Public Lecture: Industrial Animal Agriculture in the Polycrisis Era
What role does industrial animal agriculture play in this era of multiple crises, including rapidly accelerating climate change and biodiversity loss, deteriorating public health, rising rates of forced and undignified labour and political instability and militarisation? How can we reconsider the entangled nature of multi-species connections between people, farmed animals, and nature in this context? Alex Blanchette and Christina Hicks explore these questions in these lectures, drawing on research and fieldwork expertise across marine and terrestrial food systems governance and labour theory.
Alex Blanchette: Recording of CRILS Public Lecture (April 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 and the co-editor of How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet.
Christina Hicks: Recording of CRILS Public Lecture (April 2024)
Christina Hicks is Professor of Environmental Social Sciences in the Political Ecology Group at Lancaster University’s Environment Centre. Hicks’s research addresses ocean governance and the relationships people form with nature, the environment and food. Her most recent projects include “Notre poisson! Tackling industrial fishmeal and fish oil production in West Africa”, of which she is the Principal Investigator. Hicks is the 2019 winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Geography.