The next FRIED seminar of this semester will take place on Tuesday April 9th in seminar room 6 of the Chrystal Macmillan Building. I am excited to announce that our speaker will be Dr Aaron Kappeler who has recently joined the University of Edinburgh’s Social Anthropology subject group. Aaron is a lecturer in the anthropology of development and his recent work focuses on processes of agrarian reform in Venezuela.
Speaker: Dr Aaron Kappeler, University of Edinburgh
Date and time: Tuesday 9th of April, 15.30 -17.00
Venue: Violet Laidlaw room (6.02) in CMB.
Title: What Difference Could a Cow Make?
Abstract:
This talk explores the recent efforts of the Venezuelan government to improve food security and rural livelihoods through an experimental cattle-breeding project. Investigating the activities of a state-run, agro-industrial farm, it asks how the selective breeding practices of technical experts, designed to create a race of cow suited to local ecological conditions, intersect the logic of capital and a biopolitics which requires a re-imagining of the nation and its sovereignty.
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