Susanna B. Hecht Kolejność książek (chronologicznie)

Soy in South America constitutes one of the most spectacular booms of agro-industrial commodity production in the world. It is the pinnacle of modernist agro-industrial practices, serving as a key nexus in food-feed-fuel production that underpins the agribusiness-conservationist discourse of "land sparing" through intensification. Yet soy production is implicated in multiple problems beyond deforestation, ranging from pesticide drift and contamination to social exclusion and conflicts in frontier zones, to concentration of wealth and income among the largest landowners and corporations. This book explores in depth the complex dynamics of soy production from its diverse social settings to its transnational connections, examining the politics of commodity and knowledge production, the role of the state, and the reach of corporate power in everyday life across soy landscapes in South America. Ultimately, the collection encourages us to search and struggle for agroecological alternatives through which we may overcome the pitfalls of this massive transnational capitalist agro-industry. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies.

In the late nineteenth century, the imperial and industrial powers relied heavily on rubber sourced solely from the Amazon basin, igniting a fierce competition among Britain, France, Belgium, and the United States against Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil. Amidst this turmoil, Euclides da Cunha, a prominent Brazilian writer, engineer, and political theorist, embarked on a perilous survey expedition into the Amazon's remote and treacherous landscapes. His journey unfolds against a backdrop of guerrilla warfare, desperate migrants, and native enslavement, all while he grappled with personal turmoil from a broken marriage. Da Cunha worked on his ambitious masterpiece, a nationalist synthesis of geography, philosophy, and journalism titled Lost Paradise, intending to expose the complexities of the Amazon's explorers, spies, and brutal geopolitics. However, he never completed it; his life was tragically cut short when he was murdered by his wife's lover upon returning home. This narrative serves as both a biography of a remarkable writer and a compelling chronicle of the Amazon's social, political, and environmental history, while also presenting the unfinished fragments of da Cunha's work, showcasing a thrilling intellectual endeavor.