Joshua Specht
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3767384 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Joshua Specht |
| PRENOMES | Joshua |
| SOBRENOME | Specht |
| ASSINATURA | SPECHT J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1199-734X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Cow
In 2009 a global effort finished mapping the genome of an eight-year-old Hereford cow. Since then, the effort has expanded to the cow's evolutionary ancestor, the aurochs, as well as using a nearly seven-thousand-year-old bone from the UK to map the genome of an ancient cattle breed. Though these efforts have yielded deep insights about the animal's natural history, they have also informed questions about human history—when and where cattle were …
The Uses and Limits of Materialist Approaches
I think of the new materialism as a commitment to the idea that nonhuman forces are significant drivers of historical change and that human institutions, societies, and even identities are embedded in the nonhuman world. This is more than saying that nonhuman forces shape history, more than merely saying that an earthquake or typhoon can shape human events. Rather, it is the view that all sorts of things we take to be fundamentally human or socia…
Porkopolis
When it comes to twenty-first century pork, humanity's imagined mastery of nature is looking more like nature's mastery of us. That's according to Alex Blanchette's illuminating Porkopolis, an ethnography of the industrial pig. Through a variety of jobs and from a variety of perspectives, Blanchette studies a town he calls Dixon and how the entire life of a region of the Great Plains has become organized around "porcine life," from factory-shift …
Red Meat Republic
Red Meat Republic
Red Meat Republic
Animal History after Its Triumph
Part of a broad animal turn in the humanities, animal history is now a large, mature field. Taking the triumph of animal history as a starting point, this essay draws from scholarship on a diversity of places and time periods to provide a state of the field. The discussion opens with an account of a central theme in animal history: the “animal lens.” This lens uses animals to explore broad historical phenomena, from industrialization to ideas abo…
The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the Texas Longhorn
This article examines the history of the Texas Longhorn, a cattle breed that emerged in what is today the American Southwest during the nineteenth century. Using the methodologies of evolutionary history and animal studies, this article argues that the Texas Longhorn was both technology and laborer. Longhorns were ideally suited to nineteenth-century ranching, largely because the animals themselves performed much of the labor involved in beef pro…
Accommodating the Republic
Animal History after Its Triumph
Part of a broad animal turn in the humanities, animal history is now a large, mature field. Taking the triumph of animal history as a starting point, this essay draws from scholarship on a diversity of places and time periods to provide a state of the field. The discussion opens with an account of a central theme in animal history: the “animal lens.” This lens uses animals to explore broad historical phenomena, from industrialization to ideas abo…
The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the Texas Longhorn
This article examines the history of the Texas Longhorn, a cattle breed that emerged in what is today the American Southwest during the nineteenth century. Using the methodologies of evolutionary history and animal studies, this article argues that the Texas Longhorn was both technology and laborer. Longhorns were ideally suited to nineteenth-century ranching, largely because the animals themselves performed much of the labor involved in beef pro…
The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the Texas Longhorn
This article examines the history of the Texas Longhorn, a cattle breed that emerged in what is today the American Southwest during the nineteenth century. Using the methodologies of evolutionary history and animal studies, this article argues that the Texas Longhorn was both technology and laborer. Longhorns were ideally suited to nineteenth-century ranching, largely because the animals themselves performed much of the labor involved in beef pro…
Animal History after Its Triumph
Part of a broad animal turn in the humanities, animal history is now a large, mature field. Taking the triumph of animal history as a starting point, this essay draws from scholarship on a diversity of places and time periods to provide a state of the field. The discussion opens with an account of a central theme in animal history: the “animal lens.” This lens uses animals to explore broad historical phenomena, from industrialization to ideas abo…
Red Meat Republic
Red Meat Republic
Red Meat Republic
Porkopolis
When it comes to twenty-first century pork, humanity's imagined mastery of nature is looking more like nature's mastery of us. That's according to Alex Blanchette's illuminating Porkopolis, an ethnography of the industrial pig. Through a variety of jobs and from a variety of perspectives, Blanchette studies a town he calls Dixon and how the entire life of a region of the Great Plains has become organized around "porcine life," from factory-shift …
The Cow
In 2009 a global effort finished mapping the genome of an eight-year-old Hereford cow. Since then, the effort has expanded to the cow's evolutionary ancestor, the aurochs, as well as using a nearly seven-thousand-year-old bone from the UK to map the genome of an ancient cattle breed. Though these efforts have yielded deep insights about the animal's natural history, they have also informed questions about human history—when and where cattle were …
The Uses and Limits of Materialist Approaches
I think of the new materialism as a commitment to the idea that nonhuman forces are significant drivers of historical change and that human institutions, societies, and even identities are embedded in the nonhuman world. This is more than saying that nonhuman forces shape history, more than merely saying that an earthquake or typhoon can shape human events. Rather, it is the view that all sorts of things we take to be fundamentally human or socia…
Accommodating the Republic
Biology (5 obras) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (4 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras) · Dye analysis and toxicity (3 obras) · Food Science (3 obras) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 obras) · Geography (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · American Environmental and Regional History (2 obras) · American History and Culture (2 obras)