Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies

Akram‐Lodhi, A. Haroon; McKay, Ben M.; Dietz, Kristina; Engels, Bettina

doi:10.4337/9781788972468

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“…Critical agrarian studies address political and economic asymmetries in agriculture (Akram-Lodhi et al 2021). Food regime theory as a key conceptual contribution in this field pays special attention to power effects and class inequalities arising from the "corporate-environmental food regime" (Friedman 2005).…”

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Digital Technology and Power in Agriculture. Technology Development, Data Valorization, and Sustainability Narratives in Germany

Hackfort

2022

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To investigate the political economy of digital agriculture this paper puts corporate power relations center stage and examines how corporate actors exert their power to shape, and benefit from digital agriculture in Germany, while disempowering other actors and approaches. This paper presents the results of an empirical investigation of the power relations in digital agriculture in Germany to answer the research question: How do corporate actors and existing power relations shape the development and distribution of benefits of digital agriculture in Germany?

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Digital Technology and Power in Agriculture. Technology Development, Data Valorization, and Sustainability Narratives in Germany

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2022

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“…The trainline facilitated the construction of lumber mills and accelerated the commodification of land, which threatened the livelihoods of local peasants, who “reacted defensively to the transformation of their world” (p. 148). Revealing infrastructure as an open‐ended process that generates diverse effects and relations (Alderman & Goodwin, 2022), these cases demonstrate the centrality of infrastructure to agrarian change, a topic that merits greater attention in the emerging critical agrarian studies literature (Akram‐Lodhi et al, 2021).…”

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