Accumulation by Dispossession and Socio-Environmental Conflicts Caused by the Expansion of Agribusiness in Argentina

CACERES, D. M.

Journal of Agrarian Change

Wiley

Lugar: Hoboken, Estados Unidos; Año: 2015 vol. 15 p. 116 - 147

1471-0366

Journal of Agrarian Change está indizada en: Web of Science, SCOPUS, ABI/INFORM Database (ProQuest), Academic Search (EBSCO Publishing), Academic Search Alumni Edition (EBSCO Publishing), Academic Search Premier (EBSCO Publishing), AgBiotech News & Information (CABI), AgBiotechNet (CABI), AGRICOLA Database (National Agricultural Library), Agricultural Engineering Abstracts (CABI), Agroforestry Abstracts (CABI), Animal Breeding Abstracts (CABI), Biofuels Abstracts (CABI), CAB Abstracts® (CABI), CABDirect (CABI), CSA Biological Sciences Database (ProQuest), CSA Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database (ProQuest), Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Thomson Reuters), Ecology Abstracts (ProQuest), Forest Products Abstracts (CABI), Forestry Abstracts (CABI), GEOBASE (Elsevier), Global Health (CABI), Grasslands & Forage Abstracts (CABI), Horticultural Science Abstracts (CABI), Irrigation & Drainage Abstracts (CABI), Journal Citation Reports/Social Science Edition (Thomson Reuters), Leisure, Recreation & Tourism Abstracts (CABI), Maize Abstracts (CABI), Plant Breeding Abstracts (CABI), Plant Genetic Resources Abstracts (CABI), Postharvest News & Information (CABI), ProQuest Central (ProQuest), Review of Medical & Veterinary Entomology (CABI), Rice Abstracts (CABI), Rural Development Abstracts (CABI), Social Sciences Citation Index (Thomson Reuters), SocINDEX (EBSCO Publishing), Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest), Soils & Fertilizers Abstracts (CABI), Tropical Diseases Bulletin (CABI), World Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology Abstracts (CABI), Worldwide Political Sciences Abstracts (ProQuest)  -------------------------- Drawing upon the concept of ?accumulation by dispossession?, this article analyses the expansion of agrarian capital in Argentina. A case study illustrates the social and environmental impacts of the expansion of agribusiness in central Argentina 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 Argentina is on the doorstep of a new and deeper stage of agrarian capital expansion and wealth concentration, this time operating at a much larger scale.