Animal Work: Metabolic, Ecological, Affective
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Cultural Anthropology
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0886-7356
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American Anthropological Association
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Barua, M. (2018). Animal Work: Metabolic, Ecological, Affective. Cultural Anthropology https://culanth.org/fieldsights/animal-work-metabolic-ecological-affective#:~:text=The%20first%20is%20what%20one,commodities%20and%20modes%20of%20production.&text=A%20second%20modality%20of%20animal,for%20the%20maintenance%20of%20ecosystems.
Abstract
What work does the naturalization of work do? What are its political-economic implications? Trajectories of bringing nature into the ambit of capitalist accumulation have been a longstanding concern in the social sciences. Yet how might one explain capitalist logics of accumulation without placing nature’s forces and potentials squarely on the side of capital—as political-economic straightjackets tend to do? After all, these are potentials that capital presupposes but does not itself produce. I address these questions by focusing on concepts of animal work and nonhuman labor (Barua 2017; see also Blanchette 2015; Porcher 2015) that offer crucial insights into how nature is constitutive of political-economic organization.
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