基本説明
Examines human-animal relations and the diffrent ways in which they can be understood.
Full Description
This collection examines human-animal relations and the different ways in which they can be understood, exploring 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.
Contents
List of Tables, Figures and Photographs Acknowledgements Human-animal Connections: An Introduction; B.Carter & N.Charles PART I The Eternal Return of Sociology's Repressed Biological Unconscious; S.Fuller Animal Practices; J.Law & M.Miele PART II My Family and Other Animals: Pets as Kin; N.Charles & C.Davies Contested Meanings and Canine Bodies; C.Molloy The Discursive Representation of Non-human Animals in a Culture of Denial; K.Morgan & M.Cole Human Primacy Identity Politics, Nonhuman Animal Experiments and the Oppression of Nonhuman Animals; K.Peggs 'Most Farmers Prefer Blondes': Social Intersectionality and Species Relations; E.Cudworth A Good Kill: Socio-technical Organisations of Farm Animal Slaughter; M.Higgin, A.Evans & M.Miele An Improper Nature: Introduced Animals and 'Species Cleansing' in Australia; A.Franklin On the Prowl with the Possum Posse: Nature and Nation in Aotearoa/New Zealand; P.Gruffudd Power, Agency and a Different Future; B.Carter & N.Charles Index
