Animals and agency
Subtitle: an interdisciplinary exploration
By: edited by Sarah E. McFarland Ryan Hediger.
Contributors: McFarland, Sarah E.; Hediger, Ryan.
Series: Human animal studies -- v. 8
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004175808
Subjects: Animal welfare
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Approaching the agency of other animals  : an introduction / Sarah E. McFarland and Ryan Hediger; title: Animals as agents; title: Whale agency : affordances and acts of resistance in captive environments / Traci Warkentin; title: The racehorse as protagonist : agency, independence, and improvisation / Shelly R. Scott; title: Consuming Timothy Treadwell : redefining nonhuman agency in light of Herzog's Grizzly man / David Lulka; title: Dancing penguins and a pretentious raccoon : animated animals and 21st century environmentalism / Sarah E. McFarland; title: Speaking through animals; title: No human hand : the ourang-outang in Poe's "The murders in the Rue Morgue" / Stephanie Rowe; title: Sled dogs of the American North : on masculinity, whiteness, and human freedom / Rebecca Onion; title: The slave whisperer rides the frontier : horseface minstrelsy in the western / J.J. Clark; title: Speaking for animals; title: Representing the experimental animal : competing voices in victorian culture / Jed Mayer; title: Forms of life : the search for the simian self in ape language experiments / Rebecca Bishop; title: Animals, agency, and absence : a discourse analysis of institutional animal care and use committee meetings / Debra Durham and Debra Merskin; title: Humanimals and other marginal species; title: "To abandon the colonial animal" : "race," animals, and the feral child in Kipling's Mowgli stories / Dipika Nath; title: At the top of the hierarchical ladder : were-animals in Annette Curtis Klause's Blood and chocolate and Patrice Kindl's Owl in love / Cat Yampell; title: The microgeography of infestation in relationship spaces / Matthew Candelaria; title: Crossing over : (dis)ability, contingent agency, and death in the marginal genre work of Temple Grandin and Jim Harrison / Ryan Hediger; title: Envoi towards a philosophy of the polyp / Laurence Simmons.