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Where there are pigeons, there is resistance. Forget everything you think you know about nature. Fahim Amirs award-winning book takes pure delight in posing unexpected questions: Are animals victims of human domination, or heroes of resistance? Is nature pristine and defenceless, or sentient and devious? Is being human really a prerequisite for being political? In a world where birds on Viagra punch above their weight and termites hijack the heating systems of major cities, animals can be recast as vigilantes, agitators, and public enemies in their own right. Under Amirs magic spell, pigs transform from slaughterhouse innocents into rioting revolutionaries, pigeons from urban pests into unruly militants, honeybees from virtuous fuzzballs into shameless centrefold models for eco-capitalism. As paws, claws, talons, and hooves seize the means of production, Being and Swine spirals higher and higher into a heady thesis that becomes more convincing by the minute. At the heart of Amirs writing is a deep optimism and bracingly fresh reading of Marxist, post-colonial, and feminist theory, building upon the radical scholarship of Donna J. Haraway and others. Contrarian, whip-smart, and wildly innovative, no other book will laugh at your convictions quite like this one.

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Free from typical boundaries of discipline or species, the freewheeling Being and Swine takes a novel jaunt through the history of thought and political philosophy: from Burkes scaremongering against the swinish multitude unleashed by democracy, to Engels famous struggle with the platypus, to the place of local pig-herding traditions in the development of the Frankfurt School. Being and Swine is filled with fertile polemics, witty detours, and swerves into burrows and sewers, pursuing unlikely bio-political insights that are sure to delight thinkers of any species.

Jules Gleeson , co-editor of Transgender Marxism

Settle into Being and Swine and follow Fahim Amir through city parks, slaughterhouses, skyscrapers, military areas, supermarkets, construction sites, and many other places where humans and other-than-humans meet. From pigeon to platypus, from pigs to sparrows, honeybees to termites, engage with ecological and political imagination and know that nothing is untouched, nothing is passive. How is it that so many progressives miss the teeming, toiling, wily, freedom-seeking work of those political agents known as animals? In this compelling, vibrant, and fascinating book, Amir offers answer and remedy as he describes animal actors, their acts of resistance to human power, and the lessons of such resistance.

Carol J. Adams , author of The Sexual Politics of Meat

Amir challenges usespecially those of us on the leftto acknowledge the behaviour of animals as inherently political. Woven through the social, political, and economic theory are refreshing and often amusing vignettes of collaboration between animals and humans to resist state and colonial authority, as well as animals acting in the independent pursuit of pleasure, rebellion, and revenge.

Catharine Grant , author of The No-Nonsense Guide to Animal Rights

Amirs discussion of the challenges and possibilities of human-animal politics is not only thought-provoking, engaging, and wide-ranging, it is urgently needed. Social justice requires but also must move beyond Homo sapiensand this has never been clearer.

Dr. Kendra Coulter , Chair of the Department of Labour Studies at Brock University, Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and author of Animals, Work, and the Promise of Interspecies Solidarity

BEING & SWINE

Fahim Amir

Translated by Geoffrey C. Howes and Corvin Russell

Between the Lines

Toronto

Copyright

Being and Swine

2020 Fahim Amir

Originally published in German in 2018 as

Schwein und Zeit: Tiere, Politik, Revolte

by Edition Nautilus, Hamburg, Germany. www.edition-nautilus.de

First published in English in 2020 by

Between the Lines

401 Richmond Street West, Studio 281

Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8

Canada

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www.btlbooks.com

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be photocopied, reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission of Between the Lines, or (for copying in Canada only) Access Copyright, 69 Yonge Street, Suite 1100, Toronto, ON M5E 1K3.

Every reasonable effort has been made to identify copyright holders. Between the Lines would be pleased to have any errors or omissions brought to its attention.

Cataloguing in Publication information available from Library and Archives Canada.

ISBN 9781771134811

EPUB ISBN 9781771134828

Cover by Caleb Mitchell

Designed by DEEVE

Printed in Canada

The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut in the framework of the Books First program.

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We acknowledge for their financial support of our publishing activities: the Government of Canada; the Canada Council for the Arts; and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Arts Council, the Ontario Book Publishers Tax Credit program, and Ontario Creates.

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Dedication

For my father, Dr. B. Amir, poet and scholar

Contents
Preface to the English Edition

Just two years ago I wrote in the original German edition of this book, Schwein und Zeit, that because of fear of the swine flu, risk algorithms were dictating the occupational and social lives of people in the pork industry. Now, since the appearance of the novel coronavirus, people all over the world have had to adjust to biosecurity rules.

The fever of the COVID-19 disease was preceded, however, by the fever of the neoliberal reforms and free-trade agreements of the 1990s. The market radicalism associated with these reforms restrained government, which in many countries meant more poorly equipped public health care as well as a general reduction in government regulations in such sensitive sectors as food quality, livestock farming, and meat processing. The profit-driven exploitation of different standards of labour law and environmental protection was made incrementally easier. Thus, for example, the North American Free Trade Agreement of 1994 made it possible for US investors to set up industrialized hog farms in Mexico. Not long afterwards, in 2009, the swine flu emerged there.

In post-Maoist China, on the other hand, poultry farming was one of the first economic sectors to be opened to market mechanisms. But in the 1990s, major corporations pushed more and more small producers from the market. As a consequence, many farmers shifted to local species or unusual breeding lines. Among these were the wild geese that played a role in the bird flu outbreak of 2005. Similarly the rural poor were pushed to wild animals like bamboo rats, pangolins, or civet cats; the latter are considered the original hosts of the SARS outbreak of 20022003.

In many parts of Africa, the flesh of wild animals is called bushmeat. Today bushmeat, which is associated with the occurrence of HIV and Ebola, is once again very much on the rise. Thanks to the roads that were originally built for mining and lumbering, hunters are pushing deeper and deeper into the forests. The increased hunting, consumption, and sale of bushmeat can in part be traced directly back to the collapse of small-scale fisheries. This was caused by industrial-scale overfishing by China, South Korea, and the European Union, and the ensuing collapse of fish populations along the African coasts. Moreover, the distinction between wild meat and conventional meat is less and less economically meaningful, since the wild-food sector is increasingly being formalized worldwide and is being capitalized by sources similar to those in industrial production.

All these processes and contexts drop out of view when, in media reports about a virus marked as Chinese, attention is focused on seemingly extravagant culinary preferences and exotic wet markets. At least the latter are public, while what goes on in Western slaughterhouses is usually withdrawn from public view. In the West, people like to invoke the local market and the small farm to illustrate contemporary ideas of the good and beautiful life. Within the self-righteous gaze on others, these ideas have rapidly transformed into the dystopian visual vocabulary of pandemic imaginations. To point out these sorts of connections between society, history, economy, everyday culture, and politics, without which neither nature nor the role of animals can be conceived, is one purpose of this book.

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