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Studying the Worldeater(s): Political Ecology and Critical Agrarian Studies and Their Origins, Differences and Convergence

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This chapter discusses critical agrarian studies and political ecology, two of the most central academic fields responsible for charting land control, territorialization and extraction in the service of techno-capitalist development. These academic subfields, we can say, specialize in examining the parts and developmental trends of the Worldeater(s). Through an extensive review of critical agrarian studies and political ecology, this chapter shows forgotten disciplinary roots, under-acknowledged commonalities and important differences leading, nevertheless, to increasing convergence within the subfields. This review allows us to calibrate further our analytical tools for the subsequent inquiry into the ‘claws and teeth’ as well as remaining developmental form—body—of the Worldeater(s).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    CAS is, as Edelman and Wolford (2017) point out, most visibly institutionalized in the academia through Journal of Peasant Studies and Journal of Agrarian Change.

  2. 2.

    See The Limits to Growth Report (1972).

  3. 3.

    See Garret Hardin’s (1968) ‘Tragedy of the Commons’.

  4. 4.

    Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra.

  5. 5.

    With this in mind, we might venture to say, Foucault’s (1998 [1978], 2007 [1976]: 162) interest in ‘sex’ in general, but as ‘the hinge between anatomo-politics and bio-politics, it is at the intersection of disciplines and regulations, and it is in this function that it has become, at the end of the nineteenth century, a political drama of first importance for making society a machine of production’ is building from and developing Stirner’s (2017: 197) ‘My Intercourse’ chapter in his seminal work.

  6. 6.

    Borras and colleagues both emphasize “poor people” within these conflicts, yet “People” can widen the possibilities of conflict dynamics, even if “poor people” are disproportionately negatively affected by land grabbing.

  7. 7.

    We would add race and gendered differences.

  8. 8.

    As we noted in the Introduction, our lack of focus on aquatic resources is a limitation to this present exposition of total extractivism, to be fruitfully complemented by future work.

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