The Contested Futures of UK Farming: Livelihoods, Landscapes and Technologies

该项目将通过与英国粮食生产者进行的人种学研究，分析粮食系统中的不同行为者对未来的想象。我会问‘英国农民是如何想象、规划和创造未来的？’此外，“这些计划是如何由粮食系统中不同参与者的有争议的未来来调节的？”关于我们粮食体系中的力量平衡，不同想象中的未来消失或变成现实的方式能告诉我们什么？面对气候变化的现实，这种摩擦如何影响英国农业变得更加环保的能力？这项研究的最终目的是通过询问不同感知和实践未来的方式的环境可行性，将对未来的更好、更长期的理解融入农业政策制定。我将在一个单一的农业社区内进行长期的参与者观察和半结构化访谈。通过长期接触他人的根深蒂固的经验，民族志提供了一种很好的方式来审视像“未来”这样难以捉摸的东西。这将涉及到在有界限的区域内与不同类型的农场和农民的横截面互动。有必要与产量和规模各不相同的一些农场合作，以便对不同类型农场的未来有争议的愿景形成细微差别和比较的观点。这必须既包括较小的农场，也包括较大的农场、有机农场和那些利用新技术的农场。在特定领域与不同的利益攸关方进行互动，应能发展出更加扎实的、更具人种学意义的空间、地点和时间观念。与这些食品生产商的这项定性工作将得到反身使用未来研究研究方法(如情景分析)的补充。此外，我将对未来英国粮食生产的其他利益相关者进行半结构化采访，包括政策制定者、非政府组织和企业，以研究更广泛的未来方法如何影响农业社区。

This project will analyse how the future is imagined by different actors in the food system through ethnographic research with food producers in the United Kingdom. I will ask 'how do British farmers imagine, plan for and create the future?' and, further, 'how are these plans mediated by the contested futures of different actors in the food system?'. What can the way different imagined futures disappear or materialise tell us about the balance of power in our food system? And, faced by the realities of climate change, how does this friction affect the capacity for British farming to become more environmentally friendly? The ultimate aim of this research is to integrate a better, longer-term understanding of the future into agricultural policymaking by interrogating the environmental viability of different ways of perceiving and practicing the future.I will conduct extended periods of participant observation and semi-structured interviews within a single farming community. Through prolonged engagement with the embedded experience of others, ethnography offers an excellent way to examine something as slippery as 'the future'. This will involve interacting with a cross-section of different types of farms and farmers within a bounded area. It will be necessary to work with a number of farms of varying output and size in order to develop a nuanced and comparative view of the contested visions of the future different types of farms have. This must include both smaller and larger farms, organic farms and those utilising novel technologies. Interacting with a diverse range of stakeholders in a specific area should allow for the development of a more embedded and ethnographic sense of space, place and time. This qualitative work with these food producers will be supplemented by a reflexive use of future studies research methods like scenario analysis. In addition, I will conduct semi-structured interviews with other stakeholders in the future of UK food production, including policymakers, non-governmental organisations and businesses to examine how broader approaches to the future affect farming communities.