The Generation of"Nature":Local and World Knowledge in Agricultural Production in the Early Pe-riod of PRC
The burgeoning eco-agriculture in contemporary Chinese society is considered a consciousness-awak-ening"discovery of nature".However,the term"nature"in this context is fraught with tensions between the lo-cal and the global,or the particular and the universal,echoing the debates in 1980s of the global biodiversity con-servation movement on the meaning of"nature".At its core,these tensions stem from a framework that sepa-rates nature from politics,and is grounded in an epistemology which seeks to explore the"physis"beyond expe-rience.This"politics of nature"finds its most concentrated expression in the cognitive relationship between tech-nology and politics represented by the"Green Revolution".In opposition to it,and inspired by the epistemolo-gy and practices of"scientific farming"in the early years of the PRC,we may now explore a paradigm centered on the dynamic generation of local knowledge through"local kowning".This shift encourages a re-examination of the epistemological legacy from the early stages of the People's Republic of China.
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