Jody Emel and Harvey Neo: Political ecologies of meat Routledge, New York, 2015, 368 pp, ISBN 978-0-415-73695-4

Political Ecologies of Meat by Jody Emel and Harvey Neo is reviewed. Considering the frighteningly rapid pace of global livestock intensification, critical scholarship on the socio-ecological implications of the meat industry could not be timelier. Jody Emel and Harvey Neo's edited volume makes...

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Published inAgriculture and Human Values Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 739 - 740
Main Author Bruckner, Heide K.
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.09.2016
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Agricultural Economics
Animal care
Animal welfare
Breeding of animals
Case studies
Cattle
Climate change
Education
Environmental justice
Ethics
Evolutionary Biology
Geography
History
Knowledge
Livestock
Livestock industry
Materialism
Meat industry
Philosophy
Political ecology
Political economy
Trends
Values
Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science
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Summary:Political Ecologies of Meat by Jody Emel and Harvey Neo is reviewed. Considering the frighteningly rapid pace of global livestock intensification, critical scholarship on the socio-ecological implications of the meat industry could not be timelier. Jody Emel and Harvey Neo's edited volume makes an important academic and activist contribution, pulling together diverse articles in an expansive work. Drawing on political ecology and animal geography, the chapters investigate the intimate entanglements between political economy, knowledge regimes, and governance within the global meat complex. Contributing authors take on issues as varied as the livestock revolution, the meat industry's impact on climate change, the framing and fixing of animal welfare standards, and the bioeconomy of animal breeding
ISSN:0889-048X
1572-8366
DOI:10.1007/s10460-016-9711-6