Theorizing animals
Subtitle: re-thinking humanimal relations
By: edited by Nik Taylor, Tania Signal
Series: Human-animal studies -- 11
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9789004202429
Subjects: Philosophy; Human-animal relationships
Description: Utilising ideas from post-modernism and post-humanism this book challenges current ways of thinking about animals and their relationships with humans. Including contributions from across the social sciences the book encourages readers to reflect upon taken for granted ways of conceptualising human relaitonships with animals. It will be of interest to those in the broad field of human-animal studies as well as those within most social science and humanities disciplines including sociology, anthropology, philosophy and social theory.
Notes: Includes index.