Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Agricultural and Resource Economics (1)
- Anthropology (1)
- Art Practice (1)
- Art and Design (1)
- Australian Studies (1)
-
- Communication (1)
- Creative Writing (1)
- Digital Humanities (1)
- Education (1)
- English Language and Literature (1)
- Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (1)
- Film and Media Studies (1)
- Fine Arts (1)
- Legal Studies (1)
- Linguistics (1)
- Medicine and Health Sciences (1)
- Political Science (1)
- Public Health (1)
- Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies (1)
- Social and Cultural Anthropology (1)
- Sociology (1)
- Theatre and Performance Studies (1)
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
The Contagion Of Slow Violence: The Slaughterhouse And Covid-19, Kelly Struthers Montford, Tessa Wotherspoon
The Contagion Of Slow Violence: The Slaughterhouse And Covid-19, Kelly Struthers Montford, Tessa Wotherspoon
Animal Studies Journal
COVID-19 has brought to the fore the violence faced by slaughterhouse workers and those they are charged with slaughtering. This article argues that COVID-19 has wrought an acceleration of the slow violence of state organized race crime (Nixon, Ward), in spreading rapidly through the slaughterhouse and to surrounding racialized communities. We show that zoonotic pandemics are the result of state organized race crime, and that abattoirs are locations of inseparable animal and racial violence. We then analyse how the law and state institutions have positioned slaughterhouse work as essential, contra workers’ claims and general knowledge that meat is an inessential …
On The Origins Of The Anthropological Machine: Sacrificial Dispositif And Equality, Chiara Stefanoni
On The Origins Of The Anthropological Machine: Sacrificial Dispositif And Equality, Chiara Stefanoni
Animal Studies Journal
This article takes a genealogical approach to the material origin of what Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has called the ‘anthropological machine’, analyzing the dispositif by which the ontological and axiological dualism between the ‘human’ and the ‘animal’ first took place in archaic societies. Using some key concepts of René Girard’s anthropology, it is possible to argue that this dualism is rooted in the violent practice of victimage sacrifice. In other words, I claim that the anthropological machine is originally performed by a sacrificial dispositif. Though in modern society the human/animal dichotomy is performed by other dispositifs, the trace of …