Ghosts and Things
Agriculture and Animal Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8098567 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tony Weis (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 134-142 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1526-3800 • E-ISSN: 1536-0091 |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/glep_a_00457 |
| OpenAlex | W2795928706 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 15 |
This article makes a case for centering animal life in conceptions of environmental, agrarian, and dietary change. It begins with a brief discussion of the extinction spasm and defaunation and suggests that envisaging landscapes of animal “ghosts” might help to evoke the ecological impoverishment this entails. Landscapes of ghosts are then set against the soaring populations of animals in industrial livestock production, stressing both the extensive biophysical implications and the intensive interspecies relations of these systems, in which individual animals can be seen to be reduced to little more than fungible “things.” The core argument is that the fast-changing conditions of both wild and domesticated animals, and their interrelationships, are an important and often underappreciated aspect of global agrarian, and efforts to confront this course are fundamental to prospects for a more sustainable world
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Animal life · Argument (complex analysis · Biology · Civilization · Defaunation · Domestication · Environmental ethics · Industrial civilization · Livestock · Political science · Sociology · Zoology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Ecology · Philosophy
The Ecological Hoofprint
The interaction of human population, food production, and biodiversity protection
Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines
Biodiversity conservation
Farming the planet
Sustainability of meat-based and plant-based diets and the environment
Defaunation in the Anthropocene
The Empty Forest
Biopiracy, Witchery, and the Fables of Ecoliberalism
The meat crisis
The Accelerating Biophysical Contradictions of Industrial Capitalist Agriculture
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |