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Theorizing animals : re-thinking humanimal relations /

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 r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Taylor, Nik, Signal, Tania
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Colección:Human-animal studies ; v. 11.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: In Hope of Change: Rethinking Human-Animal Relations? / Lynda Birke
  • 1. Mapping Human Animal Relations / Peter Beatson
  • 2. Theorizing 'Others' / Lisa Kemmerer
  • 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
  • 6. The Representation of Animal Actors: Theorizing Performance and Performativity in the Animal Kingdom / Gregory S. Szarycz
  • 7. The Gaze of Animals / Philip Armstrong
  • 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.