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• 1. [Article] An international division of nature: The effects of structural adjustment on agricultural sustainability

  xiii, 182 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: An international division of nature: The effects of structural adjustment on agricultural sustainability Author: Mancus, Philip Michael Year: 2010, 2009 xiii, 182 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. Title: An international division of nature: The effects of structural adjustment on agricultural sustainability Author: Mancus, Philip Michael Year: 2010, 2009 xiii, 182 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. Close

• 2. [Article] Capital's Chinese Pigpen: Political Ecologies of Pig Production in the People's Republic of China

  This thesis analyzes contemporary political ecologies of pig farming in the People's Republic of China, as well as emergent discourses of “meatification” and the industrialization of Chinese agriculture ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Capital's Chinese Pigpen: Political Ecologies of Pig Production in the People's Republic of China Author: Conant, Abram Year: 2016 This thesis analyzes contemporary political ecologies of pig farming in the People's Republic of China, as well as emergent discourses of “meatification” and the industrialization of Chinese agriculture more broadly. Situated within these extensive, heterogenous, and dynamic assemblages, which I contextualize in historical-geographical terms throughout Chapter I, I narrow my argument to three relatively neglected problematics that occupy subsequent chapters: the role of pigs in the affective construction of modernity, the microbiological zones of insecurity intertwined with industrial pig production, and the re-valorization of urban food waste through peri-urban pig farming, including so-called “garbage pigs.” Animated by broad political, ethical, ontological, and epistemological concerns about society and ecology, culture and technology, and food and the mass-production of commodified organisms, this research helps demonstrate how fraught relationships between pigs, people, and place participate in the politics of "modernity" in the People's Republic of China. Title: Capital's Chinese Pigpen: Political Ecologies of Pig Production in the People's Republic of China Author: Conant, Abram Year: 2016 This thesis analyzes contemporary political ecologies of pig farming in the People's Republic of China, as well as emergent discourses of “meatification” and the industrialization of Chinese agriculture more broadly. Situated within these extensive, heterogenous, and dynamic assemblages, which I contextualize in historical-geographical terms throughout Chapter I, I narrow my argument to three relatively neglected problematics that occupy subsequent chapters: the role of pigs in the affective construction of modernity, the microbiological zones of insecurity intertwined with industrial pig production, and the re-valorization of urban food waste through peri-urban pig farming, including so-called “garbage pigs.” Animated by broad political, ethical, ontological, and epistemological concerns about society and ecology, culture and technology, and food and the mass-production of commodified organisms, this research helps demonstrate how fraught relationships between pigs, people, and place participate in the politics of "modernity" in the People's Republic of China. Close