Écornage – processus de domestication et violence symbolique
Dehorning – Domestication Process and Symbolic Violence

Summary/Abstract: Many forms of violence are inflicted to animals in the farm industry. However, there is another kind of violence, which has a symbolic dimension: it is meant to remind farm as well as circus animals that they are such. This violence has been studied in another coercive system: slavery. We will invoke that system to assume that the domestication process is individually reiterated generation after generation.

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