'Meet the New Boss Same as the Old boss?' Technology, toil and tension in the agrofuel frontier
'Meet the New Boss Same as the Old boss?' Technology, toil and tension in the agrofuel frontier
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“认识新老板和老老板一样吗？”
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10.1111/ntwe.12048
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2015
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Garvey B
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作者：
Garvey B
越来越多地采购和销售农业燃料，作为对石油依赖的社会和环境有益的解决办法。因此，促进糖衍生乙醇作为石油的替代品已分别成为巴西和欧盟国家发展和国际贸易政策的关键，随后领先的能源和食品跨国公司的投资改变了新生产地点的社会空间关系。然而，巴西农村工人的证词指出，大规模的劳动力排斥而不是改革，该部门历史上的权力不平等正在加深而不是破坏。劳动力市场对负责的技术创新和与新兴商品链和“绿色”经济相关的社会升级的趋同体制话语提出了挑战。虽然企业和法定机构的反应是以市场为导向的认证和“更多的技术”，但“技术-制度解决方案”的想法提供了一种关注权力关系的分析，邀请进一步探索社会承诺的食品和能源生产替代品。
Agrofuels are increasingly sourced and sold as a socially and environmentally beneficial solution to oil dependence. The promotion of sugar‐derived ethanol as a substitute for petroleum has thus been key to state development and international trade policies by Brazil and the European Union, respectively, and subsequent investment by leading energy and food transnational corporations has transformed socio‐spatial relations in the new sites of production. Brazilian rural worker testimonies, however, point to large‐scale labour exclusion rather than reform and a deepening, rather than disruption, of historic power inequalities in the sector. Labour contestation challenges a converging institutional discourse of responsible technological innovation and social upgrading associated with emerging commodity chains and the ‘green’ economy. Although corporate and statutory response has been market‐orientated certification and ‘more technology’ the idea of the ‘techno‐institutional fix’ provides a power relation‐attentive analysis that invites the further exploration of socially committed alternatives to food and energy production.