Between Freedom and Abandonment: Social Representations of Free-Roaming Donkeys in the Brazilian Northeast

Gameiro, Mariana Bombo Perozzi; Clancy, Cara; Zanella, Adroaldo José

doi:10.1080/08927936.2021.1999607

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“…As a by-product of regional development, the advent of motorized vehicles has further contributed to a decline in the utilization of donkeys, leading to instances of abandonment and uncontrolled breeding. Consequently, free-roaming and feral donkey populations have proliferated in Brazil's semi-arid regions, posing challenges for local governments, notably contributing to traffic accidents on roads in those areas (Carneiro et al, 2018;G1 -Globo, 2017b;Gameiro et al, 2022;Salles et al, 2013).…”

Section: The Donkey Market In Brazilmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In 2016, the presence of donkeys on roads emerged as an important argument for public agents advocating the authorization of donkey slaughter in Bahia for meat and hide exportation (Gameiro et al, 2021(Gameiro et al, , 2022. The discourse from the Government Animal Health Agency of Bahia suggested that this trade would ethically and humanely address the historical issue of roaming animals (Diário Oficial da Bahia, 2016).…”

Section: The Donkey Market In Brazilmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a result, with authorization and extensive support from local governments in the Northeast of Brazil, exports of donkey products surged from 24,918 tons in 2016 to 226,432 tons in 2018, as reported by the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services in Brazil (SISCOMEX). Concurrently, the number of slaughtered donkeys in the country skyrocketed by 4,788% during the same period (Gameiro et al, 2021(Gameiro et al, , 2022. Figure 2 depicts the trajectory of slaughtered donkeys and other equids in Brazil from 2013 to 2021.…”

Section: The Donkey Market In Brazilmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With no commercial production chain for donkeys in Brazil, sourcing these animals involves capturing them from small rural communities or capturing them on roads for slaughter (Gameiro et al, 2022). This has given rise to a network of dealers and intermediaries who pay for donkey capture and then sell them to one of the few slaughterhouses.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Donkey business: Trade, Resource Exploitation, and Crime

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The growing demand for ejiao, a traditional Chinese medicine product derived from donkey hides, has sparked a global trade that profoundly impacts donkey populations and local economies in low and middle-income countries. In response to the pressing issue of burgeoning populations of stray and abandoned donkeys, Brazil implemented regulatory measures governing the export of these animals to China in 2017. This paper examines the intricate relationship between regulation of a natural resource-based contestable market -- in which property rights are not well-defined -- and local crime rates, focusing on the donkey hide trade in Brazil. Employing a quasi-experimental research design, we leverage the timing of the regulatory measures alongside variations in donkey occurrences per inhabitant across Brazilian municipalities to provide compelling evidence that the surge in ejiao demand has led to an increase in crime and violence within Brazil. These findings underscore the critical importance of nuanced market regulation to mitigate potential social costs in markets lacking well-defined property rights. Furthermore, they highlight the urgent need for robust monitoring and enforcement frameworks to address pressing issues such as the predatory exploitation of donkey populations on a global scale.

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Section: The Donkey Market In Brazilmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2024

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“…Although the study of SRs in many areas of the social realm has gained some momentum in recent years, research on the SRs of animals is scarce. To the best of our knowledge, only a small number of animals have been subject to an SR analysis (e.g., wolves: (Figari and Skogen 2011;Theodorakea and von Essen 2016); donkeys: (Gameiro et al 2021); sharks and dolphins: (Neves et al 2021)).…”

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The Social Representations of Zoo Goers toward Crocodiles and Turtles: Structural Analysis and Implications for Conservation

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Zoos have changed dramatically over the last century and today attract millions of people worldwide, being places where visitors can closely watch wildlife and learn about the species on display. Although present at most zoos, reptiles are challenging animals in terms of visitor interest and engagement, as some species do not fit aesthetic standards from the human standpoint, have culturally negative perceptions or generate aversive emotions. By studying zoo visitors’ social representations of crocodiles and turtles, we aimed to detail their structures, as well as identifying their prototypical elements that help to understand their emotional and cognitive framing. The findings show the crocodile’s prototypical image as a big, fearsome predator with teeth as its main physical attribute. Male visitors showed a more emotional perception of this animal. The turtle’s prototypical image is a slow, hard-shelled ancestral sea animal with a neutral-to-positive set of traits, with no particular differences between genders. Our results shed a more detailed light on some of the social constructs that make up the mental images of these animals, which can help the zoological community direct communication toward a more fluent conversation between stakeholders toward conservation.

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Feral pharmaceuticalization—Biomedical uses of animal life in light of the global donkey hide trade

Gameiro

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2023

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Medical and pharmaceutical uses of animal life have gone through vast changes in the past centuries. Although the commodification of animals and animal parts is by no means an invention of modernity, its procedures and practices have evolved in multiple ways across time. Most notably, the exploitation of non-human animal life has been increasingly segmented, industrialized, and globalized. The collateral expansion of scientific and market institutions has led to specific modes of rationalization of animal breeding, culture, and trade for pharmaceutical purposes. However, this rationalization process has never been immune to its own matter—and the materiality of non-human commodification processes irrigates seemingly ordered and layered practices. Based upon a study on the international trade of donkey hide, this paper offers a characterization of the current pharmaceutical uses of animal life through a series of epistemic and environmental tensions expressing frictions between the market’s absorptive logic and non-human modes of existence. We describe this set of tensions as ‘feral pharmaceuticalization’ and contend that they offer new perspectives on the analysis of the contemporary pharmaceuticalization process. In addition, such tensions showcase the importance of investigating the expansion of technological markets not only as simultaneous knowledge and milieux (or bodies) making, or as simple science and market hegemonic processes, but also as the construction of new stages of conflict.

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Between Freedom and Abandonment: Social Representations of Free-Roaming Donkeys in the Brazilian Northeast

Cited by 4 publications

References 46 publications

Donkey business: Trade, Resource Exploitation, and Crime

Donkey business: Trade, Resource Exploitation, and Crime

The Social Representations of Zoo Goers toward Crocodiles and Turtles: Structural Analysis and Implications for Conservation

Feral pharmaceuticalization—Biomedical uses of animal life in light of the global donkey hide trade

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