Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: "Modern Scientific Agriculture" - The Interactive Formation of Knowledge about Soil Nutrients and Fertilizers in Post-Socialist Poland

Dong Ju Kim先生将在Gillian Feeley-Harnik教授的指导下，在波兰西部省份Wielkopolska进行现代农业、科学知识、负责任的所有权和土地可持续管理的当地理念研究。研究的重点是地方以外的科学知识和经济政策以及地方知识和土地管理实践之间的相互作用。研究人员将采用多种社会科学研究方法，包括民族志观察和与专家、管理人员和科学家的半结构化访谈。研究将在企业农场、甜菜糖厂、农业研究站、地方环境团体进行。调查的主题包括长期农业规划和具体做法，如作物轮作、休耕、化肥和天然及化学农药的使用、土壤测试和监测以及防护林带的使用。这项研究很重要，因为它将帮助社会科学家更好地了解普通人如何理解和回应各种科学信息。这项研究还将有助于了解新的农业可持续政策，如最近改革的欧洲共同农业政策，如何以及在多大程度上得到实施并付诸当地实践。支持这项研究也有助于社会科学家的教育。

Mr. Dong Ju Kim, under the guidance of Professor Gillian Feeley-Harnik, will undertake research on local ideas of modern farming, scientific knowledge, responsible ownership, and sustainable management of land in Wielkopolska, a western province of Poland. The focus of the research is on interactive effects between extra-local scientific knowledge and economic policies, and local knowledge and land management practices. The researcher will employ multiple social scientific research methods, including ethnographic observation and semi-structured interviews with experts, managers, and scientists. Research will be conducted in corporate farms, beet sugar factories, agricultural research stations, and local environmental organizations. Topics to be investigated include long-term agricultural planning and specific practices such as, crop rotation, fallowing, use of fertilizers and natural and chemical pesticides, soil testing and monitoring, and the use of shelter belts.The research is important because it will help social scientists better understand how ordinary people understand and respond to scientific information of all kinds. The research also will contribute to understanding how and to what degree new sustainability policies for agriculture, such as those of the recently reformed European Common Agricultural Policy, are implemented and put into local practice. Supporting the research also contributes to the education of a social scientist.