A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides
A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides
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DOI：
10.1007/s10460-023-10492-w
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发表时间：
2023-08
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4.5
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B. Mansfield;Marion Werner;C. Berndt;Annie Shattuck;R. Galt;Bryan Lee Williams;L. Argüelles;F. Barri;Marcia Ishii;J. Kunin;Pablo Lapegna;Adam Romero;Andres Caicedo;Abhigya;María Soledad Castro-Vargas;E. Marquez;Diana Ojeda;Fernando Ramirez;Anne Tittor
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作者：
B. Mansfield;Marion Werner;C. Berndt;Annie Shattuck;R. Galt;Bryan Lee Williams;L. Argüelles;F. Barri;Marcia Ishii;J. Kunin;Pablo Lapegna;Adam Romero;Andres Caicedo;Abhigya;María Soledad Castro-Vargas;E. Marquez;Diana Ojeda;Fernando Ramirez;Anne Tittor
在过去的二十年里，全球的农药综合体发生了变化，但社会科学研究却没有跟上。庞大的非专利产品部门的兴起、农药生产地域的变化以及土地变化的动态，导致了更多的农药使用，并扩大到迄今为止很少使用此类投入的农业系统。由于农药抗性和缺乏对非化学替代品的机构支持而导致的有效性下降也推动了传统系统的集约化。作为一个跨学科的农药学者网络，我们寻求更新农药的社会科学研究议程，以更好地理解这一套当代的变化。为了确定研究重点、挑战和机遇，我们开发了农药综合体，作为一种启发式装置，以突出农业实践、农化工业、民间社会形成的监管行动和有争议的毒性知识之间的互惠和迭代相互作用。最终，社会科学家之间以及跨社会和生物物理科学的合作可以阐明最近的转变及其不平衡的社会生态影响。一个重新焕发活力的批判性学术，拥抱农药的多面性，可以识别驱动农药使用的社会和生态限制，并支持化学驱动的工业化农业的替代品。
The global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous generics sector, shifts in geographies of pesticide production, and dynamics of agrarian change have led to more pesticide use, expanding to farm systems that hitherto used few such inputs. Declining effectiveness due to pesticide resistance and anemic institutional support for non-chemical alternatives also have driven intensification in conventional systems. As an inter-disciplinary network of pesticide scholars, we seek to renew the social science research agenda on pesticides to better understand this suite of contemporary changes. To identify research priorities, challenges, and opportunities, we develop the pesticide complex as a heuristic device to highlight the reciprocal and iterative interactions among agricultural practice, the agrochemical industry, civil society-shaped regulatory actions, and contested knowledge of toxicity. Ultimately, collaborations among social scientists and across the social and biophysical sciences can illuminate recent transformations and their uneven socioecological effects. A reinvigorated critical scholarship that embraces the multifaceted nature of pesticides can identify the social and ecological constraints that drive pesticide use and support alternatives to chemically driven industrial agriculture.