| Summary: | Oil Frontiers elaborates on the political ecology of oil palm in the Costa and Selva Lacandona regions of Chiapas, Mexico. Drawing on a Gramscian perspective, the book examines popular culture in these two rural regions to understand why the monoculture was adopted. The author argues that monocultures are not only economic projects but also cultural initiatives that reshape practices and meanings in rural territories. In the cases analyzed, palm cultivation is embedded in a culture of modernization that legitimizes the exploitation of nature as a pathway to progress. Thus, the book provides a comprehensive view of territorial appropriation, rural transformations, and the social consensus that sustains the expansion of these crops.
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