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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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Autor principal: Blanchette, Alex (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
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.