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Appel à contributions : “The Global Pesticide Complex: Agrochemical Capital, Regulation, and Agrarian Change” (Journal of Agrarian Change)

Appel à contributions pour un numéro spécial de Journal of Agrarian Change, “The Global Pesticide Complex: Agrochemical Capital, Regulation, and Agrarian Change”, placé sous la coordination scientifique de Kees Jansen, Nathalie Jas, Jessie Luna et Marion Werner. 

Nathalie Jas (INRAE) est membre du réseau SHS Pesticides.

The Global Pesticide Complex: Agrochemical Capital, Regulation, and Agrarian Change


Extrait de l’appel

Recent scholarship on the agrochemical sector has identified significant transformations: from the industry’s eastward production shift and consolidation among top-tier firms, to protracted pest and weed resistance, to public concern over the safety of newer-generation compounds, and more. This special issue will bring together critical scholarship on pesticides loosely organized around the notion of the global pesticide complex (Galt 2008, Mansfield et al. 2023). The term reflects growing interest in examining pesticides and their effects beyond the farm. The global pesticide complex highlights the compounding interactions between a range of multiscalar factors, including shifting economic geographies of the agrochemical industry, scientific developments, evolving regulation and state and international action, knowledge struggles around risk, shifting agricultural practices and technologies, and the reproduction or transformation of social hierarchies of class, gender, race, and more through pesticide-enabled agrarian change.

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Possible topics of individual papers include:

  • The changing morphology of the pesticide industry (including merger and acquisition strategies, growth trajectories and competition, geography of pesticide production, distribution and markets).
  • The related transformations of the pesticide industry resulting from new geographies of generics capital, ranging from local formulator firms to agribusiness multinationals. This could include, for example, analysis of informal distribution and retailing systems or of specific processes resulting from these transformations (e.g., uncontrolled expansion, business conflicts around regulation, or public policies to support generics industry development or innovation).
  • Struggles around intellectual property rights (including emergent property rights such as data exclusivity, which is relevant for the risk data required for pesticide registration).
  • The ways the pesticide industry currently influences the construction and implementation of regulatory frameworks (including its role in the evolution of risk science and risk management, responses to the actions of social movements, and harmonization and equivalence as contested issues).
  • Effects of expansion of the global pesticide complex and specific pesticides on changes in relationships between farm and off-farm capital, land tenure, and labour relationships.
  • Additional effects and consequences stemming from changing relationships between farm and off-farm capital, land tenure, and labour relationships.
  • Interactions between pesticide industries and other corporate food chain actors in the maintenance of the chemicalized agriculture model.
  • The construction of legitimizing discourses and shifts in industry strategies to spread them (including the role of propaganda, ghost writing of publications, constructing industry’s organic intellectuals, repression of critical voices, and so on).
  • The strategies of industry towards new or still promising technological opportunities (biotechnology, digitalization, precision farming, new spraying equipment, seed-pesticide interaction, new biocontrol products, big data) in relation to broader socio-economic developments.
  • The interactions between industry and science/knowledge in the public domain (either with regard to innovation, regulation, public policies, or legitimization).
  • The material―political-economic interactions between ecological feedback loops, pest and weed resistance in particular, and new mixes of market demand and industry innovation (or lack of innovation).

 

 


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Eve Bureau-Point (18 octobre 2024). Appel à contributions : “The Global Pesticide Complex: Agrochemical Capital, Regulation, and Agrarian Change” (Journal of Agrarian Change). SHS Pesticides. Consulté le 20 juillet 2025 à l’adresse https://shspesticide.hypotheses.org/2


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