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

Eimear Mc Loughlin

Chapter 9 in New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes, 2023, pp 162-179 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Geography; Sociology and Social Policy; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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