Brigitte Nerlich
Health, hygiene and biosecurity: tribal knowledge claims in the UK poultry industry
Nerlich, Brigitte; Brown, Brian; Crawford, Paul
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Abstract
Since 1997 the world has been facing the threat of a human influenza pandemic that may be caused by an avian virus and the poultry industry around the globe has been grappling with the highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza H5N1, or in more informal terms bird flu. The UK poultry industry has lived with and through this threat and its consequences since 2005. This study investigates knowledge claims about health, hygiene and biosecurity as tools to ward off the threat from this virus. It takes a semi-ethnographic and discourse analytic approach to analyse a small corpus of semi-structured interviews carried out in the wake of one of the most publicised outbreaks of H5N1 in Suffolk in 2007. It reveals that claims about what best to do to protect flocks against the risk of disease are divided along lines imposed on the one hand by the structure of the industry and on the other by more 'tribal' lines drawn by knowledge and belief systems about purity and dirt, health and hygiene.
Citation
Nerlich, B., Brown, B., & Crawford, P. (2009). Health, hygiene and biosecurity: tribal knowledge claims in the UK poultry industry. Health, Risk and Society, 11(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/13698570903329441
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Dec 1, 2009 |
Deposit Date | Oct 16, 2012 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 16, 2012 |
Journal | Health, Risk & Society |
Electronic ISSN | 1369-8575 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 11 |
Issue | 6 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/13698570903329441 |
Keywords | risk; hygiene; biosecurity; poultry industry |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1013519 |
Publisher URL | http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13698570903329441 |
Additional Information | This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article whose final and definitive form, the Version of Record, has been published in the Health, Risk & Society, 2009 copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13698570903329441 |
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