“进步农民”与印度农产品市场规范的道德经济

IF 3.4 2区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY
Amrita Kurian
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本文采用历史和民族志的方法来评估“进步农民”一词如何在印度农业道德经济中成为一种社会化工具。这个词通过偏袒印度农产品市场上的富裕农民,使社会选择性得以延续。安得拉邦烤烟弗吉尼亚(FCV)烟草部门的“进步农民”民族志表明,这种社会化只取得了部分成功。像“科学气质”和“即兴创作的意志”这样与“进步”和“好”农民联系在一起的模棱两可的术语,模糊了旨在使农民融入全球市场的现代化努力的后果。在FCV烟草部门,国内公司持续使用“进步农民”这一说法,掩盖了市场重组和国家行动如何使农民越来越多地负担起对“高质量”标准化烟草的需求。目前,进步农业是国家和企业部门当局参与的一种表演,目的是维护权威,并与农村有影响力的行动者建立友好关系。富裕的农民在不稳定的市场中采取渐进式措施来对冲风险,绕过传统的客户网络,并获得青睐。随着国家退出市场监管,“渐进式农业”使富裕的农民能够驾驭不稳定的市场,而小农户则被边缘化,他们只能在没有足够支持的情况下进行高风险投资。
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“Progressive Farmers” and the Moral Economy of Standardization in Indian Agri-commodity Markets
This article employs a historical and ethnographic approach to assess how the term “progressive farmer” is a socializing tool in the moral economy of agriculture in India. The term perpetuates social selectivity by favoring affluent farmers in India’s agri-commodity markets. An ethnography of “progressive farmers” in the Flue-Cured Virginia (FCV) tobacco sector in Andhra Pradesh shows that such socialization is only partially successful. Ambiguous terms like “scientific temperament” and “the will to improvise,” associated with “progressive” and “good” farmers, obscure the fallout of modernization efforts aimed at integrating farmers into global markets. Within the FCV tobacco sector, domestic companies’ persistent use of “progressive farmer” masks how market restructuring and state actions have increasingly burdened farmers with the demand for “high-quality” standardized tobacco. For now, progressive farming is a performance that state and corporate sector authorities engage in to maintain authority and build cordial relations with powerful actors in the countryside. Affluent farmers perform progressiveness to hedge risks in erratic markets, bypass traditional clientelist networks, and garner favor. As the state withdraws from market regulation, “progressive farming” empowers affluent farmers to navigate erratic markets while sidelining smaller farmers, who are left to make high-risk investments without sufficient support.
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Geoforum
Geoforum GEOGRAPHY-
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7.30
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期刊介绍: Geoforum is an international, inter-disciplinary journal, global in outlook, and integrative in approach. The broad focus of Geoforum is the organisation of economic, political, social and environmental systems through space and over time. Areas of study range from the analysis of the global political economy and environment, through national systems of regulation and governance, to urban and regional development, local economic and urban planning and resources management. The journal also includes a Critical Review section which features critical assessments of research in all the above areas.
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