Cosmopolitan Animals

2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-37627-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 253 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4483 g

Cosmopolitan Animals asks what new possibilities and permutations of cosmopolitanism can emerge by taking seriously our sharing and 'becoming-with' animals. It calls for a fresh awareness that animals are important players in cosmopolitics, and that worldliness is far from being a human monopoly.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nagai, Kaori

Rooney, Caroline

Landry, Donna

Mattfeld, Monica

Sleigh, Charlotte

Jones, Karen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gesellschaft & Tiere

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Kaori Nagai
PART I: COSMOPOLITICS
Introduction; Donna Landry
1. A Time After Copernicus; Simon Glendinning
2. The Cynic As Cosmopolitan Animal; Andrea Haslanger
3. 'Only A Spectacle': Frogs, Cosmopolitics And The Ecological Crisis; Charlotte Sleigh
4. Animal Religion And Cosmonautical Allegories; Caroline Rooney
PART II: HOSPITALITY
Introduction; Charlotte Sleigh
5. Death-Traps In The Flyways: Electricity, Glass, And Bird Collisions In Urban North America, 1887-2014; Nadia Berenstein
6. The Bullfight In 21st Century Spain: Polemics Of Culture, Art And Ethics
7. Sun-Chieh Liang, Hospitable Animals; Mª Verónica De Haro De San Mateo And Garry Marvin
8. Gandhi's Animal Experiments; Julietta Singh
PART III: COMPANIONSHIP
Introduction; Karen Jones
9. Becoming Wormy, Becoming Worldly: Parasitic Nematodes As Companion Species; David Andrew Griffiths
10. Baboon Cosmopolitanism: More-Than-Human Moralities In A Multi-Species Community; Samantha Hurn
11. Hounds, Hunting And The Canine-Human Alliance; Karen Jones
12. Horse-Human Companionship: Creaturely Cosmopolitanism Across Eurasia; Donna Landry
PART IV: THE POSTCOLONIAL
Introduction; Kaori Nagai And Caroline Rooney
13. Iguanas And Enemy Combatants: Reconsidering Cosmopolitanism Through Guantanamo's Creaturely Lives; Terri Tomsky
14. Violent Encounters: 'Stray' Dogs In Indian Cities; Anuradha Ramanujan
15. The Beast In The Chinese Boxes: The Jungle Books As An Imperial Beast-Fable; Kaori Nagai

Über Autor(innen)

Nadia Berenstein, University of Pennsylvania, UK

Simon Glendinning, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

David Andrew Griffiths, University of Surrey, UK

Donna Haraway, University of California, US

Mª Verónica De Haro De San Mateo, Universidad de Murcia, Spain

Andrea Haslanger, University of Sussex, UK

Samantha Hurn, University of Exeter, UK

Karen Jones, University of Kent, UK

Donna Landry, University of Kent, UK

Sun-chieh Liang, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Garry Marvin, University of Roehampton, UK

Monica Mattfeld, University of British Columbia, Canada

Kaori Nagai, University of Kent, UK

Julietta Singh, University of Richmond, US

Charlotte Sleigh, University of Kent, UK

Anuradha Ramanujan, National University of Singapore

Caroline Rooney, University of Kent, UK

Terri Tomsky, University of Alberta, Canada