@inbook{e7a14d6fab2545b5bc294eadfef8f63f,
title = "Place-making by cows in an intensive dairy farm: A sociolinguistic approach to nonhuman animal agency",
abstract = "Based on recent ethnographic fieldwork at an intensive dairy farm, this chapter examines the usefulness of posthuman critical theory for developing a new sociolinguistic approach to nonhuman animal agency. We explore how dairy cows, as encaged sentient beings whose mobility is profoundly restricted by bars and fences, negotiate their environment as a material-semiotic resource in linguistic acts of place-making. Drawing on the fields of critical posthumanism, new materialism and sociolinguistics, we explain how dairy cows imbue their physical space with meaning through materiality, the body and language. By developing a non-anthropocentric approach to language as a practice of more-than-human sociality, we argue for establishing egalitarian research perspectives beyond the assumptions of human exceptionalism and species hierarchy. The chapter thus aims to contribute towards a new understanding of nonhuman agency and interspecies relationships in the Anthropocene.",
author = "L. Cornips and {van den Hengel}, L.",
year = "2021",
month = apr,
day = "30",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-63523-7_11",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-63522-0",
series = "The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics",
publisher = "Springer, Cham",
number = "33",
pages = "177--201",
editor = "Bernice Bovenkerk and Jozef Keulartz",
booktitle = "Animals in Our Midst",
address = "Switzerland",
edition = "1st",
}