Theorizing animals : re-thinking humanimal relations / / edited by Nik Taylor, Tania Signal.

• Superior document: Human-animal studies, v. 11
• TeilnehmendeR: Taylor, Nik.; Signal, Tania.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Human-animal studies ; v. 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / N. Taylor and T. Signal -- Introduction: Thinking About Animals / Nik Taylor -- 1. Mapping Human Animal Relations / Peter Beatson -- 2. Theorizing ‘Others’ / Lisa Kemmerer -- 3. The Underdog In History: Serfdom, Slavery And Species In The Creation And Development Of Capitalism / Mary Murray -- 4. Dangerous Dogs And The Construction Of Risk / Claire Molloy -- 5. Ritual, Reason And Animals / Gavin Kendall -- 6. Animal Performers / Gregory S. Szarycz -- 7. The Gaze Of Animals / Philip Armstrong -- 8. Can Sociology Contribute To The Emancipation Of Animals? / Nik Taylor -- 9. Theorising Rider-Horse Relations: An Ethnographic Illustration Of The Centaur Metaphor In The Spanish Bullfight / Kirrilly Thompson -- 10. Ciliated Sense / Eva Hayward -- Concluding Remarks: From Theory To Action: An Ethologist’s Perspective / Jonathan Balcombe -- Index / N. Taylor and T. Signal.