Animals and War
Studies of Europe and North America
Biographical note
Ryan Hediger, Ph.D. (2005), University of Oregon, is Assistant Professor of English at Kent State University at Tuscarawas. He has published numerous essays on animals including pieces treating Ernest Hemingway, violence, and disability. He co-edited Animals and Agency (Brill, 2009).
Readership
Those interested in animals, war, and animal studies more generally, and those concerned with the ethics of human-animal relationships, violence, dogs, horses, zoos, and animal narratives and myths.
Table of contents
Contributors include Ryan Hediger, Lisa Jean Moore, Mary Kosut, John Kinder, Steven F. Alger, Janet M. Alger, Robert Tindol, Riitta-Marja Leinonen, Brian Lindseth, Paul Huebener, Boria Sax, Brian M. Lowe, and Hilda Kean.
€96.00$133.00
Animals at Work considers the ways in which humans make meaning from their interactions with non-humans in a range of organizations. This is done through ethnographic research in a range of workplaces, from farms and slaughter-houses to rescue shelters and veterinary practices.
€90.00$125.00
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.
€91.00$118.00
An overlooked area in the burgeoning field of animal studies is explored: the way nonhuman animals in the early modern Spanish empire were valued companions, as well as economic resources. Montaigne was not alone in his appreciation of animal life.
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This collection explores assumptions behind the label ‘anthropocentrism’, critically enquiring into the meaning of ‘human’. It addresses epistemological and ontological problems in charges of anthropocentrism, questioning the inherent anthropocentrism of all human perspectives, while seeking ...
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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
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This book is a detailed study of monkey parks in Japan. It describes how the parks manage free-ranging macaque troops for touristic display and examines the various problems that arise, as well as proposals for park reform.
€95.00$123.00
This book analyses 80 illustrations of the extinct Tasmanian ‘tiger’, paying attention to the messages they convey and the species’ history. It offers new understandings of human-animal relations and tells a chilling story of how misleading representations can be.
€110.00$142.00
This collection examines the question of nonhuman animal agency by shifting emphasis from the human perspective toward that of other animals, exploring modes of animal resistance to human behaviors, and considering the ways the presence of animals refracts human notions like agency and species.
€89.00$115.00
Speaking of Animals is a series of personal essays about such subjects as dogs in Brazil , big game in Kenya, novels about lost dogs and movies about grizzly bears. What difference does it make that none of these animals can speak?
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In a series of encounters between leading practitioners in the field of Animal Studies, this collection of essays explores the contradictory and revealing ways in which humans and other animals meet, interact, and experience one another.
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