{"product_id":"porkopolis-alex-blanchette-9781478007890","title":"Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm","description":"In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. In \u003ci\u003ePorkopolis\u003c\/i\u003e Alex Blanchette explores how this rural community has been reorganized around the life and death cycles of corporate pigs. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork, Blanchette immerses readers into the workplaces that underlie modern meat, from slaughterhouses and corporate offices to artificial insemination barns and bone-rendering facilities. He outlines the deep human-hog relationships and intimacies that emerge through intensified industrialization, showing how even the most mundane human action, such as a wayward touch, could have serious physical consequences for animals. Corporations' pursuit of a perfectly uniform, standardized pig--one that can yield materials for over 1000 products--creates social and environmental instabilities that transform human lives and livelihoods. Throughout \u003ci\u003ePorkopolis\u003c\/i\u003e, which includes dozens of images by award-winning photographer Sean Sprague, Blanchette uses factory farming to rethink the fraught state of industrial capitalism in the United States today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alex Blanchette\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478007893\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478007890\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2020","brand":"Alex Blanchette","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088360255743,"sku":"9781478007890","price":107.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6e87d05c-ca68-4831-a6bf-86e75d089a76.jpg?v=1769104406","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/porkopolis-alex-blanchette-9781478007890","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}