The broiler chicken and the Anthropocene: Using critical nexus thinking to unpack the geographies of Gallus gallus domesticus
The broiler chicken and the Anthropocene: Using critical nexus thinking to unpack the geographies of Gallus gallus domesticus
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肉鸡和人类世：利用批判性联系思维来解开鸡内金的地理分布
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10.1111/geoj.12455
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2022
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一份重要的科学出版物表明，肉鸡（Gallus gallus acuticus）的生物物理组成代表了人类世的一个信号。这一发现有助于提供更广泛的证据，将人类世的开始定位在世纪中期，并且是一个更广泛的智力项目的一部分，该项目旨在将人类世确定为一个新的地质时代。这篇论文采取了不同的策略。将鸡作为人类世的客观推论，它将肉鸡和人类世定位为一个由社会空间关系，物质和实践组成的本体论新兴联系。然后，本文采用批判性的联系思维，追溯出关键的关系和材料，以及它们的汇合点，并支持extractivist本体组装成鸡的身体。特别值得关注的关系包括将剩余价值体现为鸡的物质性的过程;将领土和景观合理化并转化为生产性空间单位，以及构成“供应链”的关系，材料和协调技术的紧密耦合，相互关联的流动。它认为，通过使用关键的关系思维，以确定和阐明这些关系组装成鸡鸡，它使人类世清晰。这种易读性反过来又促进了地理意识和责任感，这可能导致必要的变化，以解决这个时代所产生的大规模空间不平等，并纠正这个时代可能产生的后果。
A key scientific publication demonstrates that the bio‐physical composition of the broiler chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) represents a signal of the Anthropocene. This finding contributes to a wider body of evidence that locates the beginning of the Anthropocene in the mid‐20th century, and is part of a broader intellectual project that seeks to establish and demarcate the Anthropocene as a new geological era. This paper takes a different tack. TreatingGallus gallusas an objective corollary for the Anthropocene, it positions the broiler chicken and the Anthropocene as an ontologically emergent nexus comprised of social–spatial relations, materialities, and practices. The paper then adopts critical nexus thinking to trace out the key relations and materialities, and their points of convergence, and underpinning extractivist ontologies that assemble into the chicken's body. Relations of particular concern include the processes that embody surplus value into the corporality of the chicken; the rationalisation and transformation of territories and landscapes into productive units of space, and the tightly coupled, interconnected flows of relations, materials, and coordinating technologies that comprise the ‘supply chain’. It argues that by using critical nexus thinking to identify and articulate these relations that assemble intoGallus gallus, it renders the Anthropocene legible. Such legibility in turn fosters geographical awareness and responsibility that might lead to the changes necessary to address the large‐scale spatial inequalities from which the era stems and redress the consequences that the era might otherwise engender.