Exploring the human-animal-technology nexus: power relations and divergent conduct. The example of automated dairy farming. (2021)
Book Chapter
Holloway, L., & Bear, C. (2021). Exploring the human-animal-technology nexus: power relations and divergent conduct. The example of automated dairy farming. In A. Hovorka, S. McCubbin, & L. Van Patter (Eds.), A Research Agenda for Animal Geographies (55-68). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979993.00010

This chapter develops an agenda for discussing less-than-convivial more-than-human relations. It reviews existing work on such relations before developing a terminology of ‘divergent conduct’ aiming to better express such relationships. The chapter u... Read More about Exploring the human-animal-technology nexus: power relations and divergent conduct. The example of automated dairy farming..

Biopower, heterogeneous biosocial collectivities and domestic livestock breeding (2017)
Book Chapter
Foucault and Animals (239-259). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004332232_012

This chapter explores Foucault’s concept of biopower and its focus on the regulation and fostering of life. It examines the analytical potential of Foucault’s anthropocentric conceptualisation in examples involving nonhuman animals. Specifically, it... Read More about Biopower, heterogeneous biosocial collectivities and domestic livestock breeding.

Biopower and an ecology of genes : seeing livestock as meat via genetics (2015)
Book Chapter
Holloway, L. (2015). Biopower and an ecology of genes : seeing livestock as meat via genetics. In J. Emel, & H. Neo (Eds.), Political Ecologies of Meat (178-194). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315818283

This book chapter focuses on some of the implications of what has been represented as a radical change in livestock breeding for thinking about meat in relation to living farm animals: the use of genetic techniques in selecting breeding animals. The... Read More about Biopower and an ecology of genes : seeing livestock as meat via genetics.

The contested aesthetics of farmed animals : visual and genetic views of the body (2015)
Book Chapter
Holloway, L., & Morris, C. (2015). The contested aesthetics of farmed animals : visual and genetic views of the body. In E. Straughan, & H. Hawkins (Eds.), Geographical Aesthetics: Imagining Space, Staging Encounters (267-281). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315584355-20

Farmed animals have long been the subject of aesthetic appreciation. They are valued for their particular contribution to the aesthetics of agricultural landscapes and can act as important visual signifiers of geographical locality (Evans and Yarwood... Read More about The contested aesthetics of farmed animals : visual and genetic views of the body.

Making meat collectivities : entanglements of geneticisation, integration and contestation in livestock breeding (2014)
Book Chapter
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

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 type... Read More about Making meat collectivities : entanglements of geneticisation, integration and contestation in livestock breeding.