CALL FOR PAPERS
ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth)
University of Durham, UK, 4th-7th July 2016
Panel Title: Anthropologies of Veterinary Medicine: Healthcare across
species lines
<http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4242>
Dear Colleagues,
We invite papers that consider how forms of human and animal life shape,
and are shaped by, veterinary care and other animal-healing practices. With
the understanding that care is an ongoing process of negotiation, we ask
how health care is negotiated across species lines.
Abstract:
This panel speaks to a rapidly emerging field: the anthropology of
veterinary medicine and animal health. Veterinary medicine has, so far,
been largely overlooked by anthropologists - this despite anthropology's
contribution to the study of human health and healing, and its recent
attention to life 'beyond the human' and the notion of 'One Health.'
In practice, animal healthcare takes many forms. Vets care for a variety of
species, many of them selectively bred to extremes in the name of
productivity or in pursuit of an idealised aesthetic. Without an easily
standardised model of health, what counts as normal or pathological when it
comes to different forms of animal life? How do vets and their clients
approach varied and context-specific understandings of animal health? We
also know that animal healthcare is not limited to biomedicalised
veterinary approaches, nor is veterinary medicine a homogeneous practice.
What does veterinary care look like in different settings, and how do
biomedical approaches to animal health co-exist with other practices of
animal health and healing?
In this panel, we hope to further anthropological discussion about the
engagements between vets, animals, and animal-owners or spokes-people. We
invite papers that consider how human and animal lives, concerns, and
desires shape practices of veterinary care, and, in turn, how the lived
worlds of humans and animals are shaped by veterinary care and other
animal-healing practices. With the understanding that care is an ongoing
process of negotiation, we ask how health care is negotiated across species
lines.
Please follow the link here
<http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4242>to propose a
paper via the ASA website.
Best wishes,
Chrissie Wanner & Robin Irvine
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Chrissie Wanner
PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology
University of Edinburgh
Co-Editor, Multispecies.net <http://multispecies.net/>
Co-Editor, Interspecies Encounters
<http://www.berghahnbooks.com/series.php?pg=inte_enco> from Berghahn Books
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