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Concordia professor's new book examines ecological destruction and social injustice through Paraguay's soybean mass production


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Concordia professor’s new book examines ecological destruction and social injustice through Paraguay’s soybean mass production
Kregg Hetherington illustrates how government tools to promote growth can worsen the environmental challenges they’re meant to solve
April 23, 2021
By Narmeen Imam
Kregg Hetherington: “The soybeans we’re eating as tofu is not the problem. It’s the ones being force-fed to pigs in factories.”|
Photo by Etienne Girardet on Unsplash
At the turn of the 21st century, Paraguay underwent dramatic economic, political and environmental changes due to a boom in the global demand for soybeans.
The implications of these shifts are the topic of a new book by Concordia associate professor of anthropology Kregg Hetherington. In it, he discusses how the country’s intensive soybean production brought wealth, along with deforestation, biodiversity loss, rising inequality and violence. ....

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ONLINE: Agribiopolitics: Plants and Humans in the Age of Monocrops in Paraguay


ONLINE: Agribiopolitics: Plants and Humans in the Age of Monocrops in Paraguay
Mar 23, 2021 12:00 PM
, Tuesday
s at noon. The events will be virtual (on Zoom) for the 2020-21 school year, and are free and open to the public.
Presented by: Kregg Hetherington, Environmental Anthropologist and Director of the Concordia Ethnography Lab, Montreal, Canada
About the presentation: The Green Revolution in crop development of the mid-20th century is normally told as the story of heroic plant geneticists, miraculous fertilizers and increasingly complex machinery and pesticides. But the expansion of monocrop agriculture throughout this period was also enabled by novel governmental apparatuses that guarded the health of plants much as welfare regimes guarded that of humans. In this presentation, I argue that it’s worth thinking of these two things together, as an overarching politics of life that oversaw the shifting relation between the well being of plants and that o ....

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