Land concentration and foreign land ownership in Argentina in the context of global land grabbing

Murmis, Miguel; Murmis, Maria R.

doi:10.1080/02255189.2012.745395

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“…Even though Chinese activity in land acquisitions in rural Africa display "asymmetries of power and patterns of exploitation very closely resembling core-periphery relations……Chinese land acquisitions in rural Australia are not captured well by a core-periphery label" (Margulis and Porter, 2013, this volume). Indeed the same applies to grabbed-land grabbers such as Brazil and Argentina which are both major players in the land acquisitions across South America but are also major targets of foreign land acquisitions (see, Perrone, 2013, this volume; see also Borras, Kay, Gomez and Wilkinson 2012;Murmis and Murmis, 2012;Urioste 2012). To a certain extent, land grabbing reveals important shifts in global political power but also in production of resources and goods that may be more vital to a future global political economy where the ecological considerations become more paramount.…”

Section: A Short History Of Global Land Governance and Structural Chamentioning

confidence: 98%

“…All of these projects share the objective of promoting large-scale private-sector led investments in developing country agriculture and highlighting the weight of investments relative to that of policies. Meanwhile, dozens of countries are revisiting and reforming national and local land planning and tenure laws as well as their bilateral/multilateral trade, investment and development cooperation arrangements -and depending on the local politics, doing so to either facilitate (Wolford et al, 2013) or limit (Perrone, 2013, this volume;Murmis and Murmis, 2012;Wilkinson et al 2012) land grabbing domestically.…”

Section: Global Governance and Land Grabbingmentioning

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Land Grabbing and Global Governance: Critical Perspectives

2013

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Land grabbing has emerged as a significant issue in contemporary global governance that cuts across the fields of development, investment, food security, among others. Whereas land grabbing per se is not a new phenomenon, having historical precedents in the eras of imperialism, the character, scale, pace, orientation and key drivers of the recent wave of land grabs is a distinct historical phenomenon closely tied to major shifts in power and production in the global political economy. Land grabbing is facilitated by ever greater flows of capital, goods, and ideas across borders, and these flows occur through axes of power that are far more polycentric than the North-South imperialist tradition. In this introduction we argue that land grabbing speaks to many of the core questions of globalization studies. However, we note scholars of globalization have yet to deeply engage with this new field. We situate land grabbing in an era of advanced capitalism, multiple global crises and the role of new configurations of power and resistance in global governance institutions. The essays in this collection contribute to identifying land grabbing as an important and urgent topic for theoretical and empirical investigations to deepen our understanding of contemporary globalization and governance.

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Section: Global Governance and Land Grabbingmentioning

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Land Grabbing and Global Governance: Critical Perspectives

2013

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“…Since the neoliberal turn of the 1980s, this region has gradually been subjected to a dynamic of socio‐economic integration that primarily affects local populations, including the Wichí. Since the beginning of the 2000s, we have witnessed the construction of road infrastructure to facilitate access to these remote areas, accompanied by a process of land grabbing (Murmis and Murmis 2012) and extremely rapid deforestation (Volante et al 2016). In this unprecedented context, the natives are mobilizing to claim their territories, contributing to the multiplication of land conflicts with both institutions and the settlers.…”

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Fixing the territory, a turning point: The paradoxes of the Wichí maps of the Argentine Chaco

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Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Indigenous mapping is a powerful political tool for long‐marginalized populations to create visibility and establish land claims. In the case of Argentina, a country that was built on a denial of the presence of Indigenous peoples in the national territory, the emergence of these maps stemming from participatory processes coincided with the recognition of these communities' territorial rights in 1994. However, this mapping of Indigenous territories freezes extremely dynamic and complex socio‐spatial realities just as it inflects their representations. In this paper, I reassess the weight and the role that Indigenous cartographic representations play in the evolution of these populations' spatial capital. Paradoxically, they give rise to more contradictions than they clarify. These paradoxes demonstrate the varied relationships different generations maintain with their territory, just as they concern its structure and its cartographic form. Therefore, based on the case of the Wichí of the Argentinian Chaco, this paper contributes to the understanding of contemporary issues of indigeneity by adopting a critical approach to Indigenous cartography. Whereas in Argentina cartographic knowledge is undergoing a process of decolonization, this does not apply to the legal system or to society as a whole.

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“…This co-produced worldview does not seem to leave any room for family farmers, who do not have the mind-sets of innovators-entrepreneurs and who are incapable of keeping up with ever-growing demands of Epistemic claims by and about farmers becoming innovatorsentrepreneurs are reciprocally conditioned by the rise of new social formations such as sowing pools (pooles de siembra), which are taken here as a central instance of this agricultural bioeconomy. Sowing pools can be seen as instantiating a new hegemonic organizational model of agribusiness (Grosso 2010;Murmis and Murmis 2012;Hernandez 2013, 2014). Sowing pools are defined as "agricultural trusts consisting of farmers seeking to extend their scale of production, who gather temporarily (usually one planting season) to lease tracts of land as well as services for the main farming operations (planting, spraying and harvesting) and sometimes for transport.…”

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Embedded Promissory Futures: The Rise of Networked Agribusiness in Argentina’s Bioeconomy

Delvenne

2017

Bioeconomies

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The chapter offers a much-needed sociotechnical analysis of the bioeconomy as a concept and a political project in Argentina. Focusing on the case study of genetically modified (GM) soy, Delvenne shows that the bioeconomy is at the center of intense struggles to re-think agriculture as-we-knew-it, and to re-name it as "agro-industry". The chapter explores these developments as evidence of an attempt to reject the idea of agriculture as the reactionary stronghold of a backward bourgeoisie and instead embrace agriculture as generative of an industrial avant-garde that promises political-economic transcendence. The chapter closes with an investigation of new forms of 'networked agribusiness' that constitute the habitat of today's bioeconomy in Argentina.

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Land concentration and foreign land ownership in Argentina in the context of global land grabbing

Cited by 61 publications

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Land Grabbing and Global Governance: Critical Perspectives

Land Grabbing and Global Governance: Critical Perspectives

Fixing the territory, a turning point: The paradoxes of the Wichí maps of the Argentine Chaco

Embedded Promissory Futures: The Rise of Networked Agribusiness in Argentina’s Bioeconomy

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