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05185aam a2200565 i 4500 001 59DE17B0527411EC8E4D38A14AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211201010015 008 191023t20202020ncua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019043393 020 $a 1478008407 020 $a 9781478008408 020 $a 1478007893 020 $a 9781478007890 040 $a NcD/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d TOH $d YDX $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HD9435.U62 $b B53 2020 082 00 $a 338.1/76400973 $2 23 100 1 $a Blanchette, Alex, $e author. 245 10 $a Porkopolis : $b American animality, standardized life, and the factory farm / $c Alex Blanchette. 264 1 $a Durham : $b Duke University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xviii, 298 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Boar. The Dover Flies -- The Herd : Intimate Biosecurity and Posthuman Labor -- Sow. Somos Puercos -- Stimulation : Instincts in Production -- Hog. Lutalyse -- Stockperson : Love, Muscles, and the Industrial Runt -- Carcass. Miss Wicked -- Biological System : Breaking In at the End of Industrial Time -- Viscera. Maybe Some Blood, but Mostly Grease -- Lifecycle : On Using All of the Porcine Species -- Epilogue: The (De-)Pigification of the World. 520 $a "PORKOPOLIS is an ethnographic account of hog production in "Dixon," a 15,000-resident agribusiness town in the Great Plains. In Dixon, where nearly 5,600,000 hogs are killed a year, human life has been reorganized around the life and death cycles of porcine production. Alex Blanchette accounts for the totalizing force of hog production by arguing that towns like Dixon represent a reinvestment in 20th-century notions of industry in a post-industrial United States. In practice, this means not only the taking up of industrial stock images, organization forms, and identities, but also an intense desire, on the part of agribusiness corporations, to achieve standardization-to create the "perfect" pig. To achieve standardized results, agribusiness corporations have implemented systems of full "vertical integration," in which they directly own and engineer every stage of a pig's life and death cycle. The result, Blanchette argues, is more than just an effort to create the perfect pig, but rather a calibration of human life and affect to meet the needs of porcine production. Drawing on his ethnographic fieldwork as a worker in a hog factory, Blanchette illustrates how methods of vertical integration and standardization in agribusiness factories work to transform hogs-and humans-into tokens of capitalist animality. The book is divided into five parts. Part I, "Boar," examines how corporations manage the threat of porcine diseases, and the biopolitical protocols that corporations enact in workers' homes to protect hogs. Part II, "Sow," draws from Blanchette's own experiences working the artificial insemination line, where workers are encouraged to "become the boar" with their hands to imitate mating. This part theorizes interspecies and labor politics that arise from situations in which workers are only intimate with one dimension of pigs-in this case, porcine sexual instincts. Part III, "Hog," explores the consequences of standardizing animality, where genetic refinements create litters too large to supply adequate nutrients in uterus. Part IV, "Carcass," examines the vertical integration of human workers' bodies on the assembly lines. Part V, "Viscera" explores the biological "excess" of porcine production-bones, feces, fat, livers, lungs-and corporations' desires to use "all" of the pig. This section examines how the fully integrated factory farm depends on modes of consumption that extend beyond what can be supplied by human eaters alone. This book will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, animal studies, neoliberalism and globalization, capitalism, and social theory"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Swine industry $z United States. 650 0 $a Swine breeders $z United States. 650 0 $a Factory farms $z United States. 650 0 $a Agriculture $x Economic aspects $z United States. 650 7 $a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Agriculture $x Economic aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00801415 650 7 $a Factory farms. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01715931 650 7 $a Swine breeders. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01140526 650 7 $a Swine industry. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01911257 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 650 7 $a Schweinezucht $2 gnd 650 7 $a Fleischindustrie $2 gnd 650 7 $a Mensch $2 gnd 650 7 $a Tiere $2 gnd 650 7 $a Beziehung $2 gnd 650 7 $a Feldforschung $2 gnd 651 7 $a USA $2 gnd 776 08 $i Online version: $a Blanchette, Alexander David, 1981- $t Porkopolis $d Durham : Duke University Press, 2020. $z 9781478012047 $w (DLC) 2019043394 941 $a 3 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20220209011152.0 952 $l OPAX566 $d 20220128010342.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20211201010641.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=59DE17B0527411EC8E4D38A14AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search