Many Meats and Many Milks? The Ontological Politics of a Proposed Post-animal Revolution
Jönsson, Erik LU ; Linné, Tobias LU
and McCrow Young, Ally
(2019)
In Science as Culture
28(1).
p.70-97
- Abstract
- Today plant-based alternatives to animal-agricultural products are made available or developed alongside ‘cultured’ meat, and products utilising genetic modification. To proponents, this signifies the emergence of ‘cellular agriculture’ as a food-production field or the possibility of a ‘post-animal bioeconomy’: a way to safely and sustainably produce animal products without animals. Drawing on previous work on ontological politics enables acknowledging how these novel objects unsettle animal products’ ontological stability, thereby offering a practical case of how the world is multiply produced. An important emphasis within this tradition is the situated nature of reality-making practices. Consequently our analysis, focusing on different... (More)
- Today plant-based alternatives to animal-agricultural products are made available or developed alongside ‘cultured’ meat, and products utilising genetic modification. To proponents, this signifies the emergence of ‘cellular agriculture’ as a food-production field or the possibility of a ‘post-animal bioeconomy’: a way to safely and sustainably produce animal products without animals. Drawing on previous work on ontological politics enables acknowledging how these novel objects unsettle animal products’ ontological stability, thereby offering a practical case of how the world is multiply produced. An important emphasis within this tradition is the situated nature of reality-making practices. Consequently our analysis, focusing on different practices, sites and objects compared to influential studies of ontological politics, necessitates bringing in hitherto relatively unexplored political-economic relations and legal processes. As global processes and problem formulations, laboratories, and national or regional regulations come together to remake realities the ontological-political dynamics determining the fate of cellular agriculture or a post-animal bioeconomy becomes shaped by a combination of conflicts and budding collaborations between proponents of new technologies and established livestock interests. Understanding these dynamics requires tracing both how post-animal products reshape the world they are introduced into, and acknowledging the friction evident as reality-carrying objects leave their laboratories. (Less)
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- Jönsson, Erik
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; Linné, Tobias
LU
and McCrow Young, Ally
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- 2019
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- subject
- keywords
- Meat, Milk, Biotechnology, Ontological politics, Food
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- Science as Culture
- volume
- 28
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 28 pages
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
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- scopus:85057531546
- ISSN
- 0950-5431
- DOI
- 10.1080/09505431.2018.1544232
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- English
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