Emma Roe
University of Southampton, Geography and Environment, Faculty Member
- Object Oriented Ontology, Research Ethics, Cultural Geography, Human-Nonhuman Assemblages, Animal Ethics, Farm Animal Welfare, and 28 morePhilosophy of Science, Animal Geography, Agriculture and Food Studies, Geography, Geography and Environment, Feminist Theory, Human Geography, Anthropology of Food, Embodiment, Sociology of Food and Eating, Critical Animal Studies, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Consumption and Material Culture, Aesthetics and Ethics, Materiality (Anthropology), Animals in Culture, Donna Haraway, Practical Ethics, Food Retailing, Vibrant Materialism, Practices of Eating, Human & nonhuman Relationship, Design, Ecology, Science and Technology Studies, Computer Networks, Databases, and Softwareedit
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This report is provided for stakeholders involved in the provision and management of public transport services where there is a risk of community transmission of COVID-19 and other infections such as seasonal colds, flu, and noroviruses.... more
This report is provided for stakeholders involved in the provision and management of public transport services where there is a risk of community transmission of COVID-19 and other infections such as seasonal colds, flu, and noroviruses. It provides analysis of everyday bus user experiences within the changing conditions of the COVID-19 public health crisis, March 2020 onwards. <br><br>Central to our thinking is the concept of microbial landscapes. This is a new term we are introducing to help describe and explain what is going on all around us, but in particular, on the bus. <br><br>Microbial landscapes describes the intertwining BETWEEN the various ways different bus passengers visualise and sense the bus environment, AND the physical, material elements like other passenger bodies, bus architecture, viral particles and microbes. These microbial landscapes are dynamic across the temporalities of day, different seasons, different passengers, and the local dom...
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Increasingly high-profile research is being undertaken into the socio-environmental challenges associated with the over-production and consumption of food from animals. Transforming food systems to mitigate climate change and hidden... more
Increasingly high-profile research is being undertaken into the socio-environmental challenges associated with the over-production and consumption of food from animals. Transforming food systems to mitigate climate change and hidden hunger, ensure food security and good health all point to reducing animal-based foods as a key lever. Moving beyond animal-based food systems is a societal grand challenge requiring coordinated international research by the social sciences and humanities. A ‘selective openness’ to this range of disciplines has been observed within multi-discipline research programmes designed to address societal grand challenges including those concerned with the sustainability of food systems, inhibiting the impact of social sciences and humanities. Further, existing research on animal-based foods within these disciplines is largely dispersed and focused on particular parts of food systems. Inspired by the ‘Sutherland Method’ this paper discusses the results of an itera...
Research Interests: Ethics, Climate Change, Animal Studies, Food Systems, Food Security and Insecurity, and 15 moreClimate Change Adaptation And Mitigation Strategies, Environmental Sustainability, Food ethics, Animal Rights, Ethical veganism, Food Justice, Critical Food Studies, Anthropocene, Climate Change and Food Security, Alternative Food Networks, Dairy Products, Agri food, Alternative proteins, Flexitarianism, and Demeatification
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Animals used in biological research and testing have become integrated into the trajectories of modern biomedicine, generating increased expectations for and connections between human and animal health. Animal research also remains... more
Animals used in biological research and testing have become integrated into the trajectories of modern biomedicine, generating increased expectations for and connections between human and animal health. Animal research also remains controversial and its acceptability is contingent on a complex network of relations and assurances across science and society, which are both formally constituted through law and informal or assumed. In this paper, we propose these entanglements can be studied through an approach that understands animal research as a nexus spanning the domains of science, health and animal welfare. We introduce this argument through, first, outlining some key challenges in UK debates around animal research, and second, reviewing the way nexus concepts have been used to connect issues in environmental research. Third, we explore how existing social sciences and humanities scholarship on animal research tends to focus on different aspects of the connections between scientif...
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Posthumanism has challenged the social sciences and humanities to rethink anthopocentricism within the cultures and societies they study and to take account of more-than-human agencies and perspectives. This poses key methodological... more
Posthumanism has challenged the social sciences and humanities to rethink anthopocentricism within the cultures and societies they study and to take account of more-than-human agencies and perspectives. This poses key methodological challenges, including a tendency for animal geographies to focus very much on the human side of human–animal relations and to fail to acknowledge animals as embodied, lively, articulate political subjects. In this paper, we draw on recent ethnographic work, observing and participating in the care of research animals and interviewing the animal technologists, to contribute to the understandings of life within the animal house. In so doing, the paper makes three key arguments. Firstly, that studying how animal technologists perform everyday care and make sense of their relationships with animals offers useful insights into the specific skills, expertise and relationships required in order to study human–animal relations. Secondly, that animal technologists...
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The biomedical industry relies on the skills of animal technologists (ATs) to put laboratory animal welfare into practice. This is the first study to explore how this is achieved in relation to their participation in implementing... more
The biomedical industry relies on the skills of animal technologists (ATs) to put laboratory animal welfare into practice. This is the first study to explore how this is achieved in relation to their participation in implementing refinement and reduction, two of the three key guiding ethical principles––the “3Rs”––of what is deemed to be humane animal experimentation. The interpretative approach contributes to emerging work within the social sciences and humanities exploring care and ethics in practice. Based on qualitative analysis of participant observation within animal research facilities in UK universities, in-depth interviews with ATs, facility managers, and other stakeholders, and analysis of regulatory guidelines, we draw a contrast between the minimum required of ATs by law and how their care work not only meets but often exceeds these requirements. We outline how ATs constitute a key source of innovation and insight into the refinement of animal care and the reduction of a...
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Client behaviour change is at the heart of veterinary practice, where promoting animal health and welfare is often synonymous with engaging clients in animal management practices. In the medical realm, extensive research points to the... more
Client behaviour change is at the heart of veterinary practice, where promoting animal health and welfare is often synonymous with engaging clients in animal management practices. In the medical realm, extensive research points to the link between practitioner communication and patient behavioural outcomes, suggesting that the veterinary industry could benefit from a deeper understanding of veterinarian communication and its effects on client motivation. Whilst extensive studies have quantified language components typical of the veterinary consultation, the literature is lacking in-depth qualitative analysis in this context. The objective of this study was to address this deficit, and offer new critical insight into veterinary communication strategies in the pursuit of client behaviour change. Role-play interactions (n = 15) between UK cattle veterinarians and an actress experienced in medical and veterinary education were recorded, transcribed and analysed thematically. Analysis re...
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Improving laboratory animal science and welfare requires both new scientific research and insights from research in the humanities and social sciences. Whilst scientific research provides evidence to replace, reduce and refine procedures... more
Improving laboratory animal science and welfare requires both new scientific research and insights from research in the humanities and social sciences. Whilst scientific research provides evidence to replace, reduce and refine procedures involving laboratory animals (the '3Rs'), work in the humanities and social sciences can help understand the social, economic and cultural processes that enhance or impede humane ways of knowing and working with laboratory animals. However, communication across these disciplinary perspectives is currently limited, and they design research programmes, generate results, engage users, and seek to influence policy in different ways. To facilitate dialogue and future research at this interface, we convened an interdisciplinary group of 45 life scientists, social scientists, humanities scholars, non-governmental organisations and policy-makers to generate a collaborative research agenda. This drew on methods employed by other agenda-setting exerci...
Research Interests: Humanities, Social Sciences, Interdisciplinarity, Animal Welfare, Interdisciplinary Studies, and 11 moreMultidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary research (Social Sciences), Collaborative Research, Humans, Animals, Laboratory Animal Welfare, PLoS one, Animal Research, Laboratory Animal Science, Cooperative Behavior, and Laboratory Animal Science and Medicine
ABSTRACT This paper proposes that established research techniques can be developed in new directions by becoming attentive to the ways in which novel epistemological and ontological frameworks can shape the production of research... more
ABSTRACT This paper proposes that established research techniques can be developed in new directions by becoming attentive to the ways in which novel epistemological and ontological frameworks can shape the production of research knowledges. Drawing upon ideas from performance theory and science studies, and two brief fieldwork examples – archival research on the MRC’s Common Cold Unit and participant observation of the challenge of moving a herd of cattle – we argue that habits are also always to extent improvised; shaped by the capacities of human bodies to sense and respond to the nonhuman agentive world around them, including methodological habits. We propose a new term, ‘experimental partnering’ to define an interpretative approach that is attentive to how practice can illuminate the improvisatory or unstable temporary alignments that underlie some habits. ‘Experimental partnering’ is not offering a new way to access the research field, but a term to express a particular interpretative mode that draws attention to human-nonhuman relations and assemblages, fostering new apprehensions of how these more than social relations modify and interrupt the habitual.
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Part II outlines generic findings about retailing practices for welfare-friendly products. Chapter 10 identifies the importance of retail brands in understanding how the market for welfare-friendly products currently operates through... more
Part II outlines generic findings about retailing practices for welfare-friendly products. Chapter 10 identifies the importance of retail brands in understanding how the market for welfare-friendly products currently operates through discussing the practices of brand management and how these relate to farm animal welfare. Two major dynamics are identified:-brand protection and assuring for minimum standards of farm animal welfare within the supply network;-positive use of farm animal welfare as a way to differentiate ...
The publication brings together reports produced by the UK team of EU Welfare Quality research project, of the retailing work packaging 1.2 in subproject 1 during the first year of the project. Chapter 1 consists of a literature review of... more
The publication brings together reports produced by the UK team of EU Welfare Quality research project, of the retailing work packaging 1.2 in subproject 1 during the first year of the project. Chapter 1 consists of a literature review of the construction of animal welfare in market and governmental terms in the UK. Chapter 2 describes the market structure of animal-based products in the UK which can be divided into the five product categories of beef, chicken, pork, egg and dairy. Chapter 3 reports the findings of a survey into the ...
ABSTRACT This paper proposes that established research techniques can be developed in new directions by becoming attentive to the ways in which novel epistemological and ontological frameworks can shape the production of research... more
ABSTRACT This paper proposes that established research techniques can be developed in new directions by becoming attentive to the ways in which novel epistemological and ontological frameworks can shape the production of research knowledges. Drawing upon ideas from performance theory and science studies, and two brief fieldwork examples – archival research on the MRC’s Common Cold Unit and participant observation of the challenge of moving a herd of cattle – we argue that habits are also always to extent improvised; shaped by the capacities of human bodies to sense and respond to the nonhuman agentive world around them, including methodological habits. We propose a new term, ‘experimental partnering’ to define an interpretative approach that is attentive to how practice can illuminate the improvisatory or unstable temporary alignments that underlie some habits. ‘Experimental partnering’ is not offering a new way to access the research field, but a term to express a particular interpretative mode that draws attention to human-nonhuman relations and assemblages, fostering new apprehensions of how these more than social relations modify and interrupt the habitual.
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This report serves two aims. Firstly, this report contains analysis of the retail audit (sub-deliverable 1.2. 2.1) of welfare-friendly food products in the 6 study countries. The report gives the results of an emerging comparative... more
This report serves two aims. Firstly, this report contains analysis of the retail audit (sub-deliverable 1.2. 2.1) of welfare-friendly food products in the 6 study countries. The report gives the results of an emerging comparative analysis of the 'market'for welfare-friendly food products in the 6 study countries. It also outlines 'non-retailer'led schemes1 whose products occurred in the study. In this way, an emerging picture of the actual product ranges, that make claims about welfare-friendliness, will be drawn based on fieldwork carried out from ...
Improving laboratory animal science and welfare requires both new scientific research and insights from research in the humanities and social sciences. Whilst scientific research provides evidence to replace, reduce and refine procedures... more
Improving laboratory animal science and welfare requires both new scientific research and insights from research in the humanities and social sciences. Whilst scientific research provides evidence to replace, reduce and refine procedures involving laboratory animals (the '3Rs'), work in the humanities and social sciences can help understand the social, economic and cultural processes that enhance or impede humane ways of knowing and working with laboratory animals. However, communication across these disciplinary perspectives is currently limited, and they design research programmes, generate results, engage users, and seek to influence policy in different ways. To facilitate dialogue and future research at this interface, we convened an interdisciplinary group of 45 life scientists, social scientists, humanities scholars, non-governmental organisations and policy-makers to generate a collaborative research agenda. This drew on methods employed by other agenda-setting exerci...
Research Interests: Humanities, Social Sciences, Interdisciplinarity, Animal Welfare, Interdisciplinary Studies, and 11 moreMultidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary research (Social Sciences), Collaborative Research, Humans, Animals, Laboratory Animal Welfare, PLoS one, Animal Research, Laboratory Animal Science, Cooperative Behavior, and Laboratory Animal Science and Medicine
Improving laboratory animal science and welfare requires both new scientific research and insights from research in the humanities and social sciences. Whilst scientific research provides evidence to replace, reduce and refine procedures... more
Improving laboratory animal science and welfare requires both new scientific research and insights from research in the humanities and social sciences. Whilst scientific research provides evidence to replace, reduce and refine procedures involving laboratory animals (the '3Rs'), work in the humanities and social sciences can help understand the social, economic and cultural processes that enhance or impede humane ways of knowing and working with laboratory animals. However, communication across these disciplinary perspectives is currently limited, and they design research programmes, generate results, engage users, and seek to influence policy in different ways. To facilitate dialogue and future research at this interface, we convened an interdisciplinary group of 45 life scientists, social scientists, humanities scholars, non-governmental organisations and policy-makers to generate a collaborative research agenda. This drew on methods employed by other agenda-setting exerci...
Research Interests: Humanities, Social Sciences, Interdisciplinarity, Animal Welfare, Interdisciplinary Studies, and 11 moreMultidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary research (Social Sciences), Collaborative Research, Humans, Animals, Laboratory Animal Welfare, PLoS one, Animal Research, Laboratory Animal Science, Cooperative Behavior, and Laboratory Animal Science and Medicine
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For too long the material connections between meat in food of low nutritional value and that in premium quality meat-cuts have been overlooked. We have not found a way to think this connection, to name it either in the academic, public... more
For too long the material connections between meat in food of low nutritional value and that in premium quality meat-cuts have been overlooked. We have not found a way to think this connection, to name it either in the academic, public policy or domestic scenes, nor to identify the implications of these material connections for global food distribution patterns and nutrition. This failure can be attributed I argue to a failure to recognize the agency of nonhuman visceral matter in the meat production industry and how it shapes commercial ...
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As the profile of farm animal welfare rises within food production chains, in response both to greater consumer ethical engagement with the lives of animals and to the market opportunities afforded to supply chain actors by this... more
As the profile of farm animal welfare rises within food production chains, in response both to greater consumer ethical engagement with the lives of animals and to the market opportunities afforded to supply chain actors by this engagement, farm animal welfare (which we might define as the qualities of life of sentient beings) is increasingly being modified under the processes of 'economisation'(Caliskan and Callon 2009) and marketisation (Caliskan and Callon 2010) from a basic condition of legitimation and ...
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Human-nonhuman: an awkward term but in its' hyphen'contains the theoretical and empirical challenge to think about how humans are dependent in numerous ways upon the group of'things' we know to be'non'human... more
Human-nonhuman: an awkward term but in its' hyphen'contains the theoretical and empirical challenge to think about how humans are dependent in numerous ways upon the group of'things' we know to be'non'human or nonhuman. This entry in the International Encyclopeadia of Human Geography draws upon contemporary geographical and philosophical writings to discuss the meaning of this term in'human'geographical thinking.
Interventions aimed at improving animal welfare on farms may be more successful if greater attention is paid to the points of view of farmers. For example, understanding how different dairy farmers detect lame cows, decide to treat them,... more
Interventions aimed at improving animal welfare on farms may be more successful if greater attention is paid to the points of view
of farmers. For example, understanding how different dairy farmers detect lame cows, decide to treat them, get them to the point of
treatment, and how practical considerations that impact on this process may be important for reducing lameness on dairy farms. In-depth interviews with twelve dairy farmers were carried out to explore how this occurred on their farms. This in-depth approach
allowed a number of factors influencing lameness treatment to be uncovered. The language used by farmers to describe lameness
gave important insight into their perceptions of lameness and into the value they placed on prompt treatment. Farmers’ perceptions
of lameness were found to affect the speed of treatment, with treatment of cows perceived to have impaired mobility or to be less severely lame sometimes delayed. Other priorities on the farm, skilled labour availability, farm infrastructure and farmers’ emotional responses to lameness treatment were all found to impact on whether or when a lame cow was treated. In order to encourage farmers to promptly treat all lame cows their perceptions of lameness and the benefits of prompt treatment must be addressed. The language used when communicating with farmers about lameness may be key to achieving this. The practical barriers, such as time and labour constraints, associated with the treatment process, must also be understood, taken into account and seen in the context of the farm management as a whole.
of farmers. For example, understanding how different dairy farmers detect lame cows, decide to treat them, get them to the point of
treatment, and how practical considerations that impact on this process may be important for reducing lameness on dairy farms. In-depth interviews with twelve dairy farmers were carried out to explore how this occurred on their farms. This in-depth approach
allowed a number of factors influencing lameness treatment to be uncovered. The language used by farmers to describe lameness
gave important insight into their perceptions of lameness and into the value they placed on prompt treatment. Farmers’ perceptions
of lameness were found to affect the speed of treatment, with treatment of cows perceived to have impaired mobility or to be less severely lame sometimes delayed. Other priorities on the farm, skilled labour availability, farm infrastructure and farmers’ emotional responses to lameness treatment were all found to impact on whether or when a lame cow was treated. In order to encourage farmers to promptly treat all lame cows their perceptions of lameness and the benefits of prompt treatment must be addressed. The language used when communicating with farmers about lameness may be key to achieving this. The practical barriers, such as time and labour constraints, associated with the treatment process, must also be understood, taken into account and seen in the context of the farm management as a whole.
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Engaging the interest of western citizens in the complex food connections that shape theirs’ and others’ personal wellbeing around issues such as food security and access is challenging. The paper is critical of the food marketplace as... more
Engaging the interest of western citizens in the complex food connections that shape theirs’ and others’ personal wellbeing around issues such as food security and access is challenging. The
paper is critical of the food marketplace as the site for informing consumer behavior and argues instead for arts-based participatory activities to support the performance of ecological citizens in non-commercial spaces. Following the ongoing methodological and conceptual fascination with performance, matter and practice in cultural food studies we outline what the ecological citizen, formed through food’s agentive potential does, and could do. This is an ecological citizen, defined not in its traditional relation to the state, but rather to the world of humans and nonhumans whose lives are materially interconnected through nourishment. The paper draws on the theories of Berlant, Latour, Bennett and Massumi. Our methodology is a collaborative arts-led research project that explored and juxtaposed diverse food practices with artist Paul Hurley, researchers, community partners, volunteers and participants in Bristol, UK. It centered on a ten-day exhibition where visitors were exposed to a series of interactive explorations with and about food. Our experience leads us to outline two steps for enacting ecological citizenship. The first step is to facilitate sensory experiences that enable the agential qualities of foodstuffs to shape knowledge making. The second is to create a space where people can perform, or relate
differently, in unusual manners, to food. Through participating in the project and visiting the exhibition, people were invited to respond not only as ‘ethical consumers’ but also as ‘ecological
citizens’. This participatory approach to research can contribute to understandings of human-world entanglements.
paper is critical of the food marketplace as the site for informing consumer behavior and argues instead for arts-based participatory activities to support the performance of ecological citizens in non-commercial spaces. Following the ongoing methodological and conceptual fascination with performance, matter and practice in cultural food studies we outline what the ecological citizen, formed through food’s agentive potential does, and could do. This is an ecological citizen, defined not in its traditional relation to the state, but rather to the world of humans and nonhumans whose lives are materially interconnected through nourishment. The paper draws on the theories of Berlant, Latour, Bennett and Massumi. Our methodology is a collaborative arts-led research project that explored and juxtaposed diverse food practices with artist Paul Hurley, researchers, community partners, volunteers and participants in Bristol, UK. It centered on a ten-day exhibition where visitors were exposed to a series of interactive explorations with and about food. Our experience leads us to outline two steps for enacting ecological citizenship. The first step is to facilitate sensory experiences that enable the agential qualities of foodstuffs to shape knowledge making. The second is to create a space where people can perform, or relate
differently, in unusual manners, to food. Through participating in the project and visiting the exhibition, people were invited to respond not only as ‘ethical consumers’ but also as ‘ecological
citizens’. This participatory approach to research can contribute to understandings of human-world entanglements.
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Abstract This third and final 'Geographies of food'review is based on an online blog conversation provoked by the first and second reviews in the series (Cook et al., 2006; 2008a). Authors of the work featured in these reviews—plus others... more
Abstract This third and final 'Geographies of food'review is based on an online blog conversation provoked by the first and second reviews in the series (Cook et al., 2006; 2008a). Authors of the work featured in these reviews—plus others whose work was not but should have been featured—were invited to respond to them, to talk about their own and other people's work, and to enter into conversations about—and in the process review—other/new work within and beyond what could be called 'food geographies'.
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This paper proposes that established research techniques can be developed in new directions by becoming attentive to the ways in which novel epistemological and ontological frameworks can shape the production of research knowledges.... more
This paper proposes that established research techniques can be developed in new directions by becoming attentive to the ways in which novel epistemological and ontological frameworks can shape the production of research knowledges. Drawing upon ideas from performance theory and science studies, and two brief fieldwork examples – archival research on the MRC’s Common Cold Unit and participant observation of the challenge of moving a herd of cattle – we argue that habits are also always to extent improvised; shaped by the capacities of human bodies to sense and respond to the nonhuman agentive world around them, including methodological habits. We propose a new term, ‘experimental partnering’ to define an interpretative approach that is attentive to how practice can illuminate the improvisatory or unstable temporary alignments that underlie some habits. ‘Experimental partnering’ is not offering a new way to access the research field, but a term to express a particular interpretative mode that draws attention to human-nonhuman relations and assemblages, fostering new apprehensions of how these more than social relations modify and interrupt the habitual.