Automated agrifood futures: robotics, labor and the distributive politics of digital agriculture



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DOI: 
10.1080/03066150.2019.1584189
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Attribution / Atribución (CC BY).
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Artículo de revista
Revista: 
The Journal of Peasant Studies
Número: 
1
Volumen: 
47
Autor (es): 
Carolan M.
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This paper draws from interviews with (1) US farmers who have adopted automated systems; (2) individuals employed by North American firms that engineer, manufacture, and/or repair these technologies; and (3) US farm laborers (immigrant and domestic) and representatives from farm labor organizations. The argument draws from the literature interrogating the fictional expectations that underlie capitalist reproduction, reading it through a distributed (ontological) lens. The framework questions whether concepts like ‘automation’ and ‘skill’ provide sufficient analytic and conceptual clarity to critically engage these platforms and suggests that we think about what these technologies do rather than fixate on what each is

Año de publicación: 
2019
Palabras clave: 
Automation
Smart farming
imaginary
sociotechnical
anticipatory action
temporality