The affordance of compassion for animals: a filmic exploration of industrial linear rhythms
Date
2018
Authors
Krawczyk, V.J.
Barthold, C.
Editors
Advisors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Type:
Journal article
Citation
Culture and Organization, 2018; 24(4):268-284
Statement of Responsibility
Conference Name
Abstract
Compassion is an emotion that could be useful for improving the lives of animals within the intensive and factory farming system (IFFS). Rhythms that exist within this system play a role in making compassion difficult to realize, which formulates the research question: How do the rhythms of the IFFS shape the affordance of compassion for animals? Drawing on a cultural mode of analysis informed by Henri Lefebvre’s work on rhythms, this paper explored the rhythms of three films that focus on the treatment of animals in this system: Meat; Our Daily Bread and Never Let Me Go. Industrial linear rhythms seem to compromise the compassion offered to animals in the IFFS by manipulating the cyclical rhythms of animals and animalized bodies from birth, through life and at death. Compassion for animals and animalized bodies in the IFFS, this paper concludes, is often provided in a piecemeal and localized manner
School/Discipline
Dissertation Note
Provenance
Description
Link to a related website: http://oro.open.ac.uk/55731/2/55731ORO.pdf, Open Access via Unpaywall
Access Status
Rights
Copyright 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group