Welcoming Wind Turbines and the PIMBY ("Please in My Backyard") Phenomenon The Culture of the Machine in the Rural American Midwest
Welcoming Wind Turbines and the PIMBY ("Please in My Backyard") Phenomenon The Culture of the Machine in the Rural American Midwest
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DOI：
10.1353/tech.2017.0039
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发表时间：
2017-04-01
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0.7
通讯作者：
Hirsh, Richard F.
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作者：
Brinkman, Joshua T.;Hirsh, Richard F.
本文认为，风力涡轮机在中西部农业社区的欢迎，所谓的PIMBY（“请在我的后院”）现象，构成了农民形成一个超现代的身份，一个仍然在很大程度上不被相对落后的城市居民的历史过程中的最新表达。我们的结论是，农民进行了两个步骤的过程，以发展一个现代的身份，包括农村的价值观。在第一步中，从20世纪初开始，农民采用农村资本主义现代性的话语，在更广泛的城乡冲突背景下打击城市乡巴佬的陈规定型观念。这种乡村资本主义的现代性在冷战期间得到加强，直到它在第二步中转变为当前的超现代话语。风力涡轮机除了提供经济利益外，还在本体论上发挥作用，以保持农村公民作为技术精明生产者和使用者的身份，并改变其城市表亲强加的陈规定型观念。
This article argues that the welcoming of wind turbines in mid western farming communities, the so-called PIMBY ("Please in My Backyard") phenomenon, constitutes only the most recent expression of a historical process of farmers forming an ultramodern identity, one that still goes largely unappreciated by relatively backward city residents. We conclude that farmers undertook a two-step process to develop a modern identity that incorporated rural values. In the first step, beginning early in the twentieth century, agrarians employed a discourse of rural capitalistic modernity to combat urban yokel stereotypes within the context of a broader rural-urban conflict. This rural capitalistic modernity strengthened during the cold war until it transformed, in the second step, into the current ultramodern discourse. Wind turbines, in addition to providing economic benefits, function ontologically to maintain an identity of rural citizens as savvy producers and users of technology, and to deflect stereotypes imposed by their urban cousins.