Politics of smell: Constructing animal waste governmentality and good farming subjectivities in colonial Hong Kong
dc.contributor.author | Chan, KW | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-02T11:30:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-03-30 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper examines the governmentality of colonial Hong Kong throughout the 1980s and 1990s, focusing on the implementation of the Livestock Waste Control Scheme (1987-1997), the production of normative waste treatment knowledge, the spatial control of farming practices and the resulting subjectivity in the construction of the ‘environmentally friendly farmer’ identity. These themes are examined by analysing archival materials and conducting in-depth interviews with two Pig Farmers Association representatives and nineteen pig farmers. This paper argues that the colonial government of Hong Kong relied on environmental ordinances and zoning regulations, livestock waste demonstration projects and socially constructed perceptions of olfactory acceptability as major technologies of governance in the creation of ‘environmentally friendly’ pig farmers. Through being exposed to these technologies, pig farmers learned and internalised a particular concept of what constitutes appropriate animal waste management and treatment. This paper shows how the concept of being ‘environmentally friendly’ contributes to the creation and use of ‘good farming’ subjectivities when modernising pig farmers’ waste management practices. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 30 March 2020 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/2399654420914320 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/41075 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2020. Open access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). | |
dc.subject | Governmentality | en_GB |
dc.subject | space | en_GB |
dc.subject | pigs | en_GB |
dc.subject | good farming subjectivity | en_GB |
dc.subject | environmentally friendly practices | en_GB |
dc.subject | Colonial Hong Kong | en_GB |
dc.title | Politics of smell: Constructing animal waste governmentality and good farming subjectivities in colonial Hong Kong | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2020-03-02T11:30:02Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2399-6544 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2020-03-02 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2020-03-02 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2020-03-02T10:51:57Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-04-09T15:08:11Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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