{"product_id":"the-silences-of-dispossession-mercedes-biocca-9780745343068","title":"The Silences of Dispossession: Agrarian Change and Indigenous Politics in Argentina","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A timely account of indigenous struggles ... Eloquent and engaging, Biocca confronts colliding responses to agrarian transformations in light of histories of dispossession and resistance\"--\u003c\/b\u003e Paola Canova, author of \u003ci\u003eFrontier Intimacies\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An important contribution to development and peasant studies\"-- \u003c\/b\u003eNancy Postero, Professor of Anthropology, University of California San Diego \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Silences of Dispossession\u003c\/i\u003e explores omissions, or silences, in previous investigations of agrarian transformations by foregrounding indigenous experiences of capitalist development. Providing a rich and detailed ethnographic study, Mercedes Biocca shows how capitalist processes are perceived, experienced, and either confronted or accepted depending on how dispossession, resistance, and negotiation have become embedded in the collective local memory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Challenging accounts that efface the agency of subalterns in shaping rural dynamics and ignore the diversity of perspectives within indigenous groups, Biocca untangles the connections between global, national, and local spatial scales in her analysis of accumulation by dispossession. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Using two case studies, the Qom People in Pampa del Indio and the Moqoit people in Las Tolder?s, she presents the main transformations that have taken place in the Argentine agricultural sector during the hegemony of post-neoliberalism while centering the perceptions and roles of subalterns within these transformations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMercedes Biocca\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor and an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Higher Social Studies in Buenos Aires, Argentina.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mercedes Biocca\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0745343066\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780745343068\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pluto Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/20\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Mercedes Biocca","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44074480959743,"sku":"9780745343068","price":47.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c8267087-fcaa-4f6d-b5ac-d0c43396edbe.jpg?v=1685453990","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-silences-of-dispossession-mercedes-biocca-9780745343068","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}