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Animal Industries
This book examines an extremely topical phenomenon, the massive industrial exploitation of animals, from a previously neglected perspective. It explores the history and development of animal industries in Nordic countries from their establishment in the late nineteenth century to the present day. These countries are often considered to be progressive and advanced in animal protection, but consumption practices in this area are actually excessive in relation to planetary resources and are among the most unsustainable on a global scale. If we want to understand current problems, it is essential to be aware of long-term changes and continuities, as well as the diversity of animals that have been exploited. The purpose of this book is to explain these changes and provide new knowledge for scholars in human-animal studies, decisionmakers and the general public.
Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism. Vol. 2 No. 2 (2014). Minding Animals: Part II
Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism is a peer-refereed journal of trans-anthropocentric ethics and related inquires. The main aim of the journal is to create a professional interdisciplinary forum in Europe to discuss moral and scientific issues that concern the increasing need of going beyond narrow anthropocentric paradigms in all fields of knowledge. The journal accepts submissions on all topics which promote European research adopting a non-anthropocentric ethical perspective on both interspecific and intraspecific relationships between all life species – humans included – and between these and the abiotic environment.
Affect, Space and Animals
In recent years, animals have entered the focus of the social and cultural sciences, resulting in the emergence of the new field of human–animal studies. This book investigates the relationships between humans and animals, paying particular attention to the role of affect, space, and animal subjectivity in diverse human–animal encounters. Written by a team of international scholars, contributions explore current debates concerning animal representation, performativity, and relationality in various texts and practices. Part I explores how animals are framed as affective, through four case studies that deal with climate change, human–bovine relationships, and human–horse interaction in...
Relations 2.2 - November 2014
Table of Contents: Of Cows and Women: Gendered Human-Animal Relationships in Finnish Agriculture, Taija Kaarlenkaski - Alpha: the Figure in the Cage, Juliet MacDonald - The Living in Lucretius’ De rerum natura. Animals’ ataraxia and Humans’ Distress, Alma Massaro - “Low down Dirty Rat”: Popular and Moral Responses to Possums and Rats in Melbourne, Siobhan O’Sullivan, Barbara Creed, Jenny Gray - Animal Perceptions in Animal Transport Regulations in the EU and in Finland, Outi Ratamäki - Boundary Transgressions: the Human-Animal Chimera in Science Fiction, Evelyn Tsitas - Animal Music, Jessica Ullrich - The Inspiring Journey of SIUA through Animal Lives, Eleonora Adorni - Animal Theology, Gianfranco Nicora, Alma Massaro - A Bestiary in Five Fingers, Seán McCorry - A Pig Doesn't Make the Revolution, Valentina Sonzogni
Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism. Vol. 2 No. 1 (2014). Minding Animals: Part I
Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism is a peer-refereed journal of trans-anthropocentric ethics and related inquires. The main aim of the journal is to create a professional interdisciplinary forum in Europe to discuss moral and scientific issues that concern the increasing need of going beyond narrow anthropocentric paradigms in all fields of knowledge. The journal accepts submissions on all topics which promote European research adopting a non-anthropocentric ethical perspective on both interspecific and intraspecific relationships between all life species – humans included – and between these and the abiotic environment.
Relations 2.1 - June 2014
Table of Contents: Minding Animals. Editorial, Rod Bennison, Alma Massaro, Jessica Ullrich - Animal Deaths on Screen: Film & Ethics, Barbara Creed - Learning about the emotional lives of kangaroos, cognitive justice and environmental sustainability, Steve Garlick, Rosemary Austen - Captivating Creatures: Zoos, Marketing, and the Commercial Success of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, Tanja Schwalm - The Multi-dimensional Donkey in Landscapes of Donkey-Human Interaction, Stephen Blakeway - Mind the gap! Musicians challenging limits of birdsong knowledge, Susanne Heiter - A clinical perspective on ‘theory of mind’, empathy and altruism: the hypothesis of somasia, Jean-Michel Le Bot - The spontaneous horse, Francesco De Giorgio, Jose Schoorl - Antispeciesisms, Alma Massaro - The Challenges of Technoscience for Critical animal studies, Marcel Sebastian - On dolphin personhood, Jessica Ullrich - Fifty Shades of Oppression: Unexamined Sexualized Violence against Women and Other Animals, Corey Lee Wrenn
Paradigma
The theme and title of the 100th Yearbook of the Kalevala Society is ”Paradigm”. Paradigm is a framework of prevalent principles, beliefs, values, and norms, and incorporates ideas about what is correct in terms of theory and methodology. Accordingly, paradigm always leads to struggles of authority in relation to other trends and ways of thinking. This book grapples with the historical, contemporary, and ever-shifting paradigms and methods of cultural research. What was being researched in the early 20th century and how was the research conducted? What happened in the 1960s–1980s in this field of research? What methods do our peers use? What kinds of affiliations and antagonisms emerge with the changing paradigms? And how do the different ’turns’ direct research?
Livestock and Literature
This book explores the past and current traces that cows, pigs, chickens, and other animals used by humans have left in Anglophone literary fiction. In times of accelerated global warming, an acute pandemic, and breakthroughs in bioengineering practices, discussions on how to rethink the relationships to these animals have become as heated as perhaps never before. Livestock and Literature examines what literature has to contribute to these debates. In particular, it draws on counter-narratives to so-called livestock animals’ commodification in selected science- and speculative fiction (SF) works from the twenty-first century. These texts imagine ‘what if’ scenarios where "livestock" pr...
Arrivals and Departures
This book explores the human relationship to changing biodiversity by bringing together multidisciplinary insights into human-nature relations from the humanities. New animal and plant species arrive and previously existing ones may disappear. However, the historical and social perspectives of the changes have been understudied so far. This book approaches the human relationship with changing biodiversity from three different angles: belonging and non-belonging, emotions, and environmental policy. The question of belonging and non-belonging is crucial when it comes to changing biodiversity. The authors ask who decides where species can move and live and when invasive becomes native. Similarl...
