Capital's Chinese Pigpen: Political Ecologies of Pig Production in the People's Republic of China
| dc.contributor.advisor | Buck, Daniel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Conant, Abram | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-02-24T00:19:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-02-23 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis analyzes contemporary political ecologies of pig farming in the People's Republic of China, as well as emergent discourses of “meatification” and the industrialization of Chinese agriculture more broadly. Situated within these extensive, heterogenous, and dynamic assemblages, which I contextualize in historical-geographical terms throughout Chapter I, I narrow my argument to three relatively neglected problematics that occupy subsequent chapters: the role of pigs in the affective construction of modernity, the microbiological zones of insecurity intertwined with industrial pig production, and the re-valorization of urban food waste through peri-urban pig farming, including so-called “garbage pigs.” Animated by broad political, ethical, ontological, and epistemological concerns about society and ecology, culture and technology, and food and the mass-production of commodified organisms, this research helps demonstrate how fraught relationships between pigs, people, and place participate in the politics of "modernity" in the People's Republic of China. | en_US |
| dc.description.embargo | 10000-01-01 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/19695 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | |
| dc.subject | Animal studies | en_US |
| dc.subject | China studies | en_US |
| dc.subject | Food studies | en_US |
| dc.subject | Historical geography | en_US |
| dc.subject | Political ecology | en_US |
| dc.subject | Political economy | en_US |
| dc.title | Capital's Chinese Pigpen: Political Ecologies of Pig Production in the People's Republic of China | |
| dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Interdisciplinary Studies Program: Asian Studies | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Oregon | |
| thesis.degree.level | masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | M.A. |