Geographies of Meat

Politics, Economy and Culture

Harvey Neo, Jody Emel (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4094-4033-8 (ISBN)

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With the ever rising demand for meat around the world, the production of meat has changed dramatically in the past few decades. What has brought about the increasing popularity and attendant normalization of factory farms across many parts of the world? What are some of the ways to resist such broad convergences in meat production and how successful are they?

This book locates the answers to these questions at the intersection between the culture, science and political economy of meat production and consumption. It details how and why techniques of production have spread across the world, albeit in a spatially uneven way. It argues that the modern meat production and consumption sphere is the outcome of a complex matrix of cultural politics, economics and technological faith. Drawing from examples across the world (including America, Europe and Asia), the tensions and repercussions of meat production and consumption are also analyzed.

From a geographical perspective, food animals have been given considerably less attention compared to wild animals or pets. This book, framed conceptually by critical animal studies, governmentality and commodification, is a theoretically driven and empirically rich study that advances the study of food animals in geography as well as in the wider social sciences.

Harvey Neo is an associate professor at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. His research interests include the political economy of meat, green urban development and geographies of food. He is an at-large board member of the Animal Geography Specialty Group at the Association of American Geographers, and editor of Geoforum and associate editor of Regional Studies, Regional Science. Jody Emel is a professor at the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, USA. Her research interests include animal geographies, political economy of mining and water resources. Her current research focuses on the political ecology of factory farming. She teaches courses in natural resource development, feminist theory and nature, hydrology, and the relationship between economy and environment.

1. Introduction 2. The Political Economy of Meat: Global Trends and Local Tensions 3. Science, Technology and the Commodification of Food Animals 4. The Global Meat Factory and the Environment 5. The Thanataopolitics of Industrialised Animal Life and Death 6. On Not Eating Meat: Vegetarianism, Science and Advocacy 7. Conclusions, Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.06.2017
Reihe/Serie	Critical Food Studies
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 11 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	430 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-4094-4033-8 / 1409440338
ISBN-13	978-1-4094-4033-8 / 9781409440338
Zustand	Neuware