"The Political Ecology Of Agrofuels | Economics

This book explores the political ecology of agrofuels as an encompassing socio-spatial transformation process consisting of a series of changing contexts political reconfigurations and the restructuring of social and labour relations. It includes conceptual chapters as well as case studies from different world regions (North America Europe Latin America sub-Saharan Africa Asia) and levels (local national transnational).The Political Ecology of Agrofuels advances a conceptualisation of agrofuels that helps to fill existing research gaps. It covers global food regimes and agrarian politics as well as political arenas such as energy climate transport and trade. It reflects on the biophysical materiality of agrofuels new forms of nature appropriation struggles discursive framings the building of hegemony shifting geopolitical constellations socio-spatial configurations of power the construction of territory the agency of social movements and the different ways in which agrofuels are politicized at different scales. This book asks how patterns of mobility emissions regulation food and energy production and consumption and social relations (e.g. labour class and gender relations) are shaped and re-shaped by the materiality and representations of agrofuels in both the Global South and North. The book provides tools for thinking about the diversity of the conflicts struggles and spatial socio-ecological and politico-economic reconfigurations and perpetuations engendered by current production and consumption patterns in the agrofuel sector.|The Political Ecology of Agrofuels | Economics