Animals Erased (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
224
Utgivningsdatum
2012-04-06
Upplaga
New
Förlag
Wesleyan University Press
Illustrationer
12 illus. 6 tables.
Dimensioner
210 x 154 x 15 mm
Vikt
322 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780819572325

Animals Erased

Discourse, Ecology, and Reconnection with the Natural World

av Arran Stibbe
Häftad,  Engelska, 2012-04-06
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Animals are disappearing, vanishing, and dying out-not just in the physical sense of becoming extinct, but in the sense of being erased from our consciousness. Increasingly, interactions with animals happen at a remove: mediated by nature programs, books, and cartoons; framed by the enclosures of zoos and aquariums; distanced by the museum cases that display lifeless bodies. In this thought-provoking book, Arran Stibbe takes us on a journey of discovery, revealing the many ways in which language affects our relationships with animals and the natural world. Animal-product industry manuals, school textbooks, ecological reports, media coverage of environmental issues, and animal-rights polemics all commonly portray animals as inanimate objects or passive victims. In his search for an alternative to these negative forms of discourse, Stibbe turns to the traditional culture of Japan. Within Zen philosophy, haiku poetry, and even contemporary children's animated films, animals appear as active agents, leading their own lives for their own purposes, and of value in themselves.
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"Amazingly clear and incisive readings of a wide range of discourses related to animals and ecology. With an impressive eye for detail and the 'big picture, ' Stibbe gives real insights into the relationship between language, values, and actions."--Karla Armbruster, coeditor of Beyond Nature Writing

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Arran Stibbe is a reader in ecological linguistics at the University of Gloucestershire. He is the founder of the Language and Ecology Research Forum (www.ecoling.net).

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