Monocrops
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The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica
CASAS’ member Soledad Castro-Vargas has published an article with Marion Werner in Antipode. Abstract: For decades, agro-industrial capital has adopted cascading chemical and biotechnical interventions, or fixes, to secure accumulation through the cultivation of monocrops. We develop a framework that centres on how monocrop-induced susceptibility to pests and pathogens—and the patchwork of fixes to address…
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Thinking within and beyond the plantation: the making of a waterscape in Costa Rica
Soledad Castro-Vargas, CASAS’ member, has published an article in The Journal of Peasant Studies Abstract: Where does a plantation begin, and where does it end? This article analyzes the making of the Diquís deltaic region in Costa Rica to interrogate temporal and spatial relationships in and through plantations. Grounded on ethnographic fieldwork, I trace the…