"Without the Muslims, We'd be out of a Job" Deconstructing Narratives and Hierarchies of Race, Whiteness, Nation and Class in England's Sheep Slaught

“如果没有穆斯林，我们就会失业”解构英格兰宰羊事件中的种族、白人、民族和阶级的叙事和等级制度

• 批准号: 1928014
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1928014
• 关键词: Without; Muslims; out; Job; Deconstructing

As Brexit approaches, Britain is unprepared to feed its people. Modes of food productivity, regulations and the social and economic impacts of these are unknown. The highest revenue food industry is meat; abattoirs are an essential, albeit unseen moment in this commodity chain. In the UK, abattoir workers are predominantly white, male and working class. This demographic, shorthanded as disenfranchised Brexit voters who turned on a technocratic, urban elite, stand at the frontline of changes to regulations and market. Paradoxically, heritage meat production, valued through locality and transparency is gaining cultural capital, nostalgically harking back to a pre-industrial, pre-abattoir past. In the project of modernity to conceal the brutality and residue of meat's animal origins, slaughter has been rendered into a cultural blind spot (Young-Lee:2008). Forces of industrialisation have further centralised production to out-of-town regionalised abattoirs. EU regulations, produced in response to trade, disease and consumer outrage, regulate all abattoirs unilaterally, regardless of whether the meat produced is "industrialised" or "heritage." Abattoirs remain culturally ignored; represented by state and supranational organisations through science or animal welfare informed regulations and omitted from UN reports on global meat supply , whilst heritage meat narratives jump from farm to butchers block. My masters fieldwork was located in British abattoirs. Workers were patriotic and explicitly hostile about immigrants, despite negligible presence of immigrant workers. Conversely, they were proud of international trade and ambivalent about the values of nationally enforced EU regulations, reflexively differentiating economy, state and nationhood. They challenged public discourses scripting the white working class as homogeneously disenfranchised. At this urgent moment where heritage, class and gender inform broad articulations of nationhood, this research asks, what does the concealed abattoir reveal about working class masculinities in post-industrial Britain? As practices of heritage meat production are promoted as corrective to globalised food chains, incongruent notions of sovereignty resonate with Britain feeding its own people. How will future heritage economies interplay with industrialised economies and shape divisions in gender and class of those working within them? How could policy exacerbate or temper these divisions? This research aims to articulate the social effects of policy, regulation and heritage economies as potentially amplifying social divisions, complicating notions of nationhood. Multi-sited fieldwork will take place at industrialised and heritage abattoirs in Cumbria, Norfolk, London and Scotland to encompass a cross-national and complex regional lens into British productivity. Research methods will combine participant-observation, informal and semi-structured interviews with workers. This will be combined with a detailed discourse analysis of policy and regulation.

随着英国脱欧的临近，英国还没有准备好养活自己的人民。粮食生产的模式、规章制度及其社会和经济影响尚不清楚。收入最高的食品行业是肉类;屠宰场是这一商品链中不可或缺的一个环节，尽管看不见。在英国，屠宰场工人主要是白色、男性和工人阶级。这一人口群体，作为被剥夺公民权的英国退欧选民，他们转向技术官僚，城市精英，站在法规和市场变化的前线。巧合的是，通过地方性和透明度来评估的传统肉类生产正在获得文化资本，怀旧地追溯到工业化前，屠宰场前的过去。在现代性掩盖肉的动物起源的残忍和残留的项目中，屠宰已经成为一个文化盲点（Young-Lee：2008）。工业化的力量进一步将生产集中到城外的区域化屠宰场。欧盟的法规是为了应对贸易、疾病和消费者的愤怒而制定的，它单方面地监管所有屠宰场，不管生产的肉类是“工业化”的还是“传统的”。“屠宰场在文化上仍然被忽视;由国家和超国家组织通过科学或动物福利知情法规代表，并从联合国关于全球肉类供应的报告中省略，而传统肉类的叙述从农场跳到屠夫街区。我的硕士研究生在英国的屠宰场工作。尽管移民工人的存在微不足道，但工人们是爱国的，对移民有明显的敌意。相反，他们对国际贸易感到自豪，对国家执行的欧盟法规的价值观感到矛盾，反射性地区分经济，国家和民族。他们挑战了将白色工人阶级描述为被剥夺公民权的公共话语。在这个紧急时刻，遗产，阶级和性别通知国家的广泛表达，这项研究问，隐藏的屠宰场揭示了什么关于工人阶级的男性在后工业化的英国？随着传统肉类生产的做法被推广为对全球化食物链的纠正，不协调的主权概念与英国养活自己的人民产生了共鸣。未来的遗产经济体将如何与工业化经济体相互作用，并在其中工作的性别和阶级方面形成分歧？政策如何加剧或缓和这些分歧？这项研究旨在阐明政策，法规和遗产经济的社会影响，可能会扩大社会分化，使国家概念复杂化。多地点的实地考察将在坎布里亚郡、诺福克、伦敦和苏格兰的工业化和传统屠宰场进行，以涵盖英国生产力的跨国和复杂的区域透镜。研究方法将结合联合收割机参与观察，非正式和半结构化的工人访谈。这将与政策和监管的详细话语分析相结合。