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Accumulation by Dispossession and Socio‐Environmental Conflicts Caused by the Expansion of Agribusiness in A rgentina

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Cáceres, Daniel M.·2015·Journal of Agrarian Change

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Drawing upon the concept of ‘accumulation by dispossession’, this paper analyses the expansion of agrarian capital in A rgentina. A case study illustrates the social and environmental impacts of the expansion of agribusiness in central A rgentina and the social struggle – both rural and urban – that has arisen to resist this process. Although government policies after the 2001 crisis differ in many ways from those of the 1990s, current agrarian policies are not significantly distinct from those followed during the pre‐crisis neoliberal period. Rather than ‘post‐neoliberal’, the new model could thus be better described as ‘neo‐extractivist’. With the connivance of the state, agribusiness is producing the largest‐ever transformation of natural capital into economic capital in the history of the region. Moreover, the latest policy developments suggest that A rgentina is on the threshold of a new and deeper stage of agrarian capital expansion and wealth concentration, this time operating at a much larger scale.

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Authors
Cáceres, D. M.
Affiliations
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (AR)
Corresponding author
Cáceres, Daniel M.
Venue
Journal of Agrarian Change
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2014-02-19
Volume
15
Issue
1
Pages
116-147
ISSN
  • 1471-0358 (ISSN-L)
  • 1471-0366
OpenAlex
W2105980765
Cited by
284
References
105
Citations by year
2026: 13 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 62 · 2020: 34 · 2019: 30 · 2018: 24 · 2017: 22 · 2016: 16 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 4
FWCI
66.06
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Agrarian Change (publishedVersion, public-domain)
  • Conicet (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
Funders
  • CONICET
  • Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
  • US National Science Foundation (GEO-0452325, GEO-1138881)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Extractivism and Socioeconomic Issues
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Latin American rural development
Keywords
accumulation by dispossession, agribusiness expansion, agricultural capital, socio-environmental conflicts, social struggles, rural resistance, urban resistance, agricultural policy, 2001 crisis, neoliberalism, neo-extractivism, natural capital, wealth concentration, Argentina

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