Brooks, Sally Heather orcid.org/0000-0002-1005-1245 (2021) Configuring the digital farmer:a nudge world in the making? Economy and Society. 1876984. pp. 374-396. ISSN 0308-5147
Abstract
This paper explores the ‘digital farmer’ assemblage as an illuminating case of the behavioural turn in international development, in which smallholder farmers are digitally steered towards behaviours deemed necessary for market inclusion. Central to these interventions are digital platforms that function as human technologies to craft new kinds of market subject that can be inserted into value chains and wider circuits of capital and data. As such, they represent both a continuation of the ‘long Green Revolution’ and a point of departure. The narrowing of options built into their design is likely to further erode processes of skilling central to agricultural practice, while loosening the social ties of mutuality and reciprocity in which such processes are embedded, intensifying vulnerability to climate and market uncertainties.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Author(s) |
Keywords: | smallholder agriculture,behavioural economics,Big data,fintech,agricultural platforms,agricultural deskilling |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Social Policy and Social Work (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 16 Feb 2021 11:50 |
Last Modified: | 04 Jan 2025 00:16 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2021.1876984 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/03085147.2021.1876984 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:171257 |
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