室内农业自由放养之都

IF 1 4区 社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY
Mark Bomford
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摘要

垂直农业是室内控制环境农业的一种形式,特别是在2018年至2023年的五年间,它吸引了大量的私人和公共资本以及媒体的赞誉。资金和荣誉都建立在一些关于土地、劳动力和资本的相互矛盾的价值主张之上。这些矛盾反过来又出现在该部门的营销中,作为一种技术革命、数据驱动、后稀缺、后物质的农业形式,有能力在农业劳动力中引发相应的革命。对于公共资助者来说,他们的支持通常是减税和监管,垂直农业承诺在经济困难地区提供高科技的绿领就业机会。对于它的私人投资者来说,嵌入专有数据分析平台的知识产权回报前景隐含着通过自动化减少劳动力支出的承诺。最近美国垂直农场的破产吸引了最大的资本投资,这为回顾研究提供了新的材料,包括公开法庭诉讼和资产拍卖。结合多模式媒体分析和匿名访谈,本文提出垂直农业的失败反映了其对特定地点撤资和贬值遗留问题的固有依赖。这些失败突出了流动的、投机性的绿色资本与固定资产、当地劳动力市场以及精英消费群体的需求之间的结构性紧张和矛盾,精英消费群体的期望是由可持续性、便利性和社会地位的叙述所塑造的。
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Free Range Capital for Indoor Agriculture

Vertical farming, a form of indoor controlled-environment agriculture, attracted substantial amounts of private and public capital and media praise especially during the five-year period from 2018 to 2023. Both funding and accolades rest on a number of contradictory value propositions concerning land, labor, and capital. These contradictions emerge, in turn, from the sector's marketing as a technologically revolutionary, data-driven, postscarcity, postmaterial form of farming with the capability to spark commensurate revolutions in farm labor. To its public funders, whose support is typically reduced taxation and regulation, vertical farming promises high-tech green-collar employment in economically distressed areas. To its private funders, the prospect of returns on intellectual property embedded in proprietary data analysis platforms implicitly promises reduced labor spending through automation. Recent bankruptcies among vertical farms in the United States that attracted the largest capital investments have provided new material for retrospective study, including public court dockets and asset auctions. In combination with multimodal media analysis and anonymous interviews, this article proposes that vertical farming's failures reflect its inherent dependence on site-specific legacies of disinvestment and devaluation. These failures highlight structural tensions and contradictions between mobile, speculative green capital and the constraints of fixed assets, local labor markets, and the demands of an elite consumer base whose expectations are shaped by narratives of sustainability, convenience, and social distinction.

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Economic Anthropology
Economic Anthropology ANTHROPOLOGY-
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