Dangerous Crossings

Kim, Claire Jean

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“…However, "[u]njust disadvantages in one sphere does not earn unjust advantages in another. Having endured racism and colonialism, subjects deserve justice and reparation from their oppressors, but they do not deserve to dominate women, animals, and nature" 66 . In other words, suffering from cultural and political oppression is no excuse for making other, yet weaker members of society -the animals -suffer in turn.…”

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COVID-19 Shows the Need for a Global Animal Law

Peters

2020

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The pandemic COVID-19 ─ which is a zoonosis ─ illustrates how problems of global nature and proportions stem from human use and abuse of animals and therefore underlines the necessity of a global law approach. The social, ecological, and economic consequences of animal exploitation, notably (but not limited to) agriculture, range from human poverty to transnational organised wildlife crime, to global warming, and of course to animal suffering. Not the least, the danger of the outsourcing of animal-processing industries and research facilities to animal cruelty havens and the threat of a regulatory chill on the national level suggest that the regulatory response to animal issues needs to be global. The Office International des Epizooties (OIE) could be transformed into the institutional hub for such an approach. The contribution also addresses and refutes the challenge of cultural and legal imperialism that is mounted against such a global law approach. It suggests to develop further the One Health paradigm for containing the pandemic and for combatting future zoonoses. The paper concludes that a critical global animal law approach will be helpful for overcoming the COVID-crisis and is generally warranted for transforming human─animal interaction.

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COVID-19 Shows the Need for a Global Animal Law

Peters

2020

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“…Tovey (2003) specifically asks us to examine animals not only as abstract components of ecosystems but as equally important as humans, at the centre of sociological analysis. Warren (1990Warren ( , 2000, Benton (1993), Noske (1997b), Gaard (2011), Wilde (2000), Arluke (2002), Tovey (2003), Nibert (2002Nibert ( , 2003Nibert ( , 2013, Clark and York (2005), York and Mancus (2013), York and Longo (2015), Dietz and York (2015), White (2015), Pellow (2014), Kim (2015), Pellow and Brehm (2015), and Pellow and Nyseth Brehm (2013) all point to the necessity for social scientists to rehabilitate nonhuman natures in order to strengthen environmental theory and the environmental movement. This paper responds to this need to embrace a broader socio-ecological framework and focus on the role that capitalism plays in the oppression of humans, non-human animals, and more broadly on all ecological systems and natural resources.…”

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The Plight of the Honeybee: A Socioecological Analysis of large‐scale Beekeeping in the United States

Cilia

2019

Sociologia Ruralis

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This article offers a socioecological analysis of the plight of the honeybee. Departing from natural sciences explanations of the chronic health issues observed in managed honeybees the proposed socioecological analysis focuses on some of the social dimensions of the problems. Specifically, the article first looks at how the cultural disdain for insects is combined with toxic agricultural practices to make bees’ lives challenging. Then it focuses on large‐scale commercial beekeepers and links the fate of managed honeybees to their commodification. Forced to adapt to increasing environmental and economic pressures, beekeepers have developed new management practices intended to keep bees alive and produce as many as possible in order to stay in business and fulfil pollination demand. Their new concern for best management practices fails to foster global changes in agriculture, subsequently compromising their own fate with that of their bees. Honeybees and beekeepers are both affected by the current agricultural model designed for profitability rather than health. The paper builds on in‐depth semi‐structured interviews of 45 large‐scale commercial beekeepers and scientists and participant observation, beekeeping magazines and materials available online.

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“…This combative legacy can be seen in India, where to 'die in an encounter' is a euphemism for being killed during a battle with the police or military (Duschinski, 2010). More broadly, however, encounter has often been used as a means of depicting the dramatic coming together of different geographical imaginations, such that the ''colonial encounter'' frequently refers to a period of colonial exploration, exploitation, boundary-making, cultural imperialism, and cross-cultural formations (Ahmed, 2000;Carter, 2013;Greene, 2002;Kim, 2015;Leshem and Pinkerton, 2019;Smith, 2015). That encounters are used to describe interaction in the contact zone is thus unsurprising.…”

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“…How moments of rupture, unmaking, and categorical confusion are experienced is important (Bennett, 2001). As Kim (2015) argues, the rupturing or failure of boundaries is often attended by 'indeterminacy, contestation, and anxiety' (31; see also Fredriksen, 2016). Take, for example, Carter and Palmer's (2017) account of the 'morally loaded' term of transgression in the context of human-dingo encounters in Australia (where dingoes variously appear as a 'problem' in public policy).…”

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“…Clearly, whilst moments of encounter are sometimes read as instances of failed mastery or trauma that ignite the need to reinstate control of the boundary and the power of privilege (Kim, 2015), the rupturing of borders that is inherent to encounter also opens up a site of ethical, pedagogical, and political potential (Wilson, 2017b). For Tsing (2015), 'we are contaminated by encounters' (27), they always take us somewhere new.…”

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Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship throughImperial Eyes

Wilson

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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The contact zone is described as the space of imperial encounter. Against a backdrop of work that has used Mary Louise Pratt's concept of the contact zone to examine culture-making, and destabilize normative understandings of division, distinction, and bordering, the paper interrogates the value of utilizing the concept in multispecies contexts. To do so, the paper considers the relationship between the contact zone and the concept of encounter, noting how they overlap and depart as approaches to questioning embodied difference, colonial histories, and immanent potential. Turning to the BBC documentary series Blue Planet II, the paper uses the concept of the contact zone and discourse analysis to examine its dominant ideas, frontiers of difference, and the means through which alternative geographies are both foreclosed and enabled. It demonstrates how the concept of the contact zone can draw attention to the ocean as the documentary's site of production, where different forms of knowledge, technology, people, elements, and non-human life grapple with each other in conditions of uneven power. In moving between narrative and oceanic contact zones, the paper raises questions about practices of knowledge-making, uneven structures of power, and decipherability, to demonstrate what can be gained from staying with the postcolonial framing of the contact zone as a critical tool of analysis in multispecies scholarship.

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Dangerous Crossings

Cited by 261 publications

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COVID-19 Shows the Need for a Global Animal Law

COVID-19 Shows the Need for a Global Animal Law

The Plight of the Honeybee: A Socioecological Analysis of large‐scale Beekeeping in the United States

Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship throughImperial Eyes

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