PiÃ¨ce de Resistance: Sartrean Existentialism in Small-Scale Farming

Julien Dugnoille

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Sartrean Existentialism in Small-Scale Farming

In: Animals Matter: Resistance and Transformation in Animal Commodification

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004528444_009

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In this chapter, a Sartrean existentialist framework will be applied to the experiences of human-nonhuman animal intersubjectivity related to me by a handful of small-scale farmers in England and France. Applying a Sartrean lens to these accounts reveals that when animals resist their own commodification, both the farmer (the âresistedâ) and the nonhuman animal (the âresistantâ) become engaged in a mutually constitutive existential exchange. The chapter features the argument that some farmers have their subjectivities challenged through the process of animal resistance to their own commodification, and that Sartreâs existentialism is a very potent framework in which to explore not only the psychological struggle but also the transformation process that some scale-farmers experience as a result of this resistance. The chapter shows that these farmers see themselves as witnesses to the fact that individual animals do matter beyond their mere substance, and that awareness needs to be raised for other farmers who face a similar existential struggle.

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Animals Matter: Resistance and Transformation in Animal Commodification

Series:Â Human-Animal Studies, Volume: 26

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004528444

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 25 Nov 2022

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