Description
Book SynopsisAn insightful case study about the effects of capitalism on the indigenous experience in northern Argentina
Trade Review'Silences of Dispossession offers a timely account of indigenous struggles around soybean expansion in post-neoliberal Argentina. Eloquent and engaging, Biocca confronts colliding responses to agrarian transformations in light of histories and memories of dispossession, resistance, and negotiations with the State.'
-- Paola Canova, author of 'Frontier Intimacies: Ayoreo Women and the Sexual Economy of the Paraguayan Chaco' (University of Texas Press, 2020)
'In an important contribution to development and peasant studies, Biocca argues that whether rural people resist or acquiesce to dispossession depends on local rationalities. Comparing two groups of Indigenous rural peasants in the Argentine Chaco, she demonstrates the importance of collective memory, previous engagement with capitalist regimes, and aspirations for inclusion.'
-- Nancy Postero, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California San Diego
'An important contribution to a growing body of research centering Indigenous communities in Argentina'
-- 'NACLA'
Table of Contents1. Indigenous Peoples, Agribusiness and the Post-Neoliberal State in Argentina
2. Accumulation by Dispossession and the Everyday Life of Indigenous Peoples
3. Living on the Edges of the Periphery
4. Resistance on the Edge: the Case of the Qom People in Pampa del Indio
5. Acquiescence on the edge: the Case of Moqoit People in Las Tolderías
6. The Actually Existing Agency of Subaltern Groups
