Periodic Reporting for period 2 - BOAR (Veterinarization of Europe? Hunting for Wild Boar Futures in the Time of African Swine Fever)
Período documentado: 2022-01-01 hasta 2023-06-30
The BOAR project is an anthropological study of veterinary knowledge and practice beyond animal health, examining how veterinary science increasingly mediates human-wildlife interactions, and serves to structure and govern society through biosecurity measures. As self-appointed stewards of wild boar, recreational hunting communities are key subjects for researching veterinary interventions, particularly in the context of African Swine Fever outbreaks in Europe. The BOAR project has been working towards innovative anthropological insights into hunting, the future of human-porcine relations, and the role of veterinary expertise in contemporary societies, thus contributing to the emerging subfield of 'veterinary anthropology'.
Over the first 2.5-year period, the project has focused primarily on preparing and conducting research, planning future outputs, presenting at various scientific events, and publishing conceptual contributions. The BOAR project has focused on nine European countries, with long-term ethnographic fieldwork in each of these locations currently at different stages of completion.
The project team has organized one international workshop and co-organized an international seminar. Team members have presented at seven international conferences; delivered three invited lectures; and given one keynote speech to multi-disciplinary audiences. To date, commitments have been made to (co-)organize events at three major anthropology conferences in 2023 (two panels and one roundtable).
Team members have published four peer-reviewed research papers and co-edited one journal Special Issue. They have a further three papers under peer review. They have also co-authored a research protocol for the European Food Safety Authority and published an extended blogpost as part of an international project focusing on practice-based research and theoretical creativity.
All information is available at the project web page: www.wildboar.cz
The project team has organized one international workshop and co-organized an international seminar. Team members have presented at seven international conferences; delivered three invited lectures; and given one keynote speech to multi-disciplinary audiences. To date, commitments have been made to (co-)organize events at three major anthropology conferences in 2023 (two panels and one roundtable).
Team members have published four peer-reviewed research papers and co-edited one journal Special Issue. They have a further three papers under peer review. They have also co-authored a research protocol for the European Food Safety Authority and published an extended blogpost as part of an international project focusing on practice-based research and theoretical creativity.
All information is available at the project web page: www.wildboar.cz
The Special issue of Frontiers in Veterinary Science, entitled ‘Veterinary Anthropology: Samples from an Emerging Field’ co-edited by the project’s PI – L. Broz reflects upon and further promotes the emerging field of veterinary anthropology beyond anthropological publication venues to a major veterinary journal. In this sense the publication significantly advances the idea of veterinary anthropology as an anthropology ‘of vets’ and ‘with vets’, one that in the future can translate into multi- and trans-disciplinary research outcomes.
The paper ‘Reversible Pigs’ published by A. Arregui in American Ethnologist proposes an innovative ‘infraspecies sensibility’ for following relations beyond the common threshold of the species. This article is an important conceptual and theoretical contribution to research exploring more finely-grained ethnographic approaches to ‘multi’ and ‘inter’-species difference.
The international workshop organized by the BOAR project on the anthropology of hunting will lead to an edited volume. This addresses a significant gap within the discipline of anthropology by drawing together research into European and American recreational hunting practices, with classical debates about ‘native’ hunting cultures.
The BOAR project will continue to develop theoretically innovative and empirically grounded insights into the way veterinary expertise intervenes in hunting nature-cultures and everyday human-porcine relations across contemporary Europe. The project will disseminate this work through scientific publications; individual monographs, a further edited volume and book; as well as other creative channels of outreach, such as an online exhibition focusing on wild boar and pigs.
The paper ‘Reversible Pigs’ published by A. Arregui in American Ethnologist proposes an innovative ‘infraspecies sensibility’ for following relations beyond the common threshold of the species. This article is an important conceptual and theoretical contribution to research exploring more finely-grained ethnographic approaches to ‘multi’ and ‘inter’-species difference.
The international workshop organized by the BOAR project on the anthropology of hunting will lead to an edited volume. This addresses a significant gap within the discipline of anthropology by drawing together research into European and American recreational hunting practices, with classical debates about ‘native’ hunting cultures.
The BOAR project will continue to develop theoretically innovative and empirically grounded insights into the way veterinary expertise intervenes in hunting nature-cultures and everyday human-porcine relations across contemporary Europe. The project will disseminate this work through scientific publications; individual monographs, a further edited volume and book; as well as other creative channels of outreach, such as an online exhibition focusing on wild boar and pigs.