Theorizing Animals

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xx, 293 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Nik Taylor, Ph.D. (2000) in Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University, is a Senior Lecturer at Flinders University, Australia. She has published considerably in the areas of the sociology of human-animal relations.

Tania Signal, D.Phil (2002) in Psychology, University of Waikato (NZ), is a Senior Lecturer at Central Queensland University. She has published widely around the psychological and social aspects of Human-Animal relations.

Readership

All those interested in the implications of current ways of thinking and theorising about Human-Animal relations, as well as social theorists, sociologists and philosophers.

Preface: In Hope of Change: Rethinking Human-Animal Relations?
Lynda Birke
Introduction
Nik Taylor

PART ONE
KNOTTY PROBLEMS: TO THEORISE OR NOT?
1. Mapping Human Animal Relations
Peter Beatson
2. Theorizing ‘Others’
Lisa Kemmerer

PART TWO
ANIMALS AND MODERNITY
3. The Underdog in History: Serfdom, Slavery and Species in the Creation and Development of Capitalism
Mary Murray
4. Dangerous Dogs and The Construction of Risk
Claire Molloy
5. Ritual, Reason and Animals
Gavin Kendall

PART THREE
ANIMAL PERFORMERS
6. The Representation of Animal Actors: Theorizing Performance and Performativity in the Animal Kingdom
Gregory S. Szarycz
7. The Gaze of Animals
Philip Armstrong

PART FOUR
FORWARD THINKING
8. Can Sociology Contribute to the Emancipation of Animals?
Nik Taylor
9. Theorising Rider-Horse Relations: An Ethnographic Illustration of the Centaur Metaphor in the Spanish
Bullfight
Kirrilly Thompson
10. Ciliated Sense
Eva Hayward
Concluding Remarks: From Theory to Action: An Ethologist’s Perspective
Jonathan Balcombe

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Animals at work

Nik Taylor Flinders University and Lindsay Hamilton Keele University

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.

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Animals and War

Edited by Ryan Hediger, Kent State University, Tuscarawas

Animals and War is the first collection of essays to study its topic. Using sociology, history, anthropology, and cultural studies, it analyzes a wide range of phenomena and exposes the often paradoxical contours of human-animal relationships.

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Crossing Boundaries

Edited by Lynda Birke, University of Chester, U.K and Jo Hockenhull, University of Bristol, U.K.

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.

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9789004193895

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The Animals of Spain

By Abel A. Alves

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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9789004187948

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Anthropocentrism

By Rob Boddice

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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Herding Monkeys to Paradise

By John Knight,

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.

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Paper Tiger

By Carol Freeman

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.

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Animals and Agency

Edited by Sarah E. McFarland and Ryan Hediger

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.

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Speaking of Animals

by Terry Caesar

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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Animal Encounters

Edited by Tom Tyler and Manuela Rossini

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.