PHYSICAL AND SYMBOLIC STRATEGIES OF DISPOSSESSION: A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE OF LAWS IN THE LOSS OF PEASANT AUTONOMY
Following the analytical methodology of food regimes (McMichael, 2015), this essay takes a historical and political trajectory to investigate the role that laws play in maintaining the hegemony of capital and the symbolical and physically dispossession of peasant systems. The combination of global a...
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Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Centro de Estudios Avanzados
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/alter-nativa/article/view/40980 |
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| Sumario: | Following the analytical methodology of food regimes (McMichael, 2015), this essay takes a historical and political trajectory to investigate the role that laws play in maintaining the hegemony of capital and the symbolical and physically dispossession of peasant systems. The combination of global and local laws limits productive autonomy by promoting changes that foster dependency, favours the transnationalisation of agrarian systems, and restrict peasant practices.
Capital's new offensive "includes, incorporates, intervenes and transforms individuals according to capital's logic" while maintaining certain coordinates of control (Giraldo, 2018, 85). The Ecuadorian case is used to illustrate the role of legislation in the development and refinement of these inclusion schemes. It shows how contract farming has moved from being a private initiative to being part of public policy, and how regulations on seeds, sanitary and phytosanitary measures have become tools to control food production - planting, growing, processing and marketing - and to limit the diverse options that remain or emerge from peasant creativity. |
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