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Author : Nik Taylor
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 20,98 MB
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9004203605
Drawing on current trends in post-modernism and post-humanism this books offers a challenge to current ways of thinking, theorising and talking about animals and humanimal relations
Author : Robert Garner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0199936315
At the same time, he argues that humans have a greater interest in life and liberty than most species of nonhuman animals.
Author : Carol J. Adams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 2010-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1441173285
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Author : Derek Ryan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 2015-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748682228
From caged orangutans to roasted pig, from dog training to horse phobias, from communicating bees to ruminating cows, over the course of an introduction and four thematically organised chapters Derek Ryan explores how animals are encountered in theoretica
Author : Erin McKenna
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 082035189X
Most livestock in America currently live in cramped and unhealthy confinement, have few stable social relationships with humans or others of their species, and finish their lives by being transported and killed under stressful conditions. In Livestock, Erin McKenna allows us to see this situation and presents alternatives. She interweaves stories from visits to farms, interviews with producers and activists, and other rich material about the current condition of livestock. In addition, she mixes her account with pragmatist and ecofeminist theorizing about animals, drawing in particular on John Dewey’s account of evolutionary history, and provides substantial historical background about individual species and about human-animal relations. This deeply informative text reveals that the animals we commonly see as livestock have rich evolutionary histories, species-specific behaviors, breed tendencies, and individual variation, just as those we respect in companion animals such as dogs, cats, and horses. To restore a similar level of respect for livestock, McKenna examines ways we can balance the needs of our livestock animals with the environmental and social impacts of raising them, and she investigates new possibilities for human ways of being in relationships with animals. This book thus offers us a picture of healthier, more respectful relationships with livestock.
Author : Cecilia Asberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 38,47 MB
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317576349
Celebrating more than two decades of feminist theory and gender research, this book provides an essential overview of current theoretical positions, hot topics and state-of-the-art perspectives in the field of Nordic Gender Studies: an area currently facing the challenges of internationalization and destabilized well-fare states, intersectionality, materiality, and academic transformation. Forming an overview, the introductory texts collected here are intended for Nordic and international students and teachers specializing in gender studies or related areas of interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences. With vibrant contributions from Nordic and international key scholars, think pieces and position papers culled from NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, are in fact essential reading for anyone in need of accessible yet condensed guidance on key discussion points such as post-constructionism and new materialism, neo-liberal academia and interdisciplinarity and the role of critical gender theory and posthumanism. The volume also looks at the differences within Nordic Gender Studies of today. This book is made up of material that was previously published in various issues of NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research.
Author : Aaron S. Gross
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0231538375
Through an absorbing investigation into recent, high-profile scandals involving one of the largest kosher slaughterhouses in the world, located unexpectedly in Postville, Iowa, Aaron S. Gross makes a powerful case for elevating the category of the animal in the study of religion. Major theorists have almost without exception approached religion as a phenomenon that radically marks humans off from other animals, but Gross rejects this paradigm, instead matching religion more closely with the life sciences to better theorize human nature. Gross begins with a detailed account of the scandals at Agriprocessors and their significance for the American and international Jewish community. He argues that without a proper theorization of "animals and religion," we cannot fully understand religiously and ethically motivated diets and how and why the events at Agriprocessors took place. Subsequent chapters recognize the significance of animals to the study of religion in the work of Ernst Cassirer, Emile Durkheim, Mircea Eliade, Jonathan Z. Smith, and Jacques Derrida and the value of indigenous peoples' understanding of animals to the study of religion in our daily lives. Gross concludes by extending the Agribusiness scandal to the activities at slaughterhouses of all kinds, calling attention to the religiosity informing the regulation of "secular" slaughterhouses and its implications for our relationship with and self-imagination through animals.
Author : Vincent G. Jungkunz
Publisher : Suny Series in New Political S
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 23,11 MB
Release : 2017-01-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781438459882
The division of life into animal and human is one of the fundamental schisms found within political societies. Ironically, given the immense influence of the animal/human divide, especially upon power dynamics, the discipline in charge of theorizing and studying power political science and theory has had little to say about the animal/human. This book seeks to amend this vast oversight. Acknowledging the complexity of the changing differences between animals and humans, the contributors explore such topics as Marx, Freud, the animal, and civilization; dog breeding, racism, and democracy; the meaningful silences of animals; how sovereignty reconfigures the animal/human; and the paradoxical struggles against being dehumanized among immigrant workers in a slaughterhouse. Political Theory and the Animal/Human Relationship is necessary reading for anyone who wants to understand how power has been influenced by the animal/human divide, and what we can do about it."
Author : Carl Safina
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 11,43 MB
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0805098887
Hailed conservationist Carl Safina examines animal personhood as told through the inspired narrative portraits of elephants, wolves, and dolphins
Author : Lynda Birke
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004231455
Contributors to this book consider how researchers study human-animal relationships, focussing on the methodologies they use, and how these might give new insights into how humans relate to animal kind.