Stunning Australia

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  • Fiona Probyn-Rapsey Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.9994

Abstract

This article focuses on the Australian campaign to ban live exports of cattle to Indonesia in the wake of media exposure of cruel slaughterhouse practices there.  It examines Australian reactions to this footage and how Australian pride in the use of stunning technology (where cattle are stunned prior to bleeding) circulates as a point of national pride. What frames ‘our’ national pride is also a discourse of racialized shaming of Indonesian practices. The connections between stunning, insensibility and denial help to explain how and why Australian reactions took the shape that they did.

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Author Biography

  • Fiona Probyn-Rapsey

    Fiona Probyn-Rapsey is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She is also Executive member of HARN: Human Animal Research Network at Usyd and her research focuses on the intersection of critical race studies and human animal studies.

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Published

2013-02-04

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How to Cite

“Stunning Australia”. 2013. Humanimalia 4 (2): 84-100. https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.9994.