Lewis Holloway
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 297919 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lewis Holloway |
| NOMBRES | Lewis |
| APELLIDO | Holloway |
| FIRMA | HOLLOWAY L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Hull |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6947-6301 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 831 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 18 |
Making a mark on the farm
Farmed animals are expected to move through farmed spaces in certain ways to maximise their productivity. These spaces are also designed to limit the movement of disease-causing organisms. However, both types of lifeforms do not always move in expected ways. We focus on the mark-making of these organisms to explore: 1) the evidence of their movements through farm spaces; and 2) the effects of these movements on managing farm animal disease. We ex…
Animal health and welfare as a public good
This paper presents a novel perspective on an evolving policy area. The UK's withdrawal from the EU has led to the creation of a new Agriculture Act and proposals for significant changes to the way farming subsidies are structured in England. Underpinned by a 'public money for public goods' approach, where public goods are those outputs from the farm system which are not rewarded by markets, yet which provide benefits to many members of society. …
Lively commodities and endemic diseases
The concept of ‘lively commodities’ captures how aspects of the life of certain entities affect their commodification and exchange within capitalist economic systems. Their status as being, or comprised of, living things matters to their commodification in different ways in particular places and spaces and at particular times. This paper uses the empirical example of diseased farmed animals in the north of England to examine the effects of suscep…
Interspecies encounters with endemic health conditions
This article focuses on the relationships between people and farmed nonhuman animals, and between these animals and the farmed environments they encounter, in the enactment of interspecies endemic disease situations. It examines how the nonhuman embodied capacities, agency and subjectivities of cows and sheep on farms in the north of England make a difference to how the endemic conditions of lameness and bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) are encounter…
The application of a sentiment analysis approach to explore public understandings of animal agriculture
Ideas about farming are important components of consumers' value judgements about the foods they purchase and consume. Nevertheless, a divide exists between public perceptions and the realities of agricultural practices. We take a novel approach, using sentiment analysis, amongst other methods, to explore what consumers think about farming and how the visual elements of agricultural images might contribute to these perceptions. Data were drawn fr…
Living with cows, sheep and endemic disease in the North of England
This paper engages with debates surrounding practices of care in complex situations where human and non-human lives are entangled. Focusing on the embodied practices of care involving farmers, their advisers and cows and sheep in the North of England, the paper explores how biosocial collectivities fabricate care around endemic health conditions in specific farming situations. Based on in-depth research with farmers and advisers, the paper examin…
Changing interventions in farm animal health and welfare
Lameness is a significant health and welfare issue in farmed animals. This paper uses a governmentality approach, which focuses on how a problem is made governable, to examine an emerging 'ecology of devices' introduced to intervene in, and attempt to reduce, on-farm incidence of lameness. These devices are associated with advisers who work with farmers on-farm; they enact lameness as a governable entity, are tools to assess the existence of lame…
What are the priority research questions for digital agriculture
There is a need to identify key existing and emerging issues relevant to digitalisation in agricultural production that would benefit from a stronger evidence base and help steer policy formulation. To address this, a prioritisation exercise was undertaken to identify priority research questions concerning digital agriculture in the UK, but with a view to also informing international contexts. The prioritisation exercise uses an established and e…
Covid-19 and a shifted perspective on infectious farm animal disease research
Beyond resistance
Smallholder knowledge-practices and smallholding animals
From experience economy to experience landscape
This paper outlines a research agenda focused on the development of “experience landscapes” for outdoor leisure practices. It uses the example of trail centres for mountain biking to highlight the importance of examining embodied experience and human–technology hybridity in understanding participation in active outdoor pursuits. We propose that such experience landscapes are being created as part of a broader shift towards an experience economy, …
Biopower, Heterogeneous Biosocial Collectivities and Domestic Livestock Breeding
This chapter explores Foucault’s concept of biopower and its focus on the regulation and fostering of life. It examines the analytical potential of Foucault’s anthropocentric conceptualisation in examples involving nonhuman animals. Specifically, it explores the empirical case study of livestock breeding in the UK, focusing on the increasing use of ‘genetic’ knowledge-practices in this context. It is argued that genetic techniques represent new w…
Bovine and human becomings in histories of dairy technologies
This paper positions the recent emergence of robotic or automatic milking systems (AMS) in relation to discourses surrounding the longer history of milking technologies in the UK and elsewhere. The mechanization of milking has been associated with sets of hopes and anxieties which permeated the transition from hand to increasingly automated forms of milking. This transition has affected the relationships between humans and cows on dairy farms, pr…
Visualizing Human-Animal-Technology Relations
This paper explores the potential for less anthropocentric approaches to researching human-nonhuman relations through visual ethnography, critically examining the conceptualization of nonhuman animals as participants. Arguing that method in animal studies has developed more slowly than theory, it proposes visual approaches as a way of foregrounding nonhuman animals’ behavior and actions in “social” research. Questioning the meaning of “participat…
Technology and Restructuring the Social Field of Dairy Farming
UsingAutomaticMilkingSystems (AMS) as an example we use the work ofBourdieu to illustrate how technology can be seen as restructuring dairy farming practices, what it is to be a dairy farmer, and the wider field of dairy farming. Approaching technology in this way and drawing upon the 'thinking tools' ofPierreBourdieu, namely field, capital and habitus, the article critically examines the relevance ofBourdieu's thought to the study of technology.…
Country Life
Rural areas have long been spaces of technological experimentation, development and resistance. In the UK, this is especially true in the post-second world war era of productivist food regimes, characterised by moves to intensification. The technologies that have developed have variously aimed to increase yields, automate previously manual tasks, and create new forms of life. This review focuses on the relationships between agricultural technolog…
Animals, technologies and people in rural spaces
Viewing animal bodies
This paper focuses on the production of aesthetic ‘truths’ in UK livestock breeding, drawing on detailed qualitative research with breeders and breed societies. It extends emerging interest in the aesthetic in human geographical research, examining how aesthetic judgements about non-human animals depend, in part, on the agency of the animal and their inter-subjective relations with humans in specific places. Aesthetic evaluation further produces …
More‐than‐urban ecosystems, socioecological flows and the problems with boundaries
Re-capturing bovine life
Genetics and livestock breeding in the UK
Robotic milking technologies and renegotiating situated ethical relationships on UK dairy farms
Contesting Genetic Knowledge-Practices in Livestock Breeding
Cattle and sheep breeders in the UK and elsewhere increasingly draw on genetic techniques in order to make breeding decisions. Many breeders support such techniques, while others argue against them for a variety of reasons, including their preference for the 'traditions' of visual-based and pedigree-based selections. Meanwhile, even for those institutions and breeders who promote genetic techniques, the outcomes are not always as predicted. We bu…
DNA Typing and Super Dairies
Subjecting Cows to Robots
Recent representations of human-animal relationships in farming have tended to focus on human experience, and to essentialise animal subjectivity in granting them a centred subjectivity akin to that assumed to be possessed by humans. Instead, this paper develops an understanding of the coproduction of domestic livestock animal subjectivities and the technologies used in farming domestic livestock animals, based on an analysis of texts produced by…
Biopower, genetics and livestock breeding
Genetic techniques have become increasingly prevalent in livestock breeding, associated with new types of knowledge‐practice and changes in the institutional and geographical relationships related to animal husbandry. This paper examines the value of Foucault’s concept of ‘biopower’ to theorising livestock breeding and the implications of the rise of genetic knowledge‐practices in agriculture, developing the concept to apply to nonhuman animals a…
Pets and protein
Re-capturing bovine life
Reading the Space of the Framers 'Market
The aim of this paper is to begin to examine the emergence of Farmers' Markets (FM)in the UK. It is suggested that FM represent a new type of 'consumption space' within the contemporary British foodscape, one which may be read as a heterotopic convergence of localist, moral, ethical and environmental discourses,mediated by networks of producers, consumers and institutions. Based on a preliminary analysis of some of the discourses employed by thes…
Possible Food Economies
Modes of food production-consumption defined as 'alternative' have received considerable academic attention, with studies exploring both their potential for contributing to rural development strategies and the opportunities they provide for countering established power relations in food supply systems. However, the use of the term 'alternative' as part of a persistent dualism in which it is opposed to the 'conventional' is problematic as it loses…
Beyond resistance
Contesting Genetic Knowledge-Practices in Livestock Breeding
Cattle and sheep breeders in the UK and elsewhere increasingly draw on genetic techniques in order to make breeding decisions. Many breeders support such techniques, while others argue against them for a variety of reasons, including their preference for the 'traditions' of visual-based and pedigree-based selections. Meanwhile, even for those institutions and breeders who promote genetic techniques, the outcomes are not always as predicted. We bu…
Boosted bodies
Aesthetics, Genetics, and Evaluating Animal Bodies
In this paper I examine intertwined modes of bodily evaluation and genetic understanding evident in relation to 'modernising' tendencies in contemporary agriculture, using a case study of pedigree cattle breeding. These modes afford different perspectives on the same bodies. Visual evaluation is associated with aesthetic appreciation of physically present animal bodies, and takes on a particular intensity in the ritual of judging during agricultu…
Robotic milking technologies and renegotiating situated ethical relationships on UK dairy farms
Ethical Foodscapes
Ethical foodscapes?: premises, promises, and possibilities That food is good to `think' as much as eat, is most certainly true.Yet, it is even more true that `good' food is even better to both think and feel with (and sometimes eat) at the moment, particularly in an era of food scares, continuing poverty, a supposed `obesity crisis', debates concerning food (in)security and food sovereignty, and environmental degradation.In short, the good food `…
Genetic technologies and the transformation of the geographies of UK livestock agriculture
This paper presents an agenda for research into the geographies of UK livestock agriculture as these are being reconfigured through the increasing intervention of genetic techniques and technologies. After discussing three particular techniques, four areas of research are identified. The first three relate to different spaces and scales at which the effects of genetic techniques can be examined: the animal body and animal-human relationships; the…
Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food
Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food presents a detailed and empirically grounded analysis of alternatives to current models of food provision. The book offers insights into the identities, motives and practices of individuals engaged in reconnecting producers, consumers and food. Arguing for a critical revaluation of the meanings of choice and convenience, Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food provides evidence to support the construc…
Showing and telling farming
Managing sustainable farmed landscape through 'alternative' food networks
This paper focuses on a case study of an 'alternative' food network based in the Abruzzo National Park, Italy, to explore how ideas of sustainable farmland management can be expressed through broader understandings of developing networks of care concerned with local economies and societies, high-quality specialist food products, particular 'traditional' farming practices and livestock breeds, as well as the ecology of a farmed landscape. The sche…
Visualizing Human-Animal-Technology Relations
This paper explores the potential for less anthropocentric approaches to researching human-nonhuman relations through visual ethnography, critically examining the conceptualization of nonhuman animals as participants. Arguing that method in animal studies has developed more slowly than theory, it proposes visual approaches as a way of foregrounding nonhuman animals’ behavior and actions in “social” research. Questioning the meaning of “participat…
Viewing animal bodies
This paper focuses on the production of aesthetic ‘truths’ in UK livestock breeding, drawing on detailed qualitative research with breeders and breed societies. It extends emerging interest in the aesthetic in human geographical research, examining how aesthetic judgements about non-human animals depend, in part, on the agency of the animal and their inter-subjective relations with humans in specific places. Aesthetic evaluation further produces …
Researching European ‘alternative’ food networks
Recent European literature on ‘alternative’ food networks (AFNs) draws heavily upon an apparently accessible and diverse body of non‐conventional food networks in the agro‐food sector and whilst researchers frequently refer to individual examples of farmers markets, box schemes, producer cooperatives and community‐supported agriculture projects, less attention is given to the methodological processes that facilitate the identification and examina…
Bovine and human becomings in histories of dairy technologies
This paper positions the recent emergence of robotic or automatic milking systems (AMS) in relation to discourses surrounding the longer history of milking technologies in the UK and elsewhere. The mechanization of milking has been associated with sets of hopes and anxieties which permeated the transition from hand to increasingly automated forms of milking. This transition has affected the relationships between humans and cows on dairy farms, pr…
Genetics and livestock breeding in the UK
Choosing and rejecting cattle and sheep
Property matters
Technology and Restructuring the Social Field of Dairy Farming
UsingAutomaticMilkingSystems (AMS) as an example we use the work ofBourdieu to illustrate how technology can be seen as restructuring dairy farming practices, what it is to be a dairy farmer, and the wider field of dairy farming. Approaching technology in this way and drawing upon the 'thinking tools' ofPierreBourdieu, namely field, capital and habitus, the article critically examines the relevance ofBourdieu's thought to the study of technology.…
The Geography of Organic Farming in England and Wales in the 1990s
Little research has been conducted on the changing geographical distribution of organic farming in England and Wales in the 1990s. Using officially published secondary data, this paper examines the changing patterns of organic farming between 1993 and 1997, based on the number of organic farms, the area devoted to organic farming, the number of exits from and conversions to organic farming, and specific organic enterprises. The analysis indicates…
Global warming and navy beans
Uk Vining Pea Growers‘ and Freezers’ Responses to Potential Global Warming
Global warming from anthropogenic emissions of ‘greenhouse gases’ is expected to become apparent and this will impact upon existing agricultural production and farm management systems. At the same time, farm businesses are becoming increasingly integrated into a food production system whereby on‐farm production is, in the case of some agricultural products, greatly influenced by external agencies such as food processing companies. This article us…
The Geography of Organic Farming in England and Wales in the 1990s
Little research has been conducted on the changing geographical distribution of organic farming in England and Wales in the 1990s. Using officially published secondary data, this paper examines the changing patterns of organic farming between 1993 and 1997, based on the number of organic farms, the area devoted to organic farming, the number of exits from and conversions to organic farming, and specific organic enterprises. The analysis indicates…
Understanding Climate Change and Farming
The construction and translation of 'global warming' in relation to agriculture is discussed. Scientific construction of global warming as an issue is examined in relation to farmers' understanding of scientific discourse and their translation of that understanding through lay knowledge of their own locally specific experiences and contexts. The author demonstrates that scientific researchers construct environmental issues such as global warming …
Hell on earth and paradise all at the same time’
This paper begins to develop an analysis of the geography of smallholding, as a contribution to developing interest in cultural geographies of farming and the nature of the ‘post‐productivist’ countryside. The paper uses evidence from a survey of UK smallholders to suggest that they are in a paradoxical position in relation to ideas about ‘real’ farming, production and consumption, leisure and work. Smallholder identity is revealed as constituted…
Reading the Space of the Framers 'Market
The aim of this paper is to begin to examine the emergence of Farmers' Markets (FM)in the UK. It is suggested that FM represent a new type of 'consumption space' within the contemporary British foodscape, one which may be read as a heterotopic convergence of localist, moral, ethical and environmental discourses,mediated by networks of producers, consumers and institutions. Based on a preliminary analysis of some of the discourses employed by thes…
Pets and protein
Smallholding, Hobby-Farming, and Commercial Farming
This paper explores the production of farming identities and spaces, focusing especially on the relational construction of situated ethical identities. Using three case studies drawn from research with very small-scale farmers, the author examines processes of identification, drawing on ideas which suggest the importance of encounter, farming discourse, physical relation and heterogeneous association in the emergence of ethical identity in specif…
Virtual vegetables and adopted sheep
Associating ideas related to cultural geographies of ‘quality’ food production and consumption with recent discussion of Internet technologies, virtuality and simulation, this paper examines two newly constituted Internet enterprises offering customers ‘virtual’ experiences of food production, and ‘quality’ food products in which they have invested. The paper shows how these enterprises are associated with particular types of geographical and eth…
What a Thing, then, is this Cow
This paper focuses on the positioning of animals other than human in the texts and practices of two versions of small-scale food "self-sufficiency" in Britain. The paper discusses the writings of Cobbett (1822/1926, 1830/1985) and Seymour (1960s/1970s) on self-sufficiency, suggesting that livestock animals are central, in a number of ways, to the constitution of these modes of self-sufficiency. First, animals are situated in both the texts and in…
Showing and telling farming
Taking stock
Aesthetics, Genetics, and Evaluating Animal Bodies
In this paper I examine intertwined modes of bodily evaluation and genetic understanding evident in relation to 'modernising' tendencies in contemporary agriculture, using a case study of pedigree cattle breeding. These modes afford different perspectives on the same bodies. Visual evaluation is associated with aesthetic appreciation of physically present animal bodies, and takes on a particular intensity in the ritual of judging during agricultu…
Researching European ‘alternative’ food networks
Recent European literature on ‘alternative’ food networks (AFNs) draws heavily upon an apparently accessible and diverse body of non‐conventional food networks in the agro‐food sector and whilst researchers frequently refer to individual examples of farmers markets, box schemes, producer cooperatives and community‐supported agriculture projects, less attention is given to the methodological processes that facilitate the identification and examina…
Managing sustainable farmed landscape through 'alternative' food networks
This paper focuses on a case study of an 'alternative' food network based in the Abruzzo National Park, Italy, to explore how ideas of sustainable farmland management can be expressed through broader understandings of developing networks of care concerned with local economies and societies, high-quality specialist food products, particular 'traditional' farming practices and livestock breeds, as well as the ecology of a farmed landscape. The sche…
Subjecting Cows to Robots
Recent representations of human-animal relationships in farming have tended to focus on human experience, and to essentialise animal subjectivity in granting them a centred subjectivity akin to that assumed to be possessed by humans. Instead, this paper develops an understanding of the coproduction of domestic livestock animal subjectivities and the technologies used in farming domestic livestock animals, based on an analysis of texts produced by…
Possible Food Economies
Modes of food production-consumption defined as 'alternative' have received considerable academic attention, with studies exploring both their potential for contributing to rural development strategies and the opportunities they provide for countering established power relations in food supply systems. However, the use of the term 'alternative' as part of a persistent dualism in which it is opposed to the 'conventional' is problematic as it loses…
Genetic technologies and the transformation of the geographies of UK livestock agriculture
This paper presents an agenda for research into the geographies of UK livestock agriculture as these are being reconfigured through the increasing intervention of genetic techniques and technologies. After discussing three particular techniques, four areas of research are identified. The first three relate to different spaces and scales at which the effects of genetic techniques can be examined: the animal body and animal-human relationships; the…
Boosted bodies
Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food
Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food presents a detailed and empirically grounded analysis of alternatives to current models of food provision. The book offers insights into the identities, motives and practices of individuals engaged in reconnecting producers, consumers and food. Arguing for a critical revaluation of the meanings of choice and convenience, Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food provides evidence to support the construc…
Implementing Pillar II of the Common Agricultural Policy in England
Property matters
Genetic techniques for livestock breeding
Biopower, genetics and livestock breeding
Genetic techniques have become increasingly prevalent in livestock breeding, associated with new types of knowledge‐practice and changes in the institutional and geographical relationships related to animal husbandry. This paper examines the value of Foucault’s concept of ‘biopower’ to theorising livestock breeding and the implications of the rise of genetic knowledge‐practices in agriculture, developing the concept to apply to nonhuman animals a…
Doing Food Differently
(this article did not have an abstract)
Sociology (34 obras) · Political science (31 obras) · Agriculture (29 obras) · Biology (26 obras) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (26 obras) · Ecology (22 obras) · Geography (22 obras) · Business (21 obras) · Economics (18 obras) · Computer Science (16 obras)