Normalised, human-centric discourses of meat and animals in climate change, sustainability and food security literature

Arcari, Paula

doi:10.1007/s10460-016-9697-0

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“…Therefore, the focus has been on food production, environmental services and social goods, although we also need to consider their consumption, along with other factors, e.g. losses and waste generated during production, sale and distribution [8][9][10].…”

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Analysis of Selected Building Constructions Used in Industrial Construction in Terms of Sustainability Benefits

2018

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Enormous development of technology over the past two centuries has been associated with a considerable drawdown of non-renewable raw materials and an increase in the amount of harmful emissions. Thus, building direction in the field of construction implies a significant implementation of sustainability. The preference for environmentally friendly technology solutions is the right way to meet the sustainability trend. The main aim of this study was to analyze and verify selected construction systems of buildings designed for agricultural primary production in terms of their environmental impacts. The supporting construction systems of the comparative design variants was designed from a variety of material bases (concrete, steel, and wood). To evaluate environmental construction systems, the LCA methodology in mode “Cradle to Gate” was used. Parameters of sustainability related to the environmental impact were analyzed. These results could be a useful tool for the evaluation and comparison to an appropriate choice of the design option for an industrial building designed for agricultural primary production in terms of environmental impact.

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Analysis of Selected Building Constructions Used in Industrial Construction in Terms of Sustainability Benefits

2018

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“…Framing human–nonhuman animal relations in terms of speciesism is an invitation for critical theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches to contribute to a “climate of problematisation” (Curt, ) and an “unsettling [of] mainstream practices” (Tuffin, , p. 167). Discourse analysis, for example, might be utilised to evidence claims about speciesism as pervasive, taken‐for‐granted, and culture‐wide, whether in everyday conversations, newspapers, advertising, online, or in industry documents (Arcari, ; Cole & Morgan, ; Morgan & Cole, ; Sneijder & Te Molder, ; Stibbe, ). To analyse the embeddedness of ideologies in banal, everyday forms is to follow a now established strand in critically oriented social psychology (Billig, ).…”

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Towards a critical psychology of human–animal relations

Adams

2018

Social & Personality Psych

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This article argues that critical psychological engagement with the field of human-animal relations is largely absent, but of potential significance, and begins to outline more concretely what such a perspective might contribute, especially as a form of social psychology. The article provides a brief overview of the emerging psychology of human-animal relations and the extent to which it emphasises situated human-animal interactions in real-world settings, including from the standpoint of animal participants. Recent elaborations of the "animal turn" outside of the discipline of psychology are considered, as they place fresh emphasis on human-animal interaction and interdependence and might further extend the boundaries of what counts as relations that matter in critical and social psychology.These foundations are argued to offer an invitation to critical psychology to engage more fully in the study of human-animal relations and enliven it as a result.

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“…They also note the need to combat wildlife trafficking to help protect natural areas (29). Despite the IPBES report lacking any meaningful or substantive statements regarding where the "bold" and "transformative changes" they call for are needed, and recognising that the discourses surrounding meat and animals contained in these reports (among others) are still decidedly human-centric (Arcari, 2017), they do provide an unequivocal set of guidelines on the kinds of human activities that are causing the greatest harms to the environment. The IPCC and the IPBES are by no means the first to make these observations.…”

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“…This represents a small subset of the overall body of literature on animal agriculture in which animals are predominantly conceived as aggregated 'livestock' or 'production units'(Arcari 2017).…”

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Where species don’t meet: Invisibilized animals, urban nature and city limits

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Probyn-Rapsey

Singer

2020

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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A growing body of literature is concerned with ‘healing’ our cities, fostering an ethic of care for urban nature and creating more socially and environmentally just cities. At the same time, urban biodiversity is the focus of an increasing number of projects at multiple scales. However, in contrast to the ethos of multispecies ‘entanglement’ and ‘becoming with’ that typically animates this research, large numbers of animals ‘entangled’ in the machinations of our cities constitute a ‘nature’ that remains mostly unseen. And yet, it is the local and global practices these animals are part of – associated with food, entertainment, education, companionship and research – and the persistent relations of use and exploitation that underpin them, that are most directly implicated in the ongoing environmental degradation, destruction of habitats and extinction of species that create the ‘problem’ of urban biodiversity. We therefore argue that a persistent anthropocentrism is hampering efforts to respond effectively to the findings and recommendations of the IPCC, IPBES, FAO and others. Based on a thorough literature search and review of 65 articles concerned with urban ‘nature’ and multispecies relations, we demonstrate a prevailing hierarchy in how, and more importantly which, nonhuman species are being represented. Parallels are noted from recent social movements and the work of scholars from complementary fields. We highlight the dangers posed by this selective remit of care and concern and suggest critical animal studies as a way to adjust the frame and extend the boundaries of dominant thinking about what constitutes ‘nature’. In conclusion, we call for researchers concerned with urban nature and biodiversity to adopt more critical and repoliticized understandings of ‘nature’ and multispecies relations – ones that are better poised to challenge practices involving commodified animals and slow the pace of environmental destructions and losses they are associated with.

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Normalised, human-centric discourses of meat and animals in climate change, sustainability and food security literature

Cited by 44 publications

References 62 publications

Analysis of Selected Building Constructions Used in Industrial Construction in Terms of Sustainability Benefits

Analysis of Selected Building Constructions Used in Industrial Construction in Terms of Sustainability Benefits

Towards a critical psychology of human–animal relations

Where species don’t meet: Invisibilized animals, urban nature and city limits

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