Renata Motta
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renata Motta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renata |
| FAMILY NAME | Motta |
| SIGNATURE | MOTTA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Food politics and activist networks in the city: Reaching places food and policies don't
Broadening the Climate Movement: The Marcha das Margaridas’ Agenda for the Climate (and Other) Crises
Climate movements led by students and the youth worldwide (and in particular, those in richer economies) have been recognized as having a formidable voice and making important contributions towards a more radical societal transformation to face the climate crisis. However, little is said about the contribution of popular sectors, who have been mobilizing for decades and demanding broader structural transformations—with proposals that tackle envir…
Food sovereignty and popular feminism in Brazil
La Marcha das Margaridas est une coalition de mouvements de femmes et de féministes, de mouvements agraires, de syndicats et d'organisations internationales qui a vu le jour en 2000. Les organisations de femmes, au sein d'un syndicat rural, dirigent le processus. En commençant par des revendications - fondées sur le genre et la classe sociale, pour la reconnaissance du travail des femmes dans la production alimentaire, l'accès aux titres fonciers…
Feminist Solidarities and Coalitional Identity: The Popular Feminism of the Marcha das Margaridas
The Marcha das Margaridas is a mass mobilization in Brazil led by women's organizations within rural unions in alliance with other social movements and nongovernmental organizations, including transnational partners such as the World March of Women. The main political subjects are rural working women, a political identity that articulates gender, class, and urban-rural inequalities. These are foundational for the popular feminism of the Marcha. A…
Social movements as agents of change: Fighting intersectional food inequalities, building food as webs of life
What does the diversity of social movements and food initiatives tell us about processes of social change? I argue that they offer a productive analytical lens to observe social change because they identify injustices and dynamics of inequalities in the food system and are actively engaged in transforming these. Alternative local food initiatives react to the environmental impacts of globalized food relations; food sovereignty movements highlight…
Food and social change: Culinary elites, contested technologies, food movements and embodied social change in food practices
In this introduction, we have asked a very classical sociological question and brought together interdisciplinary efforts to critically approach it, focusing on a basic issue: food. We briefly reconstruct the main approaches to social change in sociological theory and then identify main themes with which food studies have contributed to this debate. If, to avoid normative and formal approaches, theories of change require contextualization in orde…
Grüne Gentechnik
The Poor's Struggle for Political Incorporation: The Piquetero Movement in Argentina
Global Capitalism and the Nation State in the Struggles over GM Crops in Brazil
The introduction of biotechnology is part of a global process of structural change in agriculture characterized by an increased integration of world agriculture with high corporate control. However, as the legal competence to allow the planting and trade of genetically modified (GM) crops commonly lies at the level of the nation state, this remains strategic in the politics of GM crops, both for actors promoting the technology and for social move…
Transnational Discursive Opportunities and Social Movement Risk Frames Opposing GMOs
Research on social movement frames has been cumulative. Recently, scholars started studying the structural incentives and constraints for claim-makers by relying on the concept of discursive opportunity structure (DOS) while bringing the public sphere and the media to the centre of analysis of political contention. This article draws on these literatures to investigate social movement campaigns against genetically modified (GM) crops and pesticid…
Social Disputes over GMOs: An Overview
This review provides an overview of social research on genetically modified crops (GM crops), also known as genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Academic inquiry on the social disputes over the future of agriculture biotechnology has multiplied since the mid‐1990s, when the first seeds were approved for market commercialization. This essay identifies and describes five prominent analytical approaches to explain public controversies over GMOs: t…
Risco e modernidade uma nova teoria social
O artigo versa sobre a teoria da modernização reflexiva de Ulrich Beck, considerando a sua recente expansão com a tese de uma sociedade global do risco. Dois elementos são analisados: a noção de risco como categoria sociológica e a relação entre os conceitos de modernidade e de reflexividade. Quanto ao primeiro, levanta-se a questão sobre a reivindicada centralidade do conceito "risco" como categoria sociológica e sobre o alcance de uma teoria so…
Sociologia de risco: Globalizando a Modernidade Reflexiva
Esta resenha pretende trazer um pouco dos argumentos recentes da sociologia de risco de Ulrich Beck para o debate brasileiro sobre risco. Em sua recente obra, que poderia ser traduzida em portugues como Sociedade global de risco: na busca da seguranca perdida , o autor se baseia em experiencias como o terrorismo global, a ameaca de crise ecologica e as crises financeiras internacionais para defender o conceito de uma sociedade global de risco. Es…
Social movements as agents of change: Fighting intersectional food inequalities, building food as webs of life
What does the diversity of social movements and food initiatives tell us about processes of social change? I argue that they offer a productive analytical lens to observe social change because they identify injustices and dynamics of inequalities in the food system and are actively engaged in transforming these. Alternative local food initiatives react to the environmental impacts of globalized food relations; food sovereignty movements highlight…
Global Capitalism and the Nation State in the Struggles over GM Crops in Brazil
The introduction of biotechnology is part of a global process of structural change in agriculture characterized by an increased integration of world agriculture with high corporate control. However, as the legal competence to allow the planting and trade of genetically modified (GM) crops commonly lies at the level of the nation state, this remains strategic in the politics of GM crops, both for actors promoting the technology and for social move…
Transnational Discursive Opportunities and Social Movement Risk Frames Opposing GMOs
Research on social movement frames has been cumulative. Recently, scholars started studying the structural incentives and constraints for claim-makers by relying on the concept of discursive opportunity structure (DOS) while bringing the public sphere and the media to the centre of analysis of political contention. This article draws on these literatures to investigate social movement campaigns against genetically modified (GM) crops and pesticid…
Broadening the Climate Movement: The Marcha das Margaridas’ Agenda for the Climate (and Other) Crises
Climate movements led by students and the youth worldwide (and in particular, those in richer economies) have been recognized as having a formidable voice and making important contributions towards a more radical societal transformation to face the climate crisis. However, little is said about the contribution of popular sectors, who have been mobilizing for decades and demanding broader structural transformations—with proposals that tackle envir…
Food and social change: Culinary elites, contested technologies, food movements and embodied social change in food practices
In this introduction, we have asked a very classical sociological question and brought together interdisciplinary efforts to critically approach it, focusing on a basic issue: food. We briefly reconstruct the main approaches to social change in sociological theory and then identify main themes with which food studies have contributed to this debate. If, to avoid normative and formal approaches, theories of change require contextualization in orde…
Risco e modernidade uma nova teoria social
O artigo versa sobre a teoria da modernização reflexiva de Ulrich Beck, considerando a sua recente expansão com a tese de uma sociedade global do risco. Dois elementos são analisados: a noção de risco como categoria sociológica e a relação entre os conceitos de modernidade e de reflexividade. Quanto ao primeiro, levanta-se a questão sobre a reivindicada centralidade do conceito "risco" como categoria sociológica e sobre o alcance de uma teoria so…
Sociologia de risco: Globalizando a Modernidade Reflexiva
Esta resenha pretende trazer um pouco dos argumentos recentes da sociologia de risco de Ulrich Beck para o debate brasileiro sobre risco. Em sua recente obra, que poderia ser traduzida em portugues como Sociedade global de risco: na busca da seguranca perdida , o autor se baseia em experiencias como o terrorismo global, a ameaca de crise ecologica e as crises financeiras internacionais para defender o conceito de uma sociedade global de risco. Es…
Food sovereignty and popular feminism in Brazil
La Marcha das Margaridas est une coalition de mouvements de femmes et de féministes, de mouvements agraires, de syndicats et d'organisations internationales qui a vu le jour en 2000. Les organisations de femmes, au sein d'un syndicat rural, dirigent le processus. En commençant par des revendications - fondées sur le genre et la classe sociale, pour la reconnaissance du travail des femmes dans la production alimentaire, l'accès aux titres fonciers…
Feminist Solidarities and Coalitional Identity: The Popular Feminism of the Marcha das Margaridas
The Marcha das Margaridas is a mass mobilization in Brazil led by women's organizations within rural unions in alliance with other social movements and nongovernmental organizations, including transnational partners such as the World March of Women. The main political subjects are rural working women, a political identity that articulates gender, class, and urban-rural inequalities. These are foundational for the popular feminism of the Marcha. A…
Sociologia de risco: Globalizando a Modernidade Reflexiva
Esta resenha pretende trazer um pouco dos argumentos recentes da sociologia de risco de Ulrich Beck para o debate brasileiro sobre risco. Em sua recente obra, que poderia ser traduzida em portugues como Sociedade global de risco: na busca da seguranca perdida , o autor se baseia em experiencias como o terrorismo global, a ameaca de crise ecologica e as crises financeiras internacionais para defender o conceito de uma sociedade global de risco. Es…
Social Disputes over GMOs: An Overview
This review provides an overview of social research on genetically modified crops (GM crops), also known as genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Academic inquiry on the social disputes over the future of agriculture biotechnology has multiplied since the mid‐1990s, when the first seeds were approved for market commercialization. This essay identifies and describes five prominent analytical approaches to explain public controversies over GMOs: t…
Risco e modernidade uma nova teoria social
O artigo versa sobre a teoria da modernização reflexiva de Ulrich Beck, considerando a sua recente expansão com a tese de uma sociedade global do risco. Dois elementos são analisados: a noção de risco como categoria sociológica e a relação entre os conceitos de modernidade e de reflexividade. Quanto ao primeiro, levanta-se a questão sobre a reivindicada centralidade do conceito "risco" como categoria sociológica e sobre o alcance de uma teoria so…
Transnational Discursive Opportunities and Social Movement Risk Frames Opposing GMOs
Research on social movement frames has been cumulative. Recently, scholars started studying the structural incentives and constraints for claim-makers by relying on the concept of discursive opportunity structure (DOS) while bringing the public sphere and the media to the centre of analysis of political contention. This article draws on these literatures to investigate social movement campaigns against genetically modified (GM) crops and pesticid…
Global Capitalism and the Nation State in the Struggles over GM Crops in Brazil
The introduction of biotechnology is part of a global process of structural change in agriculture characterized by an increased integration of world agriculture with high corporate control. However, as the legal competence to allow the planting and trade of genetically modified (GM) crops commonly lies at the level of the nation state, this remains strategic in the politics of GM crops, both for actors promoting the technology and for social move…
Grüne Gentechnik
The Poor's Struggle for Political Incorporation: The Piquetero Movement in Argentina
Feminist Solidarities and Coalitional Identity: The Popular Feminism of the Marcha das Margaridas
The Marcha das Margaridas is a mass mobilization in Brazil led by women's organizations within rural unions in alliance with other social movements and nongovernmental organizations, including transnational partners such as the World March of Women. The main political subjects are rural working women, a political identity that articulates gender, class, and urban-rural inequalities. These are foundational for the popular feminism of the Marcha. A…
Social movements as agents of change: Fighting intersectional food inequalities, building food as webs of life
What does the diversity of social movements and food initiatives tell us about processes of social change? I argue that they offer a productive analytical lens to observe social change because they identify injustices and dynamics of inequalities in the food system and are actively engaged in transforming these. Alternative local food initiatives react to the environmental impacts of globalized food relations; food sovereignty movements highlight…
Food and social change: Culinary elites, contested technologies, food movements and embodied social change in food practices
In this introduction, we have asked a very classical sociological question and brought together interdisciplinary efforts to critically approach it, focusing on a basic issue: food. We briefly reconstruct the main approaches to social change in sociological theory and then identify main themes with which food studies have contributed to this debate. If, to avoid normative and formal approaches, theories of change require contextualization in orde…
Food sovereignty and popular feminism in Brazil
La Marcha das Margaridas est une coalition de mouvements de femmes et de féministes, de mouvements agraires, de syndicats et d'organisations internationales qui a vu le jour en 2000. Les organisations de femmes, au sein d'un syndicat rural, dirigent le processus. En commençant par des revendications - fondées sur le genre et la classe sociale, pour la reconnaissance du travail des femmes dans la production alimentaire, l'accès aux titres fonciers…
Broadening the Climate Movement: The Marcha das Margaridas’ Agenda for the Climate (and Other) Crises
Climate movements led by students and the youth worldwide (and in particular, those in richer economies) have been recognized as having a formidable voice and making important contributions towards a more radical societal transformation to face the climate crisis. However, little is said about the contribution of popular sectors, who have been mobilizing for decades and demanding broader structural transformations—with proposals that tackle envir…
Food politics and activist networks in the city: Reaching places food and policies don't
Political science (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Food security (4 works) · Social movement (4 works)