Becoming Salmon

Author : Marianne Elisabeth Lien
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520961838
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Salmon written by Marianne Elisabeth Lien and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming Salmon is the first ethnographic account of salmon aquaculture, the most recent turn in the human history of animal domestication. In this careful and nuanced study, Marianne Elisabeth Lien explores how the growth of marine domestication has blurred traditional distinctions between fish and animals, recasting farmed fish as sentient beings, capable of feeling pain and subject to animal-welfare legislation. Drawing on fieldwork on and off salmon farms, Lien follows farmed Atlantic salmon through contemporary industrial husbandry, exposing how salmon are bred to be hungry, globally mobile, and "alien" in their watersheds of origin. Attentive to both the economic context of industrial food production and the materiality of human-animal relations, this book highlights the fragile and contingent relational practices that constitute salmon aquaculture and the multiple ways of "becoming salmon" that emerge as a result.

Author : Martin Lee Mueller
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603587462
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being Salmon, Being Human written by Martin Lee Mueller and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nautilus Award Silver Medal Winner, Ecology & Environment In search of a new story for our place on earth Being Salmon, Being Human examines Western culture’s tragic alienation from nature by focusing on the relationship between people and salmon—weaving together key narratives about the Norwegian salmon industry as well as wild salmon in indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest. Mueller uses this lens to articulate a comprehensive critique of human exceptionalism, directly challenging the four-hundred-year-old notion that other animals are nothing but complicated machines without rich inner lives and that Earth is a passive backdrop to human experience. Being fully human, he argues, means experiencing the intersection of our horizon of understanding with that of other animals. Salmon are the test case for this. Mueller experiments, in evocative narrative passages, with imagining the world as a salmon might see it, and considering how this enriches our understanding of humanity in the process. Being Salmon, Being Human is both a philosophical and a narrative work, rewarding readers with insightful interpretations of major philosophers—Descartes, Heidegger, Abram, and many more—and reflections on the human–Earth relationship. It stands alongside Abram’s Spell of the Sensuous and Becoming Animal, as well as Andreas Weber’s The Biology of Wonder and Matter and Desire—heralding a new “Copernican revolution” in the fields of biology, ecology, and philosophy.

Author : Rowena Rae
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1459826558
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salmon written by Rowena Rae and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salmon: Swimming for Survival introduces us to the dramatic life story of salmon. These fish hatch in streams, swim extreme distances out to sea, and then migrate home to where they were born to produce the next generation. But today their habitats and very survival are threatened by human activity. This book looks at the unique biology of salmon, their importance to many Indigenous communities, their cultural and economic impact and the vital role they play in ecosystems. With profiles from scientists, educators, fishers and more, learn about the people who are working hard to change the uncertain future of salmon and improve the chance that these iconic fish can survive for generations to come.

Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1786078538
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salmon written by Mark Kurlansky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE JOHN AVERY AWARD AT THE ANDRÉ SIMON AWARDS If we can save the salmon, we can save the world Over the centuries, salmon have been a vital resource, a dietary staple and an irresistible catch. But there is so much more to this extraordinary fish. As international bestseller Mark Kurlansky reveals, salmon persist as a barometer for the health of our planet. Centuries of our greatest assaults on nature can be seen in their harrowing yet awe-inspiring life cycle. Full of all Kurlansky’s characteristic curiosity and insight, Salmon is a magisterial history of a wondrous creature. ‘An epic, environmental tragedy’ Spectator ‘These creatures have nurtured our imagination as surely as our bodies. This book does them justice!’ Bill McKibben

Author : Peter Coates
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861892950
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salmon written by Peter Coates and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Salmon, Peter Coates examines the fish from the differing perspectives of those who have eaten it, pursued it, pondered its meaning and absorbed it into culture and art. Ranging from Nova Scotia to Norway and from Korea to California, he tells the evolutionary, ecological and cultural stories of the salmon that has been variously revered, depended upon and abused by humans. The result is an innovative biography of a species that will delight anyone who has ever eaten or tried to catch this charismatic fish."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Peter Salmon
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788732839
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Event, Perhaps written by Peter Salmon and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosopher, film star, father of “post truth”—the real story of Jacques Derrida Who is Jacques Derrida? For some, he is the originator of a relativist philosophy responsible for the contemporary crisis of truth. For the far right, he is one of the architects of Cultural Marxism. To his academic critics, he reduced French philosophy to “little more than an object of ridicule.” For his fans, he is an intellectual rock star who ranged across literature, politics, and linguistics. In An Event, Perhaps, Peter Salmon presents this misunderstood and misappropriated figure as a deeply humane and urgent thinker for our times. Born in Algiers, the young Jackie was always an outsider. Despite his best efforts, he found it difficult to establish himself among the Paris intellectual milieu of the 1960s. However, in 1967, he changed the whole course of philosophy: outlining the central concepts of deconstruction. Immediately, his reputation as a complex and confounding thinker was established. Feted by some, abhorred by others, Derrida had an exhaustive breadth of interests but, as Salmon shows, was moved by a profound desire to understand how we engage with each other. It is a theme explored through Derrida’s intimate relationships with writers such as Althusser, Genet, Lacan, Foucault, Cixous, and Kristeva. Accessible, provocative and beautifully written, An Event, Perhaps will introduce a new readership to the life and work of a philosopher whose influence over the way we think will continue long into the twenty-first century.

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Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art & Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Gordon Mowat
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Magazine written by J. Gordon Mowat and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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