Description
Book SynopsisIn this book, we reclaim the term “resistance” by exploring how animals can “resist” their commodification through blocking and allowing human intervention in their lives. In the cases explored in this volume, animals lead humans to rethink their relationship to animals by either blocking and/or allowing human commodification. In some cases, this results in greater control exercised on the animals, while in others, animals’ resistance also poses a series of complex moral questions to human commodifiers, sometimes to the point of transforming humans into active members of resistance movements on behalf of animals.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Julien Dugnoille 1 “If They Could Talk It Would Be Perfect” Visibility of Individual Wild Animals in French Circus Spectacle Elizabeth Vander Meer 2 The Silence and the Fury Addressing Animal Resistance and Agency through the History of Human-Animal Relationships Violette Pouillard 3 The Mejiro Bird Between Commodity, Conservation, and Companion Charlotte Linton 4 Grounding Intimacies Human-Bovid Coexistence and Community Development in Hong Kong Daisy Bisenieks 5 Growing Profitable Deer Livestock and the Individual in Deer Farming Christopher Ward 6 Speaking about Farming Embodied Deliberation and Resistance of Cows and Farmers in the Netherlands Eva Meijer 7 Pièce de Resistance Sartrean Existentialism in Small-Scale Farming Julien Dugnoille Conclusion Reclaiming Resistance Elizabeth Vander Meer Index
