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Soy and Society in Paraguay and Argentina
March 29, 2023 @ 12:00 pm
March 29, 2023 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Speakers: Kregg Hetherington, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University; Pablo Lapegna, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Georgia; Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS, Harvard University
Moderated by: Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico
Soybeans are one of the fastest growing monocrops in Latin America. Displacing traditional Latin American crops, soybeans recreate many of the same issues —land struggles, water scarcity, deforestation, pesticide exposure—while their industrial scale creates new and vexing political and environmental problems. Examining two countries, Paraguay and Argentina, these two scholars illustrate how soybeans become integral to the daily life, and death, of local communities, regions, and countries across the Southern Cone.
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