ASI SPEAKERS SERIES LECTURE - AN EVENING WITH TIMOTHY PACHIRAT, PHD

On Thursday,
November 21, 2013 at 7:00pm, the Michigan
Humane Society (MHS) and the Animals
and Society Institute (ASI) will co-host “Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of
Sight” presented by Dr. Timothy Pachirat, Assistant
Professor in the Department of Politics at The New School for Social Research.  The event will be held at the Gerry M. Kulick Community Center located at
1201 Livernois Street in Ferndale, Michigan.  (The
Center is located on the south-west corner of Pearson and Livernois; Livernois
is west of Woodward, just south of Nine Mile.) 

Per Dr.
Pachirat, “This talk brings to life the mas­sive, rou­tine killing of ani­mals
for human con­sump­tion from the perspective of those who take part in it.  Draw­ing on more than five months of under­cover
employ­ment as a liver hanger, cat­tle dri­ver, and qual­ity con­trol worker on
the kill floor of a Great Plains slaugh­ter­house where 2,500 cat­tle were
killed per day, it explores not only the slaugh­ter indus­try but also how, as
a soci­ety, we facil­i­tate vio­lent labor and hide away that which we find too
repug­nant to contemplate.”

Tim­o­thy Pachi­rat (PhD, Yale) works as an assis­tant pro­fes­sor
in the Depart­ment of Pol­i­tics at The New School for Social Research.  His research and teach­ing inter­ests include
com­par­a­tive pol­i­tics, the pol­i­tics of South­east Asia, critical animal
studies, the soci­ol­ogy of dom­i­na­tion and resis­tance, the polit­i­cal econ­omy
of dirty and dan­ger­ous work, and inter­pre­tive and ethno­graphic research
meth­ods. 

Dr.
Pachirat’s work has received awards from the Amer­i­can Polit­i­cal Sci­ence
Association’s Sec­tion on Qual­i­ta­tive Meth­ods and from the Amer­i­can Polit­i­cal
Sci­ence Association’s Labor Project.  He
is author of “Every Twelve Sec­onds: Indus­tri­al­ized Slaugh­ter and the
Pol­i­tics of Sight” (Yale Uni­ver­sity Press, 2011), a polit­i­cal ethnog­ra­phy
of immi­grant labor on the kill floor of an indus­tri­al­ized slaugh­ter­house
that explores how vio­lence that is seen as both essen­tial and repug­nant to
mod­ern soci­ety is orga­nized, dis­ci­plined, reg­u­lated, and repro­duced. 

Dr. Pachi­rat
grew up in north­east­ern and north­ern Thai­land, and lives in Brook­lyn, NY.

Copies of Dr. Pachirat’s book, “Every Twelve Sec­onds: Indus­tri­al­ized
Slaugh­ter and the Pol­i­tics of Sight,” will be available for purchase for
$20 plus 6% Sales Tax ($21.20). Proceeds from the sale of books will be donated
to MHS and ASI by EVERYbody Reads, 2019 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing, MI 48912-3011 (www.facebook.com/EverybodyReads).

Tickets for
this event are $20 each and will be available online from October 20th
through November 20th

at http://www.michiganhumane.org/speakers. 
Tickets for seniors and students are $10 each and are

available by
contacting Jo-Ann Swaney at (248) 283-5671 or via e-mail to jswaney@michiganhumane.org.

Tickets may
be purchased at the venue on November 21st between 5:30pm and 6:30pm
(cash only, please).