This document summarizes Dr. Hayley MacGregor's research on the social dimensions of zoonoses (diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans) in emerging livestock systems. It discusses two key areas: 1) how cultural and social practices influence zoonotic risk, and 2) the relationship between humans and animals. For area 1, it describes how factors like intensification of production, supply chains, processing practices, markets and consumer demand can drive zoonotic risk. For area 2, it discusses how human-animal relations blur traditional categories, and how the health of humans and animals is interdependent.

1. Social Dimensions of Zoonoses in
Interdisciplinary Research
Dr Hayley MacGregor

2. Two areas:
1. Cultural logics and social practice
2. Human-animal relations

3. 1. Cultural logics and social practice:
The wider context of ‘risk’

4. ZELS Zoonoses and Emerging Livestock
Systems
Myanmar Pig Partnership
An integrated management-based approach for
surveillance and control of zoonoses in emerging livestock
systems

5. Pigs / poultry
HumansEnvironment
DRIVERS OF RISK WITH
INTENSIFICATION FROM
PRODUCTION TO CONSUMPTION
Farm
- Biosecurity
- Antibiotics use
Trading
- Supply chain length
Processing
- Scale of slaughter
- Food safety system
Retail
- Larger markets
Consumer
- Increased demand
- Purchase vs. subsistence
THE RISK ENVIRONMENT FOR ENDEMIC
ZOONOTIC DISEASE TRANSFER IN ELS
Factorsinfluencingtheriskenvironment.
Urbanisation,demographicchange,commercialisation,
global/national/regionalpolicy,riskperceptions
RISK SCENARIOS FOR DIVERSE
EMERGING PIG + POULTRY
SYSTEMS
FARMS
PROCESSING
RETAIL
CONSUMER
TRADING
pathogen
Zoonotic risks in ELS are impacted by
dynamic interactions of risk environment,
pathogen, and host

8. 2. Human-animal relations:
Unsettling established categories

9. Nature: culture
“Undoubtedly, the existence of mankind is
recognised in the reindeer's decision-making,
however rudimentary and shortsighted the latter
may be. Men and reindeer thus represent two
interacting populations; both form social groups,
and are guided in political/economic decision-
making, which takes the other into account, by
very different sets of goals and values.”
Ingold (1974), On Reindeer and Men

10. Human: Non human
“Animism could be defined as an ontology which
postulates the social character of relations
between humans and non-humans: the space
between nature and society is itself social.”
Vivieros de Castro (1998), Amazonian
perspectivism

11. Whose world? Whose health?