Pigs and People

Sociological Perspectives on the Discipline of Nonhuman Animals in Intensive Confinement

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12418754
AutoresJoel Novek (autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Volume13
Fascículo3
Páginas221-244
Data de publicação2005-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociety and Animals (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1063-1119 • E-ISSN: 1568-5306
EditoraBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/1568530054927771
OpenAlexW1975111765
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas12

Highly concentrated intensive confinement systems have become the norm in agriculture concerning nonhuman animals. These systems have provoked a lively debate from an animal welfare perspective. Sociologists can contribute to this debate by drawing parallels between the institutional regulation of human beings and of animals under confinement. Results of research on the transformation of Canadian hog production from the 1950s to the present—based on the evolution of plans for sow housing produced by the Canada Plan Service—showed a much tighter compression of hog bodies and reproduction in space and time. The prevalence of behavioral stereotypes, however, indicates imperfect animal socialization and reconfiguration. The concept of discipline is a useful perspective that could bridge the gap between the regulations of humans in industrial societies and of pigs in intensive confinement. This concept derived from elements of labor process and Foucauldian and post-humanist theories

Animal welfare · Biology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Humanism · Industrial society · Norm (philosophy · Operations management · Parallels · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Reproduction · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies · Anthropology · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Organic Food and Agriculture · Ecology