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Interpreting Meat: Theorizing the Commodification and Consumption of Animals

Interpreting Meat: Theorizing the Commodification and Consumption of Animals

Duncan, Teddy

Paperback

AgricultureZoology

ISBN10: 1476694265
ISBN13: 9781476694269
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Dec 27 2024
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Meat is the essential object dislodged in human-animal relations: in its commonplace, everyday ubiquity and distanced violence, it defies the innocuous or protective-paternalistic stance that we ordinarily take towards animals. Through looking at meat's status as a fundamental and visceral part of human-animal relations--particularly its commodification and consumption--this book exhibits how animals fit into human discursive practices and how this discursive position determines our perspective of animals and, subsequently, our treatment of them. Modernity is a distinct stage of meat production and accordingly, the meat-commodity must be examined in all its contemporary specificity as an economic, linguistic, philosophical, psychoanalytic, and material object. Using theoretical prisms that have been largely overlooked in animal studies, such as Marxian analysis and Lacanian-Zizekian psychoanalysis, and rejecting popular approaches, such as analogical thinking and effacement of human-animal difference, this book offers new insights into the meat-commodity--and new ways to orient ourselves towards animal life and death.

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