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The government of beans : regulating life in the age of monocrops /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hetherington, Kregg (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Soybean industry > Paraguay.
Soyfoods industry > Paraguay.
Sustainable agriculture > Political aspects > Paraguay.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The accidental monocrop
  • Killer soy
  • The absent state
  • A living barrier
  • The plant health service
  • A vast tofu conspiracy
  • Capturing the Civil Service
  • Citizen participation
  • Regulation by denunciation
  • Citation, sample, and parallel states
  • Tactical sovereignty
  • A massacre where the army used to be
  • Plant health versus biopolitics
  • Life philosophy
  • Cotton, welfare, and genocide
  • Immunizing welfare
  • Dummy huts, rented fields and the labor of killing.