Doctoral Dissertation Research: Race, Plantation Agriculture and the Environmental Politics of Pesticide Use and Regulation

博士论文研究：种族、种植园农业以及农药使用和监管的环境政治

• 批准号: 1558322
• 负责人: Nik Heynen
• 金额: $ 1.51万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-03-15 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1558322&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Race; Plantation

This project investigates how the history of plantation agriculture and pesticide-intensive agricultural development shape contemporary practices of pesticide use and regulation. The project places alternate framings of pesticides - as indispensable to agricultural production or as unacceptable environmental pollutants - within the context of the racial legacy of plantation agriculture. By centering race as a factor agricultural and environmental politics, this project seeks to advance understanding of the relationship between rural inequality and environmental change. It asks how the racial politics of the plantation impacted early development of pesticides as an agricultural technology; how historic tensions between agricultural productivity and racial equity contributed to current structures of agro-environmental regulation; and how different narratives of agricultural change connected to race relations inform contemporary debates over the use and regulation of pesticides. Placing the dual objectives of racial equity and agricultural productivity at the center of inquiry, the project provides a policy-relevant analysis of the obstacles to and opportunities for greater environmental and social sustainability through agricultural practices. Oral histories produced through this study will be archived, and made publically available, in order to expand public knowledge and inform future research. The findings of the study will be shared widely through both scholarly articles and publications for broader audiences in order to deepen understanding of the relationship between environmental justice and contemporary agricultural production.The study is positioned at the intersection of scholarship on political ecology, environmental justice, and agrarian studies. Through a case study in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, one of the world's most pesticide-intensive regions during the mid-20th century and a highly productive agricultural region in the present day, the research will ask how the politics of pesticide usage in agricultural production and environmental regulation reproduce, or challenge, the historical racial politics of the plantation. In order to provide a textured history of the role of pesticides in the production of racially unequal spaces, the project draws upon oral history methodologies and archival research. Through semi-structured interviews and participant observation, the study also examines how this history informs contemporary uses and understandings of pesticides in the present day. By connecting historical inquiry with contemporary research, this project will enrich understandings of the historical determinants of contemporary agro-environmental practices, while centering race as a key factor in environmental change.

该项目调查了种植园农业和农药密集型农业发展的历史如何塑造当代农药使用和监管的实践。 该项目在种植园农业的种族遗产的背景下，将农药的替代框架-作为农业生产不可或缺的或作为不可接受的环境污染物。 通过将种族作为农业和环境政治的一个因素，该项目旨在促进对农村不平等与环境变化之间关系的理解。它询问种植园的种族政治如何影响农药作为农业技术的早期发展;农业生产力和种族公平之间的历史紧张关系如何促成当前的农业环境监管结构;以及与种族关系有关的农业变化的不同叙述如何告知当代关于农药使用和监管的辩论。该项目将种族平等和农业生产力的双重目标置于调查的中心，对通过农业实践实现更大的环境和社会可持续性的障碍和机会进行了与政策有关的分析。 通过这项研究产生的口述历史将被存档，并以电子方式提供，以扩大公众知识，并为未来的研究提供信息。 该研究的结果将通过学术文章和出版物广泛分享给更广泛的受众，以加深对环境正义与当代农业生产之间关系的理解。该研究位于政治生态学、环境正义和农业研究学术的交叉点。 通过在亚祖密西西比河三角洲，世界上最农药密集的地区之一，在世纪中期和一个高产的农业地区，在今天的案例研究，研究将问如何在农业生产和环境监管农药使用的政治再现，或挑战，历史种族政治的种植园。为了提供杀虫剂在种族不平等空间生产中的作用的历史，该项目利用口述历史方法和档案研究。通过半结构化访谈和参与者观察，研究还探讨了这段历史如何告知当代农药的使用和理解。 通过将历史探究与当代研究相结合，该项目将丰富对当代农业环境实践的历史决定因素的理解，同时将种族作为环境变化的关键因素。