CRILS London Workshop
16-17th April 2024
Our 2024 in-person workshop brought together 30 academics and practitioners from around the world to collectively reflect on corporate consolidation and control, the prevalence and narratives of disease, food sovereignty and food regimes, as well as the language we use to think about industrial livestock systems.
Panel Proceedings
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Corporate Control
What does industrialisation mean? How is industrialisation understood by and experienced by the public? What is the status and thus future of smallholder farmer in industrialised systems? Panellists shared evidence and analytical methods for researching corporate concentration.
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Food Regimes and Sovereignty
How are authoritarian states and corporations’ expansion intertwined? Does industrialisation encroach on sovereignty, indigeneity, and collective rights? Panellists discussed the socio-ecological, gendered and class impacts of the expansion of industrial animal agriculture projects and highlighted their colonial legacies.
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The Future of Disease - Biosecurity, pandemics, AMR, and zoonoses
How do responses to disease threats shape production systems and narratives? Does biosecurity affect labour and human-animal relations? How does biosecurity influence relations between countries and/or regions? Panellists discussed the contested contentious nature of biosecurity measures and the impacts to small and marginal farmers.
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Human-Animal Narratives: Current and Future
If we interrogate foundations of how we think about, research and represent industrial animal agriculture, what changes? This session drew on ecolinguistics, artistic practice, narratives and story-telling to dig deeper into multi-species relationships and ethics of care.
Public Lecture: Industrial Animal Agriculture in the Polycrisis Era
With Alex Blanchette and Christina Hicks
April 16, 2024
Alex Blanchette is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University, and a visiting faculty fellow in the Animal Law and Public Policy Program at Harvard Law School. He is the author of Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm.
Christina Hicks is a Professor of Environmental Social Sciences in the Political Ecology Group at Lancaster University’s Environment Centre, where she focuses on ocean governance and human-nature connections.
