Julien Dugnoille is a senior lecturer in anthropology at the University of Exeter. He received his DPhil in anthropology from Oxford. For nearly a decade, much of his work has been dedicated to examining the place of dogs and cats in South Korean society and culture, a particularly complex and interesting research area that touches on cultural relativism and imperialism, the use of animals in national identity rhetoric, the legitimacy of food taboos, speciesism, and the question of violence within the debates between welfarist and abolitionist approaches to human-animal interactions.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Dead Commodities Walking: Itinerancies of Dogs and Cats at South Korea's Largest Meat Market2. "New Women," "New Mothers": Gender Ideology in South Korean Animal Advocacy3. Transspecies Nationalism: Inclusion of Nonhuman Animals in Ideologies of Korean Ethnic Nationalism4. Postmortem Itinerancy: The Deaths of Dogs and Cats in Postcolonial ConditionsConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Julien Dugnoille is a senior lecturer in anthropology at the University of Exeter. He received his DPhil in anthropology from Oxford. For nearly a decade, much of his work has been dedicated to examining the place of dogs and cats in South Korean society and culture, a particularly complex and interesting research area that touches on cultural relativism and imperialism, the use of animals in national identity rhetoric, the legitimacy of food taboos, speciesism, and the question of violence within the debates between welfarist and abolitionist approaches to human-animal interactions.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Dead Commodities Walking: Itinerancies of Dogs and Cats at South Korea's Largest Meat Market2. "New Women," "New Mothers": Gender Ideology in South Korean Animal Advocacy3. Transspecies Nationalism: Inclusion of Nonhuman Animals in Ideologies of Korean Ethnic Nationalism4. Postmortem Itinerancy: The Deaths of Dogs and Cats in Postcolonial ConditionsConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Julien Dugnoille is a senior lecturer in anthropology at the University of Exeter. He received his DPhil in anthropology from Oxford. For nearly a decade, much of his work has been dedicated to examining the place of dogs and cats in South Korean society and culture, a particularly complex and interesting research area that touches on cultural relativism and imperialism, the use of animals in national identity rhetoric, the legitimacy of food taboos, speciesism, and the question of violence within the debates between welfarist and abolitionist approaches to human-animal interactions.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Dead Commodities Walking: Itinerancies of Dogs and Cats at South Korea's Largest Meat Market2. "New Women," "New Mothers": Gender Ideology in South Korean Animal Advocacy3. Transspecies Nationalism: Inclusion of Nonhuman Animals in Ideologies of Korean Ethnic Nationalism4. Postmortem Itinerancy: The Deaths of Dogs and Cats in Postcolonial ConditionsConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex