Animals at work : Identity, politics and culture in work with animals / / by Lindsay Hamilton, Nik Taylor.

• Superior document: Human-animal studies ; vol. 16
• Author: Hamilton, Lindsay.
• TeilnehmendeR: Taylor, Nik.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Human-animal studies ; vol. 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (210 p.)
• Notes: Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 15, 2013).

Animals at Work is founded upon a broad and unique variety of empirical research settings - animal sanctuaries, farms, slaughter-houses, veterinary practices and behind the scenes of a natural history documentary film-making team. Hamilton and Taylor apply a breadth of post-structural and post-humanist theories to establish what happens when animal-agents are brought into human networks and spaces of representation, and the artful ways in which they become integral in shared human meaning-making. Interrogating the apparent boundaries of meaning between animals and humans by taking a close-up view of those working with animals in a variety of occupational settings, the book enjoys a rare and original range of empirical research contexts from British dairy farms to the jungles of Borneo.

Table of Contents

Chapter One Humans and Other Animals -- Chapter Two Why Work with Animals? -- Chapter Three Farm Animal, Vets and the Transformation of ‘Muck’ -- Chapter Four Slaughter Workers and the Making of Meat -- Chapter Five Shelter Workers and the Construction of ‘Animal Personhood’ -- Chapter Six Wildlife Presenters, Performance and the Animal ‘Actor’ -- Chapter Seven Small Animal Vets and the Crafting of Intimacy -- Chapter Eight Ethnography and Animals -- Bibliography -- Index.