Human and other animals
Subtitle: critical perspectives
By: edited by Bob Carter  and Nickie Charles
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780230246591
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; Animals; Social aspects; Philosophy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography; Psychological aspects; Human-animal relationships
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of Tables, Figures and Photos; title: Acknowledgements; title: Human-animal connections: An Introduction; B.Carter& N.Charles; title: PART I; title: The Eternal Return of Sociology's Repressed Biological Unconscious; S.Fuller; title: Animal Practices; J.Law & M.Miele; title: PART II; title: My Family and Other Animals: Pets as Kin; N.Charles& C.Davies; title: Contested Meanings and Canine Bodies; C.Molloy; title: The Discursive Representation of Non-human Animals in a Culture of Denial; K.Morgan & M.Cole; title: Human Primacy Identity Politics, Nonhuman Animal Experiments and the Oppression of Nonhuman Animals; K.Peggs; title: 'Most Farmers Prefer Blondes': Social Intersectionality and Species Relations; E.Cudworth; title: A Good Kill: Socio-technical Organisations of Farm Animal Slaughter; M.Higgin, A.Evans & M.Miele; title: An Improper Nature: Introduced Animals and 'Species Cleansing' in Australia; A.Franklin; title: On the Prowl with the Possum Posse: Nature and Nation in Aotearoa/New Zealand; P.Gruffudd; title: Power, Agency and a Different Future; B.Carter & N.Charles; title: Index.