Being existed by another through the sensory: The ungrievable deaths of industrial pigs in slaughterhouse tours

TY - CHAP

T1 - Being existed by another through the sensory

T2 - The ungrievable deaths of industrial pigs in slaughterhouse tours

AU - Mc Loughlin, Eimear Theresa

PY - 2023/1/1

Y1 - 2023/1/1

N2 - This chapter examines the sensory experience of witnessing industrial death to demonstrate the productive and affective potential of the sensory in conceptualizing deathscapes. The sensory awakens us to the existence of the nonhuman other which, in an industrial slaughterhouse with incorporated transparency, is obscured from our awareness through the discursive marshalling of painless, ungrievable animal death. Through ethnographic moments from the slaughterhouse tours, I reveal how the pigs come into existence for guests in ways that disrupt the coherence and calculability of the discursive construction of industrial death, making witnesses of us in the deathscape of industrial slaughter.

AB - This chapter examines the sensory experience of witnessing industrial death to demonstrate the productive and affective potential of the sensory in conceptualizing deathscapes. The sensory awakens us to the existence of the nonhuman other which, in an industrial slaughterhouse with incorporated transparency, is obscured from our awareness through the discursive marshalling of painless, ungrievable animal death. Through ethnographic moments from the slaughterhouse tours, I reveal how the pigs come into existence for guests in ways that disrupt the coherence and calculability of the discursive construction of industrial death, making witnesses of us in the deathscape of industrial slaughter.

KW - Multispecies ethnography

KW - Transparency

KW - Grievability

KW - Denmark

KW - Sensory ethnography

KW - Pig slaughterhouse

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85166031765

U2 - 10.4337/9781802202397.00017

DO - 10.4337/9781802202397.00017

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9781802202380

SP - 162

EP - 179

BT - New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes

PB - Edward Elgar Publishing

CY - Cheltenham

ER -