Lena Kaufmann PhD is a Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione Fellow at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and Principal Investigator of the project ‘Digital Agriculture: Sino-European Contrasts, Correspondences, and Collaborations’. Trained as an anthropologist and Sinologist in Berlin, Rome, Shanghai, and Zurich, she has researched migration and agriculture in China and Chinese digital infrastructure in Switzerland. She is the author of Rural–Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China (Amsterdam University Press, 2021) and convenor of the Regional Group China(s) of the German Anthropological Association.
The four propellers begin to spin. A gust of wind presses down the surrounding rice plants as a pulsing rotor-whir fills the air. The drone, carrying its battery and a tank of pesticides, lifts off and stabilises, hovering briefly before angling towards the fields. It accelerates over the paddies, the air beneath it flattening the […]
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