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Book Synopsis1995: Brightlingsea, a small port in rural Essex. Two women, Alice and Linda, wake up to find lorries thundering through their town, carrying live animals in horrendous conditions for export. Although from very different worlds, the pair unite to try to stop the lorries. They become unlikely friends, facing arrest and police brutality amidst the protests, while also dealing with the pressures of motherhood. When one of their group dies, things start to unravel, as they are forced to face the differences between them. Timely and lyrical, Humane is a play about activism, friendship and motherhood and the values that unite and divide us.Trade Review'A rich experience... with obdurate humanity.' - thespyinthestalls; ' ... joyful and defiant.' - The Scotsman; "An interesting piece reminding us to consider the inhumanity of live animal export trading that still takes place, and indeed perhaps our farming practices as a country." - Drama and Theatre;

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume documents the presence and types of Nature discourse that emerge during conflicts between people over wildlife. This collection of qualitative case studies demonstrates how social groups create opposing symbolic meanings of Nature and highlights the way in which the successful imposition of those meanings affects wildlife, people generally, and management professionals. Together, the chapters illustrate the significant, untapped utility of constructionist approaches for understanding social conflict over wildlife issues and for managing natural resources in a way that acknowledges and incorporates different definitions of nature.Trade Review'...a serious contribution to the contentious debate in which we are engaged over our proper relationship to wildlife.' Jan E. Dizard, H-NILAS, 2006. 'These cases provides excellent examples of qualitative methodologies applied to hunting, predator reintroduction, wildlife protection, landscape change, and resource management.' J.P. Tiefenbacher, Choice, 2006.

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Book SynopsisThe role of the dog in human society is the connecting thread that binds the essays in Canis Africanis, each revealing a different part of the complex social history of southern Africa. The essays range widely from concerns over disease, bestiality, and social degradation through gambling on dogs to anxieties over social status reflected through breed classifications, and social rebellion through resisting the dog tax imposed by colonial authorities. With its focus on dogs in human history, this project is part of what has been termed the ‘animal turn’ in the social sciences, which investigates the spaces which animals inhabit in human society and the way in which animal and human lives interconnect, demonstrating how different human groups construct a range of identities for themselves (and for others) in terms of animals. So instead of conceiving of animals as merely constituents of ecological or agricultural systems, they can be comprehended through their role in human cultures.

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Book SynopsisWhile many scholars who write about animals deal with animal agency in some way, this volume is the first to position the question of nonhuman agency as the primary focus of inquiry. Section I presents studies of actual animals demonstrating agency; Section II moves agency into new terrain while considering key representations of animal agency in literature; Section III analyzes animals as mediators and as conveyances of human-to-human communication;and Section IV investigates the agency of beings who defy conventional species categories. The Envoi demonstrates how the microscopic polyp is interwoven into notions of agency and mythical superagency. This volume's interdisciplinary explorations press hard on issues of agency to open up space for more questions about how we can understand relationships between the human and the nonhuman.Table of ContentsContributors include: Rebecca Bishop, Matthew Candelaria, J.J. Clark, Debra Durham, Ryan Hediger, David Lulka, Jed Mayer, Sarah E. McFarland, Debra Merskin, Dipika Nath, Rebecca Onion, Stephanie Rowe, Shelly R. Scott, Laurence Simmons, Traci Warkentin, and Cat Yampell.

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Book SynopsisPrivate wildlife conservation is booming business in South Africa! Nick Steele stood at the cradle of this development in the politically turbulent 1970s and 1980s, by stimulating farmers in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) to pool resources in order to restore wilderness landscapes, but at the same time improve their security situation in cooperative conservancy structures. His involvement in Operation Rhino in the 1960s and subsequent networks to save the rhino from extinction, brought him into controversial military (oriented) networks around the Western world. The author’s unique access to his private diaries paints a personal picture of this controversial conservationist.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Maps List of Acronyms Maps Introduction: Focusing on the subjectivities and setting the interpretive scene An iconic species in nature conservation: the rhinoceros in Africa The personal archive of Nick Steele The aesthetics of landscape in nature conservation Methodological considerations Structure of the book Chapter 1: Picturing landscape… and what comes with it Game rangers’ memoirs and landscape Landscape construction ‘Camps’ in the landscape A metaphor of aestheticized landscapes: the Claude Mirror Conservation landscapes in South Africa Chapter 2: Rhino’s political role in wildlife conservation The idea of rhino Nick Steele and saving the rhino Networking with the military to save the rhino Nick Steele and the ANC-IFP struggle Rhino conservation as ‘bush war’ Rhino as Steele’s ‘totem’? Chapter 3: Longing for Zululand landscapes: Nick Steele transferred to Natal Steele transferred from Zululand Reserves to Natal Midlands Nick Steele on issues of race in South Africa Nick Steele’s disillusionment with Natal’s landscapes Nick Steele’s friendship with Mongosuthu Buthelezi Chapter 4: Private wildlife conservancies: providing security The Farm Patrol Plan: getting things started Game guards: the backbone of conservancies The success of the conservancy concept: going across national borders Recent trends in private wildlife conservation: game farming Chapter 5: Summary and Conclusions Acknowledgements and Brief Methodological Reflections References Index

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Book SynopsisThe analysis of meat and its place in Western culture has been central to Human-Animal Studies as a field. It is even more urgent now as global meat and dairy production are projected to rise dramatically by 2050. While the term ‘carnism’ denotes the invisible belief system (or ideology) that naturalizes and normalizes meat consumption, in this volume we focus on ‘meat culture’, which refers to all the tangible and practical forms through which carnist ideology is expressed and lived. Featuring new work from leading Australasian, European and North American scholars, Meat Culture, edited by Annie Potts, interrogates the representations and discourses, practices and behaviours, diets and tastes that generate shared beliefs about, perspectives on and experiences of meat in the 21st century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors 1. What is Meat Culture?, Annie Potts 2. Derrida and The Sexual Politics of Meat, Carol J. Adams and Matthew Calarco 3. Rotten to the Bone: Discourses of Contamination and Purity in the European Horsemeat Scandal, Nik Taylor and Jordan McKenzie 4. Live Exports, Animal Advocacy, Race and ‘Animal Nationalism’, Jacqueline Dalziell and Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel 5. The Whopper Virgins: Hamburgers, Gender, and Xenophobia in Burger King’s Hamburger Advertising, Vasile Stanescu 6. With Care for Cows and a Love for Milk: Affect and Performance in Swedish Dairy Industry Marketing Strategies, Tobias Linné and Helena Pedersen 7. “Peace and quiet and open air”: The Old Cow Project, Melissa Boyde 8. “Do You Know Where the Light Is?” Factory Farming and Industrial Slaughter in Michel Faber’s Under the Skin, Kirsty Dunn 9. Down on the Farm: Why do Artists Avoid ‘Farm’ Animals as Subject Matter?, Yvette Watt 10. The Provocative Elitism of ‘Personhood’ for Nonhuman Creatures in Animal Advocacy Parlance and Polemics, Karen Davis 11. “I Need Fish Fingers and Custard”: The Irruption and Suppression of Vegan Ethics in Doctor Who, Matthew Cole and Kate Stewart 12. Ambivalence and Resistance: Carnism and Diet in Multi-species Households, Erika Cudworth 13. Negotiating Social Relationships in the Transition to Vegan Eating Practices, Richard Twine 14. Critical Ecofeminism: Interrogating ‘Meat,’ ‘Species,’ and ‘Plant’, Greta Gaard Index

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Book SynopsisThe analysis of meat and its place in Western culture has been central to Human-Animal Studies as a field. It is even more urgent now as global meat and dairy production are projected to rise dramatically by 2050. While the term ‘carnism’ denotes the invisible belief system (or ideology) that naturalizes and normalizes meat consumption, in this volume we focus on ‘meat culture’, which refers to all the tangible and practical forms through which carnist ideology is expressed and lived. Featuring new work from leading Australasian, European and North American scholars, Meat Culture, edited by Annie Potts, interrogates the representations and discourses, practices and behaviours, diets and tastes that generate shared beliefs about, perspectives on and experiences of meat in the 21st century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors 1. What is Meat Culture?, Annie Potts 2. Derrida and The Sexual Politics of Meat, Carol J. Adams and Matthew Calarco 3. Rotten to the Bone: Discourses of Contamination and Purity in the European Horsemeat Scandal, Nik Taylor and Jordan McKenzie 4. Live Exports, Animal Advocacy, Race and ‘Animal Nationalism’, Jacqueline Dalziell and Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel 5. The Whopper Virgins: Hamburgers, Gender, and Xenophobia in Burger King’s Hamburger Advertising, Vasile Stanescu 6. With Care for Cows and a Love for Milk: Affect and Performance in Swedish Dairy Industry Marketing Strategies, Tobias Linné and Helena Pedersen 7. “Peace and quiet and open air”: The Old Cow Project, Melissa Boyde 8. “Do You Know Where the Light Is?” Factory Farming and Industrial Slaughter in Michel Faber’s Under the Skin, Kirsty Dunn 9. Down on the Farm: Why do Artists Avoid ‘Farm’ Animals as Subject Matter?, Yvette Watt 10. The Provocative Elitism of ‘Personhood’ for Nonhuman Creatures in Animal Advocacy Parlance and Polemics, Karen Davis 11. “I Need Fish Fingers and Custard”: The Irruption and Suppression of Vegan Ethics in Doctor Who, Matthew Cole and Kate Stewart 12. Ambivalence and Resistance: Carnism and Diet in Multi-species Households, Erika Cudworth 13. Negotiating Social Relationships in the Transition to Vegan Eating Practices, Richard Twine 14. Critical Ecofeminism: Interrogating ‘Meat,’ ‘Species,’ and ‘Plant’, Greta Gaard Index

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Book SynopsisThe book examines the roles that rare and exotic animals played in the cultural self-fashioning and the political imaging of the Medici court during the family’s reign, first as Dukes of Florence (1532-1569) and subsequently as Grand Dukes of Tuscany (1569-1737). The book opens with an examination of global practices in zoological collecting and cultural uses of animals. The Medici’s activities as collectors of exotic species, the menageries they established and their deployment of animals in the ceremonial life of the court and in their art are examined in relation to this wider global perspective. The book seeks to nuance the myth promoted by the Medici themselves that theirs was the most successful princely serraglio in early modern Europe. Trade Review“What is made very clear is the highly significant and important role the collecting, ownership, and display of rare and exotic animals had for the Medici rulers of Florence. Both for this and the light it sheds on contemporary perceptions of these animals, Groom’s book is immensely valuable and rewarding.” Adriana Turpin, Society for the History of Collecting, inIsis volume 111 (2020) “Collecting exotic plants and animals from distant global markets underscored the commercial reach of the Medici family in Florence and their wide-flung networks. This well-written, carefully researched study […] belongs to a new, relevant field of study, namely that of animal studies and zoological collections, the rise of global menageries and its impact upon Renaissance art history and early modern collecting. This well-designed book is supported by a table of the Medici dynasty, useful transcriptions (Appendices 2–4) and colour illustrations.” Annemarie Jordan Gschwend, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in Archives of Natural History (DOI: 10.3366/anh.2019.0612) "The menageries of lions, rare animal species, as well as aviaries, the author argues, were key requirements in the manifestation of princely magnificence […] The Medici practices of collecting and exchanging animals built on practices established during the Republic,when lions became an important religious and civic symbol, and helped to establish the political legitimacy of the new Medici regime […] A fascinating case study that provides new understandings of the significance of animals at the Medici court. The author has uncovered fascinating examples that will amaze readers. This richly illustrated monograph – often even in colour! – should therefore speak to a wide readership interested in both animal studies and the history of Renaissance Italy." Stefan Hanß, University of Manchester, in Nuncius, volume 34, pp 713-716 “This book by Angelica Groom presents well-documented evidence of Medici self-promotion from a practical viewpoint, revealing a malevolent aspect that has been insufficiently explored. A brief overview of animal collections and menageries, established by Asian and European sovereigns, introduces the Medici collections “in relation to a wider global phenomenon of cultural activities centered on animals. […] This book is recommended for those interested in Medici history, animal collecting, menageries, hunting, animal exploitation, spectacles, and imagery.” Simona Cohen, Tel Aviv University, in Medici Renaissance Quarterly volume 73, issue 4. (DOI: 10.1017/rqx.2020.238)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Figures Table of the Medici Dynasty Introduction and Global Perspective of Animal Collecting and Menageries Part 1: Cultural Uses of Animals at the Medici Court 1Zoological Collecting at the Medici Court: Practices of Exchange and Processes of Procurement 2Menageries and aviaries in Medicean Florence 3The Sport of the Chase: “Exotic Hunts” at the Medici Court 4Spectacles of Slaughter and Courtly Pageants: Exotic Beasts as Symbols of Power and Colonial Ambitions Part 2: Exotic Animals in the Art of the Medici Court 5Animal Imagery in the service of Political Imaging 6Medici Patronage and Early Modern Naturalism: Tensions between Scientific and Decorative Naturalism 7The Ambrogiana Series of Animal Paintings Conclusion Appendices 1Medici Archive Project Database of Documents Relating to “exotic and unusual” Animals 2Transcribed Extract from Vincenzio Follini and Modesto Rastrelli,Firenze antica e moderna illustrata—Describing the Serraglio de leoni near San Marco, in Florence 3Transcribed Extract from Cesare Agolanti’s La Descrizione di Pratolino del Ser.mo Gran Duca di Toscana Poeticamente Descritto da M. Cesare Agolanti Fiorentino 4Transcribed extract from Gateano Cambiagi’s Descrizione dell’ Imperiale Giardino di Boboli—Describing the Serraglio degli animali rari Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFish, Justice, and Society is an in-depth look into the fishing industry, fish, and aquatic environments. This book delves past the façade of what may be known by the average fisherman, bringing to the surface new information about numerous species and aquatic habitats. It is the most comprehensive book on the subject of fish, law, and human behavior. It is a standalone work, but complements Cusack’s Fish in the Bible (2017). It is a treatise on the subject of animal law while also serving the common fisherman information on compliance issues.Trade Review"Cusack has made an important analytical and prescriptive contribution to the cause of environmental and social justice. […. Fish, Justice and Society is] a huge success with its fine-grained analysis of the connections between fish and human civilization." - Oyebade Kunle Oyerinde, Clark Atlanta University, in: African and Asian Studies 17 (2018)

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Book SynopsisNature conservation in southern Africa has always been characterised by an interplay between Capital, specific understandings of Morality, and forms of Militarism, that are all dependent upon the shared subservience and marginalization of animals and certain groups of people in society. Although the subjectivity of people has been rendered visible in earlier publications on histories of conservation in southern Africa, the subjectivity of animals is hardly ever seriously considered or explicitly dealt with. In this edited volume the subjectivity and sentience of animals is explicitly included. The contributors argue that the shared human and animal marginalisation and agency in nature conservation in southern Africa (and beyond) could and should be further explored under the label of ‘sentient conservation’. Contributors are Malcolm Draper, Vupenyu Dzingirai, Jan-Bart Gewald, Michael Glover, Paul Hebinck, Tariro Kamuti, Lindiwe Mangwanya, Albert Manhamo, Dhoya Snijders, Marja Spierenburg, Sandra Swart, Harry Wels.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: People, Animals, Morality, and Marginality:Reconfiguring Wildlife Conservation in Southern Africa Jan- Bart Gewald, Marja Spierenburg, and Harry Wels Part 1 Animals in Wildlife Conservation 1 A Cattle- Centred History of Southern Africa? Michael Glover 2 Brothers in Arms: Baboon- Human Interactions, a Southern African Perspective Jan- Bart Gewald 3 Rewilding White Lions: Conservation through the Eyes of Carnivores? Harry Wels Part 2 Histories in Wildlife Conservation 4 National Parks, Eco- Frontiers, and Transfrontiersmanship in Southern African Conservation Malcolm Draper 5 Resurrection Conservation: The Return of the Extinct? Sandra Swart Part 3 Politics of Wildlife Conservation 6 The Emergence and Socio- Economic Impacts of Wildlife Ranching in South Africa Marja Spierenburg 7 ‘If It Pays, It Stays’: The Lobby for Private Wildlife Ranching in South Africa Tariro Kamuti 8 Controlling Sex and Death: On the Wildlife Trophy Industry in South Africa Dhoya Snijders Part 4 Critical Voices in Wildlife Conservation 9 Continued State Monopoly and Control of Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Zimbabwe: The Care of Hurungwe’s CAMPFIRE Programme Vupenyu Dzingirai, Albert Manhamo, and Lindiwe Mangwanya 10 Poaching: Between Conservation from Below, and Livelihoods and Resistance Paul Hebinck Index

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Book SynopsisThe contributors of Like an Animal challenge most fundamental concepts in the fields of racism, dehumanization, borders, displacement, and refugees that rest on the assumption of humanism. They show how we can bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice at the border. The goal of this interdisciplinary collection is twofold. First, to invite border/migration studies to consider a broader social justice perspective that includes nonhuman animals. Second, to start a discussion if nonhumans maybe refugees of a kind and how humans can address nonhumans’ interests and needs from the perspective of addressing refugee issues. As capitalism and the climate crisis are taking a catastrophic toll on the planet, this timely volume exposes the alternative origins of violence that lie at the heart of the planet’s destruction.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction   Natalie Khazaal PART 1 Deconstructing the Human/Nonhuman Divide 1 Communicating Solidarity: The Ethics of Representing Human and Nonhuman Distant Suffering   Núria Almiron 2 Inferiority by Association: Animals, Migrants, and Chicana/Ecofeminist Possibilities   Garrett Bunyak 3 “Like an Animal”: Tropes for Delegitimization   Atsuko Matsuoka and John Sorenson 4 Species Traitor?: Foundations and Tensions in Human/Animal Scholarship and Advocacy   Debra Merskin PART 2 Insights into the Politics, Advocacy, and Laws Related to the Divide 5 Care Movements, Climate Crisis, and Multi-Species Refugees   Erin M. Evans 6 Global Migration Crises, Nonhuman Animals, and the Role of Law   Charlotte E. Blattner 7 The Costs of a Wall: The Impact of Pseudo-Security Policies on Communities, Wildlife, and Ecosystems on the US-Mexico Border   Steven Best PART 3 Media Representations of the Divide and the Potential Points of Its Disruption 8 The Press outside the West: Displacement, Refugees, and Nonhuman Animals in Bulgaria and Lebanon   Natalie Khazaal 9 Parasitic Breeding Herds: The Representation of Syrian Refugees on Turkish Social Media   Sezen Ergin Zengin 10 Seeking a Place to Live: Visual Representations of Human and Anymal Migrants in Images from the International Daily Press   Laura Fernández 11 Bordering: Brexit and Human-Nonhuman Entanglements in UK Press Coverage of Romania   Claire Parkinson  Index

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Book SynopsisHow did humans respond to the eighteenth-century discovery of countless new species of animals? This book explores the gamut of intense human-animal interactions: from love to cultural identifications, moral reflections, philosophical debates, classification systems, mechanical copies, insults and literary creativity. Dogs, cats and horses, of course, play central roles. But this volume also features human reflections upon parrots, songbirds, monkeys, a rhino, an elephant, pigs, and geese – all the way through to the admired silkworms and the not-so-admired bookworms. An exceptionally wide array of source materials are used in this volume’s ten separate contributions, plus the editorial introduction, to demonstrate this diversity. As eighteenth-century humans came to realise that they too are animals, they had to recast their relationships with their fellow living-beings on Planet Earth. And these considerations remain very much live ones to this day.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors / Notes sur les contributeurs 1 Editorial Introduction Animals from Pests and Predators to Companions and Cultural Markers   Penelope J. Corfield, Stefanie Stockhorst and Jürgen Overhoff 2 Introduction des editeurs Les animaux : de ravageurs et de prédateurs à des compagnons et des repères culturels   Penelope J. Corfield, Stefanie Stockhorst et Jürgen Overhoff 3 Human–Animal Relations in the Eighteenth Century Insights from Current Fields of Research   Anna-Marie Humbert 4 Of Dogs and Horses Frederick the Great and His Dearest Animals   Jürgen Overhoff 5 The Invention of the ‘Cheval-machine’ as a Medical Response to the Machine Paradigm of the Enlightenment Samuel Theodor Quellmaltz in Context   Stefanie Stockhorst 6 « Les animaux, nos confrères » dans l’œuvre de Voltaire   Halima Ouanada 7 On the Popularity of Songbirds in Eighteenth-Century German Fables   Kristin Eichhorn 8 The Talking Parrot Brazilian National Symbol and Avatar of Human Identity for John Locke   Antônio Carlos dos Santos 9 Troglodytes, the Monkey Diana and the Aping Swede – Carl Linnaeus on Apes   Annika Windahl Pontén 10 Les vers à soie et les vers dévoreurs de livres dans une bibliothèque des Lumières luxe et morbidité des ‘insectes changeants’ dans la poésie de Voltaire   Vanessa de Senarclens 11 Electoral Animals in Eighteenth-Century England   Matthew O. Grenby and Kendra Packham 12 “For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry” Cats and Creativity in Eighteenth-Century Britain   Penelope J. Corfield Index of Names / Index des noms Index of Non-Human Animals / Index des animaux non-humains

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Book SynopsisEquine Medicine and Popular Romance in Late Medieval England explores a seldom-studied trove of English veterinary manuals, illuminating how the daily care of horses they describe reshapes our understanding of equine representation in the popular romance of late medieval England. A saint removes a horse’s leg the more easily to shoe him; a wild horse transforms spur wounds into the self-healing practice of bleeding; a messenger calculates time through his horse’s body. Such are the rich and conflicted visions of horse/human connection in the period. Exploring this imagined relation, Francine McGregor reveals a cultural undercurrent in which medieval England is so reliant on equine bodies that human anxieties, desires, and very orientation in daily life are often figured through them. This book illuminates the complex and contradictory yearnings shaping medieval perceptions of the horse, the self, and the identities born of their affinity.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Hippiatric Manuals and Horse Hooves  1 No Hoof; No Horse  2 From Hostile Hooves to Unruly Organs: Malory’s Lancelot and the Limits of Metaphor 2 “Unmaking” Animal Bodies  1 Between Bodies  2 Severed Heads and Interchangeable Selves  3 Unmaking Metaphor 3 Reining Fantasies: Bridles, Will, and Animal Inwardness  1 Hippiatric Manuals and Equine Minds  2 Bodies and Bridles  3 Translating Animals, Translating Desire  4 Shared Selves 4 Equine Bodies and Human Time; or, Saddling Space and Time  1 Saddling Movement  2 The Economics of Mortality  3 What’s Love Got to Do with It? 5 “As Hot as He May Suffer It”: Pain, Touch, and Healing  1 Hand, Touch, and Sensory Troubles  2 Hippiatric Texts and Invisible Hands  3 Pain, Touch, and Healing  4 Literary Sleights of Hand and Participatory Touch Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book draws together anthropological studies of human-animal relations among Indigenous Peoples in three regions of the Americas: the Andes, Amazonia and the American Arctic. Despite contrasts between the ecologies of the different regions, it finds useful comparisons between the ways that lives of human and non-human animals are entwined in shared circumstances and sentient entanglements. While studies of all three regions have been influential in scholarship on human-animal relations, the regions are seldom brought together. This volume highlights the value of examining partial connections across the American continent between human and other-than-human lives.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Sentient Entanglements and Ruptures in the Amazon, Andes, and Arctic Regions of the Americas  Jan Peter Laurens Loovers and Maggie Bolton 2 Moral Gestures: Forms of Life and Forms of Death in Amazonian Waters  Carlos Emanuel Sautchuck 3 ‘We Want to Kill Caribou, Not to Live with Them’: Inuit Cosmology and Resistance to Herding  Frédéric Laugrand 4 Too Many Onças: Taxonomical Dilemmas among the Karitiana in Southwestern Brazilian Amazon  Felipe Vander Velden 5 Pilgrims and Other Sorts of Personifications: Nonhuman Animals as Ritual Participants in Isluga, Northern Chile  Penelope Z. Dransart 6 The Fragility of Relations of Domestication: Humans, Llamas, and Unseasonal Snow in the Bolivian Andes  Maggie Bolton 7 ‘They Work for Me, I Work for Them’: Investigatory Attunements and Partnerships between Dogs and Gwich’in in Northern Canada  Jan Peter Laurens Loovers and Robert P. Wishart Afterword: Concepts that Travel  David G. Anderson Index

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary study fuses analysis of feminist literature and manifestos, radical political theory, critical vanguard studies, women’s performance art, and popular culture to argue for the animal liberation movement as successor to the liberationist visions of the early twentieth-century avant-gardes, most especially the Surrealists. These vanguard groups are judiciously critiqued for their refusal to confront their own misogyny, a quandary that continues to plague animal activists, thereby disallowing for cohesion and full recognition of women’s value within a culturally marginalized cause. This volume is of interest to anyone who is concerned about the continued—indeed, escalating—violence against nonhumans. More broadly, it will interest those seeking new pathways to challenge the dominant power constructions through which oppression of humans, nonhumans, and the environment thrives. Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde ultimately poses the animal liberation movement as having serious political and cultural implications for radical social change, destruction of hierarchy and for a world without shackles and cages, much as the Surrealists envisioned.Table of ContentsHelena Pedersen and Vasile Stănescu: Series Editor’s Introduction: What is “Critical” about Animal Studies? From the Animal “Question” to the Animal “Condition” Acknowledgments Introduction: Rooting for the Avant-Garde Avant-Garde Women Writers and Destruction in the Flesh Staring Back in the Flesh: Avant-Garde Performance as an ALM Paradigm Convulsive Beauty, Infinite Spheres and Irrational Reasons: Reverie on a New Consciousness Love and Laughter Now: Plucking at Stems or Uprooting Oppression? Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first interdisciplinary study of the representation of dogs in Russian discourse since the nineteenth century. Focusing on the correlation between humans and dogs in traditional belief systems, in literature, film and other cultural productions, it shows that the dog as a political construct incorporates various contradictions, with different representations investing the dog with multiple, often-paradoxical meanings – moral, social and philosophical. From the peasantry’s dislike of the gentry’s hunting dogs and children’s cruelty to dogs in Pushkin and Dostoevsky to the establishment of the Soviet dynasties of border guard and police dogs, from Pavlov’s laboratory dogs to the monuments to the cosmic dog Laika and the subversive dog impersonations by the contemporary performance artist Oleg Kulik, the book explores the intersections of species-class-gender-sexuality-race-disability and, paradoxically, of Arcadian and Utopian dreams and scientific deeds. This study contributes to the unfolding cultural history of human-animal relations across cultures.Trade Review“This study is provocative, as it should be given the transgressive nature of animal studies and the range of material addressed. It will especially reward readers who are interested in cultural studies, Russian literature and history, and animal studies.” – Ian Helfant, Colgate University, USA, in: Slavic Review 75.1 (2016) “[...] this book is an illuminating investigation of an important aspect of Russian culture, providing thought-provoking hermeneutic studies and showing up striking continuities.” – Kevin Windle, Australian National University, in: The Russian Review Spring 2016, pp.150-151 “Henrietta Mondry’s book is obviously a labour of love. She has done a tremendous amount of research, as is reflected in her analyses, footnotes and bibliography. […] The territory explored includes, among others, pagan and Christian beliefs about dogs; information about attitudes toward dogs and other animals in Russian and other cultures; approaches to the role of dogs in Russian literature and culture, primarily nineteenth and twentieth century, although there is some discussion of pre-nineteenth-century (the dog heads on the saddles of Ivan the Terrible’s oprichniki, and Krylov, for example) and twenty-first century images; Buddhism; antisemitism; children’s literature; animal training practices; conjectures about the link of some of the material discussed to Nikolai Fedorov’s ideas; Pavlov’s experiments on dogs; statues in honour of Laika, the first dog in space; and science fiction. Specific works discussed include those by obscure writers and those of well-known writers such as Gogol´, Turgenev, Dostoevskii, Chekhov, Remizov, Maiakovskii, Zamiatin, Bulgakov, Shalamov, Vladimov and Pelevin.” - Ellen Chances, Princeton University, in: SEER 94.2 (2016), pp. 330-331 "With the daring assertion that the dog outranks the bear as Russia’s primary symbolic animal, Henrietta Mondry opens this intriguing study of canine symbolism since the early nineteenth century. By unpacking the dog’s changing roles (primarily in literary fiction, but also in cinema), she reveals both historical shifts in the treatment of animals and cultural tensions sublimated in furry form. In literalizing the literary ‘underdog’, Mondry draws on an entire subculture of scholarship, from studies of animal rights and ‘speciesism’ by John Simons and Peter Singer to specifically Russian essays by Amy Nelson, Jane Costlow, and others." - Muireann Maguire, University of Exeter, in: Modern Language Review 111.4 (2016), pp. 1165-66 “L’ouvrage [...] représente une contribution non négligeable á une vaste entreprise comparative qui ne fait que débuter, sur la place des anumaux et tout particuliérement du chien dans les pratiques et les représentations des différentes sociétés et cultures humaines.” – Jean-Pierre Digard, in: L’homme, vol. 217 (2016), pp.172-174

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