Richie Nimmo

Milk, Modernity and the Making of the Human (eBook, ePUB)

Purifying the Social

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Milk, Modernity and the Making of the Human unfolds a fascinating story of the development of the British milk trade to explore how the domain of 'the social' is constituted within practices and relations, which transcend the human world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135259648
• Artikelnr.: 42514514

Autorenporträt

Dr. Richie Nimmo is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK. His research explores the ambiguous status of nonhumans in modern knowledge-practices and the constitution of 'the social' across materially heterogeneous relations, systems and flows.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: modernity, humanity and nonhumans 1. The anthropocentrism of
'culture': a critique of humanist discourse 2. Milk and modernity Part I:
commodities, networks and monopolies 3. Culture, order and disease in late
nineteenth-century British dairying 4. Purifying milk: knowledge,
sanitation and discipline 5. Milk and modernity Part II: measurement,
rationalization and control 6. Beyond 'culture' and 'nature': towards a
post-humanist knowledge