Domesticated over 10,500 years ago, cows are currently found in every country across the globe yet there is still much to learn about their varied histories, geographies, and lives. Part of the reason for this is a lack of soft infrastructure for scholars to connect with each other across institutional and disciplinary boundaries. This network aims to gather researchers who have an interest in broader ‘bovine scholarship’ and more specific ‘cow scholarship’ to share, learn, and engage in knowledge creation with one another.
Network Founders: Claudia Hirtenfelder (17ch38@queensu.ca) and Andrea Petitt (andrea.petitt@gender.uu.se).
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Joseph Hardwick uploaded the file: 'Cows, communities, and religious responses to the 1865-66 British rinderpest outbreak' to
Bovine Scholarship Network on Humanities Commons 8 months, 3 weeks agoThe devastating outbreak of rinderpest in the British Isles in 1865–66 — the so-called “cattle plague” — was a significant event in Victorian Britain, one that did much to shape British agriculture, animal disease control, and veterinary medicine. This article argues that the cattle plague also had long-term significance for the relations…[Read more]
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Michael Glover deposited “That other me, down and dreaming”: an animal perspective critique of decoloniality theory in the group
Bovine Scholarship Network on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months agoThis essay critiques decoloniality theory, including its use of the notion of epistemic colonisation, from an animal perspective. It has two main parts. Part one is an internal critique of decoloniality theory. It introduces and comments on core decoloniality theory concepts, and argues that, according to its assumptions, animals are…[Read more]
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Kerstin Lieselotte Weich deposited Veterinary anthropology: Samples from an emerging field in the group
Bovine Scholarship Network on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months agoWe contribute to the growing field of veterinary humanities by promoting collaboration between veterinarians and anthropologists. Veterinary anthropology as we propose it analyzes the role of animal diseases in social life while questioning notions of animal health and human health. We distinguish three ways for veterinarians to collaborate with…[Read more]
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Andrea Petitt deposited Conceptualizing the Multispecies Triad: Towards a Multispecies Interesectionality in the group
Bovine Scholarship Network on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months agoFeminist and multispecies anthropologies have decentered those most visible to appreciate the
perspectives of those othered in society—but also to better understand society at large. This article
goes beyond decentering the human toward decentering another analytical focus: the species
dyad. Building on previous work on gender–species int…[Read more] -
Kerstin Lieselotte Weich uploaded the file: Veterinary Anthropology to
Bovine Scholarship Network on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months agoWe contribute to the growing field of veterinary humanities by promoting collaboration between veterinarians and anthropologists. Veterinary anthropology as we propose it analyzes the role of animal diseases in social life while questioning notions of animal health and human health. We distinguish three ways for veterinarians to collaborate with…[Read more]
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Samuël Coghe uploaded the file: A New Pastoral Frontier: Colonial Development, Environmental Knowledge, and the Introduction of Trypanotolerant Cattle in French Equatorial Africa, 1945–1960 to
Bovine Scholarship Network on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months agohttps://doi.org/10.1086/721179
After the Second World War, colonial veterinary services, entrepreneurs, and
African villagers in French Equatorial Africa (AEF) began to raise cattle in regions
where this had been deemed impossible because of the threat of African
animal trypanosomiasis. The opening of this new pastoral frontier in the
humid…[Read more] -
Scout Calvert edited the post Third Bovine Scholarship Network Workshop Call for Participation in the group
Bovine Scholarship Network: on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months agoJune 5, 6, 7 2023
Applications due April 15, 2023
From the 5th to the 7th of June 2023, the Bovine Scholarship Network is hosting its 3rd Bovine Scholarship Workshop: a multi-day, online, international […]
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Claudia Hirtenfelder edited the post Notes from the 2nd Bovine Scholarship Workshop in the group
Bovine Scholarship Network: on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoWe (quite literally) just wrapped up the second bovine scholarship workshop. We had several fascinating presentations, loads of break out rooms and discussion, and touched on numerous fascinating topics related […]
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Claudia Hirtenfelder edited the post What is expected of a bovine? in the group
Bovine Scholarship Network: on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoAt the latest Bovine Scholarship Workshop I was confronted with a number of different themes. There were questions of how bovines are implicated in technological infrastructure, how they display agency, and how […]
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Claudia Hirtenfelder edited the post Bovine Trivia in the group
Bovine Scholarship Network: on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoYesterday we launched the 2nd Bovine Scholarship Workshop! Like with the first we designed the workshop so that it includes a small group of people so that we can have engagement throughout. But what is a […]
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Andrea Petitt deposited Designing Cattle: The social practice of constructing breeds in the group
Bovine Scholarship Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis paper explores how cattle breeds are constructed through social practice—which we conceptually develop as “designing” cattle. We show how breed varieties are designed, informed by the social, material and moral embeddedness of cattle breeding associations’ visions of the future and how they draw on science and technology in their breedin…[Read more]
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Andrea Petitt deposited Breeding Beyond Bodies: Making and “Doing” Cattle in the group
Bovine Scholarship Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoDairy cows provide a spectacular example of what can be achieved with purposeful breeding of nonhuman animals in terms of increasing production and bodily adaptation to particular production systems. This implies that humans can make nonhuman bodies take whatever form they desire. However, the assumption that breeding outcomes are entirely shaped…[Read more]
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Andrea Petitt deposited Women and Cattle in the group
Bovine Scholarship Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoCattle form an integral part of lives, livelihoods, and landscapes in Botswana. They offer people socio-cultural and politico-economic means through which to participate in society as respected and supported citizens. When asked what it means to have cattle, many of our study respondents stated: “I feel like a person” or “cattle are life.” At the…[Read more]
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Claudia Hirtenfelder wrote a new post Call Reminder: 2nd Bovine Scholarship Workshop in the group
Bovine Scholarship Network: on Humanities Commons 3 years agoJust a reminder that the deadline to apply to present or attend at the upcoming Bovine Scholarship Workshop is the 28th of January!
The workshop will be held over two afternoons (13:00-17:00 CET) on the 30th […]
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Claudia Hirtenfelder wrote a new post Some interesting upcoming Calls in the group
Bovine Scholarship Network: on Humanities Commons 3 years agoHey folks,
Here are some interesting calls I thought might be of interest to you:
Call for Papers: Livestock as Global and Imperial Commodities: Economies, Ecologies and Knowledge Regimes, c. 1500 […]
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Claudia Hirtenfelder uploaded the file: Call for Presenters and Participants for the 2nd Bovine Scholarship Workshop to
Bovine Scholarship Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoAfter the success of our first Bovine Scholarship Workshop in October 2021, we are pleased to announce that we will be hosting a second Bovine Scholarship Workshop from the 30-31st of March 2022.
After good feedback from our first workshop we have decided to keep the numbers fairly small and to ensure that there is ample time for discussion of…[Read more] -
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Claudia Hirtenfelder deposited Milking economies: Multispecies entanglements in the infant formula industry in the group
Bovine Scholarship Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoIn 2016 the Chinese infant formula company Feihe International signed a deal with the Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC) to process Canadian cows’ and goats’ milk for infant formula export to China. Our purpose in this paper is to understand how this deal – and the new Feihe formula factory located in Kingston, Canada – is underpinned by a series…[Read more]
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Claudia Hirtenfelder edited the post Welcome to the Bovine Scholarship Network in the group
Bovine Scholarship Network: on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoHi Everyone,
A big welcome to the Bovine Scholarship Network. You can access the full network dashboard here: https://hcommons.org/groups/bovine-scholarship-network/
The Back story:
In 2019, I reached out to a […] - Load More
