Meat culture / / edited by Annie Potts.

The analysis of meat and its place in Western culture has been central to Human-Animal Studies as a field. It is even more urgent now as global meat and dairy production are projected to rise dramatically by 2050. While the term ‘carnism’ denotes the invisible belief system (or ideology) that natura...

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Superior document:Human-Animal Studies, Volume 17
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, [The Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Human-animal studies ; Volume 17.
Physical Description:1 online resource (308 pages).
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 What is Meat Culture? / Annie Potts
  • 2 Derrida and The Sexual Politics of Meat / Carol J. Adams and Matthew Calarco
  • 3 Rotten to the Bone: Discourses of Contamination and Purity in the European Horsemeat Scandal / Nik Taylor and Jordan McKenzie
  • 4 Live Exports, Animal Advocacy, Race and ‘Animal Nationalism’ / Jacqueline Dalziell and Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel
  • 5 The Whopper Virgins: Hamburgers, Gender, and Xenophobia in Burger King’s Hamburger Advertising / Vasile Stănescu
  • 6 With Care for Cows and a Love for Milk: Affect and Performance in Swedish Dairy Industry Marketing Strategies / Tobias Linné and Helena Pedersen
  • 7 “Peace and Quiet and Open Air”: The Old Cow Project / Melissa Boyde
  • 8 “Do You Know Where the Light Is?” Factory Farming and Industrial Slaughter in Michel Faber’s Under the Skin / Kirsty Dunn
  • 9 Down on the Farm: Why do Artists Avoid ‘Farm’ Animals as Subject Matter? / Yvette Watt
  • 10 The Provocative Elitism of ‘Personhood’ for Nonhuman Creatures in Animal Advocacy Parlance and Polemics / Karen Davis
  • 11 “I Need Fish Fingers and Custard”: The Irruption and Suppression of Vegan Ethics in Doctor Who / Matthew Cole and Kate Stewart
  • 12 On Ambivalence and Resistance: Carnism and Diet in Multi-species Households / Erika Cudworth
  • 13 Negotiating Social Relationships in the Transition to Vegan Eating Practices / Richard Twine
  • 14 Critical Ecofeminism: Interrogating ‘Meat,’ ‘Species,’ and ‘Plant’ / Greta Gaard
  • Index.