Organizing a Real that Is Yet to Come
A Critical Inquiry of Education in Animal Organization Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23612969 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helena Pedersen (0000-0002-4693-3258, University of Gothenburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | 73-84 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Oxford Handbook of Animal Organization Studies (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192848185.013.5 |
| OpenAlex | W4307743843 |
| ISBN | 9780192848185 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
The aim of this chapter is to introduce education as a key area of critical inquiry in animal organization studies by analyzing its embeddedness in the animal-industrial complex (A-IC) (Noske, 1997). The concept of the A-IC has been defined and its analytic force examined in a few influential texts (Noske, 1997; Twine, 2012), but the role and function of educational institutions in the A-IC is largely unexplored (Pedersen, 2019). The first part of the chapter offers a brief account of significant intersections of the A-IC and animal organization studies, based on the animal studies and organization studies literature. The second part of the chapter explores what work education does in the A-IC, drawing on an example from ethnographic fieldwork in a Swedish upper secondary school theorized through Deleuze and Guattari ([1980] 2004). In the end, the organizing of promissory futures for students as animal science professionals relies on educational reproduction of the status quo of exploitative arrangements for animals in society, and in this way, education emerges as not only a central actor in, but a condition for the A-IC. Understanding the A-IC as an organizing concept for critical animal organization studies thus requires analyses of the multifaceted, dynamic and productive functions of education. Further research could focus on both what is at stake for the animals as well as the students caught up in educational spaces of the A-IC, and explore potential roles of education in collective resistance to this exploitation.
Business · Embeddedness · Ethnography · Function (biology) · Futures contract · Organization studies · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Status quo · Animal and Plant Science Education · Animal testing and alternatives · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Subjecting Cows to Robots
Making Meat
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |