Hetherington The Government of Beans

Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0748-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Kregg Hetherington uses Paraguay's turn of the twenty-first century adoption of massive soybean production and the regulatory attempts to mitigate the resulting environmental degradation as a way to show how the tools used to drive economic growth exacerbate the very environmental challenges they were designed to solve.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hetherington, Kregg

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Governing the Anthropocene 1
Part I. A Cast of Characters 19
1. The Accidental Monocrop 23
2. Killer Soy 32
3. The Absent State 43
4. The Living Barrier 53
5. The Plant Health Service 62
6. The Vast Tofu Conspiracy 70
Part II. An Experiment in Government 81
7. Capturing the Civil Service 85
8. Citizen Participation 96
9. Regulation by Denunciation 106
10. Citation, Sample, and Parallel States 120
11. Measurement as Tactical Sovereignty 130
12. A Massacre Where the Army Used to Be 144
Part III. Agribiopolitics 157
13. Plant Health and Human Health 163
14. A Philosophy of Life 174
15. Cotton, Welfare, and Genocide 184
16. Immunizing Welfare 194
17. Dummy Huts and the Labor of Killing 203
Conclusion. Remains of Experiments Past 216
Notes 223
Bibliography 257
Index 277

Über Autor(innen)

Kregg Hetherington is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University. He is the editor of Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene and author of Guerrilla Auditors: The Politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay, both also published by Duke University Press.