Ecologies of Meat II: Reflections on Production, Trade and Consumption Practices in the Global South

Panel Convenor(s)

• SN

  Soheb Niazi

  Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Panel Chair(s)

• SN

  Soheb Niazi

  Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Presenter(s)

• ST

  Shaheed Tayob

  Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Co-Presenter(s)

• ON

  Olivier Ninot

  Pôle de recherche pour l'organisation et la diffusion de l'information géographique (PRODIG), France

Presenter(s)

• MT

  Michaël Thevenin

  IFPO (Institut français du Proche-Orient), France
• RM

  Ram Meena

  Banaras Hindu University, India

While ecological concerns and contemporary livestock practices have generated criticism in
Western societies, the production of animal flesh for human consumption continues to expand
persistently. One contributing factor to this expansion is the robust nature of the meat trade
itself, which is deeply entrenched within global capitalism and entangled within unequal
economies. The aim of this panel is to provide critical analysis of these contemporary
concerns by examining the interconnected networks of meat and its allied industries of
livestock, hides and skins, as well as dairy, in regions across the Global South. Expanding on
historical debates on how cultivation and marketing of commodities drove social and
economic transformations across the modern world, the panel will foreground the impact of
commercialization and technological advancements that produce hierarchies in the
commodity chains, and the accompanied transformations of skills, work status and social
hierarchies in production, trade and consumption of these commodities.
The panel will bring together scholars and case studies from African-Asian regional contexts
to reflect on social, cultural and economic practices associated with meat and its allied
industries in the Global South. As key methodological approach, ‘meat’ is a conceptual focus
that binds together other aspects that will be foregrounded in papers, such as the various
associated commodities of trade, production and consumption, social actors involved in
different stages\levels of the commodity chain, sites and spaces of production, effects of
commercialization and the impact of technological innovations, as well as environmental
implications associated with these industries. Contributions are invited from diverse
disciplinary backgrounds including historians, anthropologists, geographers as well as
regional area specialists.

Presentations:

• 11:15 - 13:00 GMT

  From Caste-Occupational Practice to Market/State/Ulama Capture: Halal Slaughter, Caste Networks, and Islamic Capitalism
  

  Presenter: Shaheed Tayob – Stellenbosch University
• 11:15 - 13:00 GMT

  Aïd-al-Adha and the Livestock Trade in Senegal, Sudan and Iraqi Kurdistan
  

  Presenter: Michaël Thevenin – IFPO (Institut français du Proche-Orient)

  Co-Presenter: Olivier Ninot – Pôle de recherche pour l'organisation et la diffusion de l'information géographique (PRODIG)
• 11:15 - 13:00 GMT

  Colonial Legacy of Lion Hunting in Western Africa and Western India
  

  Presenter: Ram Prasad Meena – Banaras Hindu University