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State Capitalism under Neoliberalism

The Case of Agriculture and Food in Brazil

Edited by Alessandro Bonanno and Josefa Salete Barbosa Cavalcanti - Contributions by Alessandro Bonanno; Josefa Salete Barbosa Cavalcanti; Andrea Butto; José Ignácio Vega Fernández; Stéphane Gérard Emile Guéneau; Catia Grisa; Beatriz Medeiros de Melo; Dalva Maria da Mota; Guilherme J. Mota Silva; Moisés Mourão Júnior; Paulo Niederle; Cinthia Regina Nunes Reis and Heribert Schmitz

State Capitalism under Neoliberalism analyzes State capitalism in agri-food under neoliberalism and investigates State-sponsored actions designed to counter the negative consequences of the implementation of free-market policies and strategies. In particular, it probes efforts of the Brazilian State to respond to the neoliberalization and corporatization of agriculture and food. Between 2003 and 2016, the left leaning Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores) governed Brazil, which claimed to support landless peasants, family farming, food sovereignty, and State regulation of the unwanted consequences of the evolution of free market capitalism. The contributors analyze these actions of the Brazilian State, stressing its accomplishments and limits, and argue that the emancipatory actions of the Brazilian State engendered a complex and contradictory set of results which show that State capitalism is a problematic solution to the problems generated by the global neoliberal regime.
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Lexington Books
Pages: 192 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9
978-1-4985-8989-5 • Hardback • September 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-4985-8990-1 • eBook • September 2019 • $105.50 • (£82.00)
Subjects: Social Science / Agriculture & Food, Social Science / World / Latin America
Alessandro Bonanno is Texas State University System Regents’ Professor and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Sam Houston State University.

Josefa Salete Barbosa Cavalcanti is professor in the Post-Graduate Program in Sociology at the Federal University of Pernambuco.
Introduction



Chapter One: State Capitalism in Neoliberal Agri-Food: The Case of the Brazilian Company JBS



Chapter Two: From the Neoliberal to the Developmental State? The Ambiguous Political Paradigm Shift in Brazil



Chapter Three: March of the Daisies: Subject, Agriculture, and the State



Chapter Four: State Intervention in Agri-Food: From Implementation to Maintenance of Irrigated Fruit Production for Export in the San Francisco Valley



Chapter Five: Oil Palm Cultivation in the Brazilian Amazon: State Actions, Interest Groups and Conflict



Chapter Six: State Intervention and Irrigated Agriculture in the San Francisco Valley, Brazil: Productive Transformations and New Organizations of Work



Chapter Seven: Family Farmers Besieged between Neo-Developmentalism and Neoliberalism: The Role of the State in Agriculture and the Contradictions of the Present Time



Chapter Eight: Neoliberalism and Neo-Developmentalism as Promoters of Capitalist Aquaculture in Brazil: The Case of the State of Pernambuco



Conclusion: The Political and Structural Limits of State Capitalism in Brazil
How has neoliberal globalization altered the contours of Brazil’s agri-food industries? According to the contributors of this well-grounded and illuminating collection, neoliberalism has strengthened the hand of corporate capital, created larger farms, fostered an unsustainable form of productivist agriculture, and has curtailed the state’s ability to address the needs of family farmers, peasant producers, and minorities who strive to make a living from the land. This book is a valuable resource for scholars—including sociologists, geographers, political economists, and policy analysts—seeking a conceptually rich understanding of agri-food transformations in contemporary Brazil.
— Geoffrey Lawrence, University of Queensland


The product of a longstanding international collaboration but also firmly rooted in a Brazilian research network dedicated for over three decades to the study of Brazilian agri-food in the context of globalization, this book provides a much needed reflection on the State and the agri-food system in the years of the Lula and Dilma governments (2003-2016). Using the varied lenses of State capitalism, neo-developmentalism and neo-liberalism, the ways in which these Governments promoted policies which simultaneously strengthened large-scale agribusiness, and the family farming sector are subjected to detailed analysis. While the Brazilian soy sector has received most international attention, the chapters in the book have the added merit of focusing on social movements (the rural women’s movement) and markets (the fresh fruits export poles in the Brazilian Northeast, aquaculture, and palm oil) which are less familiar to non-Brazilian readers. A chapter on the now-notorious JBS meat company is not the least of this book´s attractions.
— John Wilkinson, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro


State Capitalism under Neoliberalism

The Case of Agriculture and Food in Brazil

Cover Image
Hardback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • State Capitalism under Neoliberalism analyzes State capitalism in agri-food under neoliberalism and investigates State-sponsored actions designed to counter the negative consequences of the implementation of free-market policies and strategies. In particular, it probes efforts of the Brazilian State to respond to the neoliberalization and corporatization of agriculture and food. Between 2003 and 2016, the left leaning Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores) governed Brazil, which claimed to support landless peasants, family farming, food sovereignty, and State regulation of the unwanted consequences of the evolution of free market capitalism. The contributors analyze these actions of the Brazilian State, stressing its accomplishments and limits, and argue that the emancipatory actions of the Brazilian State engendered a complex and contradictory set of results which show that State capitalism is a problematic solution to the problems generated by the global neoliberal regime.
Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 192 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9
    978-1-4985-8989-5 • Hardback • September 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
    978-1-4985-8990-1 • eBook • September 2019 • $105.50 • (£82.00)
    Subjects: Social Science / Agriculture & Food, Social Science / World / Latin America
Author
Author
  • Alessandro Bonanno is Texas State University System Regents’ Professor and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Sam Houston State University.

    Josefa Salete Barbosa Cavalcanti is professor in the Post-Graduate Program in Sociology at the Federal University of Pernambuco.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Introduction



    Chapter One: State Capitalism in Neoliberal Agri-Food: The Case of the Brazilian Company JBS



    Chapter Two: From the Neoliberal to the Developmental State? The Ambiguous Political Paradigm Shift in Brazil



    Chapter Three: March of the Daisies: Subject, Agriculture, and the State



    Chapter Four: State Intervention in Agri-Food: From Implementation to Maintenance of Irrigated Fruit Production for Export in the San Francisco Valley



    Chapter Five: Oil Palm Cultivation in the Brazilian Amazon: State Actions, Interest Groups and Conflict



    Chapter Six: State Intervention and Irrigated Agriculture in the San Francisco Valley, Brazil: Productive Transformations and New Organizations of Work



    Chapter Seven: Family Farmers Besieged between Neo-Developmentalism and Neoliberalism: The Role of the State in Agriculture and the Contradictions of the Present Time



    Chapter Eight: Neoliberalism and Neo-Developmentalism as Promoters of Capitalist Aquaculture in Brazil: The Case of the State of Pernambuco



    Conclusion: The Political and Structural Limits of State Capitalism in Brazil
Reviews
Reviews
  • How has neoliberal globalization altered the contours of Brazil’s agri-food industries? According to the contributors of this well-grounded and illuminating collection, neoliberalism has strengthened the hand of corporate capital, created larger farms, fostered an unsustainable form of productivist agriculture, and has curtailed the state’s ability to address the needs of family farmers, peasant producers, and minorities who strive to make a living from the land. This book is a valuable resource for scholars—including sociologists, geographers, political economists, and policy analysts—seeking a conceptually rich understanding of agri-food transformations in contemporary Brazil.
    — Geoffrey Lawrence, University of Queensland


    The product of a longstanding international collaboration but also firmly rooted in a Brazilian research network dedicated for over three decades to the study of Brazilian agri-food in the context of globalization, this book provides a much needed reflection on the State and the agri-food system in the years of the Lula and Dilma governments (2003-2016). Using the varied lenses of State capitalism, neo-developmentalism and neo-liberalism, the ways in which these Governments promoted policies which simultaneously strengthened large-scale agribusiness, and the family farming sector are subjected to detailed analysis. While the Brazilian soy sector has received most international attention, the chapters in the book have the added merit of focusing on social movements (the rural women’s movement) and markets (the fresh fruits export poles in the Brazilian Northeast, aquaculture, and palm oil) which are less familiar to non-Brazilian readers. A chapter on the now-notorious JBS meat company is not the least of this book´s attractions.
    — John Wilkinson, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro


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