사회적 농업, 농업과 농촌의 탈영토화* - 홍성군 장곡면 사례 -

Social Farming as a Praxis to Deterritorialize Agriculture and Rural Communities: Case of Janggok-myeon, Hongseong-gun

In South Korea, a few kinds of social farm ing practice are identified: care farm ing, labour integration, and training in farm ing sector. Although social farm ing is not a prevailing activity in rural com m unities, it attracts m uch attention from a range of actors in society. In H ongseong-gun, from a few years ago, tw o farm s began to care and em ploy the m entally disabled and to train young new com ers w ho w ant to grow crops in the w ay of organic farm ing. Both of them are cooperatives, w hich w ere established by the residents w ant to participate in. These m ovem ent has m ade som e changes in the com m unity. And now , it becam e the w ell-know n cases of social farm ing as w ell as m ulti-functional agriculture. Social farm ing can be described as a praxis to deterritorialize the units of agricultural production and the rural com m unity, w here food em pires im posed their ordering principle upon units of agricultural production in order to appropriate the value added by farm ing.