Domesticated over 10,500 years ago, cows are currently found in every country across the globe yet there is still much to learn about their varied histories, geographies, and lives. Part of the reason for this is a lack of soft infrastructure for scholars to connect with each other across institutional and disciplinary boundaries. This network aims to gather researchers who have an interest in broader ‘bovine scholarship’ and more specific ‘cow scholarship’ to share, learn, and engage in knowledge creation with one another.
Network Founders: Claudia Hirtenfelder (17ch38@queensu.ca) and Andrea Petitt (andrea.petitt@gender.uu.se).
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Michael Glover deposited “That other me, down and dreaming”: an animal perspective critique of decoloniality theory in the group
Bovine Scholarship Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThis essay critiques decoloniality theory, including its use of the notion of epistemic colonisation, from an animal perspective. It has two main parts. Part one is an internal critique of decoloniality theory. It introduces and comments on core decoloniality theory concepts, and argues that, according to its assumptions, animals are…[Read more]
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Kerstin Lieselotte Weich deposited Veterinary anthropology: Samples from an emerging field in the group
Bovine Scholarship Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoWe contribute to the growing field of veterinary humanities by promoting collaboration between veterinarians and anthropologists. Veterinary anthropology as we propose it analyzes the role of animal diseases in social life while questioning notions of animal health and human health. We distinguish three ways for veterinarians to collaborate with…[Read more]
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Andrea Petitt deposited Conceptualizing the Multispecies Triad: Towards a Multispecies Interesectionality in the group
Bovine Scholarship Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoFeminist and multispecies anthropologies have decentered those most visible to appreciate the
perspectives of those othered in society—but also to better understand society at large. This article
goes beyond decentering the human toward decentering another analytical focus: the species
dyad. Building on previous work on gender–species int…[Read more] -
Kerstin Lieselotte Weich uploaded the file: Veterinary Anthropology to
Bovine Scholarship Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoWe contribute to the growing field of veterinary humanities by promoting collaboration between veterinarians and anthropologists. Veterinary anthropology as we propose it analyzes the role of animal diseases in social life while questioning notions of animal health and human health. We distinguish three ways for veterinarians to collaborate with…[Read more]
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Samuël Coghe uploaded the file: A New Pastoral Frontier: Colonial Development, Environmental Knowledge, and the Introduction of Trypanotolerant Cattle in French Equatorial Africa, 1945–1960 to
Bovine Scholarship Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agohttps://doi.org/10.1086/721179
After the Second World War, colonial veterinary services, entrepreneurs, and
African villagers in French Equatorial Africa (AEF) began to raise cattle in regions
where this had been deemed impossible because of the threat of African
animal trypanosomiasis. The opening of this new pastoral frontier in the
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Andrea Petitt deposited Designing Cattle: The social practice of constructing breeds in the group
Bovine Scholarship Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThis paper explores how cattle breeds are constructed through social practice—which we conceptually develop as “designing” cattle. We show how breed varieties are designed, informed by the social, material and moral embeddedness of cattle breeding associations’ visions of the future and how they draw on science and technology in their breedin…[Read more]
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Andrea Petitt deposited Breeding Beyond Bodies: Making and “Doing” Cattle in the group
Bovine Scholarship Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoDairy cows provide a spectacular example of what can be achieved with purposeful breeding of nonhuman animals in terms of increasing production and bodily adaptation to particular production systems. This implies that humans can make nonhuman bodies take whatever form they desire. However, the assumption that breeding outcomes are entirely shaped…[Read more]
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Andrea Petitt deposited Women and Cattle in the group
Bovine Scholarship Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoCattle form an integral part of lives, livelihoods, and landscapes in Botswana. They offer people socio-cultural and politico-economic means through which to participate in society as respected and supported citizens. When asked what it means to have cattle, many of our study respondents stated: “I feel like a person” or “cattle are life.” At the…[Read more]
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Claudia Hirtenfelder uploaded the file: Call for Presenters and Participants for the 2nd Bovine Scholarship Workshop to
Bovine Scholarship Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoAfter the success of our first Bovine Scholarship Workshop in October 2021, we are pleased to announce that we will be hosting a second Bovine Scholarship Workshop from the 30-31st of March 2022.
After good feedback from our first workshop we have decided to keep the numbers fairly small and to ensure that there is ample time for discussion of…[Read more] -
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Claudia Hirtenfelder deposited Milking economies: Multispecies entanglements in the infant formula industry in the group
Bovine Scholarship Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoIn 2016 the Chinese infant formula company Feihe International signed a deal with the Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC) to process Canadian cows’ and goats’ milk for infant formula export to China. Our purpose in this paper is to understand how this deal – and the new Feihe formula factory located in Kingston, Canada – is underpinned by a series…[Read more]
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Claudia Hirtenfelder started the topic Sharing in the discussion
Bovine Scholarship Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoHi folks,
As you can see this is all fairly new and we are busy building up the Network. If you have articles and material you would like to share that is related to bovines please feel free to upload documents under ‘docs’. If there is a particular piece of work you would like to discuss or have a chat about make use of this discussion forum to…[Read more]
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