Lesley A. Sharp
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780520299245
- eISBN:
- 9780520971059
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520299245.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
What are the moral challenges and consequences of animal research in academic laboratory settings? Animal Ethos considers how the inescapable needs of lab research necessitate interspecies encounters ...
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What are the moral challenges and consequences of animal research in academic laboratory settings? Animal Ethos considers how the inescapable needs of lab research necessitate interspecies encounters that, in turn, engender unexpected moral responses among a range of associated personnel. Whereas much has been written about the codified, bioethical rules and regulations that inform proper lab behavior and decorum, Animal Ethos, as an in-depth, ethnographic project, probes the equally rich—yet poorly understood—realm of ordinary or everyday morality, where serendipitous, creative, and unorthodox thought and action evidence concerted efforts to transform animal laboratories into moral, scientific worlds. The work is grounded in efforts to integrate theory within medical anthropology (and, more particularly, on suffering and moral worth), animal studies, and science and technology studies (STS). Contrary to established scholarship that focuses exclusively on single professions (such as the researcher or technician), Animal Ethos tracks across the spectrum of the lab labor hierarchy by considering the experiences of researchers, animal technicians, and lab veterinarians. In turn, it offers comparative insights on animal activists. When taken together, this range of parties illuminates the moral complexities of experimental lab research. The affective qualities of interspecies intimacy, animal death, and species preference are of special analytical concern, as reflected in the themes of intimacy, sacrifice, and exceptionalism that anchor this work.Less
What are the moral challenges and consequences of animal research in academic laboratory settings? Animal Ethos considers how the inescapable needs of lab research necessitate interspecies encounters that, in turn, engender unexpected moral responses among a range of associated personnel. Whereas much has been written about the codified, bioethical rules and regulations that inform proper lab behavior and decorum, Animal Ethos, as an in-depth, ethnographic project, probes the equally rich—yet poorly understood—realm of ordinary or everyday morality, where serendipitous, creative, and unorthodox thought and action evidence concerted efforts to transform animal laboratories into moral, scientific worlds. The work is grounded in efforts to integrate theory within medical anthropology (and, more particularly, on suffering and moral worth), animal studies, and science and technology studies (STS). Contrary to established scholarship that focuses exclusively on single professions (such as the researcher or technician), Animal Ethos tracks across the spectrum of the lab labor hierarchy by considering the experiences of researchers, animal technicians, and lab veterinarians. In turn, it offers comparative insights on animal activists. When taken together, this range of parties illuminates the moral complexities of experimental lab research. The affective qualities of interspecies intimacy, animal death, and species preference are of special analytical concern, as reflected in the themes of intimacy, sacrifice, and exceptionalism that anchor this work.
Javier Auyero and María Fernanda Berti
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780691173030
- eISBN:
- 9781400865888
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691173030.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter examines the ethical and political dimensions of violence by looking at the practices and routines that Arquitecto Tucci residents engage in to protect themselves and their loved ones. ...
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This chapter examines the ethical and political dimensions of violence by looking at the practices and routines that Arquitecto Tucci residents engage in to protect themselves and their loved ones. It considers the routines, akin to “making toast,” that the people of Tucci deploy to deal with surrounding danger. It argues that these routine and nonroutine practices, including those that involve the deployment of violence, can be understood as the expression of “ordinary ethics,” revealing an ethics of care at work. It concludes with a discussion of a peaceful form of collective action that is slowly emerging in Tucci to tackle the issue of public safety as well as the character of this incipient social movement.Less
This chapter examines the ethical and political dimensions of violence by looking at the practices and routines that Arquitecto Tucci residents engage in to protect themselves and their loved ones. It considers the routines, akin to “making toast,” that the people of Tucci deploy to deal with surrounding danger. It argues that these routine and nonroutine practices, including those that involve the deployment of violence, can be understood as the expression of “ordinary ethics,” revealing an ethics of care at work. It concludes with a discussion of a peaceful form of collective action that is slowly emerging in Tucci to tackle the issue of public safety as well as the character of this incipient social movement.
Javier Auyero and María Fernanda Berti
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780691173030
- eISBN:
- 9781400865888
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691173030.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This book focuses on the collective trauma created by the constant and implacable interpersonal violence in Arquitecto Tucci, a marginalized neighborhood in the outskirts of the city of Buenos Aires, ...
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This book focuses on the collective trauma created by the constant and implacable interpersonal violence in Arquitecto Tucci, a marginalized neighborhood in the outskirts of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It examines the hows and whys of the copresence and concatenations of different forms of violence that encircle the lives of the urban poor in the community. It considers the ways in which scared residents—men and women, adults and children—establish routines and weave relations to cope with (and respond to) the constant danger that besieges them and their beloved ones by exercising what anthropologists Veena Das and Michael Lambek call “ordinary ethics.” This introduction provides an overview of violence in urban areas in Latin America, the book's ethnographic reconstruction of violence at the urban margins, the research method used, and the chapters that follow.Less
This book focuses on the collective trauma created by the constant and implacable interpersonal violence in Arquitecto Tucci, a marginalized neighborhood in the outskirts of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It examines the hows and whys of the copresence and concatenations of different forms of violence that encircle the lives of the urban poor in the community. It considers the ways in which scared residents—men and women, adults and children—establish routines and weave relations to cope with (and respond to) the constant danger that besieges them and their beloved ones by exercising what anthropologists Veena Das and Michael Lambek call “ordinary ethics.” This introduction provides an overview of violence in urban areas in Latin America, the book's ethnographic reconstruction of violence at the urban margins, the research method used, and the chapters that follow.
Radhika Govindrajan
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226559841
- eISBN:
- 9780226560045
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226560045.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines the effects of recent attempts by right-wing Hindu nationalists to forge, through legislative action as well as vigilante violence, a Hindu community and nation unified by the ...
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This chapter examines the effects of recent attempts by right-wing Hindu nationalists to forge, through legislative action as well as vigilante violence, a Hindu community and nation unified by the symbol of the mother cow. The chapter describes how villagers in the mountains viewed such attempts to impose kinship between them and cows at large as an act of coercion. However, such coercive framings of kinship did not go unchallenged; villagers responded to them by imagining alternate forms of relatedness that emphasized a common mountain identity over transcendental Hinduness as the grounds of connection between themselves and their cows. The chapter argues that these alternate forms of relatedness were based in the fact that the distinctive characteristics and tendencies of individual cows were incommensurate with the homogeneous metaphor of the mother cow.Less
This chapter examines the effects of recent attempts by right-wing Hindu nationalists to forge, through legislative action as well as vigilante violence, a Hindu community and nation unified by the symbol of the mother cow. The chapter describes how villagers in the mountains viewed such attempts to impose kinship between them and cows at large as an act of coercion. However, such coercive framings of kinship did not go unchallenged; villagers responded to them by imagining alternate forms of relatedness that emphasized a common mountain identity over transcendental Hinduness as the grounds of connection between themselves and their cows. The chapter argues that these alternate forms of relatedness were based in the fact that the distinctive characteristics and tendencies of individual cows were incommensurate with the homogeneous metaphor of the mother cow.
