Lexington Books
Pages: 192
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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)
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