Milk, Modernity and the Making of the Human

Nimmo, Richie

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“…Much of this work explicitly strives to provide “case studies that place value on more‐than‐human animals as genuine dialogic participants in the world” (Schutten, , p. 2), but there are also explicit attempts to incorporate many other species, beings, and things, including plants and microorganisms (e.g., Tsing, ), easily neglected by a focus on “human–animal” alone (Smart, ). Many different logics are drawn upon to interpret and frame these encounters, including Latour's network theory (; e.g., Nimmo, , ), Deleuze and Guatarri's () rhizome (e.g. McLeod, ), and Haraway's (, ) conceptualisation of companion species (e.g., Lorimer, )…”

Section: Human–animal Methodologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a critical psychology of human–animal relations

Adams

2018

Social & Personality Psych

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This article argues that critical psychological engagement with the field of human-animal relations is largely absent, but of potential significance, and begins to outline more concretely what such a perspective might contribute, especially as a form of social psychology. The article provides a brief overview of the emerging psychology of human-animal relations and the extent to which it emphasises situated human-animal interactions in real-world settings, including from the standpoint of animal participants. Recent elaborations of the "animal turn" outside of the discipline of psychology are considered, as they place fresh emphasis on human-animal interaction and interdependence and might further extend the boundaries of what counts as relations that matter in critical and social psychology.These foundations are argued to offer an invitation to critical psychology to engage more fully in the study of human-animal relations and enliven it as a result.

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Section: Human–animal Methodologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a critical psychology of human–animal relations

Adams

2018

Social & Personality Psych

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“…Human well‐being is particularly vulnerable to zoonoses, animal diseases that can affect human populations. Richie Nimmo's (, ) work on the history of tuberculosis control and Frederick Keck's contribution to this special issue both highlight the importance of zoonotic diseases as organizing metaphors for understanding sociality. Zoonotic diseases trouble ideas of animality, humanity, and the “purity” of the social.…”

Section: Zoonotic Diseasesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction: Human Animal Health in Medical Anthropology

Brown

Nading

2019

Med Anthropol Q

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This introductory article maps out the parameters of an emerging field of medical anthropology, human animal health, and its potential for reorienting the discipline. Ethnographic explorations of how animals are implicated in health, well‐being, and pathogenicity allow us to revisit theorizations of central topics in medical anthropology, notably ecology, biopolitics, and care. Meanwhile, the conditions of the Anthropocene force us to develop new tools to think about human animal entanglement. Anthropogenic change reorients debates around health and disease, but it also requires us to move beyond what some consider the traditional boundaries of the discipline. Zoonotic diseases, veterinary medicine, animal therapeutics, and food and farming are examples of topics that force such movement.

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“…In the case of milk, which is the product of a still-living animal, what is made absent is the inter-constitution of the human and nonhuman worlds that is embodied in the hybridity of milk. My wider argument, connecting with Foucauldian and post-humanist critiques as well as ANT, is that this ongoing work of making hybridity absent is an ontological condition for the reproduction of modern notions of what it is to be human (Nimmo, 2010). It can also be regarded as a special case of a process that critical theorists have identified as central to capitalism, namely the effacement of the traces of production in a commodity once it passes into the sphere of consumption, so that consumption can take place untroubled by the lived relations of production which are its condition of possibility.…”

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“…Thus the material trace of the animal within the milk was the key signifier of purity, and the vital warmth transferred from the circulation of blood within the animal"s body to the milk in its udderfrom the corporeal flow of one vital fluid to anotherwas valued positively. Indeed so much so that some unscrupulous milk sellers even took to artificially warming their watered down milk before sale (Nimmo, 2010).…”

Section: A Heterogeneous Ethnography Of Historical Textsmentioning

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“…In order to do so without excessive abstraction, I use my own recent ANT-influenced research to ground the discussion, as it provides a useful example of ANT in practice. This was a study of the history of dairy milk in the UK, which combined what could be thought of as a historical sociology of the emergence of the modern dairy industry with a socio-material history of milk (Nimmo, 2010). Although the study was not simply an "application" of ANT, and though it was informed by several intersecting traditions, including Foucauldian genealogy, human-animal studies and post-humanism, the theoretical core of the approach was quite distinctly ANT, so it provides a useful way to explore what it might mean in practice to carry out ANT-influenced research.…”

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Actor-Network Theory and Methodology: Social Research in a More-Than-Human World

Nimmo

2011

Methodological Innovations Online

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This article explores the methodological implications of actor-network theory for social research. Pointing to an increasing awareness of ANT in sociological discourse, but assuming that it is more widely known than well understood, the article outlines some of the key features of ANT as an approach to social life, before addressing the tricky question of how these ideas translate into methodological practice. The possibilities of the approach are illustrated by reference to the author"s own ANT-inspired historical research on the socio-material history of dairy milk in the UK, which is used as a point of reference and an example throughout. Particular attention is given to the practical method deployed in the milk study, namely documentary historiography, leading to a critical exploration of the use of ANT in the analysis of historical texts. This involves considering the nature of the relationship between texts and lived practices, and drawing out how ANT offers a distinctive way of seeing texts which challenges the standard ethnographic view of texts and fundamentally transforms the issue. Given that documentary historiography is not a method strongly associated with actor-network theory because it raises considerable methodological dilemmas, this provides one particular account of how such dilemmas can be managed or overcome. Social researchers interested in the potential of actor-network theory should be able to draw upon this in exploring the possibilities of the approach for their own work.

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Milk, Modernity and the Making of the Human

Cited by 28 publications

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Towards a critical psychology of human–animal relations

Towards a critical psychology of human–animal relations

Introduction: Human Animal Health in Medical Anthropology

Actor-Network Theory and Methodology: Social Research in a More-Than-Human World

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