Human and Other Animals [electronic resource] : Critical Perspectives /
Carter, Bob.author.
Charles, Nickie.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; 1 Human-Animal Connections: An Introduction; Part I; 2 The Eternal Return of Sociology's Repressed Biological Unconscious; 3 Animal Practices; Part II; 4 My Family and Other Animals: Pets As Kin; 5 Contested Meanings and Canine Bodies; 6 The Discursive Representation of Nonhuman Animals in a Culture of Denial; 7 Human Primacy Identity Politics, Nonhuman Animal Experiments and the Oppression of Nonhuman Animals
8 'Most Farmers Prefer Blondes': Social Intersectionality and Species Relations9 A Good Kill: Socio-Technical Organizations of Farm Animal Slaughter; 10 An Improper Nature? Introduced Animals and 'Species Cleansing' in Australia; 11 On the Prowl with the Possum Posse: Nature and Nation in Aotearoa/New Zealand; 12 Power, Agency and a Different Future; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Environmental sociology.
Sociology.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Psychology, Comparative.
Nature.
Environment.
Environmental Sociology.
Sociology, general.
Social Theory.
Comparative Psychology.
Gender Studies.
Popular Science in Nature and Environment.