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Book SynopsisUnsettling Agribusiness focuses on the transformations in rural life wrought by the internationalizationboth in landownership and agricultural creditof agribusiness and contests over land rights by Indigenous social movements.
Trade Review“
Unsettling Agribusiness is a thoroughly researched and often gripping ethnography filled with sophisticated conceptual thinking that intervenes in provocative ways into some of the most contentious debates in the contemporary anthropology of Brazil. LaShandra Sullivan convincingly charts a course beyond the poles of reification and erasure of difference that are far too common in the literature. The book’s ethnography and arguments are important, not only for anthropology, but for understanding the politics of ethnicity, race, inequality, nature, development, and governance in contemporary Brazil. These topics are crucial to the future in an era of climate change, and this book provides an excellent window into their complex interactions.”—Sean T. Mitchell, author of
Constellations of Inequality: Space, Race, and Utopia in BrazilTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Ethnoracial Politics of Agribusiness in Dourados
2. Floating Labor in a Bind
3. The Protest Camp as a Political Form
4. Agribusiness Rearrangements of Space
5. Mobilizing against Forced Transience
6. The Space to Be
Notes
Bibliography
Index
