From Homo economicus to Complex Subjectivities: Reconceptualizing Farmers as Pesticide Users
From Homo economicus to Complex Subjectivities: Reconceptualizing Farmers as Pesticide Users
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10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01000.x
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2013-03-01
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5
通讯作者：
Galt, Ryan E.
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作者：
Galt, Ryan E.
通过实证分析和理论分析，本文批判了技术官僚制度对农药使用的保护，这是一种局限于农药风险的技术理性和说教沟通的努力，将农药使用者塑造为自我负责的个体（即经济人）。数据显示，对农药风险的了解并没有转化为对防护装备的更多使用，无论是在哥斯达黎加的案例中，还是在更广泛的情况下。在第一世界和第三世界的背景下，这种情况使我对农民的主体性形成了一个更全面的概念，强调了农民所受到的信息、政治、经济、文化、个人和环境等众多限制。这一概念揭示了大多数解决农民防护装备使用问题的努力的不足之处，并使我提出了一个多层次的农药问题解决方案，包括工业卫生方法和通过涉及农药使用者的参与性研究来培养主体性。
Through empirical analysis and theory, this paper critiques technocratic regimes of protection vis a vis pesticide use, which are efforts limited to technical rationality and didactic communication of pesticide risks that model pesticide users as self-responsible individuals (ie Homo economicus). Data reveal that knowledge of pesticide risk does not translate into greater protective gear use, within the Costa Rican case presented and more broadly. This circumstance, across first and third world contexts, leads me to develop a more holistic conceptualization of farmers' subjectivities that highlights numerous constraintsinformational, political economic, cultural, individual, and environmentalto which farmers are subject. This conceptualization reveals the inadequacy of most efforts to address farmers' protective gear use, and leads me to propose a multi-tiered solution to pesticide problems, including an industrial hygiene approach and fostering subjectivities through participatory research involving pesticide users.