"A Primordial Situation": Metonymical Linkages in US Newspaper Coverage of Wet Markets. Issue 6 (18th August 2022)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- "A Primordial Situation": Metonymical Linkages in US Newspaper Coverage of Wet Markets. Issue 6 (18th August 2022)
- Main Title:
- "A Primordial Situation": Metonymical Linkages in US Newspaper Coverage of Wet Markets
- Authors:
- Rooney, David
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: COVID-19 has ushered in controversy and debate over Chinese wet markets, including calls for their immediate shutdown by major politicians and international figures. Despite their politicization, there is considerable confusion on what wet markets are and their relation to wildlife, sale of exotic animals and/or disease risk. This study examines US newspaper coverage of wet markets in the spring of 2020, finding that articles portrayed wet markets as metonyms for broader shifts in human–animal relations. In place of examining specific behaviors that threatened public health, coverage tended to emphasize the strangeness of meats and slaughter to a Western audience familiar with a broad gap between meat and animals, repeating tropes of Chinese dog or cat-eating. As a result, discomfort at wet market descriptions is easily translated into racial animus, associating inappropriate human–animal contact with cultural pathology and marking factory farming as a litmus test of a developed distance from nature.
- Is Part Of:
- Environmental communication. Volume 16:Issue 6(2022)
- Journal:
- Environmental communication
- Issue:
- Volume 16:Issue 6(2022)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 16, Issue 6 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 16
- Issue:
- 6
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0016-0006-0000
- Page Start:
- 836
- Page End:
- 849
- Publication Date:
- 2022-08-18
- Subjects:
- Wet market -- COVID-19 -- meat -- disease -- metonym
Communication in the environmental sciences -- Periodicals
333.7 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/renc20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/17524032.2022.2125548 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1752-4032
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