“Look North”
Conspiracy and the Sojazacíon of Argentina
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19488259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geneva M Smith (0000-0002-7997-171X, corresponding author), Geneva Smith |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-23 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Student Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2330-7625 • E-ISSN: 2330-7625 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/j.sda2.20160501.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W3132654341 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
The scientific community now overwhelmingly agrees that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are safe. Yet vigorous public debate continues worldwide about the entry of GMOs into the environment and food chain. Unique to the Argentine context, however, is that expert and civic debates about GM soy have more to do the redistribution of export profits than with potential environmental or health risks. In this essay, I examine Argentina's GMO expert regulatory bodies and recent conspiracy theories as spaces where I would expect concerns to be voiced about the “dark side of the soy boom” (Lapegna 2013)—but are not. I argue that conspiracy theory involving GM soy's economic prospects reveal both a pervasive unease about the industry, and that GM soy more closely indexes economic anxieties than environmental or health concerns. I explore the production and circulation of knowledge about GM soy that led to its role in economic sovereignty. I develop the idea that conspiracy centers on Argentines' deepest concerns and ask whether the GM soy industry is seen more as an obstacle to redistributive politics than as a threat to the health of the Argentine population
Boom · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Sovereignty · CRISPR and Genetic Engineering · Engineering · Genetically Modified Organisms Research · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law
Nuclear Rites
Flammable
Transgenic DNA introgressed into traditional maize landraces in Oaxaca, Mexico
Democratising expertise and socially robust knowledge
Transparent Fictions; or, The Conspiracies of a Liberal Imagination
‘Democratising’ expertise, ‘expertising’ democracy
Anxieties of Influence
Of Conspiracy Theories
Rise and Collapse of Neoliberalism in Argentina
The “soy-ization” of Argentina
What risks and for whom? Argentina's regulatory policies and global commercial interests in GMOs
Technologies of Humility
Modifying Argentina
Transparency and Conspiracy
Risk society
Understanding the rise of the regulatory state of the South
The Unsettling Location of a Settler Nation
The Evolution of Agricultural Interest Groups in Argentina
Bio-Hegemony
In The Name of Transparency
Transparency and Conspiracy
The Anthropology of Genetically Modified Crops
Ships Stranded in the Forest
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |