Political Ecologies of Meat (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Emel, Jody; Neo, Harvey

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book tackles the key issues of contemporary meat production and consumption through a lens of political ecology, which emphasizes the power relations producing particular social, economic and cultural interactions with non-human nature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317816416
• Artikelnr.: 42884485

Autorenporträt

Jody Emel is Professor of Geography at Clark University, USA. Harvey Neo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Alice J. Hovorka 1. Introduction Jody Emel and Harvey Neo Part 1:
The 'Livestock Revolution': Geographies and Implications 2. Evolution of a
Revolution: Meat Consumption and Livestock Production in the Developing
World Ian MacLachlan 3. Cattle ranching development in the Brazilian
Amazon: Looking at Long-term Trends to Explore the Transition towards
Sustainable Beef Cattle Production Pablo Pacheco and Rene Poccard-Chapuis
4. The Political Ecology of Factory Farming in East Africa Elizabeth
Waithanji 5. A Changing Environment for Livestock in South Africa Emma R.M.
Archer van Garderen, Charles L. Davis and Mark A. Tadross Part 2:
Environmental Justice and Meat Production/Consumption 6. Meat and
Inequality: Environmental Health Consequences of Livestock Agribusiness
Ryan Gunderson 7. Can't Go to the Fountain No More: Pigs, Nitrates and
Spring Water Pollution in Catalonia David Sauri and Hug March 8.
Environmental Injustice in the Spatial Distribution of Concentrated Animal
Feeding Operations: A Case Study from Ohio, USA Julia Lenhardt and Yelena
Ogneva-Himmelberger 9. Neoliberal Governance and Environmental Risk:
'Normal Accidents' in North Carolina's Hog Industry Elizabeth Stoddard
Part 3: Biopolitics, Knowledge, and the Materialism of Meat 10. Breed
Contra Beef: the Making of the Piedmontese Cattle Annalisa Colombino and
Paolo Giaccaria 11. Biopower and an Ecology of Genes: Seeing Livestock as
Meat via Genetics Lewis Holloway 12. Cows, Climate and the Media Keith Lee,
Joshua P. Newell, Jennifer R. Wolch and Pascale Joassart Marcelli 13. The
Political Science of Farm Animal Welfare in the US and EU Connie Johnston
14. Battling the Head and the Heart: Constructing Knowledgeable Narratives
of Vegetarianism in Anti-meat Advocacy Harvey Neo Part 4: The Governance of
Meat Production Systems 15. Producing Halal Meat: the Case of Halal
Slaughter Practices in Wales, UK Mara Miele and Karolina Rucinska 16.
Roundtabling and the Greening of the Global Beef Industry: Lessons from the
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Adrienne Johnson 17. Contesting
Urban Agriculture: the Politics of Meat Production in the License-Buy-Back
Scheme (2006-2007) in Hong Kong Kin Wing Chan 18. Complications and
Implications of Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Livestock Chris
Rosin and Mark H. Cooper 19. Domestic Farmed Fish Production: An Overview
of Governance and Oversight in the US Aquaculture Industry Paula Daniels
and Colleen McKinney 20. Conclusion Jody Emel and Harvey Neo