The national agrarian history context : The prosperous livestock model until 1930
- The stagnation, 1930-2000
- Concluding remarks agrarian history context.
- About the soybean expansion : A short "technical" story about the soybean expansion
- The social relations within the productive and commercializing networks of the soybean complex
- The (re)creation of the soybean expansion in relation to "how it used to be" and to "current global forces"
- Institutional structure
- Concluding remarks and schematic outline.
- Competing and complementary explanations on increased concentration : Materially related explanations
- Management related explanations
- Discussion and concluding remarks on the explanations provided to the changed social relations among producers.
- Competing and complementary meanings of concentration and perceived collateral effects : "Displacement" of "traditional producers" and collateral effects
- Alternatives to the position of "traditional producer" brought by the expansion
- Expressed benefits and drawbacks for "traditional producers" who participate in the soybean production
- Public regulation in relation to increased concentration in the wake of soybean expansion
- Concluding competing and complementary meanings of concentration.
- Competing and complementary meanings of foreignization : Different problems-oriented meaning to foreignization
- Different dis-articulations of the threat-oriented meanings of foreignization and re-articulation of foreignization as an opportunity
- Concluding competing and complementary meanings of "foreignization".
- Competing main discourses about the soybean expansion in Uruguay : The agroecology discourse
- The pro-market discourse
- The pro-public regulation discourse
- The discouses situated in space and time.