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• Veterinary Anthropology  
  In category: Journal Article.
  Uploaded by Kerstin Lieselotte Weich on 6 June 2023.

  We 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 anthropologists, which more or less follow a chronological order. One form of collaboration requires anthropologists to bring risk perception or local knowledge on zoonoses identified by veterinarians. A more recent form of collaboration integrates veterinarians and anthropologists around the view of animals as actors in infrastructures of security. Finally, we suggest that, as veterinary expertise and its roles in contemporary societies is becoming an object of anthropological enquiry, a new space for collaboration is unfolding that enables veterinarians to see themselves through that reflexive lens of anthropological attention. Veterinary anthropology can therefore be defined as an anthropology of veterinarians and with veterinarians.

• A New Pastoral Frontier: Colonial Development, Environmental Knowledge, and the Introduction of Trypanotolerant Cattle in French Equatorial Africa, 1945–1960  
  In category: Journal Article.
  Uploaded by Samuël Coghe on 6 June 2023.

  https://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
  humid savannas of Central Africa was not only a challenging logistical operation,
  involving the purchase, transport, and acclimatization of thousands of
  trypanotolerant animals. It also hinged on the mobilization of various forms
  of expertise, from veterinary medicine to soil science, important financial investments,
  and the participation of rural Africans. The article argues that the
  specific conditions in postwar AEF generated a frontier that was distinct from
  many other global and African cattle frontiers, as it was driven more by latecolonial
  development ideas and funds than capitalist expansion, even if these
  were sometimes entangled. Shaped by the interplay between local, (trans)imperial,
  and globally circulating knowledge, trypanotolerant cattle production
  in the AEF took the complementary forms of extensive ranching and smallscale
  peasant production. Although the introduction of trypanotolerant cattle
  triggered new conflicts, it was further pursued by postcolonial states, transforming
  rural economies and ecologies.

• 2nd Bovine Scholarship Workshop (Program)  
  In category: Program.
  Uploaded by Claudia Hirtenfelder on 31 March 2022.
• Call for Presenters and Participants for the 2nd Bovine Scholarship Workshop  
  In category: Call.
  Uploaded by Claudia Hirtenfelder on 19 November 2021.

  After 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 ideas. 

  The workshop will be held over two afternoons (13:00-17:00 CET) on the 30th and 31st of March 2022. There are limited spaces to present and attend the workshop. If you are interested in presenting your application should include: a 200-250 word abstract, a 150 word bio, affiliation and email address. Please note that you do not need to have an affiliated paper with your abstract and that works in progress are welcome. If you are only interested in participating (but not presenting) and this is your first time applying to a Bovine Scholarship Workshop your application should include: a 200-250 word motivation for why you would like to attend and what your interests in bovine scholarship are, a 150 word bio, affiliation, and email address. The deadline for all applications is 28 January 2022. 

  For more details regarding the workshop and how to apply please consult the attached file. 

• Women and Cattle "Becoming-With" in Botswana  
  In category: Journal Article.
  Uploaded by Andrea Petitt on 31 October 2021.
• Bovine Scholarship Workshop (5-6 Oct 2021)  
  In category: Program.
  Uploaded by Claudia Hirtenfelder on 24 October 2021.

  To better understand the multiplicity and dynamism of human-cow relations, this workshop aims to bring together scholars who are working on questions of human-cow relations from a variety of contexts and who are asking questions about these relations from a multitude of lenses (such as historical, geographical, gendered and phenomenological). 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. This despite cows’ centrality to human pursuits of agriculture, colonization and capitalism as well as their implication in climate change. Furthermore, even as social research on cows emerges from all continents there is little opportunity to understand how these different cow geographies and stories are connected and/or produce varied realities and knowledge.

• Milking economies: Multispecies entanglements in the infant formula industry  
  In category: Journal Article.
  Uploaded by Claudia Hirtenfelder on 24 October 2021.

  Abstract
  In 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 of multispecies entanglements across cow, human and goat mothers in China and Canada. To do so, we analyse official correspondence between the CDC, Feihe and City of Kingston; market reports for the dairy, goat and infant formula industries; and news articles about the Feihe infant formula plant. Conceptually, we develop an anti-colonial, multispecies entanglement framework to chart the violent inclusions, exclusions and typologizations that make milk and formula economies possible. We are specifically interested in how the Feihe–CDC deal (re)configures entanglements across species, nation, race, science and motherhood. To understand these relations, we heuristically imbricate two different sets of entanglements that underpin this deal: milk drinking, empire and genetic purity across race, breed and species; and motherhood, science and technology across humans, goats and cows. We use our threefold entanglement framework to better understand the violence of these imbrications and to work towards a multispecies feminist ethic in the infant formula industry.