Robotic milking technologies and renegotiating situated ethical relationships on UK dairy farms
Robotic milking technologies and renegotiating situated ethical relationships on UK dairy farms
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机器人挤奶技术和重新谈判英国奶牛场的道德关系
DOI:
10.1007/s10460-013-9473-3
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发表时间:
2013
影响因子:
4.5
通讯作者:
Holloway L
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作者:
Holloway L
Robotic or automatic milking systems (AMS) are novel technologies that take over the labor of dairy farming and reduce the need for human–animal interactions. Because robotic milking involves the replacement of ‘conventional’ twice-a-day milking managed by people with a system that supposedly allows cows the freedom to be milked automatically whenever they choose, some claim robotic milking has health and welfare benefits for cows, increases productivity, and has lifestyle advantages for dairy farmers. This paper examines how established ethical relations on dairy farms are unsettled by the intervention of a radically different technology such as AMS. The renegotiation of ethical relationships is thus an important dimension of how the actors involved are re-assembled around a new technology. The paper draws on in-depth research on UK dairy farms comparing those using conventional milking technologies with those using AMS. We explore the situated ethical relations that are negotiated in practice, focusing on the contingent and complex nature of human–animal–technology interactions. We show that ethical relations are situated and emergent, and that as the identities, roles, and subjectivities of humans and animals are unsettled through the intervention of a new technology, the ethical relations also shift.
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DOI:
10.3390/ani1010083
发表时间:
2011-01-11
期刊:
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
影响因子:
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作者:
Cole M
通讯作者:
Cole M
影响因子:
1.8
作者:
時田 正彦;森田 茂;小宮 道士;ルミャナ ツェンコヴァ;畠山 尚史;堂腰 顕;喜田 環樹
通讯作者:
喜田 環樹
影响因子:
0.8
作者:
K. H. Toft
通讯作者:
K. H. Toft
DOI:
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发表时间:
2010
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影响因子:
--
作者:
Richard Twine
通讯作者:
Richard Twine
影响因子:
5.1
作者:
Brandth, B
通讯作者:
Brandth, B