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Soybeans and Power

Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina

By: Pablo Lapegna

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Soybeans and Power

Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina

By: Pablo Lapegna

Although Argentina's use of genetically modified (GM) soybean seeds has spurred a major agricultural boom, it has also had a negative impact on many communities. In Soybeans and Power, Pablo Lapegna explores the ways in which these communities have coped with GM soybean expansion. Peasants initially resisted, yet ultimately adapted to the new agricultural technologies, playing an active role in their own demobilization in order to maneuver the situation to their advantage. A rare glimpse into the life cycle of a social movement, Soybeans and Power gives voice to the communities most adversely affected by GM technology and the strategies that they have enacted in order to survive.

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019021516X

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Abundance

On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty

By: Pablo J. Boczkowski

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Abundance

On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty

By: Pablo J. Boczkowski

Information overload is something that humans have dealt with for millennia. During different historical eras, massive increases in what was available to know has motivated the creation of systems for sorting, indexing, and compiling information as well as concerns that the abundance of information might cause cultural anxiety or even drive people to madness. The digital age has renewed concerns about information overload and the detrimental effects it has on our ability to sort through the stream of online data, decide what is most important, or even to train our attention on it long enough to make sense of it. In Abundance, Pablo J. Boczkowski builds upon what we know about the historical and contemporary scholarship to develop a novel framework on the experience of living in a society that has more information available to the public than ever before, focusing on the interpretations, emotions, and practices of dealing with this abundance in everyday life. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and survey research conducted in Argentina, Abundance examines the role of cultural and structural factors that mediate between the availability of information and the actual consequences for individuals, media, politics, and society. Providing the first book-length account of information abundance in the Global South, Boczkowski concludes that the experience of information abundance is tied to an overall unsettling of society, a reconstitution of how we understand and perform our relationships with others, and a twin depreciation of facts and appreciation of fictions.

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Soybeans and Power

Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina

By: Pablo Lapegna

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Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina

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