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Welcome to the Digital Village: Networking Geographies of Agrarian Change
Annals of the American Association of Geographers ( IF 3.982 ) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 , DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2022.2044752
Hilary Oliva Faxon 1
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Almost 5 billion people—two thirds of the global population—now go online. The Internet has changed how we work, learn, govern, and fall in love. Yet despite its digital turn, geography has failed to grapple with the patterns and significance of Internet connection for rural people and places, particularly in the Global South. This article brings together agrarian studies and digital geography to situate emergent online practices within longer trajectories of agrarian change. To do so, I advance the concept of the digital village, a networked social space in which online practices emerge from existing agrarian relations to reconfigure the strategies of economic survival, the landscapes of home, and the tactics of politics. Drawing on ethnographic research in Myanmar, I show how agrarian relations shape patterns of digital connection and how farmers, migrants, and grassroots activists incorporate Facebook into daily efforts to secure livelihoods, support communities, and mobilize in struggles over land. This analysis yields two key insights: first, digital geographies are embedded in rural relations; second, agrarian questions increasingly play out online.



中文翻译:

欢迎来到数字村庄:农业变化的网络地理

近 50 亿人(占全球人口的三分之二)现在上网。互联网改变了我们工作、学习、管理和恋爱的方式。然而,尽管转向了数字化,但地理学未能解决互联网连接对农村人和地方的模式和意义,特别是在全球南方。本文将农业研究和数字地理学结合起来,将新兴的在线实践置于较长的农业变化轨迹中。为此,我提出了数字村庄的概念,这是一个网络化的社会空间,在线实践从现有的农业关系中出现,以重新配置经济生存战略、家庭景观和政治策略。借鉴缅甸的民族志研究,我展示了农业关系如何塑造数字连接模式,以及农民、移民和草根活动家如何将 Facebook 纳入日常工作中,以确保生计、支持社区和动员土地斗争。该分析产生了两个关键见解:首先,数字地理嵌入农村关系;其次,农业问题越来越多地出现在网上。

更新日期:2022-05-16
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