Agrarian transformations and family production in General Villegas (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Abstract

This article we analyze agrarian transformations and the emergence of non-hegemonic productive experiences in the town of General Villegas (Buenos Aires). It is part of a broader research process, in which we address the socio-environmental conflict around the hegemonic agroproductive model anchored in urban-rural intermediations and the perspectives derived from the subjects involved. We anticipate that, as a state response, the local administration established two ordinances that dismiss the transition to other agro-productive models and institutionalize regulatory arrangements for agribusiness. So, the questions that will guide the writing are: How are agrarian transformations consummated in the context of socio-environmental conflict in the town of General Villegas? How are other forms of production configured in the interstices of the Villeguense agrarian structure? As an anticipation of meaning, we understand that this is a process of invisibilization of other productive subjects present in the territory, which deploy logic and actions framed within family production. So, in this document we try to account for these divergent trajectories through an ethnographic approach.