Industrial Meat Production

Blanchette, Alex

doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-102317-050206

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“…Hence, this essay expands human–animal entanglement literature and its focus on multispecies relations of care, affect or exploitation (Blanchette, 2018; Govindrajan, 2015; Kirksey et al., 2018). Instead, I place nonhuman bodies as political actors in contemporary settler/colonial processes in the borderlands in the climate change era, by exploring these dynamics in the context of Palestine/Israel.…”

Section: Human–nonhuman Entanglements In Contemporary Colonial Contextsmentioning

confidence: 90%

Bodies that count: Administering multispecies in Palestine/Israel’s borderlands

Gutkowski

2020

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Nonhuman bodies in many sizes and diverse social roles are central to Israel’s control mechanism in the Occupied West Bank. Delving into the agricultural record of the Israeli Civil Administration, I ask how the Israeli system of control operates through animal bodies. What does a bureaucratic record so invested in monitoring animals’ production, treatment, disease, and death tell about the potential disruption of power? Through a political ecology of human–animal entanglement, I argue that nonhuman bodies both reproduce human colonial relations and allow their constant interruption. Nonhumans challenge the power regime through their unpredictable mobility as well as in their role as both objects of a political economy and subjects of potential agricultural diseases, ecological risks, or public health threats. Breaking from contemporary multispecies scholarly literature’s focus on endangered species and relations of care, I place nonhuman bodies as actors of international-interspecies relations in colonial conditions and point to nonhumans, which are here to stay in the climate change era. By doing so, I reflect on the continuous significance of nonhuman bodies to the operation of power in the “borderlands” of Israel/Palestine and beyond.

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Section: Human–nonhuman Entanglements In Contemporary Colonial Contextsmentioning

confidence: 90%

Bodies that count: Administering multispecies in Palestine/Israel’s borderlands

Gutkowski

2020

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…Instead, the work of raising the BSF reveals a space of dependent cohabitation where new practices of contact and human care and attention prove critical for insect survival. A similar tension between care and control occurs in animal husbandry, where attention to specificities, unpredictability, and embodied practice constitute the human efforts necessary for achieving industrial standardization (Pandian 2008;Singleton 2010;Blanchette 2018). In the BSF project, success in rendering biophysical nature into a reliable infrastructure-mechanized, reliable, and invisible-depends on an intimate relationship between humans and insects.…”

Section: Producing Circularity Through Laboratory Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Prompted by fear of disease and environmental contamination, enclosures circumscribe and control multispecies entanglements that prevent forms of care and identification between humans and insects (Law and Mol 2008;Nading 2014;Blanchette 2015;Kirksey 2015). For example, the control of mosquito populations by public health authorities has been characterized as a form of human labor intended to enact interspecies separation and to disentangle relations of cohabitation (Kelly and Lezaun 2014).…”

Section: Enclosures Of Insect Rearing and Urban Livingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Circularity and Enclosures: Metabolizing Waste with the Black Soldier Fly

Zhang

2020

Cult. Anthropol.

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This essay traces a scientific pilot project to transform the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) into a biotechnology to treat urban organic waste in accordance with the dominant cultural logics of an ecologically modern approach to waste management in contemporary China. A principle of urban waste management, circularity, and a spatial logic of urban living, enclosures, condition the scientific intervention that promises to harness animal metabolic labor as a biotechnology and a waste infrastructure that can be adapted to the urban ecologies of Guangzhou. While scientists emphasize the natural proclivities of insect metabolism to transform waste into value, my ethnographic research illustrates that the practice of aligning animal metabolism with urban metabolism is anything but natural or automatic. Together, circularity and enclosure, as guiding logics of waste management in Chinese ecological modernization, uphold a fiction of biocapital; they create the illusion that nature generates value and remediates environments without human intervention while mystifying and naturalizing the appropriation of nature and labor in the new green city.

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“…It is also a rather pointed riposte to how Euro‐American thought has hoarded awareness of death for humans so as to limit accountability to other species. This attitude becomes apparent in everyday indifference to practices like industrial animal slaughter (Blanchette 2018) and forms part of a long history stemming from both Aristotelean philosophy and Christian theology of treating nonhuman animals as “outside the terms of moral reference” (Thomas 1983, 148). For twentieth‐century philosophers like Martin Heidegger, humans could thus still be the only animals who “experience death as death” (quoted in Weil 2012, 101), while poets such as Rainer Maria Rilke (2000, 47) could describe animals as being “free from death.” In this tradition animals are said to never respond to their mortality, only to react to it (Derrida 2008).…”

Section: Mourning Grief and The Politics Of Deathmentioning

confidence: 99%

Vengeful Animals, Involuntary Mourning, and the Ethics of Ndyuka Autonomy

Strange

2021

Cult. Anthropol.

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This article reflects on mourning and interspecies responsibility. Considering what Ndyuka Maroons in the Caribbean country of Suriname—historic fugitives from plantation capitalism—call kunu (avenging ghosts) I explore how Ndyukas attempt to secure personal and collective autonomy in an expansively relational reality where mourning is the quintessence of relatedness. Because grief impinges on Ndyuka autonomy, daily life is understood as a flawed struggle to maintain freedom from mourning. This can only be done by paying appropriate respect to others so that they do not return as vengeful spirits dedicated to the destruction of those who have harmed them and their entire families in perpetuity. This essay examines the ethics of such deeply relational notions of autonomy and ponders its implications for understanding accountability for anthropogenic extinction. On sa a sikiifi ya wani taki A sikiifi ya taki fu a fasi di Ndyuka sama e tyai fuka anga sowtu faantiwowtu de fu den meti di e kon toon libisama kunu. A e taki tu fu sani di sa pasa te libisama kii wan libi libi sani di o toon kunu, anga fa libi sama mu dini kunu fu den sa libi makandii a wan fii fasi. Te wan sama dede, da ala sama fu a famii e tyai a fuka de makandii. Te wan kunu kon a wan famii, da a sa meke a famii fu a sama di be kii en tyai a fuka de soseefi tu. Libisama ná e wani fu tyai a fuka, ma a kunu sa meke den tyai en namo namo, bika a so wan fasi a o meke den fii a seefi tyali di en famii be fii, di den kii en. Fu di kunu a wani sani di de tuu tuu, da libisama mu libi a wan lesipeki fasi fu den no mu meke kunu gi den famii di o tan fika gi den baka pikin fu pikin, paansu fu paansu. A sikiifi ya e taki tu fu a fasi di Ndyuka sama denki fu libi anga den busi sani, anga fa den mu meke mofu a makandii fu libi anga den sani di sa toon kunu, fu a no mu poti den a fuka. A sikiifi ya taki en so, bika somen sama ná e lesipeki den sowtu a sowtu meti ya, ofuso den bon, anga soseefi den peesi pe den e tan fu libi moo. A toli ya e soi taki Ndyuka sama abi fuu koni di sa leli den bakaasama fu soi den fa den mu libi a wan lesipeki fasi di o meke den ná o poli a goontapu, ma den o tan libi bun bun anga taawan.

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Industrial Meat Production

Cited by 33 publications

References 55 publications

Bodies that count: Administering multispecies in Palestine/Israel’s borderlands

Bodies that count: Administering multispecies in Palestine/Israel’s borderlands

Circularity and Enclosures: Metabolizing Waste with the Black Soldier Fly

Vengeful Animals, Involuntary Mourning, and the Ethics of Ndyuka Autonomy

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