348) Kregg Hetherington: The paradox of destroying lands in the name of social welfare
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
kaméa chayne
4.9 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
“This is what I call the agrobiopolitical paradox at the center of the modern agricultural state: Paraguay trying to push hard to get more soybeans out there and on the other hand trying to create institutions to protect people from all the soybeans that the left hand is putting in place.”
In this episode, we welcome Kregg Hetherington, Ph.D., who is a political anthropologist specializing in the environment, infrastructure, and the bureaucratic state. He is the author of The Government of Beans. Kregg's long-term ethnographic work in Paraguay chronicles how small farmers caught in a sweeping agrarian transition have experienced the country's halting transition to democracy, showing how activists create new ways of thinking and practicing government.
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| 1:36.0 | For now, on to today's episode where we're speaking with Dr. Craig Hetherington. |
| 1:42.2 | And this is kind of the, what I call the agribiopolitical paradox at the center of the modern |
| 1:48.4 | agricultural state, where you've got the same institutions doing both of these things in |
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