Structural Vulnerability and Toxicity Experiences in the Uruguayan Soybeanisation Process

Fuelled by agribusiness, transgenic soybean crops, genetically modified to withstand pesticide use, have increased in use during the last 20 years Southern Cone of Latin America. Plantations are understood as examples ‘modular simplifications’ ‘patchy Anthropocene’ landscapes (Tsing et al. 2019), where attempt reduce diversity may social and ecological feral effects diseases toxins spread. In Uruguay, an agro-exporter country, expansionist processes correlate with pesticides. Based on ethnographic study (2016–2018) carried out main Uruguayan agricultural region, this Research Article seeks analyse experiences toxicity among workers rural inhabitants soybeanisation context. I propose that transcend biomedical diagnoses ‘intoxication’. also contend experience can be occurring along a continuum daily life sufferers, which encompasses chemical biological processes, their affects, intersectional conflicts, lay concepts illnesses, informal self-care networks, unequal access health services. This ethnography demonstrates toxic suffering embodies inequalities environmental time Anthropocene is shaped structural vulnerabilities politics exposure.