Muck and magic
Cultural transformations in the world of farm animal veterinary surgeons
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2402295 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lindsay Hamilton (0000-0002-1253-171X, Keele University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 485-501 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-1381 • E-ISSN: 1741-2714 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1466138107083564 |
| OpenAlex | W2112084441 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 9 |
While the presence of muck, dirt and animal detritus is a quotidian and generally unremarkable feature of everyday working life for farm vets, it has special relevance to social scientists seeking to understand how they assemble their professional identities. But the cultural significance of muck and mess as a material condition of working life for vets - and other professionals more generally - has been largely under-theorized by researchers and demands further ethnographic analysis. Drawing on Bourdieu's concepts of symbolic and cultural capital, as well as anthropological insights informed by the sociology of science, this article explores the meanings that one group of farm vets ascribe to muck. The ethnographic account that follows seeks to reveal the ways in which the presence of muck, mess and disorder functions as a cultural artefact bestowing power and prestige that both structures and regulates the vets' social and professional relations
Aesthetics · Cultural capital · Dirt · Environmental ethics · Ethnography · Muck · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Prestige · Social science · Sociology · Symbolic power · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Ecology
People Writing for Animals
Sensory Methods
Hybrids of Method
Feline politics in organization
Making the Familiar Strange
The Joy of Pests
Professional orientation in back region humor
Interrelated agencies in an animal-centred organisation
The significance of donkey droppings
The animal
Hefted
Protecting the Self
Working out
And the Winner Is - Anthropocentrism and Speciesism
The sensorium and fleshy schools
Practice makes perfect? Skillful performances in veterinary work
There goes the neighborhood
Academic “Dirty Work
The Magic of Mundane Objects
The Sensorium at Work
Killing Them 'Softly
Can Dirty Work be Satisfying? A Mixed Method Study of Workers Doing Dirty Jobs
Animals, veterinarians and the sociology of diagnosis
Ethnography in evolution
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,41 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |