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Welcome to Soylandia
- Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado
Engelsk Paperback
Welcome to Soylandia
- Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado
Engelsk Paperback

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Following a group of US Midwest farmers who purchased tracts of land in the tropical savanna of eastern Brazil, Welcome to Soylandia investigates industrial farming in the modern developing world. Seeking adventure and profit, the transplanted farmers created what Andrew Ofstehage calls "flexible farms" that have severed connections with the basic units of agriculture: land, plants, and labor. But while the transnational farmers have destroyed these relationships, they cannot simply do as they please. Regardless of their nationality, race, and capital, they must contend with pests, workers, the Brazilian state, and the land itself. Welcome to Soylandia explores the frictions that define the new relationships of flexible farming—a paradigm that Ofstehage shows is ready to be reproduced elsewhere in Brazil and exported to the rest of the globe, including the United States. Through this compelling ethnography, Ofstehage takes readers on a tour of Soylandia and the new world of industrial agriculture, globalized markets, international development, and environmental change that it heralds.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781501780233
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1501780239
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
15 apr 2025
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
Cornell University Press
Oplagsdato:
15 apr 2025
Forfatter(e):
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