The Liu Institute working group on “Latin America and the Global” is pleased to announce an informal workshop with Gastón Gordillo (Anthropology), who will be reporting on his recent fieldwork in Northern Argentina.
October 1, 2014, 4pm
Liu Institute for Global Issues, Boardroom (3rd Floor)
You are encouraged to read the following texts on the topic of agribusiness and the soy boom in Argentina in advance of the workshop. The first two are posts on Gastón’s blog (in Spanish), and the third is a in Spanish and English about the “seeds law” lobbied by Monsanto in Argentina, currently being debated in Congress.
- Gastón Gordillo, “Los árboles de La Argentina Blanca”. Space and Politics. February 25, 2013.
- Gastón Gordillo, “Los campos de la desolación”. Space and Politics. October 23, 2013.
- “Nos Nos Patenten la Vida: Campaña contra la privatización de las semillas en Argentina”. September 8, 2014.
- “Don’t Patent Our Lives: A Campaign Against Seed Privatization in Argentina”.