One Health, Ecology, and the Politics of Emerging Infectious Diseases Livestock at the Crossroads

Introduction 1. Global Capital and Big Livestock 2. Industrial Pig Production and Health in the South: An Analysis of the Social Resistance to China's Mega Pig Farms Project in Argentina 3. Logistical Supply Chains as Capitalist Planning: The Case of the Norwegian Broiler Industry and Avian Influenza 4. Cheap Meat, Infectious Disease, and the Externalization of Incalculable Costs and Risks  5. Structural One Health? A Critical Geography Perspective on Emerging Infectious Diseases and Livestock 6. Framing the Pandemic Era: Different understandings of pathogenic landscapes in Norway 7. In Search of Healthy Cattle. A History of Veterinary Advice in Denmark 8. Care Dependencies in Times of Disease: How Avian Influenza Reshapes Welfare in Organic Chicken Production 9. Virulence in the Anthropocene: How the Evolutionary Drivers of Disease are Changed by Human Ecological Impacts 10. Ecological Drivers for the Global Expansion of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza and African Swine Fever 11. The Rise and Fall on One Health Policy – A Power Analysis 12. Governing Poultry and Pork Production Amid Emerging Infectious Diseases: Lessons from Plant Agriculture and Aquaculture

Biography

Mariel Aguilar-Støen is professor of Human Geography at the Centre for Global Sustainability. Her work focuses on agrarian change related to industrial agriculture and extractive industries in Latin America and Scandinavia.

Jostein Jakobsen is a Researcher at the Centre for Global Sustainability, University of Oslo. His research is based in economic geography and agrarian studies, with a longstanding research interest in India. He has published on topics such as the global food regime, authoritarian populism, and agricultural supply chains.

Rebecca Leigh Rutt is an Associate Professor at the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen. She contributes research and education inspired by feminist political ecology, justice perspectives, and by the pluriversal degrowth global movement.

"This groundbreaking and accessible book provides an intensive examination into how the global livestock industry has reconfigured threats to the health of people and the planet. It deftly bridges critical gaps in understanding by integrating diverse disciplinary perspectives on the relationship between meat production, disease emergence, and antimicrobial resistance. It is an essential read for academics, policy makers and advocates involved in transforming food systems to secure healthy futures for all."

A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Global Justice and Development, Trent University, Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London

 

“From poultry production in the Norwegian countryside to China's mega pig units in Argentina and the social movements emerging in response, this exciting collection brings together new empirical evidence, practical examples and conceptual tools to equip anyone, but especially multi and interdisciplinary university students, to understand urgent contemporary problems of global health, food systems and ecological sustainability, and organize to meet the challenges ahead.”

 

Professor Melissa Leach, Executive Director, Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI), Honorary Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College