Pigs and People

Sociological Perspectives on the Discipline of Nonhuman Animals in Intensive Confinement

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12418754
AutoresJoel Novek (autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen13
Número3
Páginas221-244
Fecha de publicación2005-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociety and Animals (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1063-1119 • E-ISSN: 1568-5306
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/1568530054927771
OpenAlexW1975111765
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas12

Highly concentrated intensive confinement systems have become the norm in agriculture concerning nonhuman animals. These systems have provoked a lively debate from an animal welfare perspective. Sociologists can contribute to this debate by drawing parallels between the institutional regulation of human beings and of animals under confinement. Results of research on the transformation of Canadian hog production from the 1950s to the present—based on the evolution of plans for sow housing produced by the Canada Plan Service—showed a much tighter compression of hog bodies and reproduction in space and time. The prevalence of behavioral stereotypes, however, indicates imperfect animal socialization and reconfiguration. The concept of discipline is a useful perspective that could bridge the gap between the regulations of humans in industrial societies and of pigs in intensive confinement. This concept derived from elements of labor process and Foucauldian and post-humanist theories

Animal welfare · Biology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Humanism · Industrial society · Norm (philosophy · Operations management · Parallels · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Reproduction · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies · Anthropology · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Organic Food and Agriculture · Ecology