In the steps of the 'cow of the future'.

Roxane Gabet joined the “Body Societal” project after an education in Political Science, followed by a Master's degree in Anthropology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Her research interests lie at the crossroads of pragmatist philosophy and Indigenous studies. She is now working on the case of the “adaptation” of cattle breeding in a context of multiple ecological ravages, looking more specifically at biologists and geneticists’ practices as they are involved in the making of this “adapted cow of the future”. She followed them in their laboratory practices in order to understand how their knowledge transforms the bodies of cows, the territories in which cows live, and the people who care for them. With a special focus on the role of reproductive technologies as they circulate from the farm to the clinic, her research approach borrows from feminist STS, anthropology of science and the environmental humanities.

Thesis realised by Roxane Gabet under the co-supervision of François Thoreau and Benedikte Zitouni