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Porkopolis
American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm
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Porkopolis
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Narrado por:
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Scot Wilcox
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Alex Blanchette
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In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. In Porkopolis Alex Blanchette explores how this rural community has been reorganized around the life and death cycles of corporate pigs.
Drawing on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork, Blanchette immerses listeners into the workplaces that underlie modern meat, from slaughterhouses and corporate offices to artificial insemination barns and bone-rendering facilities. He outlines the deep human-hog relationships and intimacies that emerge through intensified industrialization, showing how even the most mundane human action, such as a wayward touch, could have serious physical consequences for animals.
Corporations' pursuit of a perfectly uniform, standardized pig—one that can yield materials for over 1000 products—creates social and environmental instabilities that transform human lives and livelihoods. Throughout Porkopolis, Blanchette uses factory farming to rethink the fraught state of industrial capitalism in the United States today.
The book is published by Duke University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.
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"The clarity and analytical power of Porkopolis are impressive achievements..." (Boston Review)
“Very well written, powerful, and provocative...” (American Anthropologist)
“A masterful piece of multi-sited research.” (American Ethnologist)
