Biopower, genetics and livestock breeding: (re)constituting animal populations and heterogeneous biosocial collectivities
Biopower, genetics and livestock breeding: (re)constituting animal populations and heterogeneous biosocial collectivities
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生物动力、遗传学和牲畜育种：（重新）构成动物种群和异质生物社会集体
DOI：
10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00347.x
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Holloway L
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文献类型：
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作者：
Holloway L
遗传技术在家畜育种中越来越普遍，这与新型的知识-实践以及与畜牧业相关的制度和地理关系的变化有关。本文考察了福柯的“生物权力”概念对家畜育种理论化的价值，以及农业中遗传知识实践兴起的含义，将这一概念应用于非人类动物，以及人类和非人类动物通过特定的知识实践和物质会议共同构成的情况。它着重于“人口”作为生物权力的核心组成部分的概念，并将其与生物社会集体的概念化联系起来。对福柯生物权力概述的固有人文主义作出反应，本文论证了其与非人类群体的相关性，以及生物社会集体的异质概念化。根据对英国肉牛和羊品种社会的研究，本文探讨了在实践中，人口是如何与非人类动物生活中特定种类的真理和特定干预模式的生产相关联的。它探讨了围绕这些干预措施如何构成异质生物社会集体。遗传技术的出现被证明改变了构成种群和异质生物社会集体的过程，这是在与牲畜生活中的新干预相关的农业生物力量的新变化方面进行讨论的。
Genetic techniques have become increasingly prevalent in livestock breeding, associated with new types of knowledge‐practice and changes in the institutional and geographical relationships related to animal husbandry. This paper examines the value of Foucault’s concept of ‘biopower’ to theorising livestock breeding and the implications of the rise of genetic knowledge‐practices in agriculture, developing the concept to apply to nonhuman animals and to situations where humans and nonhuman animals are co‐constituted through particular knowledge‐practices and corporeal meetings. It focuses on the idea of ‘population’ as a central component of biopower, and relates this to conceptualisations of biosocial collectivity. Reacting to the inherent humanism of Foucault’s outlining of biopower, the paper argues for its relevance in relation to nonhuman populations, and for heterogeneous conceptualisations of biosocial collectivity. Drawing on research with UK beef cattle and sheep breed societies, the paper explores how, in practice, populations are constructed in relation to the production of particular sorts of truths concerning, and particular modes of intervention in, the lives of nonhuman animals. It explores how heterogeneous biosocial collectivities are constituted around these interventions. The emergence of genetic techniques is shown to transform the processes constituting populations and heterogeneous biosocial collectivities, and this is discussed in terms of a new inflection of agricultural biopower associated with novel interventions in the lives of livestock animals.
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DOI：
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发表时间：
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期刊：
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影响因子：
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影响因子：
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