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Climate opportunism and values of change on the Arctic agricultural frontier
Economic Anthropology ( IF 1.236 ) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 , DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12251
Hannah Bradley 1 , Serena Stein 2
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An Arctic agricultural frontier is opening as climate change threatens growing conditions in established zones of crop commodity production. Projections of northward shifts of viable agricultural land unleash fantastical interest in the improbable reality of “farming the tundra.” Expansion of Arctic agriculture has long figured in Alaska's history, including drawing settlers to the “Last Frontier,” where farmers face challenges of extreme conditions, weak infrastructure, and fragile markets. This article, based on joint 2019 fieldwork and ongoing ethnography of landscape change and comparative commodity frontiers by the authors, tracks this imaginative frontier to examine how and why diverse Alaskan agriculturalists seize upon emerging conditions of climate change. We propose “climate opportunism” to frame an understanding of how agriculturalists may gain from changing growing conditions, drawing attention to the values in and beyond monetary gain generated in the social space of frontier imagination and grounded projects of livability in the Arctic. Across differently situated cultivators (a multigenerational immigrant family farm, an Inupiaq Arctic agriculture project, an urban hydroponics enterprise), we find that the changing landscape intensifies investment in embedded local values, while opportunism practiced at various scales both underscores and potentially obscures inequalities in resource distribution and alternatives to apocalyptic narratives of change.

中文翻译:

气候机会主义和北极农业前沿变化的价值

随着气候变化威胁到已建立的作物商品生产区的生长条件,北极的农业前沿正在开放。对可行农业用地北移的预测引发了人们对“耕种苔原”这一不可能的现实的极大兴趣。北极农业的扩张早已在阿拉斯加的历史中体现出来,包括将定居者吸引到“最后的边境”,那里的农民面临极端条件、基础设施薄弱和市场脆弱的挑战。本文基于作者 2019 年联合实地调查和正在进行的景观变化民族志和比较商品前沿,追踪这一富有想象力的前沿,以研究不同的阿拉斯加农学家如何以及为何抓住气候变化的新兴条件。我们提出“气候机会主义”,以理解农业家如何从不断变化的生长条件中获益,提请注意前沿想象的社会空间和北极宜居性项目所产生的金钱收益内外的价值。在不同位置的种植者(多代移民家庭农场、Inupiaq 北极农业项目、城市水培企业)中,我们发现不断变化的景观加强了对嵌入当地价值的投资,而在不同规模上实行的机会主义既强调了也可能掩盖了资源的不平等世界末日的变革叙事的分布和替代方案。引起人们对前沿想象的社会空间和北极宜居性项目所产生的金钱收益内外的价值的关注。在不同位置的种植者(多代移民家庭农场、Inupiaq 北极农业项目、城市水培企业)中,我们发现不断变化的景观加强了对嵌入当地价值的投资,而在不同规模上实行的机会主义既强调了也可能掩盖了资源的不平等世界末日的变革叙事的分布和替代方案。引起人们对前沿想象的社会空间和北极宜居性项目所产生的金钱收益内外的价值的关注。在不同位置的种植者(多代移民家庭农场、Inupiaq 北极农业项目、城市水培企业)中,我们发现不断变化的景观加强了对嵌入当地价值的投资,而在不同规模上实行的机会主义既强调了也可能掩盖了资源的不平等世界末日的变革叙事的分布和替代方案。
更新日期:2022-03-31
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