Crossing boundaries : investigating human-animal relationships / / edited by Lynda Birke and Jo Hockenhull.

• TeilnehmendeR: Birke, Lynda I. A.; Hockenhull, Jo.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Human-Animal Studies 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction: On Investigating Human-Animal Relationships /; On Investigating Human–Animal Bonds: Realities, Relatings, Research /; Animals, Mess, Method: Post-humanism, Sociology and Animal Studies /; Nourishing Communities: Animal Vitalities and Food Quality /; Being guided by Dogs /; Being-with-Animals: Modes of Embodiment in Human-Animal Encounters /; Honouring Human Emotions: Using Organic Inquiry for Researching Human—Companion Animal Relationships /; Human-Enculturated Apes: Towards a New Synthesis of Philosophy and Comparative Psychology /; Lessons We Should Learn from Our Unique Relationship with Dogs: An Ethological Approach /; How Can the Ethological Study of Dog-Human Companionship Inform Social Robotics? /; The Nature of Relations /; A Science of Friendly Pigs … Carving Out a Conceptual Space for Addressing Animals as Sentient Beings /; Crossing Borders: Some Concluding Comments /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1283551292; 9786613863744; 9004233040
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Lynda Birke and Jo Hockenhull.

Many people feel strong bonds with nonhuman animals, and these relationships are central to much emerging scholarship in human-animal studies. Yet to study relationships is not straightforward; research often focuses on how humans affect animals or vice versa rather than on the relationships themselves. Partly, this is a consequence of the history of disciplinary divisions, particularly between natural and social sciences. In this book, contributors from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds reflect on the methodological challenges they face, and how they go about studying relationships between people and animals. The book provides fascinating insights into how research on human-animal relationships can rise to the challenges of interdisciplinarity, and help us to understand the animals with whom we bond.