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Tobias L

Tobias Linné

Universitetslektor

Tobias L

Many Meats and Many Milks? The Ontological Politics of a Proposed Post-animal Revolution

Författare

  • Erik Jönsson
  • Tobias Linné
  • Ally McCrow Young

Summary, in English

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.

Avdelning/ar

  • Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
  • Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

Publiceringsår

2019

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

70-97

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Science as Culture

Volym

28

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Ämne

  • Agricultural Biotechnology
  • Other Humanities not elsewhere specified

Nyckelord

  • Meat
  • Milk
  • Biotechnology
  • Ontological politics
  • Food

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0950-5431