Cow Geographies: Ecologies of Power across the World

Domesticated over 12,000 years ago, cows are currently found in every country across the globe yet very little is known about their varied histories, geographies, and lives. This despite cows’ centrality to human pursuits of agriculture, colonization, and capitalism as well as their implication in climate change. Furthermore,even as social research on cows begins to emerge in Canada, the United States, Botswana, South Africa, and China there is little opportunity to understand how these different cow geographies and stories are connected and/or produce varied types of realities and knowledge. Part of the reason for this is a lack of soft infrastructure for scholars to connect with each other across institutional and disciplinary boundaries. Consequently, our project, aims to establish a network for researchers who have an interest in broader ‘bovine scholarship’ and more specific ‘cow scholarship’ so as to share, learn, and engage in knowledge creation with one another.

Faculty Supervisor:

Laura Cameron

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Partner:

Uppsala University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Agriculture and Food; Biotechnology

University:

Queen's University

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