Territorialidades del agronegocio: orden y conflicto en Córdoba

Abstract

In this article we address the forms of use and appropriation of the territory by a group of actors registered in the productive and social logic of agribusiness as well as the emergence of collective actions aimed at challenging it. An instrumental study of multiple cases was used to illustrate elements of the logic of order and conflict within the framework of territorial accumulation dynamics, focusing on the center-south of the province of Córdoba. The results show a reconfiguration of urban hierarchies in the spatial circuit of agricultural production. Thus, the agro-industrial capitals located in General Deheza-General Cabrera occupy a commanding role while the city of Río Cuarto positions itself as the agglutinator of a set of symbolic devices to legitimize the model. Likewise, we have been able to analyze the evolution of a collective protest experience that, based on an environmental discourse, objected to contents inherent to agribusiness. In short, the present investigation accounts for the unfinished nature of space and the conflict that is inherent to it.