Inhabiting Forest of Dean borderlands: Feral wild boar and dynamic ecologies of memory and place

O’Mahony, Kieran

doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100902

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“…However, suggesting that these temporalities are merely marked by speed and urgency belies the complexity and precarity of temporal relations. Whilst dominant temporal paradigms may emerge, timescapes are ‘restless temporal regimes’ (Puig de la Bellacasa, 2015) whose flows, rhythms, cycles, and tempos are not fixed (Law and Lien, 2014), nor entirely predictable (Broz et al, 2021; O’Mahony, 2022). These instabilities are reflected in the rebounding temporality of AMR, frequently enacted by an imagined future of biological breakdown and crisis as a result of the present-day excesses and malpractices of productivist agriculture.…”

Section: The Timescapes Of Animal Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feeding time(s): Patient urgency and the careful temporalities of antimicrobial resistance

Enticott,

O’Mahony

2024

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This paper seeks to understand how caring for new-born livestock is made possible, which practices of care are privileged and to what effect? These aims are situated in attempts to promote the prudent use of antibiotics amongst livestock farmers to prevent antimicrobial resistance. In focusing on the rearing of new-born calves on dairy and beef farms in England and Wales, the paper reveals how care is configured by different temporal orders, the tensions between different temporalities of care, the reasons for them and the strategies employed by calf rearers to manage these tensions. Drawing on the concept of the ‘timescape’, the paper shows how calf care temporalities are relationally enacted and configured by materials, infrastructures and technologies. Common (productivist) agricultural temporalities of care emphasise speed, urgency and efficiency. However, by analysing the practice of feeding colostrum and ‘tubing’ – the forced feeding of calves via a tube inserted into the oesophagus – we highlight how these rapid caring temporalities conflict with the slower, patient skills of calf rearing. At the same time, however, we show how care is rendered fluid as calf rearers find ways of accommodating seemingly discordant temporalities – what we call ‘patient urgence’ – allowing different temporalities to co-exist within agricultural timescapes. Nevertheless, we show how these practices of accommodation are themselves the result of a productivist temporal order that marginalises calves and calf rearers. We argue that these timescapes point to the need for broader structural and cultural changes within agriculture to reduce the use of antibiotics.

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Section: The Timescapes Of Animal Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%