Andrea Petitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 127354 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Petitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Petitt |
| SIGNATURE | PETITT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3811-0531 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Artful Multispecies Ethnography: Reflections from Ongoing Practices
We propose to discuss the importance of artistic methods during the three stages of scientific research: data collection, analysis, and dissemination of results. Using examples from our own practice, we show how these methods help us to see, hear and feel better in our fieldwork, how they can amplify and enrich our analyses, and how they allow us to reach a wider audience, including those who have been our informants in the field. Artistic method…
Conceptualizing the multispecies triad: Toward a multispecies intersectionality
Feminist and multispecies anthropologies have decentered those most visible to appreciate the perspectives of those othered in society—but also to better understand society at large. This article goes beyond decentering the human toward decentering another analytical focus: the species dyad. Building on previous work on gender–species intersectionality and multispecies ethnography, as well as drawing on a set of five ethnographic and multispecies…
At arm’s length until otherwise told
Zoocialization: Learning Together, Becoming Together in a Multispecies Triad
Herding cattle across the landscape requires three species – horse, cattle, and human – to move together in a goal-orientated, albeit human-centered, activity. In this multispecies activity, they must synchronize through embodied communication and develop a shared understanding of moving conjointly. Together, all three species are socialized, or “zoocialized,” to learn to engage in a shared community of communication where they develop a sense of…
Evidence of resilience capacity in farmers’ narratives: Accounts of robustness, adaptability and transformability across five different European farming systems
Understanding farm generational renewal and its influencing factors in Europe
Understanding the complex process of generational renewal (GR) in agriculture is essential for supporting the continuation of farming. This paper demonstrates how multiple factors, simultaneously and through their mutual interactions, influence GR and related individual decision-making processes. Results originated from 155 in-depth interviews performed on 85 farms in eleven European regions, and were triangulated with the literature. Our analysi…
Women and Cattle “Becoming-With” in Botswana
Cattle are paramount to lives, livelihoods and landscapes in Botswana. Human-cattle relations emerge and evolve through historically-situated social relations of power based on gender, ethnicity, and class. Our paper explores intersectional human-cattle relations in Botswana within the contemporary period of enhanced commercialization. Specifically, with data from participant observation and semi-structured interviews with women cattle owners in …
Designing Cattle: The Social Practice of Constructing Breeds
This paper explores how cattle breeds are constructed through social practice-which we conceptually develop as "designing" cattle. We show how breed varieties are designed, informed by the social, material and moral embeddedness of cattle breeding associations' visions of the future and how they draw on science and technology in their breeding strategies. Based on an analysis of the trade magazines of three different breeding associations, we ill…
Breeding Beyond Bodies: Making and “Doing” Cattle
Dairy cows provide a spectacular example of what can be achieved with purposeful breeding of nonhuman animals in terms of increasing production and bodily adaptation to particular production systems. This implies that humans can make nonhuman bodies take whatever form they desire. However, the assumption that breeding outcomes are entirely shaped by humans has been criticized. This article contributes to ongoing discussions of breeds as socially …
Imag(in)ing ‘good’ Swedish meat: Gender, sexuality, race and nation in the sale of higher welfare chicken
This article attends to the ways that meat from higher welfare chicken is sold in supermarkets in Sweden. Recognising that the ‘welfare-friendly chicken body is an achievement between the market, the animal and publics’, this article continues these discussions to show how gender, sexuality, race and nation operate within these markets and publics by looking at how welfare is marketed in chicken meat sales, particularly higher welfare chicken, co…
Rapstract
Carbon and Cash in Climate Assemblages: The Making of a New Global Citizenship
Climate instruments such as REDD+ (Reducing Emissions by Deforestation and Degradation) promise a win–win proposition as villagers in Africa are paid for their efforts to conserve forests and sequester carbon. REDD+ assembles divergent interests at different scales—from bureaucrats to individual villagers. We argue that climate assemblages are shifting the space of the political by regulating practices that previously had local and national prove…
Cowboy masculinities in human-animal relations on a cattle ranch
Cowboyn mielikuvasta on muodostunut äärimmäisen maskuliinisuuden symboli, jota käytetään usein kuvaamaan heteroseksuaalista macho-maskuliinisuuden arkkityyppiä. Tässä artikkelissa käsitellään nykyään Länsi-Kanadassa toimivalla karjatilalla työskenteleviä cowboyta. He ilmaisevat ja arvostavat vaihtoehtoista cowboy-maskuliinisuutta, jota luonnehtivat vastuullisuus, rauhallisuus, tekninen taidokkuus ja sensitiivisyys. Artikkelissa pohditaan karjatil…
Understanding farm generational renewal and its influencing factors in Europe
Understanding the complex process of generational renewal (GR) in agriculture is essential for supporting the continuation of farming. This paper demonstrates how multiple factors, simultaneously and through their mutual interactions, influence GR and related individual decision-making processes. Results originated from 155 in-depth interviews performed on 85 farms in eleven European regions, and were triangulated with the literature. Our analysi…
Carbon and Cash in Climate Assemblages: The Making of a New Global Citizenship
Climate instruments such as REDD+ (Reducing Emissions by Deforestation and Degradation) promise a win–win proposition as villagers in Africa are paid for their efforts to conserve forests and sequester carbon. REDD+ assembles divergent interests at different scales—from bureaucrats to individual villagers. We argue that climate assemblages are shifting the space of the political by regulating practices that previously had local and national prove…
Breeding Beyond Bodies: Making and “Doing” Cattle
Dairy cows provide a spectacular example of what can be achieved with purposeful breeding of nonhuman animals in terms of increasing production and bodily adaptation to particular production systems. This implies that humans can make nonhuman bodies take whatever form they desire. However, the assumption that breeding outcomes are entirely shaped by humans has been criticized. This article contributes to ongoing discussions of breeds as socially …
Zoocialization: Learning Together, Becoming Together in a Multispecies Triad
Herding cattle across the landscape requires three species – horse, cattle, and human – to move together in a goal-orientated, albeit human-centered, activity. In this multispecies activity, they must synchronize through embodied communication and develop a shared understanding of moving conjointly. Together, all three species are socialized, or “zoocialized,” to learn to engage in a shared community of communication where they develop a sense of…
Women and Cattle “Becoming-With” in Botswana
Cattle are paramount to lives, livelihoods and landscapes in Botswana. Human-cattle relations emerge and evolve through historically-situated social relations of power based on gender, ethnicity, and class. Our paper explores intersectional human-cattle relations in Botswana within the contemporary period of enhanced commercialization. Specifically, with data from participant observation and semi-structured interviews with women cattle owners in …
Designing Cattle: The Social Practice of Constructing Breeds
This paper explores how cattle breeds are constructed through social practice-which we conceptually develop as "designing" cattle. We show how breed varieties are designed, informed by the social, material and moral embeddedness of cattle breeding associations' visions of the future and how they draw on science and technology in their breeding strategies. Based on an analysis of the trade magazines of three different breeding associations, we ill…
Evidence of resilience capacity in farmers’ narratives: Accounts of robustness, adaptability and transformability across five different European farming systems
Cowboy masculinities in human-animal relations on a cattle ranch
Cowboyn mielikuvasta on muodostunut äärimmäisen maskuliinisuuden symboli, jota käytetään usein kuvaamaan heteroseksuaalista macho-maskuliinisuuden arkkityyppiä. Tässä artikkelissa käsitellään nykyään Länsi-Kanadassa toimivalla karjatilalla työskenteleviä cowboyta. He ilmaisevat ja arvostavat vaihtoehtoista cowboy-maskuliinisuutta, jota luonnehtivat vastuullisuus, rauhallisuus, tekninen taidokkuus ja sensitiivisyys. Artikkelissa pohditaan karjatil…
Cowboy masculinities in human-animal relations on a cattle ranch
Cowboyn mielikuvasta on muodostunut äärimmäisen maskuliinisuuden symboli, jota käytetään usein kuvaamaan heteroseksuaalista macho-maskuliinisuuden arkkityyppiä. Tässä artikkelissa käsitellään nykyään Länsi-Kanadassa toimivalla karjatilalla työskenteleviä cowboyta. He ilmaisevat ja arvostavat vaihtoehtoista cowboy-maskuliinisuutta, jota luonnehtivat vastuullisuus, rauhallisuus, tekninen taidokkuus ja sensitiivisyys. Artikkelissa pohditaan karjatil…
Carbon and Cash in Climate Assemblages: The Making of a New Global Citizenship
Climate instruments such as REDD+ (Reducing Emissions by Deforestation and Degradation) promise a win–win proposition as villagers in Africa are paid for their efforts to conserve forests and sequester carbon. REDD+ assembles divergent interests at different scales—from bureaucrats to individual villagers. We argue that climate assemblages are shifting the space of the political by regulating practices that previously had local and national prove…
Imag(in)ing ‘good’ Swedish meat: Gender, sexuality, race and nation in the sale of higher welfare chicken
This article attends to the ways that meat from higher welfare chicken is sold in supermarkets in Sweden. Recognising that the ‘welfare-friendly chicken body is an achievement between the market, the animal and publics’, this article continues these discussions to show how gender, sexuality, race and nation operate within these markets and publics by looking at how welfare is marketed in chicken meat sales, particularly higher welfare chicken, co…
Rapstract
Breeding Beyond Bodies: Making and “Doing” Cattle
Dairy cows provide a spectacular example of what can be achieved with purposeful breeding of nonhuman animals in terms of increasing production and bodily adaptation to particular production systems. This implies that humans can make nonhuman bodies take whatever form they desire. However, the assumption that breeding outcomes are entirely shaped by humans has been criticized. This article contributes to ongoing discussions of breeds as socially …
Women and Cattle “Becoming-With” in Botswana
Cattle are paramount to lives, livelihoods and landscapes in Botswana. Human-cattle relations emerge and evolve through historically-situated social relations of power based on gender, ethnicity, and class. Our paper explores intersectional human-cattle relations in Botswana within the contemporary period of enhanced commercialization. Specifically, with data from participant observation and semi-structured interviews with women cattle owners in …
Designing Cattle: The Social Practice of Constructing Breeds
This paper explores how cattle breeds are constructed through social practice-which we conceptually develop as "designing" cattle. We show how breed varieties are designed, informed by the social, material and moral embeddedness of cattle breeding associations' visions of the future and how they draw on science and technology in their breeding strategies. Based on an analysis of the trade magazines of three different breeding associations, we ill…
Evidence of resilience capacity in farmers’ narratives: Accounts of robustness, adaptability and transformability across five different European farming systems
Understanding farm generational renewal and its influencing factors in Europe
Understanding the complex process of generational renewal (GR) in agriculture is essential for supporting the continuation of farming. This paper demonstrates how multiple factors, simultaneously and through their mutual interactions, influence GR and related individual decision-making processes. Results originated from 155 in-depth interviews performed on 85 farms in eleven European regions, and were triangulated with the literature. Our analysi…
At arm’s length until otherwise told
Zoocialization: Learning Together, Becoming Together in a Multispecies Triad
Herding cattle across the landscape requires three species – horse, cattle, and human – to move together in a goal-orientated, albeit human-centered, activity. In this multispecies activity, they must synchronize through embodied communication and develop a shared understanding of moving conjointly. Together, all three species are socialized, or “zoocialized,” to learn to engage in a shared community of communication where they develop a sense of…
Conceptualizing the multispecies triad: Toward a multispecies intersectionality
Feminist and multispecies anthropologies have decentered those most visible to appreciate the perspectives of those othered in society—but also to better understand society at large. This article goes beyond decentering the human toward decentering another analytical focus: the species dyad. Building on previous work on gender–species intersectionality and multispecies ethnography, as well as drawing on a set of five ethnographic and multispecies…
Artful Multispecies Ethnography: Reflections from Ongoing Practices
We propose to discuss the importance of artistic methods during the three stages of scientific research: data collection, analysis, and dissemination of results. Using examples from our own practice, we show how these methods help us to see, hear and feel better in our fieldwork, how they can amplify and enrich our analyses, and how they allow us to reach a wider audience, including those who have been our informants in the field. Artistic method…
Sociology (10 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (8 works) · Biology (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works)