When contexts meet : feminism and accountability in UK cattle farming

Singleton, Vicky (2012) When contexts meet : feminism and accountability in UK cattle farming. Science, Technology, and Human Values, 37 (4). pp. 404-433. ISSN 0162-2439

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Abstract

The article discusses three versions of context. First, UK Government legislation, the British Cattle Tracing System (CTS), as a context that frames and guides good farming practices to promote accountability for cattle movements and to control disease. It describes how the legislative context creates particular constructions of farmers, cows, and good and bad farming practices. Second, the article creates context as the local farm-based practices of cattle movement and monitoring. Differences and similarities between the legislative requirements and the farm-based practices are discussed. The farming practices are primarily practices of responsibility and care that are embodied, relational, collective, and responsive. The article draws upon feminist insights into responsibility and accountability that accountability is mundane practices of touch, regard, looking back, and becoming with. Thereby, the article creates a third context in which local farming practices, legislation, and feminism meet and interact with one another. Within this ‘‘meta-context’’ of interferences between contexts, accountability is revisioned as the very condition of farm-based practices of care and responsibility. At the same time, the article revisions context as emergent in interferences and enacts alternative versions of farmers, cows, and good and bad practices.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? contexts feminism farming accountabilitysociologyeconomics and econometricssocial sciences (miscellaneous)philosophysociology and political sciencegeneral engineeringanthropologyhuman-computer interactionengineering(all)hm sociology ??
ID Code:
51643
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Deposited On:
29 Nov 2011 16:53
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
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16 Jul 2024 08:58