Making sustainable palm oil? Developmentalist and environmental assemblages in the Brazilian Amazon
The question of how to generate development while preserving the environment is central to the history of the Brazilian Amazon. Many decades of top-down state in terventions conceived and executed under a developmentalist framework have re sulted in a socioenvironmental crisis. In response, the Sust...
- Autores:
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Moreno Quintero, Renata
Córdoba, Diana
Sombra, Daniel
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2022
- Institución:
- Universidad Autónoma de Occidente
- Repositorio:
- RED: Repositorio Educativo Digital UAO
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:red.uao.edu.co:10614/14723
- Acceso en línea:
- https://hdl.handle.net/10614/14723
https://red.uao.edu.co/
- Palabra clave:
- Aceite de palma
Palm oil
Brazil
Amazon
Agrarian development
Assemblages
Developmentalism
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Derechos reservados - SAGE Publications, 2022
| Summary: | The question of how to generate development while preserving the environment is central to the history of the Brazilian Amazon. Many decades of top-down state in terventions conceived and executed under a developmentalist framework have re sulted in a socioenvironmental crisis. In response, the Sustainable Oil Palm Production Program (SPOPP) was launched in 2010. It promised to break with developmentalist visions and articulate environmental and sustainability concerns. This paper uses as semblage thinking to examine how these contrasting, often impossible-to-balance, views manifest within SPOPP implementation. We describe how non-human actors (trees, diseases, previous policies and agroecological zoning technologies) interact with human actors. However, powerful actors, in the state and beyond, continue to garner support for their developmentalist interests and thwart or depoliticize environmental and social concerns, thus limiting change |
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