Nicole Shukin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1192452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole Shukin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole |
| FAMILY NAME | Shukin |
| SIGNATURE | SHUKIN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Biocapital of Living–and the Art of Dying–After Fukushima
After Fukushima, a tiny handful of “refuseniks” defied the government’s orders to evacuate a twenty-kilometer zone around the damaged reactors in the region. Rather than relocating to temporary shelters, several refuseniks remained in the zone to care for livestock who had been abandoned, and whose market value had been ruined by exposure to radiation. This essay formulates their defiance as an “art of dying” in order to amplify its potential to …
Transfections of animal touch, techniques of biosecurity
Animal touch – in the broadest sense, biological touch across species lines – emerges as a biosecurity threat within contemporary contexts of pandemic alert. At the same time, animal touch is increasingly invested with therapeutic, healing value within neoliberal economies of affect. This article develops two genealogies of animal touch toward historicizing the way it has come to mean and matter in the present. The first genealogy traces the prod…
Tense Animals
Tense AnimalsOn Other Species of Pastoral Power Nicole Shukin (bio) Sheep Followers In Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy, the anthropologist Sarah Franklin places the birth of the cloned sheep within a longer line of "biocultural" practices at risk of being disconnected from the present by those who view the transgenic event of Dolly as historically unprecedented (2007, 3). Just as striking as Franklin's efforts to trace a genealogy for D…
The Mimetics of Mobile Capital
Tense Animals
Tense AnimalsOn Other Species of Pastoral Power Nicole Shukin (bio) Sheep Followers In Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy, the anthropologist Sarah Franklin places the birth of the cloned sheep within a longer line of "biocultural" practices at risk of being disconnected from the present by those who view the transgenic event of Dolly as historically unprecedented (2007, 3). Just as striking as Franklin's efforts to trace a genealogy for D…
Transfections of animal touch, techniques of biosecurity
Animal touch – in the broadest sense, biological touch across species lines – emerges as a biosecurity threat within contemporary contexts of pandemic alert. At the same time, animal touch is increasingly invested with therapeutic, healing value within neoliberal economies of affect. This article develops two genealogies of animal touch toward historicizing the way it has come to mean and matter in the present. The first genealogy traces the prod…
The Mimetics of Mobile Capital
The Mimetics of Mobile Capital
Transfections of animal touch, techniques of biosecurity
Animal touch – in the broadest sense, biological touch across species lines – emerges as a biosecurity threat within contemporary contexts of pandemic alert. At the same time, animal touch is increasingly invested with therapeutic, healing value within neoliberal economies of affect. This article develops two genealogies of animal touch toward historicizing the way it has come to mean and matter in the present. The first genealogy traces the prod…
Tense Animals
Tense AnimalsOn Other Species of Pastoral Power Nicole Shukin (bio) Sheep Followers In Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy, the anthropologist Sarah Franklin places the birth of the cloned sheep within a longer line of "biocultural" practices at risk of being disconnected from the present by those who view the transgenic event of Dolly as historically unprecedented (2007, 3). Just as striking as Franklin's efforts to trace a genealogy for D…
The Biocapital of Living–and the Art of Dying–After Fukushima
After Fukushima, a tiny handful of “refuseniks” defied the government’s orders to evacuate a twenty-kilometer zone around the damaged reactors in the region. Rather than relocating to temporary shelters, several refuseniks remained in the zone to care for livestock who had been abandoned, and whose market value had been ruined by exposure to radiation. This essay formulates their defiance as an “art of dying” in order to amplify its potential to …
Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · State (computer science (2 works) · Value (mathematics (2 works) · Algorithm (1 work) · Animal welfare (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work)