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Making meat collectivities : entanglements of geneticisation, integration and contestation in livestock breeding

Gibbs, David; Holloway, Lewis; Gilna, Ben; Morris, Carol

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Professor Lewis Holloway L.Holloway@hull.ac.uk
Professor of Human Geography. Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise, Faculty of Science and Engineering

Ben Gilna

Carol Morris



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Michael K. Goodman
Editor

Colin Sage
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Abstract

To explore some of the contours of this meat ‘supply chain integration’ - ‘the phrase of the moment’ according to Farmers Weekly - this chapter draws on research conducted as part of a project exploring the effects of the emergence of particular types of genetic knowledge-practice in beef cattle and sheep breeding in the UK and their entanglement with ‘traditional’ ways of knowing and valuing livestock. The research is interested in the production and circulation of genetic knowledge-practices in agriculture, in examining how such knowledge-practices become established and gain legitimacy, how they become tangled up with visual and other traditional knowledge-practices, and in the effects of genetic knowledge-practices on how cattle and sheep are bred and managed and on human-nonhuman animal relationships in livestock farming. The research has increasingly led us to explore the process of ‘geneticisation’ beyond the farm gate, to look at how the establishment of particular genetic truths or ways of rendering ‘life itself’ (Franklin, 2000) are entangled with processes of restructuring and differentiation within UK food systems.

Citation

Gibbs, D., Holloway, L., Gilna, B., & Morris, C. (2014). Making meat collectivities : entanglements of geneticisation, integration and contestation in livestock breeding. In M. K. Goodman, & C. Sage (Eds.), Food Transgressions : Making Sense of Contemporary Food Politics (155-180). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315582702

Online Publication Date Apr 19, 2016
Publication Date Jan 6, 2014
Deposit Date May 18, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Food transgressions
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Pages 155-180
Book Title Food Transgressions : Making Sense of Contemporary Food Politics
Chapter Number 8
ISBN 9780754679707 ; 9781138252608
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315582702
Keywords Supply chain management; Livestock breeding
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/438342
Publisher URL Details of the book are available at https://www.routledge.com/Food-Transgressions-Making-Sense-of-Contemporary-Food-Politics/Goodman-Sage/p/book/9781138252608

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