1. Räume des Experimentierens: Die Einführung von Sprühdrohnen in der digitalen Landwirtschaft
- Author
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Dennis Pauschinger and Francisco Klauser
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Empirical data ,Emerging technologies ,Process (engineering) ,Geography, Planning and Development ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,0507 social and economic geography ,lcsh:GA101-1776 ,Public policy ,lcsh:G1-922 ,02 engineering and technology ,lcsh:Cartography ,lcsh:Human ecology. Anthropogeography ,Industrial organization ,Earth-Surface Processes ,Global and Planetary Change ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,Authorization ,021107 urban & regional planning ,Drone ,Crop protection ,Agriculture ,Anthropology ,lcsh:GF1-900 ,business ,050703 geography ,lcsh:Geography (General) - Abstract
This article investigates how new digital technologies are established in agriculture. It does so by drawing upon empirical data from a qualitative case study with a Swiss based but internationally operating start-up that has recently obtained the first authorisation to spray crop protection products on vineyards and fruit plantations with their home-made drone. Conceptually the article takes inspiration in Actor-Network-Theory (ANT) and challenges common understandings of overly urban centred approaches of how new technologies find entry in public policies. The authors argue that instead of seeing a straightforward process of implementing the new drone technology, there has been a joint-effort between the private company and federal institutions to experiment, improve and regulate the functioning of the sprayer drone. A process that is, so is argued, heavily marked by knowledge transfers and formalisations of new private-public alliances, that have been channelled through three particular spatial categories, relating to policy experiments, socio-technical experiments and strategic experiments.
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- 2020