The Mythical Shapeshifting of Capital and Petrification of Labour: Deepening Conflict on the Agrofuel Frontier
The Mythical Shapeshifting of Capital and Petrification of Labour: Deepening Conflict on the Agrofuel Frontier
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10.1111/anti.12541
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发表时间：
2019-09-01
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Portes Virginio, Francis Vinicius
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作者：
Garvey, Brian;Souza, Edevaldo Aparecido;Portes Virginio, Francis Vinicius
在过去的伟大文明中，变形承诺在动荡时期恢复秩序，以换取忠诚臣民的尊重。这是强者保持优势的一种策略，也可以用来将对手束缚在一种不想要的形态上。这项研究在当代的形态转变中找到了共鸣，这是从化石燃料经济的过渡。关于巴西乙醇部门的石油、谷物和糖公司的融合，报告探讨了在经济、环境和政治不安全的情况下，这些碳经济的“老恶棍”如何融合并成为绿色经济的“新英雄”。然而，对持不同意见的农村主体的描述揭示了这种变形所带来的公开社会收益的神话性质。在农村冲突和监管的连续削弱中，很明显，在隐喻和越来越多的字面意义上，他们的石化是多么必要。
In the great civilisations of the past, shapeshifting promised a restoration of order in turbulent times in return for the deference of loyal subjects. It was a strategy of the powerful to maintain advantage and could also be used to bind opponents to an undesired form. This study finds its resonance in the contemporary shapeshifting that is the supposed transition from the fossil fuel economy. With reference to the fusion of oil, grain and sugar companies in Brazil's ethanol sector, it explores how amidst economic, environmental and political insecurity these "old villains" of the carbon economy have fused and emerged as the "new heroes" of the green economy. Accounts of dissenting rural subjects, however, unveil the mythical nature of avowed social gains from this shapeshifting. Amidst rural conflict and a successive weakening of regulation, it becomes evident how their petrification, in a metaphorical and increasingly literal sense is required.