Socio-environmental Experiences in Opposition to Agribusiness: Ontological Perspective and Theoretical Considerations for its Approach

Abstract

In the recent period, there have been numerous collective actions in opposition to the impacts of agribusiness in different localities of the humid Argentine pampas. Such collective experiences are relevant sociological and political phenomena to study insofar as they reveal at least two novel aspects of the ongoing social conflict: the urban character of such mobilizations and the appeal to an environmental discourse to formulate complaints about the impacts of the productive model. As we consider, post-foundational thinking is an ontological perspective of the social from which to conceive the conflicts inherent in such collective actions; at the same time, the relational perspectives of the territory and the sociology of public problems represent theoretical approaches capable of endowing us with a plurality of analytical tools for monitoring the referred socio-environmental mobilization processes.