Robinson, P. A. (2017) Framing bovine tuberculosis: a ‘political ecology of health’ approach to circulation of knowledge(s) about animal disease control. Geographical Journal, 183(3), pp. 285-294. (doi: 10.1111/geoj.12217)
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Abstract
Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) remains a significant animal health problem with a global distribution. In addition to the ecological complexities, socio‐economic and socio‐cultural factors also affect efforts to control and eliminate the disease. Interrogating bTB from the author's positionality of being both a veterinary epidemiologist and a human geographer, this interdisciplinary engagement in the political ecology of health investigates the experiences and opinions of the actors involved in disease control. The findings of this research in one part of the United Kingdom – Northern Ireland – demonstrate gaps between expert scientific discourse and circulating on‐the‐ground perceptions and lay knowledges of the disease. bTB is therefore known and framed in multiple, often antithetical, ways by those who meet and experience the disease on farms. The paper concludes that farmers, vets and state policy‐makers must accept the heterogeneity of the disease; make it visible again; and create new imaginaries for a future where bTB is no longer an everyday ubiquity.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Additional Information: | Funding for this PhD research was generously provided by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) in N. Ireland. Additional funding for fieldwork was provided by the Dudley Stamp Memorial Fund, UK. |
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Robinson, Dr Philip |
| Authors: | Robinson, P. A. |
| College/School: | College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine |
| Journal Name: | Geographical Journal |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| ISSN: | 0016-7398 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1475-4959 |
| Published Online: | 15 June 2017 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2017 Royal Geographic Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) |
| First Published: | First published in Geographical Journal 183(3): 285-294 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy |
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