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Entrevista a Pablo Lapegna
Get PDFPablo Lapegna es profesor asociado de Sociología y Estudios Latinoamericanos y Caribeños en la Universidad de Georgia, EE.UU. Es licenciado en Sociología por la Universidad de Buenos Aires y obtuvo su PhD en Sociología en la Universidad Estatal de Nueva York (Stony Brook). Con un enfoque en América Latina y en métodos cualitativos, LaPegna investiga y enseña sobre estudios agrarios críticos y procesos globales, sociología política, y movimientos sociales. En esta entrevista, Maritza Paredes conversa con él sobre su nuevo libro La Argentina transgénica. De la resistencia a la adaptación, una etnografía de las poblaciones campesinas (Siglo XXI editores) que investiga la expansión de la soja genéticamente modificada en Argentina y las formas en que las poblaciones rurales piensan, sienten y actúan frente a ella cuando se ven afectadas por problemas ambientales y dificultades cotidianas
Entrevista a Pablo Lapegna
No full textPablo Lapegna es profesor asociado de Sociología y Estudios Latinoamericanos y Caribeños en la Universidad de Georgia, EE.UU. Es licenciado en Sociología por la Universidad de Buenos Aires y obtuvo su PhD en Sociología en la Universidad Estatal de Nueva York (Stony Brook). Con un enfoque en América Latina y en métodos cualitativos, LaPegna investiga y enseña sobre estudios agrarios críticos y procesos globales, sociología política, y movimientos sociales. En esta entrevista, Maritza Paredes conversa con él sobre su nuevo libro La Argentina transgénica. De la resistencia a la adaptación, una etnografía de las poblaciones campesinas (Siglo XXI editores) que investiga la expansión de la soja genéticamente modificada en Argentina y las formas en que las poblaciones rurales piensan, sienten y actúan frente a ella cuando se ven afectadas por problemas ambientales y dificultades cotidianas
El Grito de Alcorta revisitado: cultura y sentimientos en la acción colectiva
Get PDFFil: Bisdaseca, Karina; Universidad de Buenos Aires. ArgentinaFil: Lapegna, Pablo; Universidad de Buenos Aires. Argentin
Review of Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina, by Pablo Lapegna
No full text'Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina', by Pablo Lapegna, Oxford University Press, 2016
Review of Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina, by Pablo Lapegna
No full textSoybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina, by Pablo Lapegna, Oxford University Press, 2016
Genetically modified crops and seed/food sovereignty in Argentina: scales and states in the contemporary food regime
No full textWith more than half of its arable land planted with genetically modified soybeans, Argentina presents a strategic research site to investigate contestations of intellectual property rights on seeds and the enclosure of seeds as common resources. In this contribution, we tackle Argentina as a case study to address three issues. First, we discuss the sweeping expansion of genetically modified crops to illustrate its associated role in (a) the conflicts, negotiations and accommodations of seed control and (b) the obstacles to food/seed sovereignty. Second, we inspect the spatial and class dynamics of these processes with the goal of making a contribution to the literature on food regimes. By looking at the regional dynamics within a nation, we seek to question the ‘methodological nationalism’ of the food regime perspective that, by and large, understands countries as units. Third, and linking the two previous points, we inspect the role of the state in struggles and negotiations over seed and food sovereignty at both the national and subnational scales. We argue that a multi-scalar approach on food/seed sovereignty struggles can provide further visibility to subordinated actors.Fil: Lapegna Pablo. University of Georgia; Estados UnidosFil: Perelmuter, Tamara. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios de América Latina y el Caribe; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin
Ambiguities at Sites of Acceptance: Agrarian Neoliberalism and Herbicide Exposure in Argentina
No full textIn this article, we study how dominant ideas on herbicide-dependent agriculture are reappropriated and recreated at different scales in farming towns of the Argentine Pampas. First, we analyze the discourses of national reach, to show how herbicide use is institutionally justified, promoted, and legitimized, while also being downplayed or minimized. Second, and based on our interviews with people who benefit from herbicide-dependent agriculture, we inspect how they interpret and reframe national actors' discourses. Our analysis shows ambivalences toward the risks of agrochemical exposure, a tendency to dilute them by pointing to people's quotidian coexistence with other environmental hazards, and a reinterpretation of the right to use agrochemicals in terms of national sovereignty and individual rights to prosperity. We also identify an understanding of the role of the state that overlapped with the typical neoliberal stance but also departed from it in significant ways. This study contributes to the understanding of "sites of acceptance"and to the environmental justice literature by focusing on understudied places, actors, and processes.Fil: Lapegna, Pablo. University of Georgia; Estados UnidosFil: Kunin, Johana R. Universidad Nacional de San Martín; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin
Iglesia de San Pablo del Monte: Tlaxcala
No full textLa construcción del templo de San Pablo del Monte se remonta al siglo XVI. En un primer momento estuvo dedicado a San Miguel Arcángel, y poco tiempo después fue brindado al apóstol San Pablo. El templo fungió como visita del convento franciscano de Puebla, junto con las poblaciones de San Miguel Tenancingo, San Francisco Papalotla y San Cosme Mazatecochco.</p
Norma Giarracca: Working Toward “A World Where Many Worlds Fit”
Get PDFNorma Giarracca had a deep and wide trajectory as a social researcher, especially as a rural sociologist. But she mostly published in Spanish, and thus her work is not readily accessible to many readers around the world. I am deeply grateful to the compañeras and compañeros of Alternautas to offer other researchers the opportunity to access the many insights of Norma’s work. Her winding trajectory hints at her intellectual curiosity and her openness to new perspectives – she was also a fan of music and often sought to connect social research and artistic expressions, for instance, asking her son Julián Teubal to join in research trips and then using his pictures on exhibits during book presentations or academic events, or coordinating a study linking music and protest (Bidaseca, Lapegna, Mariotti, et al. 2001). Norma was deeply committed to social justice and had the utmost respect and appreciation for the “subjects” of her research. She often had brusque manners, but also an immense generosity. She fitted many worlds in the relatively small world of rural sociology and made its branches extend beyond disciplines, countries, and perspectives. She has been sorely missed since 2015, but the seeds she planted keep sprouting and growing
Between Regulation and Practice: Situated Pesticide Governance in Argentina
No full textSince the 1990s, agribusiness expansion in Argentina involved the exponential growth of pesticide use throughout the country. Pesticide exposure has become a widespread problem in rural areas and farming towns, but protests and conflicts about this issue are the exception rather than the norm. Why? Based on archival work, interviews, and ethnographic observations, in this paper, we scrutinize pesticide governance at the subnational scale to elucidate this puzzle, focusing on a) informal arrangements (face-to-face negotiations between pesticide users and people affected by them), b) juridical conflicts (lawsuits against farmers over exposure of people and crops to herbicides), and c) regulatory challenges (when rural populations and environmentalists push for local ordinances to curb pesticide exposure). We find that local cultural codes encourage informal agreements and that social inequalities prevent conflicts from arising in the public sphere. The interventions of social movements and civil society organizations (or lack thereof) and the mobilization of expertise also shape pesticide governance. Our analysis highlights that pesticide governance is context-dependent or situated, and informed by subtle but significant power asymmetries.Fil: Lapegna, Pablo. University of Georgia; Estados UnidosFil: Kunin, Johana R. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de San Martín; ArgentinaFil: Palmisano, Tomás. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentin
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