Siren Songs: Gendered Discourses of Concern for Sea Creatures

Wolch, Jennifer; Zhang, Jin

doi:10.1002/9780470996898.ch31

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“…(2003, p. 201) note in their commentary on animal geographies that rural studies is a field that ‘cannot escape people animal’ interactions, but to date there has been little exploration of the subject, and particularly, of its gendered character (see also Tovey 2003). The broader feminist literature has repeatedly demonstrated that attitudes towards animals are gendered, with women more likely to favour animal rights, avoid meat eating, disapprove of research involving harm to animals, condemn hunting and bond to domestic animals (see Wolch and Zhang 2005). This raises important questions as to the extent to which there are gender differences in attitudes towards the use of technologies on farm animals.…”

Section: Capital and Gender In Agricultural Biotechnologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards an Understanding of Gender and Capital in Constituting Biotechnologies in Agriculture

Bryant

Pini

2006

Sociologia Ruralis

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A compelling body of international literature now exists on the political economy of biotechnology. This work has used capital as a lens through which to view the increasing economic importance of biotechnologies to the agricultural sector. It has, however, given little attention to gender. The purpose of this article is to argue for the significance of gender in studies of agricultural biotechnology, that is, to posit that it is not just capital, but the intersection between capital and gender that informs the application, creation and regulation of agricultural biotechnologies.

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Section: Capital and Gender In Agricultural Biotechnologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards an Understanding of Gender and Capital in Constituting Biotechnologies in Agriculture

Bryant

Pini

2006

Sociologia Ruralis

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“…Feminist ideas such as intersectionality, performativity, and standpoint have been fruitfully extended beyond human identities to the lives of animals (Collard, 2012;Collard and Gillespie, 2015;Emel, 1998;Geiger and Hovorka, 2015;Gillespie, 2014;Hovorka, 2012Hovorka, , 2015Kim, 2015;McCubbin and Van Patter, 2020). Such engagements reveal how, for example, speciesism is a Western-based hierarchy that mutually supports racism, patriarchy, heteronormativity, and other structures of domination (Wolch and Zhang, 2004), as well as how animal subjectivities are produced and reproduced as societal relations of power work in and through animals' bodies (Hovorka, 2015). Further, drawing on the theoretical insights of a host of literatures such as de/postcolonial theory, critical race studies, Indigenous studies, and political ecology, animal geographers and animal scholars more broadly have investigated species intersections with racial, cultural, and colonial relations of power (Anderson, 1995(Anderson, , 2000Belcourt, 2015;Bennett, 2020;Boisseron, 2018;Elder et al, 1998;Gillespie, 2019;Isaacs and Otruba, 2019;Kim, 2015;Neo, 2012;TallBear, 2011;Todd, 2014), illuminating how racial and colonial relations are mediated and expressed through human-animal relations (Hovorka, 2016).…”

Section: Part I: Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction to A Research Agenda for Animal Geographies: visioning amidst socio-ecological crises

Hovorka¹,

McCubbin²,

Patter³

2021

A Research Agenda for Animal Geographies

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Bringing the animals back outAnimal geographies reflect an innovative and thriving subdiscipline. Animal geographers 'investigate how humans think about, place, and engage with animals, how animals shape human identities and social dynamics, as well as how broader social cultural, political economic, and ecological processes influence animal distributions, circumstances, behaviours, experiences, and well-being' (Hovorka, 2020: 127). Animals feature as both objects and subjects of geographical study, rather than being backgrounded as 'nature' in humanenvironment explorations. Animal geographies have challenged entrenched humanist ontologies and epistemologies and advanced multispecies theoretical and empirical understandings in geography. Animal geographies at their core explore human-animal relations through attention to animality, animal spaces, and beastly places as grounded in eclectic and integrative methodological approaches and ethical commitments to improving more-than-human lives (Hovorka, 2020). Animal geographies have also 'firmly joined the ranks of broader animal studies scholarship by infusing debates with context specific, place-based, and spatial frames that extend understanding and explanation of the ways in which humans and animals interact' (Hovorka, 2020: 131). Key texts trace this history and tout the contributions of animal geographies scholarship and engagement (see, e.g.

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“…Even within urban areas, as seen in a case study of dog-stealing in Victorian London, which highlighted how both dogs and women were confined to domestic captivity, masculinity and femininity have been historically linked (Howell). Geographers have also explored how women's attitudes towards animals are dependent on their socio-economic location, and how gender influences perceptions of categories of animals (Wolch and Zhang;Wolch et al 2000;Brownlow and Lassiter). "Hooters for Neuters" is a complex intersection of gender identities.…”

Section: Context Of Pet/overpopulation and Spay/neuter Campaignsmentioning

confidence: 99%