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abstract: 'Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) work across the globe to improve
the welfare of working equids. Despite decades of veterinary and other
interventions, welfare issues persist with equids working in brick
kilns. Engagement with all stakeholders is integral to creating abiding
improvements to working equid welfare as interventions based purely on
reactive measures fail to provide sustainable solutions. Equid owners,
particularly those in low to middle-income countries (LMICs), may have
issues such as opportunity, capacity, gender or socio-economic status,
overriding their ability to care well for their own equids. These
``blind spots{''''} are frequently overlooked when organizations develop
intervention programs to improve welfare. This study aims to highlight
the lives of the poorest members of Indian society, and will focus on
working donkeys specifically as they were the only species of working
equids present in the kilns visited. We discuss culture, status,
religion, and social influences, including insights into the
complexities of cultural ``blind spots{''''} which complicate efforts by
NGOs to improve working donkey welfare when the influence of different
cultural and societal pressures are not recognized or acknowledged.
Employing a mixed-methods approach, we used the Equid Assessment
Research and Scoping (EARS) tool, a questionnaire based equid welfare
assessment tool, to assess the welfare of working donkeys in brick kilns
in Northern India. In addition, using livelihoods surveys and
semi-structured interviews, we established owner demographics,
socioeconomic status, ethnicity, religion and their personal accounts of
their working lives and relationships to their donkeys. During
transcript analysis six themes emerged: caste, ethnicity, inherited
knowledge; social status, and impacts of ethnic group and caste; social
status and gender; migration and shared suffering; shared suffering,
compassion; religious belief, species hierarchy. The lives led by these,
marginalized communities of low status are driven by poverty, exposing
them to exploitation, lack of community cohesion, and community
conflicts through migratory, transient employment. This vulnerability
influences the care and welfare of their working donkeys, laying bare
the inextricable link between human and animal welfare. Cultural and
social perspectives, though sometimes overlooked, are crucial to
programs to improve welfare, where community engagement and
participation are integral to their success.'
affiliation: 'Watson, TL (Corresponding Author), Donkey Sanctuary, Sidmouth, Devon,
England.
Watson, Tamlin L.; Kubasiewicz, Laura M.; Chamberlain, Natasha; Nye, Caroline; Raw,
Zoe; Burden, Faith A., Donkey Sanctuary, Sidmouth, Devon, England.
Nye, Caroline, Univ Exeter, Ctr Rural Policy Res, Exeter, Devon, England.'
article-number: '214'
author: Watson, Tamlin L. and Kubasiewicz, Laura M. and Chamberlain, Natasha and Nye,
Caroline and Raw, Zoe and Burden, Faith A.
author-email: tamlin.watson@thedonkeysanctuary.org.uk
author_list:
- family: Watson
given: Tamlin L.
- family: Kubasiewicz
given: Laura M.
- family: Chamberlain
given: Natasha
- family: Nye
given: Caroline
- family: Raw
given: Zoe
- family: Burden
given: Faith A.
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.3389/fvets.2020.00214
eissn: 2297-1769
files: []
journal: FRONTIERS IN VETERINARY SCIENCE
keywords: working equids; brick kilns; welfare; blindspots; donkeys; culture
keywords-plus: GENDER INEQUALITY; SYSTEM
language: English
month: APR 29
number-of-cited-references: '64'
orcid-numbers: 'watson, tamlin/0000-0002-2751-5149
Burden, Faith/0000-0002-1223-3923'
papis_id: b944bc1667509b50d12bfb63cf0732df
ref: Watson2020culturalblind
researcherid-numbers: 'watson, tamlin/ITV-5544-2023
'
times-cited: '15'
title: Cultural ``Blind Spots,″ Social Influence and the Welfare of Working Donkeys
in Brick Kilns in Northern India
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000556581200001
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '2'
volume: '7'
web-of-science-categories: Veterinary Sciences
year: '2020'