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東南亞米與日本帝國：全球農糧體制中的跨帝國分工與資本積累
Southeast Asian Rice and the Japanese Empire: The Transimperial Division of Labour and Capital Accumulation in the Global Food Regime

研究論文 Research Article

朱華瑄
Huahsuan Chu

943-989

糧食是勞動力存續的物質基礎，十九世紀帝國主義國家建立跨國農業生產與消費網絡，以殖民地廉價糧食餵養帝國人口並支持母國工業發展，其中東南亞米既是歐洲帝國在亞洲擴張中重要的糧食資源，也是東北亞國家主要的米穀進口來源。本文以農糧體制分析為框架，檢視東南亞米如何執全球米市牛耳而形成跨帝國的區域分工，媒介了歐洲霸權對日本運用亞洲米市調節自身供需的箝制，結合日本社會內部轉變而促使帝國米穀政策在1920年代有所轉向，藉此分析國際政治經濟結構造就不同國家以農養工的資本積累效應有所差異，為闡明日本「後進性」提供一實例。

Food is an indispensable resource to maintain labour forces. The nineteenth-century empires built transnational networks of agricultural production and con­sumption to support their industrialization, mobilizing cheap foodstuffs from the colonies to feed workers and maximize capital accumulation. Among them, Southeast Asian rice was the crucial crop sustaining European imperialist expan­sion in Asia, also the major source of rice imports for Northeast Asian countries such as Japan. Employing food regime analysis, this article examines the trans­imperial division of labour formed through Southeast Asian rice, which nevertheless embodied Japan’s limited capability of utilizing the global rice market controlled by the European hegemony. This inferior status combined with the endogenous transformation of Japan’s industrialization propelled its turn to an imperial self-sufficiency policy in the 1920s, implying a different path of accumulating industrial capital through agriculture in a latecomer country.

農糧研究, 霸權, 世界經濟, 地緣政治, 供應鏈
agri-food study, hegemony, world economy, geopolitics, supply chain

政治學, 經濟學, 社會學
Political Science, Economics, Sociology

10.53106/1018189X202301002

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