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

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-human...

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Superior document:Human-animal studies ; vol. 16
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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).
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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.