Genealogy of Obedience

Reading North American Dog Training Literature, 1850s-2000s
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38028-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: Human-Animal Studies

In Genealogy of Obedience Justyna Wlodarczyk provides a long overdue look at the history of companion dog training methods in North America since the mid-nineteenth century, when the market of popular training handbooks emerged. Wlodarczyk argues that changes in the functions and goals of dog training are entangled in bigger cultural discourses; with a particular focus on how animal training has served as a field for playing out anxieties related to race, class and gender in North America. By applying a Foucauldian genealogical perspective, the book shows how changes in training methods correlate with shifts in dominant regimes of power. It traces the rise and fall of obedience as a category for conceptualizing relationships with dogs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wlodarczyk, Justyna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gesellschaft & Tiere

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Canine- Human Intensifications, Periodizing Dog Training in the US Since the 1850s
1 Periodizing Dog Training with Foucault
2 1850–1910: Shaping the Dog’s Soul
3 1910–1970s: The Emergence and Strengthening of the Disciplinary Regime
4 1980s–2000s: From Governmentality to Self-Governmentality: Biopower, Behaviorism and Care of Self
5 2000–2015: Beyond Behaviorism: Affirmative Biopolitics
1 The Gentle Way in Punishment: Transcending Animality/ Performing Animality in Early US Pet Dog Training Manuals, 1850–1900
1 Dog Training in the Nineteenth Century
2 Canine Sagacity
3 The Gentle Way in Punishment
4 Canine Minstrelsy
5 Conclusion
2 Hunting Dog Manuals: The Pointer as a Work of Art in the Age of Biopolitical Reproduction, 1845–1909
1 Sports Hunting
2 The Notion of Breed and Hunting Dogs
3 Polishing Instinct: The Pointer as a Work of Art
4 S.T. Hammond’s Training or Breaking?
5 Hunting in Black and White
3 Culture of Instinct: Emergence of the Disciplinary Regime, 1910–1946
1 Was Most Modern?
2 Police Dogs
3 Most’s Masculine Methods
4 Nietzsche Goes to the Dogs
5 Should American Dogs Bite?
6 Conclusion
4 The Rise and Fall of Obedience: From Helen Whitehouse Walker to the Dawn of Positive Training, 1933–1984
1 Leading Others: Tools of Discipline
2 Governmentality
3 Training You to Train Your Dog: Layers of Human-Canine Discipline
4 The Soul of a Trainer: Crossover Trainers, 1980s–2000s
5 Off the Leash
6 Feeling Power and Positive Dog Training
5 Power without Coercion: From Governmentality to Self-Governmentality, from Discipline to Self-Control, 1984–2000s
1 Had Foucault Read Skinner?
2 Training as a Practice of Freedom
3 Doggie Zen: Dog Training and Technologies of the Self
4 From Discipline to Control
5 Accounting for Affect/Accounting for Gender
6 Countermodernity: Resistance to the Positive Training Revolution, 1980s–2000s
1 Disciplining Affects: The Dog Whisperer
2 Vicki Hearne: On the Nature of Freedom
3 David McCaig: Pastoral Dissent
7 Be More Dog: Towards an Affirmative Biopolitics
1 Do More with Your Dog
2 Are We Having Fun Yet?
3 Affirmative Biopolitics
4 Garrett, Foucault and Radical Behaviorism
5 Beyond Behaviorism
6 Beyond Agility
7 Back to Ethology, Back to the Body
8 Conclusion
Conclusion: The Death of Obedience
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Justyna Wlodarczyk, PhD (2009) is Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw. She has published on the human-animal bond in the US and in Poland and has recently co-edited Free Market Dogs: The Human-Canine Bond in Post-Communist Poland (Purdue, 2016).