Geographies of Meat

Harvey Neo is an associate professor at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. His research interests include the political economy of meat, green urban development and geographies of food. He is an at-large board member of the Animal Geography Specialty Group at the Association of American Geographers, and editor of Geoforum and associate editor of Regional Studies, Regional Science. Jody Emel is a professor at the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, USA. Her research interests include animal geographies, political economy of mining and water resources. Her current research focuses on the political ecology of factory farming. She teaches courses in natural resource development, feminist theory and nature, hydrology, and the relationship between economy and environment.

• 1. Introduction 2. The Political Economy of Meat: Global Trends and Local Tensions 3. Science, Technology and the Commodification of Food Animals 4. The Global Meat Factory and the Environment 5. The Thanataopolitics of Industrialised Animal Life and Death 6. On Not Eating Meat: Vegetarianism, Science and Advocacy 7. Conclusions, Index

"The book expands on critical animalgeographies by focusing on farmed animals, a category which has been largely overlooked. Further, by addressing hierarchy in human-animal relationships, Geographies of Meat also extends and applies concepts from anarchist geography to farmed animals. In Western societies meat is coming to a crossroads, but is finding new markets elsewhere, mostly in Asia. This makes the timing of Geographies of Meat all the more important."Nathan Poirier Anthrozoology Canisius College, Antipode