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Disciplining animals

Sentience, Production, and Critique

Bibliographic Data

ID8074096
AuthorsAnna Williams (0000-0002-6182-8923, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume24
Issue9
Pages45-57
Publication date2004-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Sociology and Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0144-333X • E-ISSN: 1758-6720
PublisherEmerald Publishing Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1108/01443330410790768
OpenAlexW1966623801
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited8

This essay critiques the assertion that an appreciation of animal sentience necessarily runs counter to their exploitation as industrial resources. It is argued that the U.S. meatpacking industry has consistently engaged animals as sentient creatures in order to elicit behavior that enhances manufacturing efficiency. This discipline of animals in and around the packing plant is exemplified in Temple Grandin’s “humane” slaughter technologies. The author suggests that even as the representation of these innovations tends to obscure the role of labor in industrial meat production, they demonstrate that discipline is a cross‐species regime, recasting the packing plant as a continuum of violence

Aesthetics · Animal welfare · Archaeology · Assertion · Biology · Creatures · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Production (economics · Sentience · Sociology · Computer Science · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Ecology · History · Philosophy

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Unique citing works18
Citations per year1,13
Citation span2010 - 2026 (17)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 17
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