Cultivating power, enacting consent. A critical review of ‘Seeds of power. Environmental injustice and genetically modified soybeans in Argentina’,(A. Leguizamón) 2020, Duke University Press, 221 p

摘要: The literature of environmental justice has consistently showed that social mobilization often emerges at the bottom of the power spectrum, among those actors who bear the costs of toxic activities but reap no benefits. 1 Throughout this literature, central questions emerge, such as: how can local grassroots struggles affect largescale change? What acts as a catalyst for social mobilization? In her recent book Seeds of Power, Amalia Leguizamón (2020) looks at the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) soybean in Argentina and makes a singular contribution to these debates by focusing not only on those who resist, but also on the many people who suffer the toxic impact of pesticides on their own bodies but choose not to engage in any form of collective action because they somehow benefit from this agricultural model.With a clear ambition to investigate the complex web of power hidden behind the promising …