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

这篇由科学、技术和社会计划资助的论文项目是对美国“工厂”农场内的工作场所文化的研究。它询问20世纪的工厂模型是如何被正在进行的实验所扰乱的，该实验将它们转化为一种不寻常的对象：工业猪的基因。该项目在三个领域扩展了学术知识：1)应用生物科学在金融资本主义方面的作用；2)去工业化的美国经济如何导致初级生产背后的逻辑发生变化；3)跨领域转换社会组织形式所固有的文化过程(即将农场转变为工厂)。这项研究基于20个月的档案工作、调查、采访和参与者观察，涉及生猪行业的关键节点：大学、行业期刊、会议、博览会和俄克拉荷马州全境的公司农业企业。智力价值：科学和技术研究中的许多工作侧重于实验室和社会之间的关系，或者学术科学知识的传播如何产生新的社会集体。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国内的工业发展打开空间，旨在改变农村社会的科学实践背后的利害关系和动机，以及以风险资本主义的投机原则和文化逻辑为模型的大规模生产业务的出现。广泛的影响：结果发表在同行评议的期刊上，并为学术受众出版了一本书。另一本关于企业农业的书将面向更广泛的公众读者。研究结果被提交给社区、政府机构和学术界以外的其他支持者。该项目也是对农业企业内部组织和创新的首批研究之一。因此，这项研究可能包含用于移民立法、食品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.