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Becoming salmon : aquaculture and the domestication of a fish
- Title
- Becoming salmon : aquaculture and the domestication of a fish / Marianne Elisabeth Lien.
- Author
- Lien, Marianne E.
- Publication
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
- ©2015
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 214 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Becoming Salmon is the first ethnographic account of salmon aquaculture, the most recent turn in the human history of animal domestication. As fish are enrolled in new regimes of marine domestication, traditional distinctions between fish and animals are reconfigured, recasting farmed fish as sentient beings, capable of feeling pain and subject to animal welfare legislation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Norway and Australia, the author traces farmed Atlantic salmon through contemporary industrial practices, and shows how salmon are bred to be hungry, globally mobile, and alien in their watersheds of origin. Attentive to the economic context of industrial food production as well as the mundane practices of caring for fish, it offers novel perspectives on domestication, human-animal relations, and food production"--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- California studies in food and culture ; 55
- Uniform Title
- California studies in food and culture ; 55.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-208) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : salmon in the making -- Tracking salmon -- Becoming hungry : introducing the salmon domus -- Becoming biomass : appetite, numbers, and managerial control -- Becoming scalable : speed, feed, and temporal alignments -- Becoming sentient : choreographies of caring and killing -- Becoming alien : back to the river -- Tails.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-7229
- ISBN
- 9780520280564
- 0520280563
- 9780520280571
- 0520280571
- LCCN
- 2014048458
- 40025143854
- OCLC
- 898433386
- Author
- Lien, Marianne E., author.
- Title
- Becoming salmon : aquaculture and the domestication of a fish / Marianne Elisabeth Lien.
- Publisher
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- California studies in food and culture ; 55California studies in food and culture ; 55.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-208) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40025143854
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-7229