A Delicate People and Their Dogs

Abstract In the midst of the great depression, with a large number of people hovering on the edge of starvation, the government of Newfoundland decided to insist that all dogs be licensed ‐ for a fee. Unfolding the enforcement process permits us to see how suffering and domination become dynamically...

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Published in:Journal of Historical Sociology
Main Author: SIDER, GERALD M.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Wiley 1989
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6443.1989.tb00130.x
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Summary:Abstract In the midst of the great depression, with a large number of people hovering on the edge of starvation, the government of Newfoundland decided to insist that all dogs be licensed ‐ for a fee. Unfolding the enforcement process permits us to see how suffering and domination become dynamically intertwined, and in the mesh of this moving net the concept of ‘subsistence production’ can be caught and brought more clearly into history.