Theorizing Animals

Re-Thinking Humanimal Relations
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20242-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 293 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Human-Animal Studies

Utilising ideas from post-modernism and post-humanism this book challenges current ways of thinking about animals and their relationships with humans. Including contributions from across the social sciences the book encourages readers to reflect upon taken for granted ways of conceptualising human relaitonships with animals. It will be of interest to those in the broad field of human-animal studies as well as those within most social science and humanities disciplines including sociology, anthropology, philosophy and social theory.

Zielgruppe

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, Nik

Signal, Tania

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Umweltsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.