Beyond Exotic Wet Markets
Covid-19 Ecologies in the Global Meat-Processing Industry in Brazil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8073469 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Segata (0000-0002-2544-0745, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, corresponding author), Luiza Beck (0000-0002-6835-8370, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Luísa Muccillo (0000-0002-1835-3336, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 94-114 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | eTropic electronic journal of studies in the tropics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1448-2940 • E-ISSN: 1448-2940 |
| Publisher | James Cook University (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.25120/etropic.20.1.2021.3794 |
| OpenAlex | W3156870508 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 23 |
In this article we argue that the overvaluation of exotic narratives about wild animal consumption and wet markets conceals how the global agribusiness establishes unhealthy ecologies. Increasing infection rates from the new coronavirus registered among meat industry workers, their families, and the community, resulted in the suspension of several establishments in this sector in Brazil. If the meat processing industry cannot be considered entirely safe, why are risks to health, morality, and civility often represented by the unregulated practices of wet markets considered exotic? This paper shows that the global meat processing industry weaves a myriad of intimate encounters between humans, animals, highly toxic chemicals, organic waste, and precarious work relationships. They are unhealthy ecologies where coexistence, infection, risk, and death are always involved. We suggest a multispecies approach to analyse and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic; instead of the exaltation of contagion and the boundaries of contention, there needs to be an effort to establish integrated policies for the health and joint care of humans, animals, and environments
Business · Civility · Consumption (sociology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Meat packing industry · Pandemic · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Law · Medicine · Zoonotic diseases and public health
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Um vetor de ciência, tecnologia e governo da vida
Centring a critical medical anthropology of Covid-19 in global health discourse
Ungesunde Ökologien, prekäre Arbeit und Pandemie in der globalisierten Fleischindustrie im Süden Brasiliens
The Plantation as Hotspot
Wixárika Practices of Medical Syncretism
Situating Latin American Critical Epidemiology in the Anthropocene
Memória do capitalismo como ausência
Pandemic, Plague, Pestilence and the Tropics
Covid-19 in Brazil
Exposed Animal Bodies
Covid-19 and disaster capitalism
Unprepared
The Syndemics and Structural Violence of the Covid Pandemic
The proximal origin of Sars-CoV-2
The Pandemic Perhaps
Porkopolis
Zoonosis
Margens Indomáveis
Humans, Animals, and Health
Saúde e migrações
Covid-19, biossegurança e antropologia
As biosseguranças e suas antropologias
A partilha do sofrimento
On the Verge of Death
The Emergence of Multispecies Ethnography
Post-Pasteurian Cultures
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |