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The mad cow nexus: Biopower and the...

Houston, Lynn Marie.

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The mad cow nexus: Biopower and the stakes/steaks of personhood in global, industrial food production.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The mad cow nexus: Biopower and the stakes/steaks of personhood in global, industrial food production./
作者:	Houston, Lynn Marie.
面頁冊數:	235 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-03, Section: A, page: 0892.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-03A.
標題:	Literature, Comparative. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3084638
ISBN:	9780496324453

The mad cow nexus: Biopower and the stakes/steaks of personhood in global, industrial food production.
Houston, Lynn Marie.

The mad cow nexus: Biopower and the stakes/steaks of personhood in global, industrial food production. - 235 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-03, Section: A, page: 0892.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2003.

This dissertation seeks enhanced understanding of cross-border circulation of capital, people, symbols, and practices in the meat industry within a global, postmodern nexus of intersecting cultural layers. The crisis of mad cow disease provides a vehicle to ask larger questions about the production and circulation of bodies as food and about the construction of subjectivity through biopower.

ISBN: 9780496324453Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

The mad cow nexus: Biopower and the stakes/steaks of personhood in global, industrial food production.
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