Genetic technologies and the transformation of the geographies of UK livestock agriculture

A Research Agenda

Bibliographic Data

ID8092832
AuthorsCarol Morris (0000-0001-7723-5658, School of Geography, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK, corresponding author), Lewis Holloway (0000-0002-6947-6301, University of Hull)
Year2008
Volume33
Issue3
Pages313-333
Publication date2008-12-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProgress in Human Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0309132508096033
OpenAlexW2158428405
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited72

This paper presents an agenda for research into the geographies of UK livestock agriculture as these are being reconfigured through the increasing intervention of genetic techniques and technologies. After discussing three particular techniques, four areas of research are identified. The first three relate to different spaces and scales at which the effects of genetic techniques can be examined: the animal body and animal-human relationships; the farm and other rural spaces; and the national and international networks of genetic knowledge-practices relating to livestock. The fourth area outlines an agenda for engaging with Foucault's notion of biopower as a possible means of gaining a theoretical purchase on three key issues which span these three scales: knowledge, power and life. In its reflections on the wider implications of the proposed research the paper aims to speak to a number of audiences within and beyond the discipline

Agriculture · Biopower · Environmental ethics · Geography · Intervention (counseling · Livestock · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Regional science · Sociology · Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology · Animal Genetics and Reproduction · Geographies of human-animal interactions

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