Community Corner
ANIMALS AND SOCIETY INSTITUTE SPEAKERS SERIES LECTURE
On Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 7:00pm, the Michigan
Humane Society (MHS) and the Animals and Society Institute (ASI) will co-host “Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized
Slaughter and the Politics of Sight” presented
by Dr. Timothy Pachirat,
Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics
at The New School for Social Research. The event will be held at the Gerry M.
Kulick Community Center located at 1201 Livernois Street in Ferndale, Michigan.
Per
Dr. Pachirat, “This talk brings
to life the massive, routine killing of animals for human consumption from the
perspective of those who take part in it. Drawing on more than five months of
undercover employment as a liver hanger, cattle driver, and quality control
worker on the kill floor of a Great Plains slaughterhouse where 2,500 cattle
were killed per day, it explores
not only the slaughter industry but also how, as a society, we facilitate violent labor
and hide away that which we find too repugnant
to contemplate.”
Timothy Pachirat (PhD, Yale) works as an
assistant professor in the Department of Politics at The New School for Social Research. His research and
teaching interests include comparative politics, the politics of Southeast
Asia, critical animal studies, the sociology of domination and resistance, the political economy
of dirty and dangerous work, and interpretive and ethnographic research
methods.
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Dr. Pachirat’s work has received awards from the
American Political Science Association’s Section
on Qualitative Methods and from the American Political Science Association’s Labor Project. He
is author of “Every Twelve
Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight” (Yale University Press, 2011), a
political ethnography of immigrant labor
on the kill floor of an industrialized slaughterhouse that explores how
violence that is seen as both essential and repugnant to modern society is
organized, disciplined, regulated, and reproduced.
Dr. Pachirat grew up in
northeastern and northern
Thailand, and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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Copies of Dr. Pachirat’s book, “Every Twelve Seconds:
Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of
Sight,” will be available for
purchase for $20 plus 6% Sales Tax ($21.20). Proceeds from the sale of books
will be donated to MHS and ASI by EVERYbody Reads, 2019 E. Michigan Ave.,
Lansing, MI 48912-3011 (http://www.facebook.com/EverbodyReads).
Tickets for this event
are $20 each and will be available online from October 20th through November 20th at http://www.michiganhumane.org/speakers.
Tickets for seniors and students are $10 each and
are available by contacting Jo-Ann Swaney at (248) 283-5671 or via e-mail to
jswaney@michiganhumane.org. Tickets may be purchased at the venue on November
21st between 5:30pm and 6:30pm (cash only, please).
