Soil Practitioners and Vital Spaces: Agricultural Ethics and Life Processes in the Colombian Amazon

详细信息   

• 作者：Lyons ; Kristina Marie ; Ph.D.
• 学历：Ph.D.
• 年：2013
• 关键词：Agricultural ethics ; Colombia ; Ecopoetics ; Science
• 导师：Cadena, Marisol de la
• 毕业院校：University of California
• Department：Anthropology
• 专业：Cultural anthropology, Agricultural economics, Sustainability
• ISBN：9781303443268
• CBH：3596917
• Country：USA
• 语种：English
• FileSize：93326392
• Pages：260

文摘

This dissertation is an ethnography of human-soil relations that examines the cultural, scientific, political-economic, and ethical stakes of alternative agricultural practices and life processes that resist military-led, growth-oriented development. Moving across laboratories, greenhouses, forests and farms, it weaves together a symmetrical analysis of two kinds of local-practitioners--soil scientists in the capital city of Bogotá and small farmers in the southwestern frontier department of Putumayo--to track how soils emerge with political importance in the construction of what I call agro-life proposals for peace in the Colombian Amazon. Theoretically, it interrogates concepts of "sustainability" emerging among scientists and farmers, suggesting they imply a complex reframing of liberal notions of property, health, wellbeing, labor and autonomy. These observations reimagine the interface between political economy and ecology and science and technology studies that can account for new ecological notions of territoriality linked to practices of economic 'degrowth', and the alternative agricultural life-worlds I encountered in southwestern Colombia.