Assembling Barbarity, Dirt, and Violence: A Provisional Note on Food and Social Analysis

• Main Author: Lacbawan, Macario B.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2016
• Subjects: Assemblage; Northern Philippines; Dog-eating; Food; Bruno Latour; Social Analysis
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/apssr/vol16/iss2/3; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/apssr/article/1082/viewcontent/2.Research_20Article_Lacbawan_20120216.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

The key to understanding any social phenomenon is to follow how actors tread the social landscape and describe how they form groups, fuse meanings, and create associations with different frames. In this paper, I employ Bruno Latour’s reconceptualization of assemblage to trace how NGOs and other acto...