TOXIC TERRITORIES: PESTICIDES, SOCIAL REPRODUCTION, AND THE POLITICS OF AGROECOLOGY IN ARGENTINA’S SOY FRONTIER

Jonas Adriaensens; Joost Dessein; Jeroen Adam

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Trabalho

DOI

10.29327/9786527226680.1441923

Título do Trabalho

TOXIC TERRITORIES: PESTICIDES, SOCIAL REPRODUCTION, AND THE POLITICS OF AGROECOLOGY IN ARGENTINA’S SOY FRONTIER

Autores

Jonas Adriaensens
Joost Dessein
Jeroen Adam

Modalidade

IRSA - Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (01/10/2025 a 20/01/2026)

Área temática

IRSA 12 - Building a Sociology of Agroecology

Data de Publicação

06/08/2026

País da Publicação

Brasil

Idioma da Publicação

pt-BR

Página do Trabalho

https://www.even3.com.br/anais/sober-irsa2026/1441923-toxic-territories--pesticides-social-reproduction-and-the-politics-of-agroecology-in-argentinas-soy-frontier

ISBN

978-65-272-2668-0

Palavras-Chave

pesticides, agroecology, territory, dispossession, social reproduction

Resumo

Agroecology has long resisted against the application of chemical pesticides and herbicides in agriculture. Most scholarship depart from a strictly agronomic view, arguing that agrochemical use disrupts biological flows of ecosystems and thus leads to decreasing biodiversity. These views have been complemented by thorough medical research demonstrating that impacts on biodiversity apply not only to non-human ecological processes, but that harmful chemicals in fact penetrate human bodies and have the potential to cause permanent neural and epigenetic alterations. What is missing from these analyses is a politicized and territorial focus on agroecology, specifically focusing on the way in which pesticide use affects the capacity of communities to produce and reproduce themselves, and how it is applied as a tool of territory-making at the edge of agricultural frontiers. Based on ethnographic fieldwork at the expanding agricultural frontier of soy in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, we argue that peasant and indigenous communities are affected by biological, economic, social and political constraints in their ability to sustain their livelihoods and that these realities affect the ways in which they understand agroecological resistance. We conclude that 1) pesticide use can result in the dispossession of communities through the undermining of their capacities of social reproduction; 2) pesticides are used as technologies in the making and re-making of territory; and 3) the territorial and organizational contingencies of pesticide use are crucial in understanding how social movements at the edge of agricultural frontiers understand and conceptualize agroecology.

Título do Evento: 16th World Congress of Rural Sociology and 64th Congress of the Brazilian Society of Rural Economics, Management and Sociology
Cidade do Evento: Porto Alegre
Título dos Anais do Evento: Anais do 64º Congresso da SOBER e XVI Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (IRSA)
Nome da Editora: Even3
Meio de Divulgação: Meio Digital
DOI

Como citar

ADRIAENSENS, Jonas; DESSEIN, Joost; ADAM, Jeroen. TOXIC TERRITORIES: PESTICIDES, SOCIAL REPRODUCTION, AND THE POLITICS OF AGROECOLOGY IN ARGENTINA’S SOY FRONTIER.. In: Anais do 64º Congresso da SOBER e XVI Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (IRSA). Anais...Porto Alegre(RS) UFRGS, 2026. Disponível em: https//www.even3.com.br/anais/sober-irsa2026/1441923-TOXIC-TERRITORIES--PESTICIDES-SOCIAL-REPRODUCTION-AND-THE-POLITICS-OF-AGROECOLOGY-IN-ARGENTINAS-SOY-FRONTIER. Acesso em: 21/09/2026