This collection examines human-animal relations and the different ways in which they can be understood, exploring animal rights and animal welfare; whetherand under what circumstances animals are regarded as social actors with agency; media representations of human-animal relations; and the relation between animals and national identity. BOB CARTER is Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of 'Realism and Racism: Concepts of Race in Sociological Research' and the co-author of 'Applied Linguistics as Social Science' (with Alison Sealey). His most recent publication is 'Nature, Society and Environmental Crisis' (co-edited with Nickie Charles). . NICKIE CHARLESis Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick, UK. She has published widely on many aspects of gender. Her most recent publication is 'Nature, Society and Environmental Crisis'(with Bob Carter). She is currently researching animals in families. . . INDICE: List of Tables, Figures and Photos - Acknowledgements - Human-animal connections: An Introduction; 'B.Carter' &' N.Charles - 'PART I - The Eternal Return of Sociology's Repressed Biological Unconscious; 'S.Fuller - 'AnimalPractices; 'J.Law '& 'M.Miele - 'PART II - My Family and Other Animals: Pets as Kin; 'N.Charles' &' C.Davies - 'Contested Meanings and Canine Bodies; 'C.Molloy - 'The Discursive Representation of Non-human Animals in a Culture of Denial; 'K.Morgan' &' M.Cole - 'Human Primacy Identity Politics, Nonhuman Animal Experiments and the Oppression of Nonhuman Animals;' K.Peggs - ''Most Farmers Prefer Blondes': Social Intersectionality and Species Relations; 'E.Cudworth' - A Good Kill: Socio-technical Organisations of Farm Animal Slaughter; 'M.Higgin, A.Evans '& 'M.Miele - 'An Improper Nature: Introduced Animals and 'SpeciesCleansing' in Australia; 'A.Franklin - 'On the Prowl with the Possum Posse: Nature and Nation in Aotearoa/New Zealand; 'P.Gruffudd - 'Power, Agency and a Different Future; 'B.Carter' &' N.Charles - 'Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-24659-1
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 15/08/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés