April 11, 2019

Abstract, The Gendered Dimensions of Resource Extractivism in Argentina’s Soy Boom

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The Gendered Dimensions of Resource Extractivism in Argentina’s Soy Boom




by Amalia Leguizamón


Analyzing resource extractivism as a gendered structure is important for understanding the complex social processes that create and perpetuate environmental injustice—both social inequality and environmental degradation—and for visualizing gendered resistances and opportunities for transformation. Applying Risman’s approach to Argentina’s soy model, six causal mechanisms at the institutional, individual, and interactional levels can be identified that serve either to maintain or to challenge the status quo: (1) resource distribution, (2) ideology, (3) identity work, (4) cognitive bias, (5) status expectations, and (6) state paternalism.




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