Porkopolis : American Animality, Standardized Life, and 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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2020.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.