Grounding Intimacies: Human-Bovid Coexistence and Community Development in Hong Kong

Daisy Bisenieks

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Human-Bovid Coexistence and Community Development in Hong Kong

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Pages:: 85–108

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004528444_006

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This paper explores an ethnography conducted between 2013-2015 of human-bovid relations in Lantau Island, Hong Kong and how the ambiguous ontological position of free-roaming water buffalo and cattle is a form of agency and resistance which challenges understandings of the “domestication process”. While the history of domestication and commodification of bovids within Lantau’s rural communities suggest extension of kinship from humans to bovids, the decline of agriculture and relinquishment of bovids from agricultural labor has brought about a new interdependent negotiation of urbanizing rural spaces, producing new configurations of interspecies connection, separation and belonging. Spatial proximities with bovids have generated a spectrum of narratives that reflect processes of “re-valuing” bovids’ presence in terms of their ecological and cultural worth with senses of rural heritage and identity. In the anomalous postcolonial spaces of Hong Kong, post domestic human-bovid encounters and relations have consequently cultivated new senses of “shared citizenship”, offering to expand “creaturely” perspectives to encompass a “creaturely ontogeny” for describing such modes of post-domestic interspecies socialities.

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Animals Matter: Resistance and Transformation in Animal Commodification

Series: Human-Animal Studies, Volume: 26

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004528444

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 25 Nov 2022

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