Cosmopolitan Animals [electronic resource] /
Nagai, Kaori.editor.
Rooney, Caroline.editor.
Landry, Donna.editor.
Mattfeld, Monica.editor.
Sleigh, Charlotte.editor.
Jones, Karen.editor.
Cosmopolitan Animals asks what new possibilities and permutations of cosmopolitanism can emerge by taking seriously our sharing and 'becoming-with' animals. It calls for a fresh awareness that animals are important players in cosmopolitics, and that worldliness is far from being a human monopoly.
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""Cover ""; ""Half-Title ""; ""Title ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Contents""; ""Cosmopolitical Critters Preface for Cosmopolitan Animals""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I Cosmopolitics""; ""Introduction""; ""1 A Time after Copernicus""; ""2 The Cynic as Cosmopolitan Animal""; ""3 ?Only a Spectacle?: Frogs, Cosmopolitics and the Ecological Crisis""; ""4 Animal Religion and Cosmonautical Allegories""; ""Part II Hospitality""; ""Introduction""; ""5 Deathtraps in the Flyways: Electricity, Glass and BirdCollisions in Urban North America, 1887?2014""
""6 The Bullfight in Twenty-First-Century Spain: Polemics of Culture, Art and Ethics""""7 Hospitable Animals""; ""8 Gandhi?s Animal Experiments""; ""Part III Companionship""; ""Introduction""; ""9 Becoming Wormy, Becoming Worldly: Parasitic Nematodes as Companion Species""; ""10 Baboon Cosmopolitanism: More-Than-Human Moralities in a Multispecies Community""; ""11 From the Field to the Frontier: Hounds, Hunting andthe Canine-Human Alliance""; ""12 Horse-Human Companionship: Creaturely Cosmopolitanism across Eurasia""; ""Part IV The Postcolonial""; ""Introduction""
""13 Iguanas and Enemy Combatants: Reconsidering Cosmopolitanism through Guantánamo?s Creaturely Lives""""14 Violent Encounters: ?Stray? Dogs in Indian Cities""; ""15 The Beast in the Chinese Boxes: The Jungle Books as an Imperial Beast-Fable""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Cosmopolitan Animals asks what new possibilities and permutations of cosmopolitanism can emerge by taking seriously our sharing and 'becoming-with' animals. It calls for a fresh awareness that animals are important players in cosmopolitics, and that worldliness is far from being a human monopoly.
Literature—Philosophy.
Ethics.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Political philosophy.
Political science.
International relations.
Literary Theory.
Ethics.
Social Philosophy.
Political Philosophy.
Political Science.
International Relations.