Making Sense of ‘Food’ Animals

A Critical Exploration of the Persistence of ‘Meat’

AvPaula Arcari

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Beginning with the question of how animals, and their bodies, are variously mapped by humans according to their use value, it gradually unpacks the roots of our domination of ‘food’ animals – a domination distinguished by the literal embodiment of the ‘other’.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-09-19
Mått:148 x 210 x 25 mm
Vikt:598 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:356
Förlag:Springer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN:9789811395840

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Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociala och etiska frågor inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Paula Arcari is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow hosted by Edge Hill University in Lancashire, UK. Seeking to understand the human-animal binary and challenge habitual ways of thinking and acting involving animals, Paula’s current research focuses on the visual consumption of spectacularised animals at zoos, racing events, and agricultural shows.

Innehållsförteckning

Part I.- 1. Introduction.- Part II: Background.- 2. The Problem with ‘food’ animals.- 3. Theoretical Framwork: Advancing and Enacting a Critical Posthumanism.- Part III: Categories and Boundaries.- 4. Animal Categories and the Maintenance of Order.- 5. Negotiating Edibility.- Part IV: The (Dis)Pleasure of Knowing (about Animals & Meat).- 6. Sensory Connections and Emotional Knowledge.- 7. Feelings of Meat.- Part V: The Power of Transparency.- 8. Entitlement.- 9. Visibility: Inviting an Untroubled Gaze.- Part VI: Conclusion.- 10. Undoing Cartographies of Meat.