CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Mohylnyi, Stanislav |
|---|---|
| Title | Knowledge and Imperial Governance: Fighting Cattle Plague in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Russian Empire |
| Summary | This thesis investigates continuities and changes in ideas, representations and policies related to cattle plague and livestock breeding throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the Russian empire. It traces the evolution of the understanding of the nature of cattle plague as reflected in legislation, official documents and works by veterinarians and cattle owners. Additionally, it also teases out the ways in which different authors and actors created broader images of different social groups and the authority when writing about epizootics. In parallel, the thesis points attention to the ways in which these various ideas were the constituent elements of the state authorities of different levels, institutionalized veterinary medicine or regional identities. The analysis of the role of cattle plague in such variegated perspectives serves the purpose of illuminating the logic of the function of state authorities in regard to the creation of and interaction with different images and representations. This thesis points to unsystematic ways in which the Russian empire used and not used symbolic narratives in its governance. Simultaneously, on the basis of two cases, namely the project of inoculation against cattle plague and the representation of peasants, it identifies a pattern according to which the state sought to avoid relying on such narratives in order to prevent subjects` attempts at using and renegotiating them. |
| Supervisor | Mazanik Anna |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/mohylnyi_stanislav.pdf |
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