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).
