| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 236 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Contemporary art and animal rights / Steve Baker -- Marching on thin ice: the politics of penguin films / Elizabeth Leane and Stephanie Pfennigwerth -- The traumatic effort to understand: Werner Herzog's Grizzly man / Undine Sellbach -- Naming and the unspeakable: representations of animal deaths in some recent South African print media / Wendy Woodward -- Possum magic, possum menace: wildlife control and the demonisation of cuteness / Kay Milton -- Pleasure's moral worth / Jonathan Balcombe -- The nature of the experimental animal: evolution, vivisection, and the Victorian environment / Jed May -- "Room on the Ark?": the symbolic nature of U.S. pet evacuation statutes for nonhuman animals / Marsha L. Baum -- Making animals matter: why the art world needs to rethink the representation of animals / Yvette Watt -- The speech of dumb beasts / Helen Tiffin -- Extinction, representation, agency: the case of the Dodo / Carol Freeman -- Cetaceans and sentiment / Philip Armstrong -- Zones of contagion: the Singapore body politic and the body of the street-cat / Lucy Davis -- When is nature not? / Tim Low |
| Summary |
Taking their cue from the specific "animal moments" that punctuate our relationships with nonhuman animals, experts from the biological sciences, humanities, and social sciences engage with issues and debates central to human-animal studies. Considering Animals brings together contemporary international case studies from across the globe that examine our interactions with animals. Given current discussions about the status of animals and the widespread extinction of species, this is an important and timely collection |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Human-animal relationships.
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Human-animal relationships -- Philosophy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Human-animal relationships
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Human-animal relationships -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Freeman, Carol.
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Leane, Elizabeth.
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Watt, Yvette
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| LC no. |
2011001594 |
| ISBN |
9780754698630 |
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0754698637 |
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1315259591 |
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9781315259598 |
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1283115271 |
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9781283115278 |
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9786613115270 |
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6613115274 |
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