Join us at Gastón Gordillo's talk on “The Imperial Metropolis: the Infrastructure of the Soy Supply Chain in South Am erica\," as part of our Future of Food global dialogue series.
Wednesday\, January 31st
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Multipurpose room\, Liu Institute for Global Issues\, UBC
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About Gastón Gordillo:
In h is current ethnographic research\, Dr. Gordillo is analyzing the social and spatial impact that agribusiness is having on the western edge of the Gran Chaco in northern Argentina. In particular\, he is focusing on the politic al responses by local people affected by the land grabs\, evictions\, and d eforestation triggered by the global demand for soybeans. He is examining t hese disruptions and conflicts as the result of the subsumption of rural ar eas to the planetary Metropolis\, which he conceives of as the material inf rastructure and high-speed currents of goods and energy that make up global ization.
Research interests: terrain and the materiality of space\; v iolence\; affect\; ruins and ruination\; critical theory and continental ph ilosophy\; protests and insurrections\; the “soy boom” and resistance to ag ribusiness in South America\; Argentina\; the Gran Chaco.
Find Dr. Go rdillo’s full bio here.
This event is part of the
The series is jointly convened by the Centre for Sustainable Foo d Systems at UBC Farm\, the Liu Insti tute for Global Issues\, and UBC Read s Sustainability\, an initiative of UBC Sustainability< /a>.
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