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TY - JOUR
T1 - Trading with risk: associating bovine Tuberculosis to cattle commodities in risk-based trading
AU - Phoenix, J.H.
PY - 2021/6/30
Y1 - 2021/6/30
N2 - The trading of cattle across England poses challenges to the control and eradication of the cattle disease bovine Tuberculosis (bTB). To encourage the consideration of risk in the practice of cattle trading in England, Cattle Health Accreditation Standards (CHeCS) were introduced in 2016 to associate cattle commodities with bTB. However, CHeCS has only been adopted by approximately 60 farmers and there is no evidence to suggest it is encouraging risk-based trading of cattle. In this article, I use three empirical cases to analyse how disease risk was calculated, how it was framed through CHeCS as a quantifiable quality that could be associated with cattle, and how it failed to be taken up in the market. Drawing on the work of Callon and others, I conceive this failure to be an overflow of the efforts of qualculation. Building on their work, I argue that attaching a quality to a commodity requires effort, is an unstable process and is ultimately prone to failure. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
AB - The trading of cattle across England poses challenges to the control and eradication of the cattle disease bovine Tuberculosis (bTB). To encourage the consideration of risk in the practice of cattle trading in England, Cattle Health Accreditation Standards (CHeCS) were introduced in 2016 to associate cattle commodities with bTB. However, CHeCS has only been adopted by approximately 60 farmers and there is no evidence to suggest it is encouraging risk-based trading of cattle. In this article, I use three empirical cases to analyse how disease risk was calculated, how it was framed through CHeCS as a quantifiable quality that could be associated with cattle, and how it failed to be taken up in the market. Drawing on the work of Callon and others, I conceive this failure to be an overflow of the efforts of qualculation. Building on their work, I argue that attaching a quality to a commodity requires effort, is an unstable process and is ultimately prone to failure. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
KW - bovine Tuberculosis
KW - commodity
KW - market instrument
KW - Qualculation
KW - risk
KW - risk-based trading
U2 - 10.1080/17530350.2020.1824933
DO - 10.1080/17530350.2020.1824933
M3 - Journal article
VL - 14
SP - 239
EP - 305
JO - Journal of Cultural Economy
JF - Journal of Cultural Economy
SN - 1753-0350
IS - 3
ER -