REMINDER:
Please consider this CfP for the upcoming Nordic Geographers Meeting conference in Trondheim, Norway, June 16-19, 2019.
New geographies of meatification: Patterns, processes, practices
Session conveners: Arve Hansen, Jostein Jakobsen and Ulrikke Wethal Centre for Development and the Environment University of Oslo
The rapid expansion of global meat production and consumption emerges as a crucial nexus of capital accumulation in the contemporary crisis-ridden agro-food system. Critical scholars in geography and agrarian studies have in recent years grown increasingly interested in what geographer Tony Weis has called processes of 'meatification'. Going beyond the direct consumption of meat, Weis argues for meatification to be seen as an irreducibly geographical process linked to particular processes of capitalist development.
Rising meat production and consumption affect health, environments, cropping patterns, human and non-human labour, and whole production networks, making meatification a major source of injustice and degradation in global capitalism. This panel responds to the need for developing empirical analyses of driving forces, new power constellations, and social and ecological consequences, inviting contributions on patterns, processes and practices of meatification, including but not restricted to the following interlinked topics:
- The expansion of the 'industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex': Taking Weis' conceptualisation of meatification as part of a larger complex as a starting point, this theme aims to explore how this complex is manifested in spaces outside its temperate 'homelands' and how it affects agrarian change across scales.
-Changing chains and networks of production and trade: This theme explores the driving forces and challenges associated with commodities flowing increasingly between countries in the South.
-Patterns and practices of meat consumption in the South: This theme focus on explanations as to why people eat more meat and what factors can help explain the significant differences in levels of meat consumption in different countries.
- Actors, institutions and power in processes of meatification: This theme explores how emerging actors in the South, e.g. state-owned and multinational companies, contribute to altering power distributions within processes of meatification.
Please submit your abstract to [log in to unmask] before the 15th of December. Authors will be notified about the status of their submission as soon as possible thereafter. Conference website www.ntnu.edu/geography/ngm-2019
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Jostein Jakobsen
Research Fellow & Research School Coordinator, Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo
SUM Profile: http://www.sum.uio.no/personer/vit/josteinj/index.html
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jostein_Jakobsen
Latest publications:
Jakobsen, J. (2018). Neoliberalising the food regime 'amongst its others': the right to food and the state in India. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2018.1449745 Journal of Peasant Studies.
Jakobsen, J. (2018). Towards a Gramscian food regime analysis of India's agrarian crisis: Counter-movements, petrofarming and Cheap Nature. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718518300216 Geoforum 90: 1-10.
Jakobsen, J. and K. B. Nielsen, A. G. Nilsen and A. Vaidya. (2018). Mapping the World's Largest Democracy (1947-2017). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08039410.2018.1465461 Forum For Development Studies.
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