注视图表的农民和农业综合企业合作社：巴拉圭大豆综合体中合作组织的中介作用

IF 0.9 4区历史学 Q2 AREA STUDIES

Latin American Perspectives Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI:10.1177/0094582x251335965

Esteban Sabbatasso

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本文考察了巴拉圭大豆综合体中不断变化的农村社会关系，特别关注农民合作社在巴拉圭农业商业化中的作用。根据2021年和2022年在Itapúa和南上帕拉南省进行的实地调查，本文采用农业政治经济学的观点，认为巴拉圭的合作社通过缓冲农业风险和减轻再生产成本的上升，发挥了稳定力量的作用。这种动态使中型和一些小规模农民得以有区别地纳入，同时有助于巩固以出口为导向的主导农业粮食系统及其所有相关影响。本文还通过对巴拉圭大豆农业的不平衡发展和伴随的地区差异的历史概述，将当代合作社的分析置于背景中，并就资本主义背景下合作社组织的潜力进行了更广泛的历史辩论。

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Chart-gazing Farmers and Agribusiness Co-ops: On the Mediating Role of Cooperative Organizations in Paraguay’s Soybean Complex

This article examines the shifting rural social relations in Paraguay’s soybean complex, with a specific focus on the role of farmer cooperatives in the commercialization of Paraguay's agriculture. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in the departments of Itapúa and southern Alto Paraná in 2021 and 2022, this paper adopts an agrarian political economy perspective to argue that cooperatives in Paraguay serve as a stabilizing force by buffering against farming risk and mitigating the rise of reproduction costs. This dynamic allows for the differential incorporation of medium and some small-scale farmers, while contributing to the consolidation of the hegemonic export-oriented agri-food system, with all its associated implications. The article also contextualizes the analysis of contemporary cooperatives by providing a historical overview of the uneven development and concomitant regional variations in Paraguay’s soybean agriculture, and engages with broader historical debates on the potential of cooperative organizations in a capitalist context.

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期刊介绍： Latin American Perspectives is a theoretical and scholarly journal for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, and socialism in the Americas. The journal"s objective is to encourage class analysis of sociocultural realities and political strategies to transform Latin American sociopolitical structures. The journal makes a conscious effort to publish a diversity of political viewpoints, both Marxist and non-Marxist perspectives, that have influenced progressive debates in Latin America.