Newcomers to the Farm? (Marianne E. Lien, Becoming Salmon: Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish)

Reuben Message recently completed a PhD entitled “To assist, and control, and improve, the operations of nature”: Fish culture, reproductive technology and social order in Victorian Britain in the Department of  Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science. Drawing on Science and Technogy Studies’s critiques of sociology, his main research interests involve all things fishy, including angling, ichthyology, and the use of fish in laboratory science. Reuben is especially interested in exploring the social and political dimensions of the emergence of fish sentience as both a scientific and epistemological issue, and a practical policy challenge.