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Author Dugnoille, Julien

Title Animals Matter
Published Boston : BRILL, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (198 p.)
Series Human-Animal Studies
Human-Animal Studies
Contents Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Work Cited -- Chapter 1 "If They Could Talk It Would Be Perfect": Visibility of Individual Wild Animals in French Circus Spectacle -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 3 Particularities of Grand Cirque: The Visual Address and Lively Commodities within It -- 4 The Concept of civilité and le bon marché in French Cultural History -- 5 Civilizing and Consuming Wild Animals: The Visual Address and Appeal of Wild Animal Acts
6 Sea Lions, Penguins and Civility -- 7 Visibility of Individual Wild Animals? Off Piste Relationships and Resistance -- 8 Individual Differences and Resistance -- 9 The Material Lives of Wild Animal Performers -- 10 Conclusion: Civility and the "Wild" -- Work Cited -- Chapter 2 The Silence and the Fury: Addressing Animal Resistance and Agency through the History of Human-Animal Relationships -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Defining Resistance, Portraying Agency -- 3 Intentional Resistance: Raucous Resistance -- 4 The Dynamics of Resistance: Silenced Resistance
5 Resistance from within: Silent Resistance -- 6 Conclusion: Varieties of Animal Resistance and the Power of Animal Agency -- 1 Acknowledgements -- Work Cited -- Chapter 3 The Mejiro Bird: Between Commodity, Conservation, and Companion -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Nature as Commodity: Harvesting Wildlife in Japan and Amami -- 3 Bird Conservation in Japan -- 4 Regaining "Harmony" with Nature -- 5 Nature between Commodity and Companion -- 6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Work Cited -- Chapter 4 Grounding Intimacies: Human-Bovid Coexistence and Community Development in Hong Kong -- 1 Introduction
2 On Bearings and Belonging -- 3 Colonial Continuity and Post-colonial Rupture -- 4 "Challenging" Post-Domestic Moments -- 5 Conclusion: A Creaturely Perspective -- Work Cited -- Chapter 5 Growing Profitable Deer: Livestock and the Individual in Deer Farming -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Medieval Enclosures -- 3 Being Open to Deer -- 4 Growing Commodities -- 5 "Genetic Materials" -- 6 Deer Re-individualized or Reified? -- 7 Conclusion -- Work Cited -- Chapter 6 Speaking about Farming: Embodied Deliberation and Resistance of Cows and Farmers in the Netherlands -- 1 Introduction
2 Changes in Dairy Farming in the Netherlands -- 2.1 Effects on Cows -- 2.2 Effects on Farmers -- 2.3 Effects on Cow-Farmer Relations -- 3 Political Voice of Cows and Farmers: Silencing and Deliberation -- 3.1 Cow Deliberation and Silencing -- 3.2 Silencing of Farmers: Informal and Everyday Politics -- 4 Political Voice ii: Resistance and Possibilities for Change for Cows and Farmers -- 4.1 Farmers' Protests and Just Transitions -- 4.2 Cow Resistance and Possibilities for Multispecies Change -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Work Cited
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Chapter 7 Pièce de Resistance: Sartrean Existentialism in Small-Scale Farming
Form Electronic book
Author Vander Meer, Elizabeth
ISBN 9789004528444
900452844X