Crossing boundaries : investigating human-animal relationships / / 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 themsel...

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Year of Publication:2012
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Human-Animal Studies 14.
Physical Description:1 online resource (274 p.)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Lynda Birke and Jo Hockenhull
  • Introduction: On Investigating Human-Animal Relationships / Lynda Birke and Jo Hockenhull
  • On Investigating Human–Animal Bonds: Realities, Relatings, Research / Lynda Birke and Jo Hockenhull
  • Animals, Mess, Method: Post-humanism, Sociology and Animal Studies / Nik Taylor
  • Nourishing Communities: Animal Vitalities and Food Quality / Henry Buller
  • Being guided by Dogs / Marc Higgin
  • Being-with-Animals: Modes of Embodiment in Human-Animal Encounters / Diane Dutton
  • Honouring Human Emotions: Using Organic Inquiry for Researching Human—Companion Animal Relationships / Susan Ella Dawson
  • Human-Enculturated Apes: Towards a New Synthesis of Philosophy and Comparative Psychology / Pär Segerdahl
  • Lessons We Should Learn from Our Unique Relationship with Dogs: An Ethological Approach / József Topál and Márta Gácsi
  • How Can the Ethological Study of Dog-Human Companionship Inform Social Robotics? / Gabriella Lakatos and Ádam Miklósi
  • The Nature of Relations / Mette Miriam Böll
  • A Science of Friendly Pigs … Carving Out a Conceptual Space for Addressing Animals as Sentient Beings / Françoise Wemelsfelder
  • Crossing Borders: Some Concluding Comments / Lynda Birke and Jo Hockenhull
  • Index / Lynda Birke and Jo Hockenhull.