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This collection brings together a range of inter-disciplinary works which explore the questions raised by scientific practices and by different ways of conceptualizing the place of human beings in the material world. The contributors consider theoretical issues and the debate between those who advocate a post-humanist abandonment of any distinction between society and nature, human and animal, and those who argue for the importance of retaining these categorical distinctions. Through a range of case studies, they explore practices which reproduce and/or challenge the species barrier, including issues of animal rights and animal welfare, whether and under what circumstances animals are regarded as social actors with agency, media representations of human-animal relations, and the relation between animals and national identity. Taken together, these essays examine the social and political ramifications of different ways of theorizing and researching the relation between human and other animals.
Human-animal connections: an introduction / Bob Carter and Nickie Charles -- PART I -- The eternal return of sociology's repressed biological unconscious / Steve Fuller -- Animal practices / John Law and Mara Miele -- PART II -- My family and other animals: pets as kin / Nickie Charles and Charlotte Aull Davies -- Contested meanings and canine bodies / Claire Molloy -- The discursive representation of nonhuman animals in a culture of denial / Karen Morgan and Matthew Cole -- Human primacy identity politics, nonhuman animal experiments and the oppression of nonhuman animals / Katy Peggs -- 'Most farmers prefer blondes': social intersectionality and species relations / Erika Cudworth -- A good kill: socio-technical organisations of farm animal slaughter / Marc Higgin, Adrian Evans and Mara Miele -- An improper nature?: introduced animals and 'species cleansing' in Australia / Adrian Franklin -- On the prowl with the possum posse: nature and nation in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Pyrs Gruffudd -- Power, agency and a different future / Bob Carter and Nickie Charles.
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SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011