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Porkopolis : American animality, standardized life, & the factory farm /

"PORKOPOLIS is an ethnographic account of hog production in "Dixon," a 15,000-resident agribusiness town in the Great Plains. In Dixon, where nearly 5,600,000 hogs are killed a year, human life has been reorganized around the life and death cycles of porcine production. Alex Blanchett...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Blanchette, Alex (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
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505 0 |a Boar. The Dover Flies -- The Herd : Intimate Biosecurity and Posthuman Labor -- Sow. Somos Puercos -- Stimulation : Instincts in Production -- Hog. Lutalyse -- Stockperson : Love, Muscles, and the Industrial Runt -- Carcass. Miss Wicked -- Biological System : Breaking In at the End of Industrial Time -- Viscera. Maybe Some Blood, but Mostly Grease -- Lifecycle : On Using All of the Porcine Species -- Epilogue: The (De- )Pigification of the World. 
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