Meat-milieu: medicalization, aestheticization and productivity in Buenos Aires and its Pampas, 1868–1950
Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: ABSTRACT: Between 1868 and 1950, when meat production facilities were expelled from the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina became one of the largest producers of meat in the world. Beginning in 1945, bringing the city into the countryside and the countryside into the city, agriculture was instrumentalized as an urban function. Revealing the convergence of two usually separated movements – hygenics and eugenics – the meat industry in the province of Buenos Aires created a scientifically supported arena for the biopolitical appropriation of human and non-human resources, bearing out a unified ideology of medicalization, aestheticization, urbanization and productivity.
Source: Urban History
Authors: FABIOLA LÓPEZ-DURÁN, NIKKI MOORE
Institution: Rice University
Language: English
Topic: Argentine historical studies
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2765917102