1st Edition

Environmental Justice and Soy Agribusiness

By Robert Hafner Copyright 2018
256 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Environmental justice research and activism predominantly focus on openly conflictive situations; claims making is central. However, situations of injustice can still occur even if there is no overt conflict.  Environmental Justice and Soy Agribusiness  fills this gap by applying an environmental justice incommensurabilities framework to reveal the mechanisms of why conflicts do... Read more

1. Introduction

Part I: Meta-contextualisation

2. Thought styles and incommensurabilities

3. Method(olog)ical consequences

Part II: Contextualisation

4. (Environmental) Justice

5. Argentina and soy agribusiness

Part III: Re-contextualisation

6. Latin America and environmental justice

7. Chaco Salteño and the environmental justice incommensurabilities framework (EJIF)

8. The case of Las Lajitas: two approaches

9. Conclusion

Biography

Robert Hafner is a postdoctoral researcher, funded by the Post-DocTrack Pilot Program of the OeAW, and a member of the Work Group Development Studies and Sustainability Research, the Institute of Geography, Innsbruck University, Austria.