Boosted bodies: Genetic techniques, domestic livestock bodies and complex representations of life
Boosted bodies: Genetic techniques, domestic livestock bodies and complex representations of life
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增强的身体:遗传技术、家畜身体和生命的复杂表征
DOI:
10.1016/j.geoforum.2008.03.006
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发表时间:
2008
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影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
Holloway L
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文献类型:
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作者:
Holloway L
This paper focuses on the burgeoning application of genetic techniques in livestock agriculture, examining how these are changing livestock breeding knowledge-practices and the representation of animal life. Conventional livestock breeding relies on visual appraisal of animals and maintaining performance records, whereas genetic and genomic techniques offer the potential to assess particular aspects of animals’ genotypes. Advertising and promotional material produced by organisations involved in developing genetic techniques, and reportage and discussion of such techniques in the agricultural media, are used to examine the ways in which the production and value of living bodies in the future is being mapped out in emerging knowledge-practice networks which centre around particular visions and representations of what livestock bodies are and should do or be. The paper argues that bodies should be understood in part in terms of the wider spatial relationships in which they are entangled. A process of’circulating reference’ [Latour, B., 1999. Pandora’s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA] is identified in which rounds of simplification occur in relation to the representation of the genetic qualities of livestock animals. However, these attempts to simplify produce new complexities when livestock breeders attempt to make use of genetic knowledge-practices. Identifying different modes of complexity, the paper discusses their spatiality in terms of differences between genetic abstractions from animal bodies and breeders ‘multi-layered ‘lay’ knowledges of their livestock animals.
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影响因子:
3.3
作者:
J. Burgess
通讯作者:
J. Burgess
影响因子:
2.3
作者:
B. Latour
通讯作者:
B. Latour
影响因子:
1.7
作者:
S. Franklin
通讯作者:
S. Franklin
DOI:
10.1186/1746-5354-3-2-82
发表时间:
2007
期刊:
Genomics, Society and Policy
影响因子:
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作者:
Holloway L
通讯作者:
Holloway L
影响因子:
4.1
作者:
Goodman, D
通讯作者:
Goodman, D