Living in Commom :Socio-technical Agencement of Urban Collaborative Farming

• Main Authors: Yu-Hsin Hsiao, 蕭玉欣
• Other Authors: 陳東升
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9wte6h

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 社會學研究所 === 103 === This article aims to elaborate on how urban collaborative farming assembled by human and non-human actors, and leads to citizenship and community economy. By the approach of actor-network theory, I follow the actors to draw the outline of evolution from an abstract concept to a concrete practice of urban collaborative farming. First, urban collaborative farming doesn’t have a fixed figure, discourse and the way of practice. Whether it is “there,” should be defined on multiple aspects. Secondly, urban collaborative farming is fluid. Thus, to realize the concept of urban collaborative farming, it’s important that heterogeneous actors keep negotiate, ally with one another, and form a gradually stabilized network. Also, network with flexible boundary allows actors to join in and drop out is of equal importance and makes sense to citizen participation. Lastly, with the emphasis on fluid techniques and flexible network, urban collaborative farming connects consumers, producers and other non-human actors together within the community. By this token, the function of urban collaborative farms is nothing but meet the needs, and the surplus would not be accumulated as personal capital but serve as public goods. This way, the prototype of community also appears.