Description: The Government of BeansRegulating Life in the Age of Monocrops Author(s): Kregg Hetherington Format: Paperback Publisher: Duke University Press, United States Imprint: Duke University Press ISBN-13: 9781478006893, 978-1478006893 Synopsis The Government of Beans is about the rough edges of environmental regulation, where tenuous state power and blunt governmental instruments encounter ecological destruction and social injustice. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Paraguay was undergoing dramatic economic, political, and environmental change due to a boom in the global demand for soybeans. Although the country's massive new soy monocrop brought wealth, it also brought deforestation, biodiversity loss, rising inequality, and violence. Kregg Hetherington traces well-meaning attempts by bureaucrats and activists to regulate the destructive force of monocrops that resulted in the discovery that the tools of modern government are at best inadequate to deal with the complex harms of modern agriculture and at worst exacerbate them. The book simultaneously tells a local story of people, plants, and government; a regional story of the rise and fall of Latin America's new left; and a story of the Anthropocene writ large, about the long-term, paradoxical consequences of destroying ecosystems in the name of human welfare.
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Book Title: The Government of Beans
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Width: 152 mm
Author: Kregg Hetherington
Publication Name: The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Geology, Anthropology, History
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 431 g
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
