State Capitalism under Neoliberalism

Alessandro Bonanno is Texas State University System Regents’ Professor and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Sam Houston State University.Josefa Salete Barbosa Cavalcanti is professor in the Post-Graduate Program in Sociology at the Federal University of Pernambuco.

• IntroductionChapter One: State Capitalism in Neoliberal Agri-Food: The Case of the Brazilian Company JBS Chapter Two: From the Neoliberal to the Developmental State? The Ambiguous Political Paradigm Shift in Brazil Chapter Three: March of the Daisies: Subject, Agriculture, and the StateChapter Four: State Intervention in Agri-Food: From Implementation to Maintenance of Irrigated Fruit Production for Export in the San Francisco ValleyChapter Five: Oil Palm Cultivation in the Brazilian Amazon: State Actions, Interest Groups and ConflictChapter Six: State Intervention and Irrigated Agriculture in the San Francisco Valley, Brazil: Productive Transformations and New Organizations of WorkChapter Seven: Family Farmers Besieged between Neo-Developmentalism and Neoliberalism: The Role of the State in Agriculture and the Contradictions of the Present TimeChapter Eight: Neoliberalism and Neo-Developmentalism as Promoters of Capitalist Aquaculture in Brazil: The Case of the State of PernambucoConclusion: The Political and Structural Limits of State Capitalism in Brazil

How has neoliberal globalization altered the contours of Brazil’s agri-food industries? According to the contributors of this well-grounded and illuminating collection, neoliberalism has strengthened the hand of corporate capital, created larger farms, fostered an unsustainable form of productivist agriculture, and has curtailed the state’s ability to address the needs of family farmers, peasant producers, and minorities who strive to make a living from the land. This book is a valuable resource for scholars—including sociologists, geographers, political economists, and policy analysts—seeking a conceptually rich understanding of agri-food transformations in contemporary Brazil.