Publication: The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica
The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica
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Castro Vargas, S., & Werner, M. (2026). The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica. Antipode, 58, e70072. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70072
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For decades, agro‐industrial capital has adopted cascading chemical and biotechnical interventions, or fixes, to secure accumulation through the cultivation of monocrops. We develop a framework that centres on how monocrop‐induced susceptibility to pests and pathogens—and the patchwork of fixes to address these—produces uneven chemical geographies. These uneven geographies are not produced by capital alone, but rather they are co‐constituted through social struggles over working conditions, chemical exposures and land. Our framework i
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Castro Vargas, S., & Werner, M. (2026). The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica. Antipode, 58, e70072. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70072
