Academic Interests:

Jonas investigates neo-developmentalist and neo-extractivist processes in Argentina and focuses on how agroecology is promoted as an alternative paradigm of development by peasant and indigenous movements. His research is interdisciplinary and integrates anthropology, rural sociology, political economy and political ecology in the analysis of rural processes of resistance and transition in the Pampa-region and the northwest of Argentina.

Keywords: agroecology; food sovereignty; Argentina; neoliberalism; neo-developmentalism

Contact:

Email: jonas.adriaensens@ugent.be

Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jonas-Adriaensens

Current Research Projects:

• Agroecology as a countermovement to neoliberal expansion: a comparative case study between the Pampa-region and the northwest in Argentina