When Contexts Meet

Feminism and Accountability in UK Cattle Farming

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5337232
AutoresVicky Singleton (0000-0002-1289-0835, Lancaster University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen37
Número4
Páginas404-433
Fecha de publicación2012-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0162243911418536
OpenAlexW2165237405
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas43
Referencias citadas26

The article discusses three versions of context. First, UK Government legislation, the British Cattle Tracing System (CTS), as a context that frames and guides good farming practices to promote accountability for cattle movements and to control disease. It describes how the legislative context creates particular constructions of farmers, cows, and good and bad farming practices. Second, the article creates context as the local farm-based practices of cattle movement and monitoring. Differences and similarities between the legislative requirements and the farm-based practices are discussed. The farming practices are primarily practices of responsibility and care that are embodied, relational, collective, and responsive. The article draws upon feminist insights into responsibility and accountability that accountability is mundane practices of touch, regard, looking back, and becoming with. Thereby, the article creates a third context in which local farming practices, legislation, and feminism meet and interact with one another. Within this "meta-context" of interferences between contexts, accountability is revisioned as the very condition of farm-based practices of care and responsibility. At the same time, the article revisions context as emergent in interferences and enacts alternative versions of farmers, cows, and good and bad practices

Accountability · Best practice · Context (archaeology · Geography · Legislation · Legislature · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism