Doctoral Dissertation Research: Engineering the Hog - Cultures of Industrialization within the American "Factory" Farm

本论文项目由科学技术社会计划资助，是对美国“工厂”农场工作场所文化的研究。它提出了一个问题，即20世纪世纪的工厂模式如何被正在进行的实验所动摇，这些实验将这些模式转化为一种不寻常的物体：工业猪的遗传学。该项目扩展了三个领域的学术知识：1）应用生物科学在金融资本主义中的作用; 2）去工业化的美国经济如何引起初级生产逻辑的转变; 3）跨领域翻译社会组织形式所固有的文化过程（即把农场变成工厂）。这项研究是基于20个月的档案工作，调查，访谈和参与者观察跨越养猪业的关键节点：大学，行业期刊，会议，博览会，和企业农业综合企业在俄克拉荷马州狭长地带。智力优点：科学和技术研究中的许多工作集中在实验室与社会之间的关系，或者学术科学知识的传播如何需要新的社会集体。相比之下，这项研究提供了一个应用科学的案例研究。它分析了基因组科学如何为美国的工业发展开辟空间，旨在改变农村社会的科学实践背后的利害关系和动机，以及模仿风险资本主义的投机原则和文化逻辑的大规模生产操作的出现。更广泛的影响：结果发表在同行评审期刊和一本面向学术受众的书中。另一本关于公司农业的书将面向更广泛的公众读者。研究结果将提交给政府机构，政府机构和学术界以外的其他选区。该项目也是农业综合企业内部组织和创新的首批研究之一。因此，该研究可能包含用于移民立法、粮食政策和科学资助的数据。

This dissertation project funded by the Science, Technology & Society Program is a study of workplace cultures within the American "factory" farm. It asks how 20th century factory models are being unsettled by the ongoing experiment to translate them onto the production of an unusual object: the genetics of the industrial hog. This project expands scholarly knowledge in three domains: 1) the role of the applied biosciences in relation to finance capitalism; 2) how a de-industrializing American economy entails shifts in the logics underlying primary production; 3) the cultural processes inherent to translating forms of social organization across domains (i.e. turning farms into factories). The research is based on 20 months of archival work, surveys, interviews and participant-observation across key nodes of the hog industry: universities, industry journals, conferences, expositions, and corporate agribusinesses in the Oklahoma Panhandle.Intellectual Merit: Much work within Science and Technology Studies focuses on the relation between the laboratory and society, or how the diffusion of academic scientific knowledge entails new social collectivities. By contrast, this research provides a case study of applied science. It analyzes how the genomic sciences are opening spaces for industrial development within the United States, the stakes and motivations behind a scientific practice designed to transform rural society, and the emergence of mass-production operations modeled on the speculative principles and cultural logic of venture capitalism.Broader Impacts: Results are published in peer-reviewed journals and a book for scholarly audiences. Another book is to be written about corporate agriculture for a broader public audience. Findings are presented to ommunities, government agencies, and other constituencies outside academia. The project also is one of the first studies of organization and innovation within agribusiness. As such, the study may contain data for use in legislation on migration, food policy, and scientific funding.