What a Thing, then, is this Cow
"Positioning Domestic Livestock Animals in the Texts and Practices of Small-Scale "Self-Sufficiency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12418393 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lewis Holloway (0000-0002-6947-6301, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 145-165 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Society and Animals (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1063-1119 • E-ISSN: 1568-5306 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/156853003769233351 |
| OpenAlex | W2007856013 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 7 |
This paper focuses on the positioning of animals other than human in the texts and practices of two versions of small-scale food "self-sufficiency" in Britain. The paper discusses the writings of Cobbett (1822/1926, 1830/1985) and Seymour (1960s/1970s) on self-sufficiency, suggesting that livestock animals are central, in a number of ways, to the constitution of these modes of self-sufficiency. First, animals are situated in both the texts and in the practicing of self-sufficiency regarded as essential parts of the economies and ecologies of small-scale food production. Second, animals' parts in these authors' criticisms of wider social, economic and political conditions supplement their role in small-scale domestic food supply. Animals become associated with a morality of human behavior and lifestyle and are part of the broader social critiques that the writing and practicing of these modes of self-sufficiency imply. These historically and geographically specific versions of self-sufficiency are valuable in defining and enacting possible alternative modes of human-animal relation in the context of food production
Biology · Constitution · Context (archaeology · Economics · Environmental ethics · Geography · Livestock · Political science · Politics · Production (economics · Scale (ratio · Self-sufficiency · Situated · Sociology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Law · Ecology
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| Citations per year | 0.35 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2024 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |