A good life? A good death? Reconciling care and harm in animal research

Roe, Emma; Greenhough, Beth

doi:10.1080/14649365.2021.1901977

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“…An emphasis on the vet's in‐situ encounters with animals also draws attention to the ‘culture of care’ (Gorman & Davies, 2020; Greenhough & Roe, 2019; Puig de la Bellacasa, 2017; Roe & Greenhough, 2021). In those ‘bloody spaces’, such as slaughterhouses and pig houses, clinical vets have developed and created a culture of care through their day‐to‐day attention to animals.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Accordingly, I seek to extend this body of work by emphasising two dimensions, namely: inter‐species bodily, affective encounters and earthy material entanglements . To illustrate the argument, I propose that the expertise of veterinary practitioners is dependents upon their ‘skilled care’ (Roe & Greenhough, 2021, p. 4), through which their bodies can affect, and be affected by, non‐human forces, including animal bodies in their care. To demonstrate this, I have developed a concept of pathological atmospheres which is inspired by recent work on atmospheres (Anderson, 2009; Lorimer et al, 2019; McCormack, 2008) and ‘more‐than‐human’ approaches to care (Greenhough & Roe, 2019; Roe & Greenhough, 2021).…”

Section: From Pathogens To Pathological Lives: Socio‐technical Assemb...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This study is designed to expand upon current scholarship through an examination of the pragmatic and conditional encounters between vets and disease assemblages wherein a pivotal role is performed by animal bodies , microbes and environments . Drawing inspiration from emerging work on care and multispecies in environmental humanities (Despret, 2004; Greenhough & Roe, 2011, 2019; Puig de la Bellacasa, 2017), this paper suggests that the ability of a vet to recognise animal disease is conditioned by their ‘skilled care’ (Roe & Greenhough, 2021), which is the ability of humans to become attuned to the bodies of non‐humans. Furthermore, this paper devotes particular attention to the acquisition and development of diagnostic skills via the inter‐species bodily, affective encounters and earthly material entanglement or the weather‐world outlined by Ingold (2011, p. 96).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Securing the pig farmgate? Biosecurity, affects and pathological atmospheres

Wang

2022

Trans Inst British Geog

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Faced with infectious disease threats, the global pork industry and the state have prioritised biosecurity in order to maintain porcine proliferation. Techniques such as good sanitation and surveillance are deemed necessary to ensure animal health. Rooted in germ theory, biosecurity regards disease as an incursion of pathogens from the outside. By drawing distinctions between healthy and diseased bodies, biosecurity regimes appear to represent an anthropocentric desire to control life through spatial enclosure. However, recent work on health geographies has revealed that health is a multifaceted configuration of changing relationships that often escape the purview of biosecurity. Critical studies have pointed out that the management of animal health relies less on any uniform understanding of disease and more on situated veterinary knowledge. This paper seeks to extend this body of work by emphasising inter‐species bodily encounters and earthly elements of the weather‐world. To elucidate this, I draw on recent research into atmosphere and affect, thereby developing the idea of pathological atmospheres. With reference to ethnographical work conducted in veterinary laboratories and commercial pig farms in Taiwan, I point out that a vet's situated expertise is conditioned by their ability to sense and respond to the atmospheric milieu in which they are immersed.

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Securing the pig farmgate? Biosecurity, affects and pathological atmospheres

Wang

2022

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Much of the work on care has been in the context of animal experimentation (Holmberg, 2008(Holmberg, , 2011. Greenhough and Roe (2018) illustrate how animal technologists (ATs) often exceed the requirements of animal welfare guidelines to ensure the animals' comfort, and form attachments to them, performing 'ethical as well as emotional labor' in their practices of care, occupying a liminal space due to their dual role of caring for and killing animals (Roe & Greenhough, 2021). Holmberg (2011, p. 158) discusses animal technicians' care of animals before and during their deaths when killing 'surplus' animals, where they take 'small, practical measures that make an animal's life and death a bit richer' .…”

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Distancing animal death: Geographies of killing and making killable

Mazhary

2021

Geography Compass

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At the intersection of death geographies and animal geographies, the topic of animal death offers crucial insights for how we understand death and how we define human/nonhuman boundaries. This review piece brings rich discussions of animal death across anthropology, critical animal studies and the environmental humanities into conversation with work in geography. This article takes a two-pronged approach; first, in recognition of the intensely spatial nature of death, this article explores where animal death takes place. This section observes how spaces of animal death are physically concealed and how this spatial distancing is aided by verbal concealment and dismemberment of the animal body, as well as how justifications for killing are organised along spatial lines. This helps to make animals killable in these spaces.The second section focuses on who is killed and made killable as well as who kills. The degree of being killable or grievable is highly uneven amongst animals, as it is amongst humans. Moreover, those individuals who routinely inflict animal death are subject to discrimination and vulnerability due to this proximity. Finally, the article concludes with reflections on what the topic of animal death can contribute to the death geographies and animal geographies literatures, and how we can move towards more animal-centric approaches to animal death.

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“…Third, llamas constitute a lively commodity and belong within the collective biographies and conceptualizations emerging from geographers and anthropologists interested in the economies of care and culture (Parreñas, 2018;Lorimer, 2010;Roe, Greenhough, 2021). Among these, the concept of mobility provides insights into the relationships of power that have constrained animal movements.…”

Section: Fleece and Speciesmentioning

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Learning from the llama: on the broad contours of cultural contributions and geographic expansion

Wakild

2021

Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos

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The llama (Lama glama) is the largest domesticated animal species from South America and is today found worldwide. Andean peoples have used the llama for millennia for meat, wool, packing, spiritual etc. In order to know the history of the llama, we must learn about the peoples that have known the animal and the ways those relationships have changed over time. While also considering closely related species, including alpaca, guanaco, and vicuña, this article posits three eras of llama/human entanglements: the era of domestication in pre-Columbian Andean sites; the era of dispersal and co-mingling, from 1530s to the 1890s; and finally popular fads and global appeal.

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A good life? A good death? Reconciling care and harm in animal research

Abstract: Palabras clave cuidado; investigación animal; matanza/muerte; estudios de ciencia y tecnología; geografías de animals Mots clefs soins ; care; recherche sur les animaux ; tuer/mort ; études en sciences et technologies ; géographie animale CONTACT Emma Roe

Cited by 26 publications

References 59 publications

Securing the pig farmgate? Biosecurity, affects and pathological atmospheres

Securing the pig farmgate? Biosecurity, affects and pathological atmospheres

Distancing animal death: Geographies of killing and making killable

Learning from the llama: on the broad contours of cultural contributions and geographic expansion

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