Thinking Through Badgers

Researching the controversy over bovine tuberculosis and the culling of badgers

Autor: Stephan Price

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: Vernon Press

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Bovine tuberculosis is seriously damaging the UK dairy and beef industry. Many farmers believe culli...

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Autor

Stephan Price

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2016

Stránek

334

EAN

9781622731879

ISBN

1622731875

Enbook ID

15664558

Vydavatel

Vernon Press

Hmotnost

599

Rozměry

152 x 229 x 19

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Bovine tuberculosis is seriously damaging the UK dairy and beef industry. Many farmers believe culling badgers must be part of the solution, but in 2013 a record 300,000 people signed a Downing Street petition asking the government to stop planned culls of badgers in Somerset and Gloucestershire, fuelling media controversy and signalling the beginning of a social conflict that was acted out in studios, streets, fields and village halls across England. The four-year trial culls, which began that year, aimed to establish that culling was a viable way of tackling the disease, but the widely divergent experiences and values of policy-makers, farming, conservation and animal welfare supporters means that decades of science on the disease in badgers and the effects of culling has not helped resolve the dispute. Reporting on original, UK research council-funded social science, this book takes on the challenge of understanding the contrasting views involved. Listening carefully to what the different protagonists have to say, the book unpicks the way science is interpreted to sustain differing conclusions, and considers how social science thinking could contribute. The book develops a critical perspective on the increasingly important literature influenced by new materialism, the social science response to the Science Wars, and explores the extent to which a social movement around opposition to the culls is emerging. In approachable prose, this access-all-areas account describes the struggle to develop understanding through the messy process of research and the difficulties of scientific analysis and philosophical thought. As such, it provides a valuable resource for both research practitioners and teachers within the social sciences, as well as an accessible way for biological scientists, conservationists and farmers to reflect on the issues around the management of disease in livestock and wildlife.

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