https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n31.04
Alejandro Ponce de León-Calero
Orcid ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-4808-3373
University of California , Davis, USA
poncedeleon@ucdavis.edu
Abstract:
In this text, I will trace some encounters happening throughout a process of premium quality bovine meat in Southern United States. By attending material, discursive, and affective encounters —given they make bodies— this work looks at cattle production, where rather than a set of practices directed toward meat production, it is glimpsed as a collection of touches, frictions and breakups. In this line, a set of reflections are put forward on how animal life and death is made up through contemporary productive processes.
Keywords: cattle, processing, meat, speculative ethnography.
