Human and Other Animals: Critical Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Bob Carter, Nickie Charles (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 256
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Human-Animal Connections: An Introduction....Pages 1-27
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
The Eternal Return of Sociology’s Repressed Biological Unconscious....Pages 31-49
Animal Practices....Pages 50-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
My Family and Other Animals: Pets As Kin....Pages 69-92
Contested Meanings and Canine Bodies....Pages 93-111
The Discursive Representation of Nonhuman Animals in a Culture of Denial....Pages 112-132
Human Primacy Identity Politics, Nonhuman Animal Experiments and the Oppression of Nonhuman Animals....Pages 133-152
‘Most Farmers Prefer Blondes’: Social Intersectionality and Species Relations....Pages 153-172
A Good Kill: Socio-Technical Organizations of Farm Animal Slaughter....Pages 173-194
An Improper Nature? Introduced Animals and ‘Species Cleansing’ in Australia....Pages 195-216
On the Prowl with the Possum Posse: Nature and Nation in Aotearoa/New Zealand....Pages 217-235
Power, Agency and a Different Future....Pages 236-241
Back Matter....Pages 243-249

✦ Subjects

Environmental Sociology; Sociology, general; Social Theory; Comparative Psychology; Gender Studies; Popular Science in Nature and Environment

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