Agri-Food Systems and the Anthropocene
Agri-Food Systems and the Anthropocene
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农业食品系统和人类世
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Madeleine Fairbairn
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作者：
E. Reisman;Madeleine Fairbairn
要理解人类世--既是一系列生理现象，又是现代性的生存危机--需要对改变地球的粮食和农业变革进行探究。农业食品系统不仅是令人担忧的环境趋势的核心;它们还提供了直接应对人类世概念重大挑战的机会。许多人类地理学家和其他社会科学家对人类世的命名提出了批评，认为它掩盖了社会不平等，编纂了人类与环境的分离，并将当前的转变自然化为完全和不可逆转的。在这篇文章中，我们询问农业食品研究和关键的人类世奖学金之间的交叉点，认为农业食品系统作为一条直通线竞争的人类世起源的故事，人类与环境关系的复杂性的理论洞察力的来源，并为从事替代未来的机构的网站。首先，我们研究了人类世时代最常见的四个起点，认为在每个历史时刻对粮食和农业的关注揭示了人类变化的局限性，摩擦和社会不平衡。第二，我们强调从关键的农业研究，有助于建立一个更复杂的理解农业和人类世的理论工具，强调农业生态系统的积极作用和农业环境变化的结构性不平等的中心地位。最后，我们研究了食品和农业相关的社会运动是如何通过准确地解释人类世作为全球人类统治时代的特征经常忽视的问题来打造更宜居的未来的：社会生态统一和政治经济差异。
Understanding the Anthropocene—as both a set of physiological phenomena and as an existential crisis of modernity—requires interrogating Earth-changing transformations in food and agriculture. Agri-food systems are not only at the core of alarming environmental trends; they also offer opportunities to directly engage important challenges to the Anthropocene concept. Many human geographers and other social scientists have raised critiques of the Anthropocene designation as glossing over social inequities, codifying a separation of humans from their environments, and naturalizing current transformations as complete and irreversible. In this article we interrogate the intersection between agri-food studies and critical Anthropocene scholarship, arguing that agri-food systems serve as a through line to competing Anthropocene origin stories, a source of theoretical insight for the complexity of human–environment relations, and a site of agency for engaging alternative futures. First, we examine four of the most commonly proposed starting points for the Anthropocene epoch, arguing that a focus on food and agriculture at each historical moment reveals the limits, frictions, and social unevenness of anthropogenic change. Second, we highlight theoretical tools from critical agrarian studies that help build a more complex understanding of agriculture and the Anthropocene, emphasizing the active role of agroecosystems and the centrality of structural inequalities to agroenvironmental change. Finally, we examine how food- and agriculture-related social movements are working to forge more livable futures by accounting for precisely the matters that characterizations of the Anthropocene as an epoch of global human dominance frequently overlook: socioecological unity and political economic difference.
影响因子：
3.1
作者：
Davis, Janae;Moulton, Alex A.;Williams, Brian
通讯作者：
Williams, Brian