Christopher Otter’s scientific contributions

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Civilizing Slaughter : The Development of the British Public Abattoir, 1850-1910.
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January 2005

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Food and History

Christopher Otter

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... Since their inception in the nineteenth century, modern abattoirs had served as infrastructures of invisibility, concealing the bloody reality of how livestock 130 were killed. 134 In French historical contexts, standardizing modern abattoirs and the fluctuations of animate life were tightly linked to ideas about commodification, civilization, and the "civilizing mission." 135 Modern refrigerated abattoirs in Madagascar displayed such orientations of exclusion and even secrecy, and pastoralists pushed back on these rigid boundaries and sought to shape conditions of animal slaughter. ...

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Making Malagasy Zebu : The Biopolitics of Cattle Commodification in Socialist Madagascar, 1960–1978
Civilizing Slaughter : The Development of the British Public Abattoir, 1850-1910.
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Food and History