Niamh Mahon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1676726 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niamh Mahon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niamh |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahon |
| SIGNATURE | MAHON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Social Economic and Geographical Sciences The James Hutton Institute Aberdeen UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2872-2297 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Making a mark on the farm: The marks and traces of farm animals and infectious diseases in northern England
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…
Lively commodities and endemic diseases: Shifting commodity situations and nonhuman disability in cattle and sheep on UK farms
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: Co-producing BVD and lameness with cows and sheep in the north of England
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…
Living with cows, sheep and endemic disease in the North of England: Embodied care, biosocial collectivities and killability
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: A governmentality approach to the case of lameness
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…
Living with cows, sheep and endemic disease in the North of England: Embodied care, biosocial collectivities and killability
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: A governmentality approach to the case of lameness
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…
Changing interventions in farm animal health and welfare: A governmentality approach to the case of lameness
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…
Living with cows, sheep and endemic disease in the North of England: Embodied care, biosocial collectivities and killability
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…
Making a mark on the farm: The marks and traces of farm animals and infectious diseases in northern England
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…
Lively commodities and endemic diseases: Shifting commodity situations and nonhuman disability in cattle and sheep on UK farms
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: Co-producing BVD and lameness with cows and sheep in the north of England
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…
Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Zoonotic diseases and public health (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Embodied cognition (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Lameness (2 works)