Becoming salmon : aquaculture and the domestication of a fish / / Marianne Elisabeth Lien

• Autore: Lien Marianne E.
• Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Disciplina: 639.3/755
• Soggetto topico: Salmon farming; Salmon farming - Social aspects
• Soggetto non controllato: animal ethics; animal husbandry; animal rights; animal studies; aquaculture; atlantic salmon; biologists; farmed salmon; fish farming; fish life; fisheries; food scientists; global salmon trade; human animal relations; industrial food production; industrial husbandry; international food production; marine biologists; marine biology; marine domestication; marine life; salmon aquaculture; salmon farming; salmon farms; salmon fisheries; salmon trade; salmon; seafood
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Salmon in the Making -- 2. Tracking Salmon -- 3. Becoming Hungry: Introducing the Salmon Domus -- 4. Becoming Biomass: Appetite, Numbers, and Managerial Control -- 5. Becoming Scalable: Speed, Feed, and Temporal Alignments -- 6. Becoming Sentient: Choreographies of Caring and Killing -- 7. Becoming Alien: Back to the River -- 8. Tails -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Becoming Salmon is the first ethnographic account of salmon aquaculture, the most recent turn in the human history of animal domestication. In this careful and nuanced study, Marianne Elisabeth Lien explores how the growth of marine domestication has blurred traditional distinctions between fish and animals, recasting farmed fish as sentient beings, capable of feeling pain and subject to animal-welfare legislation. Drawing on fieldwork on and off salmon farms, Lien follows farmed Atlantic salmon through contemporary industrial husbandry, exposing how salmon are bred to be hungry, globally mobile, and "alien" in their watersheds of origin. Attentive to both the economic context of industrial food production and the materiality of human-animal relations, this book highlights the fragile and contingent relational practices that constitute salmon aquaculture and the multiple ways of "becoming salmon" that emerge as a result.
• Titolo autorizzato: Becoming salmon
• ISBN: 0-520-96183-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824515303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: California studies in food and culture ; ; 55.