Carley Mackay
Biographic Data
| ID | 3721685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carley Mackay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carley |
| FAMILY NAME | Mackay |
| SIGNATURE | MACKAY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-3075-3277 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Grass-Fed Beef, Alterity, and Care
Ethnographies of animal violence and an impure ethics of care
At the intersection of ethics of care and animal geographies scholarship are important discussions about human-animal power dynamics, violence, and what it means to understand and care for animals in ethnographic research where power and violence are prevalent. In this article, I add nuance to these debates by expanding on Shotwell’s work on impurity to consider, what I call, an impure ethics of care. This, I explain, complicates and strengthens …
A necessary evil? Examining the complexities of care and commodification
In this article, I draw on a case study of interviews with Ontario grass-fed beef farmers about cow welfare and theorize these using the analytics of animal geographies and biopolitics. I engage with the former's work on animal agency and subjectivity, and the latter's focus on animal commodification, showing how welfare practices impact cows' subjectivities, agencies, bodies, and interrelations. I make clear that cows exercise agency in their re…
Field-Based Experiential Education in Geography
Drawing on our experience teaching a 2-week field-based geography course on urban environmental issues, we reinforce the value of field-based experiential education (EE) especially as it faces growing threats. We show how such experience can enable students to understand the diversity of urban environmental challenges in situ; grasp cities as sites of environmental sustainability; understand the innovative ways local organizations and actors – ma…
Through the Shadows of Roadkill
In this article, I problematize the ways in which we often turn our gaze away from road kill animals. I argue that our relations with road kill warrant ethical kinds of engagement, which I explore through an analysis of death and intimacy. An intimate engagement with animal death strengthens how we understand the complexity of human-road kill relations, while simultaneously providing us with tools for addressing how to engage in these relations i…
A necessary evil? Examining the complexities of care and commodification
In this article, I draw on a case study of interviews with Ontario grass-fed beef farmers about cow welfare and theorize these using the analytics of animal geographies and biopolitics. I engage with the former's work on animal agency and subjectivity, and the latter's focus on animal commodification, showing how welfare practices impact cows' subjectivities, agencies, bodies, and interrelations. I make clear that cows exercise agency in their re…
Grass-Fed Beef, Alterity, and Care
Ethnographies of animal violence and an impure ethics of care
At the intersection of ethics of care and animal geographies scholarship are important discussions about human-animal power dynamics, violence, and what it means to understand and care for animals in ethnographic research where power and violence are prevalent. In this article, I add nuance to these debates by expanding on Shotwell’s work on impurity to consider, what I call, an impure ethics of care. This, I explain, complicates and strengthens …
Through the Shadows of Roadkill
In this article, I problematize the ways in which we often turn our gaze away from road kill animals. I argue that our relations with road kill warrant ethical kinds of engagement, which I explore through an analysis of death and intimacy. An intimate engagement with animal death strengthens how we understand the complexity of human-road kill relations, while simultaneously providing us with tools for addressing how to engage in these relations i…
Field-Based Experiential Education in Geography
Drawing on our experience teaching a 2-week field-based geography course on urban environmental issues, we reinforce the value of field-based experiential education (EE) especially as it faces growing threats. We show how such experience can enable students to understand the diversity of urban environmental challenges in situ; grasp cities as sites of environmental sustainability; understand the innovative ways local organizations and actors – ma…
Grass-Fed Beef, Alterity, and Care
Ethnographies of animal violence and an impure ethics of care
At the intersection of ethics of care and animal geographies scholarship are important discussions about human-animal power dynamics, violence, and what it means to understand and care for animals in ethnographic research where power and violence are prevalent. In this article, I add nuance to these debates by expanding on Shotwell’s work on impurity to consider, what I call, an impure ethics of care. This, I explain, complicates and strengthens …
A necessary evil? Examining the complexities of care and commodification
In this article, I draw on a case study of interviews with Ontario grass-fed beef farmers about cow welfare and theorize these using the analytics of animal geographies and biopolitics. I engage with the former's work on animal agency and subjectivity, and the latter's focus on animal commodification, showing how welfare practices impact cows' subjectivities, agencies, bodies, and interrelations. I make clear that cows exercise agency in their re…
Sociology (5 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Human-Animal Interaction Studies (3 works) · Animal welfare (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works)