TY - JOUR
T1 - Disappearing Bitches
T2 - Canine Affect and Postcolonial Bioethics
AU - Yoon, Hyaesin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 by Johns Hopkins University Press and the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This article engages with the animal bodies that haunt the transnational pet-cloning industry: the “used-up” surrogate-mother dogs said to be returned to dog-farms and slaughtered for human consumption in South Korea. I explore how “Western” criticisms that reduce the problem to Korea’s dog-eating culture and lack of bioethics— interlocking with nationalist and cultural relativist responses among Koreans—reiterate postcolonial relations within transnational bioethics, further pushing these animals into the shadows. I trace shame and disgust (as affective remainders of canine bodies) as a way to critically examine the bioethicalization of animal welfare as an operation of the biopolitical order of things among human and nonhuman bodies in the field of transnational biotechnology, in an effort to remind us of the canine others within us.
AB - This article engages with the animal bodies that haunt the transnational pet-cloning industry: the “used-up” surrogate-mother dogs said to be returned to dog-farms and slaughtered for human consumption in South Korea. I explore how “Western” criticisms that reduce the problem to Korea’s dog-eating culture and lack of bioethics— interlocking with nationalist and cultural relativist responses among Koreans—reiterate postcolonial relations within transnational bioethics, further pushing these animals into the shadows. I trace shame and disgust (as affective remainders of canine bodies) as a way to critically examine the bioethicalization of animal welfare as an operation of the biopolitical order of things among human and nonhuman bodies in the field of transnational biotechnology, in an effort to remind us of the canine others within us.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84988557005&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1353/con.2016.0022
DO - 10.1353/con.2016.0022
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84988557005
SN - 1080-6520
VL - 24
SP - 351
EP - 371
JO - Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science and Technology
JF - Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science and Technology
IS - 3
ER -