At the Edge of the Pampas

At the Edge of the Pampas is an ethnography of genetically modified soybeans in Argentina's Pampas that reveals how global commodity systems depend on ecological adaptation, intimate relations of trust, and social attachments that can never be fully standardized or controlled. Moving from soybean fields to feedlots and dryland forests, the book rethinks agrarian capitalism by showing how disturbance, heterogeneity, and unruly forms of life emerge from within industrial agriculture itself.