Capitalist Pigs: Large-Scale Swine Facilities and the Mutual Construction of Nature and Society
Coppin, Dawn Michelle
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Description
Title
Capitalist Pigs: Large-Scale Swine Facilities and the Mutual Construction of Nature and Society
Author(s)
Coppin, Dawn Michelle
Issue Date
2002
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Pickering, Andrew
Department of Study
Sociology
Discipline
Sociology
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Agriculture, Animal Culture and Nutrition
Language
eng
Abstract
I concluded that large-scale swine facilities, as the dominant manifestation of the current US swine industry, were a temporally emergent phenomenon---they were something new and unforeseen that involved the active participation of many social agents (such as farmers, consumers, laws, neighbors, land grant universities, capital investments, government agencies, agricultural companies, and grassroots organizations) and physical agents (such as swine, bacteria, building materials, medicine, and transportation technologies). All of these agents have interacted with one another in multiple and irreducible ways over the years to create a swine industry assemblage that is as much natural as it is social; thus environmental sociology would be better served if our work decentered the human and instead attended to all the agents.
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