Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Date of Degree
2-2024
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Program
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Advisor
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Committee Members
Cindi Katz
Barbara Katz Rothman
Jonathan Deutsch
Subject Categories
Geography | Human Geography | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Keywords
power relations, placemaking, animal agriculture, human animal interaction
Abstract
Livestock farming in the Hudson River Valley, and selling meat in New York City farmers’ markets, are activities bounded by a region, and heavily influenced by place. Farming is represented in this project as a material linkage between urban and rural, both shaped by power relations, and the respective places of production and consumption. Interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, this study investigates placemaking and power dynamics on farms, their marketplaces, and spaces in between, during normal market conditions, and those which are anything but normal. The findings expose the reader to the representations of place in a local, niche market, and the fluid exchange of power therein. Using ethnographic research methods, this study encountered humans in the Hudson River Valley who raise non-human animals for meat.
Recommended Citation
D'Alessandro, Mark D., "Learning from Their Flocks: Analyses of Power on Hudson River Valley Livestock Farms" (2024). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/5611
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