Agroextractivism and land grabbing in Latin America: an interpretation from a political ecology perspective

Abstract

This article discusses how agro-extractivism brings various discursive and practical mechanisms into play to deterritorialize farmers, often without the need to expel them from their land. Political ecology tools are used to explain the different ways whereby modern capitalism is territorializing its dichotomous rationality through the emergence of a technological, cultural and representational regime of truth, and the imposition of a world transformed as regards its logic of homogeneity, linearity and disciplinarization of nature.