Revealing the 'animal-industrial complex': a concept & method for critical animal studies?

Abstract

This paper returns to Barbara Noske's (1989) concept of the ‗animal-industrial complex' in order to develop and re/present it as a key organizing frame of analysis and research collaboration for the field of critical animal studies (CAS).In presenting various ways of refining its definition and illustrating some intersections between both different forms of animal use and with other ‗complex' concepts, the aim is also to help build CAS capacity in analyzing the role of political economy in shaping human-animal relations.Whilst keeping the permeability of the boundaries of the complex very much to the fore, this paper nevertheless focuses on farmed animals and case studies virtual methods of apprehending ‗livestock' genetics companies as one approach for potentially bringing the animal-industrial complex into a more clearly delineated space of scholarly and public critical scrutiny.

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