Capitalist Pigs: Large-Scale Swine Facilities and the Mutual Construction of Nature and Society

I concluded that large-scale swine facilities, as the dominant manifestation of the current US swine industry, were a temporally emergent phenomenon---they were something new and unforeseen that involved the active participation of many social agents (such as farmers, consumers, laws, neighbors, land grant universities, capital investments, government agencies, agricultural companies, and grassroots organizations) and physical agents (such as swine, bacteria, building materials, medicine, and transportation technologies). All of these agents have interacted with one another in multiple and irreducible ways over the years to create a swine industry assemblage that is as much natural as it is social; thus environmental sociology would be better served if our work decentered the human and instead attended to all the agents.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Coppin, Dawn Michelle

Contributors dc:contributor

• Pickering, Andrew

• Agriculture, Animal Culture and Nutrition

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3070282

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86196