Animal Entanglements

Muddied Living in Dog–Human Worlds

AvErika Cudworth

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Del i serien Radical Cultural Studies

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Beskrivning

This book provides an insight into the everyday lives and experiences of people who live with dogs as companions; and glimpses aspects of the lives of the dogs who share their homes. It is framed sociologically and as such, considers the various forms of power relations which shape the lives of those kept as pets and their human owners. In recounting stories of companion humans and dogs, the co-constituted quality of life is clear. However, while dogs – as agential beings with needs, desires and a point of view – are able to shape outcomes and change aspects of their lived experience, the world they inhabit is profoundly geared to human inhabitants; and the most privileged ones at that. The book revisits the notion of pet keeping as the interplay between domination and affection arguing that these do not exist as a continuum, but a mesh of complex relations played out in the use of homespace, in the kitchen, the bedroom, the in the public world of park and the street. Those living with dog companions, as well as the dogs themselves, find their lives are muddied, both literally and figuratively; boundaries are tested and recast and the complications of inter-species cohabitation negotiated by all parties. Through an innovative theoretical contribution, Cudworth conceptualizes human relations with companion dogs in terms of complex social relations that involve both systemic forms of domination as well as nonhuman agency in shaping social relations and social forms.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-04-05
Mått:159 x 236 x 21 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Radical Cultural Studies
Antal sidor:254
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781538180198

Utforska kategorier

Hundböcker inom Djur och Natur
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Erika Cudworth is senior lecturer in the School of Applied Social Sciences at De Montfort University. Her interdisciplinary research interests coalesce around complexity and posthumanist approaches, intersectionality and asking feminist questions of our relations with nonhuman animals and the earth. Her previous books include Developing Ecofeminist Theory and Social Lives with Other Animals, and, with Steve Hobden, Posthuman International Relations and The Emancipatory Project of Posthumanism. She has edited many collections, most recently, with Ruth McKie and Di Turgoose, Feminist Animal Studies.

Recensioner i media

Animal Entanglements adds to and complements two earlier booksby Cudworth: Developing Ecofeminist Theory (2005) and Social Lives with Other Animals (2011). In the volume under reviewCudworth addresses how nonhuman animals, particularly dogs, raise interesting questions about what it means to be human and what the boundaries are of their and our entangled social worlds. Her starting point is the concept of anthroparchy, namely, the dominant social organization that privileges the human and subordinates the nonhuman living world. Cudworth's sociological method is ethnographic. In vivid and messy detail she describes the negotiated complexities of human-canine encounters in the parks and streets of the River Lee (or Lea) and the Walthamstow and Leyton marsh areas of East London and elsewhere, and in multispecies home spaces such as bedrooms and kitchens. There is insight aplenty in this book on how humans should interact justly and responsibly with their animal companions, including the absolute necessity of dog walking and the need for care with what humans should and should not feed "our" dogs. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroduction: Domination and Affection in Dogland Chapter One: Research PackChapter Two: Walking EdgelandsChapter Three: Sharing HomeChapter Four: Eating AnimalsChapter Five: Making OddkinChapter Six: Working and Caring Conclusion: Muddied LivingBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Debra Benita Shaw, Maggie Humm

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