Global Value Chains and Uneven Development
Corporate Strategies and Class Dynamics in Argentinian Agribusiness
Christin Bernhold
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Christin Bernhold, Global Value Chains and Uneven Development (2022), Campus Frankfurt / New York, 60486 Frankfurt/Main, ISBN: 9783593451770
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Beschreibung / Abstract
Globale Wertschöpfungsketten (GWK) bieten überall auf der Welt Möglichkeiten für ökonomische und soziale Aufwertung? Das kolportieren zumindest Institutionen wie die Weltbank. Diese Annahme ist jedoch weder theoretisch noch empirisch haltbar, so der Befund von Christin Bernhold. Die Argumentation stützt sich auf eine ideologiekritische Diskussion der GWK-Forschung und eine umfassende Analyse von Upgrading-Strategien im argentinischen Agribusiness. Wirtschaftsverbände organisieren sich dort entlang von Agrar-Wertschöpfungsketten, um Partikularinteressen durchzusetzen. Durch »upgrading in and through class differentiation« werden Ausbeutungsverhältnisse und die ungleichen Geographien des Kapitalismus zum Wohle einiger weniger umgeformt, nicht aber aufgehoben.
Beschreibung
Christin Bernhold, Dr. phil., ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Geographie der Universität Hamburg.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- BEGINN
- Contents
- 1. Introduction: Who†™s Upgrading?
- 1.1 Argentinian agribusiness and value chain upgrading
- 1.2 Argentinian agribusiness and its adverse effects
- 1.3 An empirical critique of upgrading as a development strategy
- 1.4 How this book unfolds
- 2. Empirical Ideology Critique†”A Theoretical†Methodological Note
- 2.1 Ideology and the (lacking) aspiration of social liberation
- 2.2 Ideology in dialectical relation to the social relations of production
- 2.3 An ideology†critical method of immanent critique
- 3. From Commodity Chains to GVC Upgrading as a New Paradigm for Development
- 3.1 Commodity Chains as the warp and woof of the capitalist world†system
- 3.2 From GCC research to GVC upgrading as a new paradigm for development
- 3.3 Interim conclusions
- 4. Revisiting Alternative Approaches to Analyzing Chains and Networks
- 4.1 Global Production Networks
- 4.2 Dis/articulations and the role of social difference
- 4.3 A return to WSA and Marxist approaches to analyze uneven development
- 5. Methods and the Field
- 5.1 Epistemological considerations
- 5.2 Setting up my research field in Argentina
- 5.3 Reflections on my empirical research
- 6. The Context of the Study: Grain and Oilseed Value Chains in Argentina
- 6.1 (Dis)continuities in agricultural economic policies
- 6.2 An overview of grain and oilseed value chains in Argentina
- 7. “Argentina Agribusiness Leader††”A Governmental Strategic Plan
- 7.1 General objectives of the PEA
- 7.2 The role of the state in agro†industrial development
- 7.3 Contradictions, implicit assumptions, and omissions
- 8. Corporate Strategies†”Business Associations on GVC Development
- 8.1 Organized value chain development for everyone? Interests, obstructions, and omissions
- 8.2 Limits to upgrading
- 8.3 Manufacturing consent and lobbying for influence in the state
- 8.4 Interim conclusions
- 9. On Contradictions of Firm†level Upgrading
- 9.1 Cases of firm†level upgrading
- 9.2 Up to where and for whom?
- 9.3 On ants and elephants
- 9.4 Geographical transfer of profits
- 9.5 Firm upgrading, development in situ, and social betterment
- 9.6 Interim conclusions
- 10. Upgrading, Class Differentiation, and Predominance by Consent†”A Case Study
- 10.1 The class dynamics of upgrading
- 10.2 A case of upgrading in and through class differentiation
- 10.3 A network partnership based on socioeconomic and power differences
- 10.4 Upgrading in and through class differentiation (continued): the organization of wage labor in the fields
- 10.5 Interim conclusions
- 11. Conclusions
- Abbreviations
- List of Interview Partners and Anonymized Company Documents
- Statistical Datebases
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Literature
- Index