https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.12541?af=R Abstract

In the great civilisations of the past, shapeshifting promised a restoration of order in turbulent times in return for the deference of loyal subjects. It was a strategy of the powerful to maintain advantage and could also be used to bind opponents to an undesired form. This study finds its resonance in the contemporary shapeshifting that is the supposed transition from the fossil fuel economy. With reference to the fusion of oil, grain and sugar companies in Brazil's ethanol sector, it explores how amidst economic, environmental and political insecurity these "old villains" of the carbon economy have fused and emerged as the "new heroes" of the green economy. Accounts of dissenting rural subjects, however, unveil the mythical nature of avowed social gains from this shapeshifting. Amidst rural conflict and a successive weakening of regulation, it becomes evident how their petrification, in a metaphorical and increasingly literal sense is required.

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Nas maiores civiliza????es do passado, o metamorfo prometeu a restaura????o da ordem em tempos turbulentos em retorno pela defer??ncia dos s??ditos leais. Essa era uma estrat?gia dos poderosos para manter a supremacia e que tamb?m poderia ser usada para vincular oponentes a uma forma indesejada. Este estudo encontra"?se em resson??ncia com o contempor??neo metamorfo que ? a suposta transi????o da economia de combust??vel f??ssil. Em refer??ncia ?? fus??o de companhias de ??leos, gr??os e a????car no setor do etanol brasileiro, o artigo explora como, em meio a inseguran??a pol??tica, econ?mica e ambiental, esses "antigos vil??es" da economia de carbono tem fundido e emergido como os "novos her??is" da economia verde. Narrativas de sujeitos rurais dissidentes, no entanto, revelam a natureza m??tica dos ganhos sociais declarados por esse metamorfo. Em meio ao conflito rural e o sucessivo enfraquecimento da regula????o, torna"?se evidente como sua petrifica????o, em sentido metaf??rico e crescentemente literal, ? requerida.

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