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Accepted Paper:
Agrarian politics in the era of digital agriculture: Contestation, refusal or alter- digitalisation?
Oane Visser
(International Institute of Social Studies (ISS))
Louis Thiemann
(International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague)
Keywords: Digital agriculture, digitalization, globalization, agrarian politics, food system, sufficiency
Long abstract:
In disrupting patterns of technology use and governance, digitalization also upsets the political balances enmeshed in analogue agriculture’s spatial concreteness. An unequally digitalizing food regime presents us with very different horizons for resistance than those devised within earlier waves of technological change. This scoping article outlines a new playbook for agrarian politics in the era of digitalization, discussing why seasoned forms of resistance may prove ineffective against intangible technologies. We argue that new tools are needed for critical agrarian studies in a digital age: Teasing out the everyday politics of avoidance, adaptation, and piracy, and mobilizing them within broader debates on digital sufficiency.