Death in the wrong place? Emotional geographies of the UK 2001 foot and mouth disease epidemic.

摘要: In this paper, we draw on the concept of ‘lifescape’ (Some and McSweeney, ILEIA Newsletter, ETC Leusden, The Netherlands, 1996; Howorth, Rebuilding Local Landscape, Ashgate, Aldershot, 1999) to capture spatial, emotional ethical dimensions relationship between landscape, livestock farming community elucidate heterogeneity agricultural landscapes. so doing, illustrate complex contradictory relations humans non-humans. Farm animals may exist simultaneously as ‘friends’ sources food, leading a blurring socially constructed categories such ‘livestock’ ‘pet’ (Holloway, J. Rural Stud. 17 (2001) 293). Livestock ‘economic machines’ for converting roughage meat, milk by-products (Briggs Briggs, Modern Breeds Livestock, fourth ed., Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc., New York, 1980) represents one strand these relations; sight farmers crying farm being blessed during 2001 Cumbrian foot mouth outbreak, yet another. As (Franklin, Anthropology Today (3) 3) indicates, ‘the farmer weeping beside blazing pyre dead sheep is portrait breach in relationships humans’. By drawing experiences epidemic, wider rural North Cumbria, try articulate ambiguities breach.