Contemporary voices in defense of agribusiness

the Agroligadas movement

Abstract

The aim of this work is to bring to the geographical debate how the discursive practices of the Agroligadas, an organization formed by a group of women, who seek not only strategies to promote the positive image of agribusiness, but also to mobilize spatial practices (material, symbolic, bodily, and educational), that is, producers of spatialization and territorialities. The analytical framework was based on the analysis of discursive formulations and practices contained in the communicational platform (website and Instagram) of the Agroligadas, through a dialogue between the theory of space, proposed by Lefebvre (representation of space, representational space, and spatial practices), the notions of habitus and symbolic power for Bourdieu, and discursive formulations and power for Foucault. The social space reveals itself as a symbolic territory imbued with a complex network of knowledge/power that is manifested in the formulations and/or discursive practices, permeated by contradictions, conflicts, and domination of these subjects who have the intentionality to preserve the hegemonic power of the elite employer class and, consequently, the expanded reproduction of capital.