Sick Land, Sick Animals, Sick People, Sick Planet :
Intersectional Analysis of Distance as the Foundation of
Exploitative Capitalism

k 2020

Sick Land, Sick Animals, Sick People, Sick Planet : Intersectional Analysis of Distance as the Foundation of Exploitative Capitalism

KRÁSNÁ, Denisa

Základní údaje

Originální název

Sick Land, Sick Animals, Sick People, Sick Planet : Intersectional Analysis of Distance as the Foundation of Exploitative Capitalism

Autoři

KRÁSNÁ, Denisa

Vydání

New Pathways in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies in Pandemic Times, November 20-21, 2020, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, 2020

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Critical Animal Studies; Pandemic; Slaughterhouses; Metabolic Rift; Distance; Veganism

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 21. 2. 2023 08:59, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

As Covid-19 outbreaks in slaughterhouses and meat processing plants are reported all around the world, widespread exploitation of workers and animals in the meat industry is being unveiled. In 1906, Upton Sinclair published his seminal work The Jungle that unmasked inhumane practices and dire unsanitary conditions in the US meat plants, triggering outrage among the public of unprecedented proportions. Despite the public pressure for reform, more than a century later the meat industry still generates ever-more atrocious inhumane conditions for both workers and animals. Using Anna Szorenyi's theory of distanced suffering as a framework, my paper will argue that distance is the foundation of capitalism that drives human and animal suffering and ultimately causes environmental destruction. Drawing on Karl Marx's theories of social alienation and “metabolic rift”, I will explain how distance impedes empathy and thus enables exploitation. Furthermore, I will introduce Billy Ray Belcourt's “decolonial animal ethic” to reveal connections between North American settler’s encroachment of Indigenous lands and animal agriculture by tracing the history of displacement of Indigenous populations due to factory farming. Slaughterhouse workers, farm animals and Indigenous peoples have all been historically confined to geographic spaces away from the settlers' eyes hence rendered invisible. As environmental justice, social justice, decolonization and animal liberation are closely tight, an intersectional approach is essential to address the pressing issues of our times.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1204/2019, interní kód MU

Název: Researching Communication in English: Paradigms, Strategies, Developments - II (Akronym: ReComE 2020)

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Researching Communication in English: Paradigms, Strategies, Developments - II, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

KRÁSNÁ, Denisa. Sick Land, Sick Animals, Sick People, Sick Planet : Intersectional Analysis of Distance as the Foundation of Exploitative Capitalism. In New Pathways in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies in Pandemic Times, November 20-21, 2020, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno. 2020.

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   url = {https://english.phil.muni.cz/konference/ostatni-konference/new-pathways-conference-2020/conference-programme},
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KRÁSNÁ, Denisa. Sick Land, Sick Animals, Sick People, Sick Planet : Intersectional Analysis of Distance as the Foundation of Exploitative Capitalism. In \textit{New Pathways in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies in Pandemic Times, November 20-21, 2020, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno}. 2020.

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