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Resource Peripheries in the Global EconomyFrom the ‘Pampas’ to China: Scale and Space in the South American Soybean Complex

Resource Peripheries in the Global Economy: From the ‘Pampas’ to China: Scale and Space in the... [Soybean production in South America has expanded rapidly since the late 1990s, now covering an area equating approximately the size of Spain. This crop has expanded throughout the region, both by displacing other crops, and by incorporating new territories via transformation of ecosystems. The expansion of this production complex has seen the emergence of different scales of accumulation, distribution, organisation, and conflict: from local and rural communities undergoing socio-economic transformations, to the role of national states in governing the soy complex, to transnational capital investment, international price setting mechanisms, and global drivers for demand. Scale provides a helpful concept to understand the relationships of hierarchy between places and spaces, and their organisation around principles of capital accumulation. The multiscalarity of the soybean complex provides an example of how the imperatives of capitalist production at the global level orchestrate the geographical distribution of economic activity, and the emergence of resource peripheries, including soybean production. This chapter will first explore the theoretical elements of the concept of scale, followed by an examination of the multi-scalar process of expansion and consolidation of South America as a resource periphery, through the emergence of the soybean complex. The chapter will look at the tensions between national and global scales that led to these changes, as well as the impacts on regional dynamics, bodies and environment of the soybean production complex.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Resource Peripheries in the Global EconomyFrom the ‘Pampas’ to China: Scale and Space in the South American Soybean Complex

Part of the Economic Geography Book Series
Editors: Irarrázaval, Felipe; Arias-Loyola, Martín
Giraudo, Maria Eugenia
Resource Peripheries in the Global Economy — Oct 12, 2021
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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978-3-030-84605-3
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125 –141
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10.1007/978-3-030-84606-0_7
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Abstract

[Soybean production in South America has expanded rapidly since the late 1990s, now covering an area equating approximately the size of Spain. This crop has expanded throughout the region, both by displacing other crops, and by incorporating new territories via transformation of ecosystems. The expansion of this production complex has seen the emergence of different scales of accumulation, distribution, organisation, and conflict: from local and rural communities undergoing socio-economic transformations, to the role of national states in governing the soy complex, to transnational capital investment, international price setting mechanisms, and global drivers for demand. Scale provides a helpful concept to understand the relationships of hierarchy between places and spaces, and their organisation around principles of capital accumulation. The multiscalarity of the soybean complex provides an example of how the imperatives of capitalist production at the global level orchestrate the geographical distribution of economic activity, and the emergence of resource peripheries, including soybean production. This chapter will first explore the theoretical elements of the concept of scale, followed by an examination of the multi-scalar process of expansion and consolidation of South America as a resource periphery, through the emergence of the soybean complex. The chapter will look at the tensions between national and global scales that led to these changes, as well as the impacts on regional dynamics, bodies and environment of the soybean production complex.]

Published: Oct 12, 2021

Keywords: Scale; Commodities; Natural resources; Development; Space; South America

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