ANT376H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Coulter: Nancy Fraser, Social Reproduction, Neoliberalism
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Core: vital affective state, ethical obligation, practical labour. Many animals are physically prevented from caring for fellow animals or offspring. Animals are sentient beings who are able to think and feel consciously, physically, emotionally. 3 organizational categories: subsistence (survive), voluntary (done for humans in homes), mandated (occupations and formal tasks) Social reproduction: set of tasks and processes etc. /work done to ensure wellbeing and future of offspring/next generation. Ecosocial reproduction: animals in wild reproduce future -> social reproduction (necessary for reproduction of ecosystem) Farmed animals = largest group of land animals. Barbara noske: applies marx"s alienated labour with animals" labour (alienated from offspring/product) Animal-industrial complex: political economic structures in realities of neoliberal capitalist context. Sentient commodity: simultaneously property and products; have feelings and personalities, leading to ambivalence in their social position. Interspecies solidarity: empathy and compassion (intersects with care work) Humane jobs: benefit both animals and humans.
