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Book SynopsisState Capitalism under Neoliberalism analyzes state capitalism in agri-food under neoliberalism and investigates state-sponsored actions designed to counter the negative consequences of the implementation of free-market policies and strategies. In particular, it probes efforts of the Brazilian State to respond to the neoliberalization and corporatization of agriculture and food. Between 2003 and 2016, the left leaning Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores) governed Brazil, which claimed to support landless peasants, family farming, food sovereignty, and state regulation of the unwanted consequences of the evolution of free market capitalism. The contributors analyze these actions of the Brazilian state, stressing its accomplishments and limits, and argue that the emancipatory actions of the Brazilian state engendered a complex and contradictory set of results which show that state capitalism is a problematic solution to the problems generated by the global neoliberal regime.
Trade ReviewHow has neoliberal globalization altered the contours of Brazil’s agri-food industries? According to the contributors of this well-grounded and illuminating collection, neoliberalism has strengthened the hand of corporate capital, created larger farms, fostered an unsustainable form of productivist agriculture, and has curtailed the state’s ability to address the needs of family farmers, peasant producers, and minorities who strive to make a living from the land. This book is a valuable resource for scholars—including sociologists, geographers, political economists, and policy analysts—seeking a conceptually rich understanding of agri-food transformations in contemporary Brazil. -- Geoffrey Lawrence, University of Queensland
Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: State Capitalism in Neoliberal Agri-Food: The Case of the Brazilian Company JBS Chapter Two: From the Neoliberal to the Developmental State? The Ambiguous Political Paradigm Shift in Brazil Chapter Three: March of the Daisies: Subject, Agriculture, and the State Chapter Four: State Intervention in Agri-Food: From Implementation to Maintenance of Irrigated Fruit Production for Export in the San Francisco Valley Chapter Five: Oil Palm Cultivation in the Brazilian Amazon: State Actions, Interest Groups and Conflict Chapter Six: State Intervention and Irrigated Agriculture in the San Francisco Valley, Brazil: Productive Transformations and New Organizations of Work Chapter Seven: Family Farmers Besieged between Neo-Developmentalism and Neoliberalism: The Role of the State in Agriculture and the Contradictions of the Present Time Chapter Eight: Neoliberalism and Neo-Developmentalism as Promoters of Capitalist Aquaculture in Brazil: The Case of the State of Pernambuco Conclusion: The Political and Structural Limits of State Capitalism in Brazil
