Rural Renaissance: A Perspective from Actor Network Theory to Explore the New Farmers’ Cluster in Shen-Gou Village Yilan

Abstract

Recently the agriculture reveals its value in different aspects such as social connection justice education environmental protection etc through various agricultural action More and more various operations of agriculture which aiming for reconnecting food people and land is booming everywhere in Taiwan Through the media we could observe that the agricultural awareness of the society has risen The phenomenon demonstrates that now is the era of Agricultural Renaissance And the various agriculture actions are from the different actors to form the network and learn together to contribute to the agriculture This study clarified the actor network process and defined the creative milieu for attracting actors by exploring the phenomenon of new farmers’ cluster in Shen-Gou Village in the context of Agricultural Renaissance The in-depth interview and participant observation are the methods for data collection and analyze the data by coding in Nvivo 10 This research generalized the evolution of the actor network in Shen-Gou and found that the openness emphasized by major players is the key point for the scale up of the new farmers’ cluster in Shen-Gou

Date of Award	2017 Aug 29
Original language	English
Supervisor	Hui-Wen Lin (Supervisor)