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The volume explores how nonhuman animal lives are entangled with human interests, conflicts, and desires, highlighting the role of performance in these interactions. Drawing on diverse case studies, it unfolds across four thematic sections: Training Animals, Show Machines, Artistic Experiments, and Political Conflicts.
The book benefits readers by sharpening ethical and critical awareness of how animals are entangled in human culture, from circuses and museums to art, games, and social media. Its key features are a strongly comparative, interdisciplinary approach and a focus on less-studied regions and practices. It delivers these benefits through carefully structured thematic sections and rich case studies that reveal hidden mechanisms of representation, exploitation, and interspecies exchange. The book can be read as a coherent whole, tracing different dimensions of human-animal entanglements, but each chapter also functions as a self-contained case study.
The book is aimed at scholars, students, and activists in cultural and animal studies, performance and media studies, and related fields, as well as anyone interested in ethics and human-animal relations.
Contents
Introductory Part 1. An Octopus Performs Human-Animal Entanglements 2. The Authors' Conceptual Frame Section I. Training Animals - Taming Emotions 1. Emotion and Animal Agency: Precedents in Performance and Circus 2. A Woman and a Bear on Stage: Interspecies Relationships in the Biographies of Maxi Niedermeyer 3. In Quest of Humanity: The (Re)presentation of Wolves in Contemporary Circus Performances Section II. Harnessed to the Show Machine 4. Conceptual Boundaries: Ethnographic Shows as a Stage for Human-Animal Relations Conceptual Boundaries 5. 'Botched' and Toxic Works of Taxidermy: The Afterlives of Dead Animals and the Paradigm of Conservation in Museum Collections 6. Mistreated Performers: Animals as Tourist Attractions in Croatia Section III. Blurring Boundaries of Scenes, Scenarios, and Species 7. A Performing Monkey: Human Nature in a Distorting Mirror? Reflections on the Polish Translation of the Melodrama 'Jocko, the Brazilian Monkey' 8. Odd Symbiosis: Parasites in Circus 9. Animal Presence in Gaming: Transformative Design and Play Practices Section IV. Involved in Human Conflicts 10. Dancing Bears and Jumping Tigers: Animals in the Circus and Nazi Ideology 11. Sharik the Dog and Stepan the Cat in Wartime Scenes: Transformations of the Idea of Heroism Performed by Animal Protagonists 12. From Forest to Facebook: The Role of Bears in Reflecting and Shaping Societal Polarisation
