Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Quirós, Julieta
Domínguez, Diego
Materias
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
2017-2019
Idioma
spa
Derechos
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application/pdf
Identificador
Cobertura
1001169
Córdoba (province)
2017-2019
Abstract
This doctoral research seeks to contribute to the knowledge of the transformation processes of the contemporary rural world through the reconstruction and analysis of the network of socioproductive relations of a micro-region of the Pampas of Cordoba. The argument is the result of an ethnographic investigation carried out between 2017 and 2019, which followed four activities that characterize this territory: commodity agriculture (soy, wheat, and corn), the production of bovine milk, the agriculture of peanuts, and agroecological production. This perspective of approaching transformation processes through the relationships between different socio-productive processes was built from the following empirical fact: if currently in the rural area that is the object of analysis, the surroundings of the Ctalamochita river in the General San Martín department, the production soybean occupies more than 45% of agricultural land, how is it possible that we find, simultaneously, records of peanut and milk production, as well as the creation of agroecological farms?
It has been proposed here that we are facing a double dynamic: an accelerated process of displacement of rural families from activities that they developed for generations, and at the same time a profound reconversion in the ways of making dairy farms and peanuts, activities that sustained –and at times increased its production levels during the last 30 years–, despite having less land availability.
The socio-anthropological approach built to study these transformations is inspired, clarifies and diversifies the critical agrarian social studies, from a relational perspective interested in accounting for both the structural conditions in which the productive processes are developed, as well as the generative dimension of human agency. This viewpoint allowed us to identify that are processes more complex and less linear than the mere displacement of regional economies due to soybeans: the hypothesis of this dissertation is that the advance of soybean production on lands historically destined for dairy farms or peanuts, does not entail a displacement or disappearance of regional activities, but rather adjustments and techno and socio-productive reconversions, which we propose to understand as a complex and contradictory process of coexistence. On the other hand, this research underlines that, although the soybean conversion of agricultural land is undoubtedly a dominant variable to understand the phenomena of transformation of the rural world, the situated analysis allows identifying other processes that are found in the folds, and with the which soy is complemented, added or opposed.
It is proposed that the agricultural commodities, peanut farming, agroecological production and bovine dairying, make up, in the southeast of Córdoba, a network of asymmetrical interdependencies on which the conditions of possibility of these complex coexistences are based –coexistences of socio-productive actors, agricultural activities and the logic they deploy–, in a context of growing productive concentration. This is also a way to observe the native modes of doing agribusiness, agroecologies and regional economies, recovering the experiences and perspectives of their protagonists, and relating the social horizons and images of the future that they mobilize.
It has been proposed here that we are facing a double dynamic: an accelerated process of displacement of rural families from activities that they developed for generations, and at the same time a profound reconversion in the ways of making dairy farms and peanuts, activities that sustained –and at times increased its production levels during the last 30 years–, despite having less land availability.
The socio-anthropological approach built to study these transformations is inspired, clarifies and diversifies the critical agrarian social studies, from a relational perspective interested in accounting for both the structural conditions in which the productive processes are developed, as well as the generative dimension of human agency. This viewpoint allowed us to identify that are processes more complex and less linear than the mere displacement of regional economies due to soybeans: the hypothesis of this dissertation is that the advance of soybean production on lands historically destined for dairy farms or peanuts, does not entail a displacement or disappearance of regional activities, but rather adjustments and techno and socio-productive reconversions, which we propose to understand as a complex and contradictory process of coexistence. On the other hand, this research underlines that, although the soybean conversion of agricultural land is undoubtedly a dominant variable to understand the phenomena of transformation of the rural world, the situated analysis allows identifying other processes that are found in the folds, and with the which soy is complemented, added or opposed.
It is proposed that the agricultural commodities, peanut farming, agroecological production and bovine dairying, make up, in the southeast of Córdoba, a network of asymmetrical interdependencies on which the conditions of possibility of these complex coexistences are based –coexistences of socio-productive actors, agricultural activities and the logic they deploy–, in a context of growing productive concentration. This is also a way to observe the native modes of doing agribusiness, agroecologies and regional economies, recovering the experiences and perspectives of their protagonists, and relating the social horizons and images of the future that they mobilize.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales