HASTAC Commons | Simon Vanderstraeten | Group Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/simonvanderstraeten1/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Simon Vanderstraeten is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:52:41 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 abc9371f1acf4cb19fca3575c882c34f Joseph Hardwick uploaded the file: 'Cows, communities, and religious responses to the 1865-66 British rinderpest outbreak' to Bovine Scholarship Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886177/ Tue, 14 May 2024 17:17:50 +0000 The devastating outbreak of rinderpest in the British Isles in 1865–66 — the so-called “cattle plague” — was a significant event in Victorian Britain, one that did much to shape British agriculture, animal disease control, and veterinary medicine. This article argues that the cattle plague also had long-term significance for the relations…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d6f522e91db3a598d7e95a4c34acc39 Michael Glover deposited “That other me, down and dreaming”: an animal perspective critique of decoloniality theory in the group Bovine Scholarship Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853698/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 02:25:02 +0000 This essay critiques decoloniality theory, including its use of the notion of epistemic colonisation, from an animal perspective. It has two main parts. Part one is an internal critique of decoloniality theory. It introduces and comments on core decoloniality theory concepts, and argues that, according to its assumptions, animals are…[Read more]

]]> 0 959856e31159ce17fe202120303c90d9 Kerstin Lieselotte Weich deposited Veterinary anthropology: Samples from an emerging field in the group Bovine Scholarship Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848858/ Fri, 09 Jun 2023 02:25:16 +0000 We contribute to the growing field of veterinary humanities by promoting collaboration between veterinarians and anthropologists. Veterinary anthropology as we propose it analyzes the role of animal diseases in social life while questioning notions of animal health and human health. We distinguish three ways for veterinarians to collaborate with…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea02057bb823c43c882bfe768d68c597 Andrea Petitt deposited Conceptualizing the Multispecies Triad: Towards a Multispecies Interesectionality in the group Bovine Scholarship Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848487/ Wed, 07 Jun 2023 02:24:40 +0000 Feminist and multispecies anthropologies have decentered those most visible to appreciate the
perspectives of those othered in society—but also to better understand society at large. This article
goes beyond decentering the human toward decentering another analytical focus: the species
dyad. Building on previous work on gender–species int…[Read more]

]]> 0 21f61b4424f51a48c01e370c290c5d90 Kerstin Lieselotte Weich uploaded the file: Veterinary Anthropology to Bovine Scholarship Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848447/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 19:31:09 +0000 We contribute to the growing field of veterinary humanities by promoting collaboration between veterinarians and anthropologists. Veterinary anthropology as we propose it analyzes the role of animal diseases in social life while questioning notions of animal health and human health. We distinguish three ways for veterinarians to collaborate with…[Read more]

]]> 0 b23609f0a7f3567a261c489bb22ff9f2 Samuël Coghe uploaded the file: A New Pastoral Frontier: Colonial Development, Environmental Knowledge, and the Introduction of Trypanotolerant Cattle in French Equatorial Africa, 1945–1960 to Bovine Scholarship Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848381/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 09:22:52 +0000 https://doi.org/10.1086/721179
After the Second World War, colonial veterinary services, entrepreneurs, and
African villagers in French Equatorial Africa (AEF) began to raise cattle in regions
where this had been deemed impossible because of the threat of African
animal trypanosomiasis. The opening of this new pastoral frontier in the
humid…[Read more]

]]> 0 1438f05d11fea8d50baf2a24f1c06ada Scout Calvert edited the post Third Bovine Scholarship Network Workshop Call for Participation in the group Bovine Scholarship Network https://bovinescholarshipnetwork.hcommons.org/2023/02/19/third-bovine-scholarship-network-workshop-call-for-participation/ Sun, 19 Feb 2023 15:23:57 +0000 June 5, 6, 7 2023

Applications due April 15, 2023

From the 5th to the 7th of June 2023, the Bovine Scholarship Network is hosting its 3rd Bovine Scholarship Workshop: a multi-day, online, international […]

]]> 95c96ad11f8f912168b83d18ce3a25e6 Claudia Hirtenfelder edited the post Notes from the 2nd Bovine Scholarship Workshop in the group Bovine Scholarship Network https://bovinescholarshipnetwork.hcommons.org/2022/03/31/notes-from-the-2nd-bovine-scholarship-workshop/ Thu, 31 Mar 2022 16:04:20 +0000 We (quite literally) just wrapped up the second bovine scholarship workshop. We had several fascinating presentations, loads of break out rooms and discussion, and touched on numerous fascinating topics related […]

]]> 018e1f4474ad649a14104d03da45dcf8 Claudia Hirtenfelder uploaded the file: 2nd Bovine Scholarship Workshop (Program) to Bovine Scholarship Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1776519/ Thu, 31 Mar 2022 15:44:55 +0000 0 ecadda356ae2abf39dd9453bb0a413ba Claudia Hirtenfelder edited the post What is expected of a bovine? in the group Bovine Scholarship Network https://bovinescholarshipnetwork.hcommons.org/2022/03/31/what-is-expected-of-a-bovine/ Thu, 31 Mar 2022 14:24:31 +0000 At the latest Bovine Scholarship Workshop I was confronted with a number of different themes. There were questions of how bovines are implicated in technological infrastructure, how they display agency, and how […]

]]> a81e34d572713f0eda2808462a684cfd Claudia Hirtenfelder edited the post Bovine Trivia in the group Bovine Scholarship Network https://bovinescholarshipnetwork.hcommons.org/2022/03/31/bovine-trivia/ Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:15:28 +0000 Yesterday we launched the 2nd Bovine Scholarship Workshop! Like with the first we designed the workshop so that it includes a small group of people so that we can have engagement throughout. But what is a […]

]]> 50c27f10f8cb07b82e6f8955752b5b92 Andrea Petitt deposited Designing Cattle: The social practice of constructing breeds in the group Bovine Scholarship Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1776166/ Tue, 29 Mar 2022 02:23:44 +0000 This paper explores how cattle breeds are constructed through social practice—which we conceptually develop as “designing” cattle. We show how breed varieties are designed, informed by the social, material and moral embeddedness of cattle breeding associations’ visions of the future and how they draw on science and technology in their breedin…[Read more]

]]> 0 63af66e97db2a3c5880e0d394738f4ec Andrea Petitt deposited Breeding Beyond Bodies: Making and "Doing" Cattle in the group Bovine Scholarship Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1776165/ Tue, 29 Mar 2022 02:23:41 +0000 Dairy cows provide a spectacular example of what can be achieved with purposeful breeding of nonhuman animals in terms of increasing production and bodily adaptation to particular production systems. This implies that humans can make nonhuman bodies take whatever form they desire. However, the assumption that breeding outcomes are entirely shaped…[Read more]

]]> 0 e18463fa37e570685c5667618c023c05 Andrea Petitt deposited Women and Cattle in the group Bovine Scholarship Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1776164/ Tue, 29 Mar 2022 02:23:39 +0000 Cattle form an integral part of lives, livelihoods, and landscapes in Botswana. They offer people socio-cultural and politico-economic means through which to participate in society as respected and supported citizens. When asked what it means to have cattle, many of our study respondents stated: “I feel like a person” or “cattle are life.” At the…[Read more]

]]> 0 4fb40bae7499be72a36cb916f3df33db Claudia Hirtenfelder wrote a new post Call Reminder: 2nd Bovine Scholarship Workshop in the group Bovine Scholarship Network https://bovinescholarshipnetwork.hcommons.org/2022/01/24/call-reminder-2nd-bovine-scholarship-workshop/ Mon, 24 Jan 2022 12:55:58 +0000 Just a reminder that the deadline to apply to present or attend at the upcoming Bovine Scholarship Workshop is the 28th of January!

The workshop will be held over two afternoons (13:00-17:00 CET) on the 30th […]

]]> b388f357584b5d7e991ad3cb5236a5f6 Claudia Hirtenfelder wrote a new post Some interesting upcoming Calls in the group Bovine Scholarship Network https://bovinescholarshipnetwork.hcommons.org/2022/01/08/some-interesting-upcoming-calls/ Sat, 08 Jan 2022 21:27:00 +0000 Hey folks,

Here are some interesting calls I thought might be of interest to you:

Call for Papers: Livestock as Global and Imperial Commodities: Economies, Ecologies and Knowledge Regimes, c. 1500 […]

]]> bf6e32893d1c58e2cad33450f0317a39 Claudia Hirtenfelder uploaded the file: Call for Presenters and Participants for the 2nd Bovine Scholarship Workshop to Bovine Scholarship Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1759092/ Fri, 19 Nov 2021 18:39:07 +0000 After the success of our first Bovine Scholarship Workshop in October 2021, we are pleased to announce that we will be hosting a second Bovine Scholarship Workshop from the 30-31st of March 2022. 
After good feedback from our first workshop we have decided to keep the numbers fairly small and to ensure that there is ample time for discussion of…[Read more]

]]> 0 caee91323e872a6a0d9051684e765d52 Claudia Hirtenfelder edited the file: Bovine Scholarship Workshop (5-6 Oct 2021) in Bovine Scholarship Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1759091/ Fri, 19 Nov 2021 18:38:22 +0000 0 3c779701a0cb1ce174f27320e807fc48 Claudia Hirtenfelder deposited Milking economies: Multispecies entanglements in the infant formula industry in the group Bovine Scholarship Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758833/ Thu, 18 Nov 2021 02:23:56 +0000 In 2016 the Chinese infant formula company Feihe International signed a deal with the Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC) to process Canadian cows’ and goats’ milk for infant formula export to China. Our purpose in this paper is to understand how this deal – and the new Feihe formula factory located in Kingston, Canada – is underpinned by a series…[Read more]

]]> 0 1638c7c46ecc185b67dba3ad07cee924 Claudia Hirtenfelder edited the post Welcome to the Bovine Scholarship Network in the group Bovine Scholarship Network https://bovinescholarshipnetwork.hcommons.org/2021/11/17/welcome/ Wed, 17 Nov 2021 16:15:00 +0000 Hi Everyone, 
A big welcome to the Bovine Scholarship Network. You can access the full network dashboard here: https://hcommons.org/groups/bovine-scholarship-network/ 
The Back story: 
In 2019, I reached out to a […]

]]> 346bdad1a35876b04696226609bbf5ab Claudia Hirtenfelder started the topic Sharing in the discussion Bovine Scholarship Network https://hcommons.org/groups/bovine-scholarship-network/forum/topic/sharing/ Mon, 01 Nov 2021 08:00:16 +0000 Hi folks,

As you can see this is all fairly new and we are busy building up the Network. If you have articles and material you would like to share that is related to bovines please feel free to upload documents under ‘docs’. If there is a particular piece of work you would like to discuss or have a chat about make use of this discussion forum to…[Read more]

]]> 0 cb2000f196195499c0738fb49d1b6fd4 Andrea Petitt uploaded the file: Women and Cattle "Becoming-With" in Botswana to Bovine Scholarship Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1757228/ Sun, 31 Oct 2021 15:21:07 +0000 0 ea9a1fc58ee95b86359dbd26031ab25e Claudia Hirtenfelder started the topic Themes and Tensions in the discussion Bovine Scholarship Network https://hcommons.org/groups/bovine-scholarship-network/forum/topic/themes-and-tensions/ Sun, 24 Oct 2021 11:47:28 +0000 What are some of the core themes and tensions in bovine scholarship work? Did you identify any during the workshop that you might want to share here?

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