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Book SynopsisThe emotional exchange between so-called "humans" and more-than-human creatures is an overlooked phenomenon in societies characterized by the ubiquitous deaths of animals. This text offers examples of people across diverse disciplines and perspectives—from biomedical research to black theology to art—learning and performing emotions, expanding their desires, discovering new ways to behave, and altering their sense of self, purpose, and community because of passionate, but not romanticized, attachments to animals. By articulating the emotional ties that bind them to specific animals' lives and deaths, these authors play host to creaturely ghosts who reorient their world vision and work in the world, offering examples of affect and feeling needed to enliven multi-species ethics.
Trade ReviewThis is an ambitious collection that brings an intimate voice to the discussion of ethical issues that are usually developed in more distanced rights-based discussions. -- Jane Desmond, Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
This topical collection of essays takes part in “the affective turn” of animal ethics, and is distinguished by its focus on personal experiences and a type of auto-scholarship wherein the writers explicitly draw from their own affective engagements with nonhuman animals. -- Elisa Aaltola, Collegium Research Fellow, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Turku
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Images Introduction—Transformed by Ghosts: Toward Futures of Less Loss Brianne Donaldson I: Overcoming Institutional Numbness 1 Visual Feeling One Jo-Anne McArthur 2 The Gift of the Monkey Who Danced into Oblivion and the One Dressed in a Cage John P. Gluck 3 Mourning Tiger Mascots in Baton Rouge Nathan P. Kalmoe and Kathryn K. Will 4 Ghostly Greyhounds: Running the Race, Living through Memory Bradley Rowe and Suzanne Rice 5 Encountering Loss: A Search for Minnesota's Moose in a Changing Climate Elizabeth Singleton 6 Claimed by Roadkill Matthew Calarco 7 Prophetic Labrador: Expanding (Black) Theology by Overcoming the Invisibility of Animal Life and Death Christopher Carter II: The Public Power of Intimate Sorrow 8 Visual Feeling Two Julia Schlosser 9 “Every Love Story is a Ghost Story”: The Transformative Power of Dog Dedication Jessica Ullrich 10 Hos-Pet-Ality: Handmade Selves and Transspeciated Femininity Ashley King 11 Macey's Ashes: After-Death Care of Companion Animals as Interspecies Family Amy Defibaugh 12 The Transformer: Approaching the Assisted Death of Animals and Humans with Epistemic Humility and Uncertainty L. Syd M Johnson 13 “How Do you Know His Name is Gabriel?”: Finding Communion with the Singular Lives of Creatures Anne Mamary 14 Nikki: The Passing of a Herd's Matriarch Susie Coston III: Experiments in Feeling and Ritual 15 Visual Feeling Three Adam Wolpa 16 Logos, Pathos, and the Absent Presence of the Persons We Eat Brian G. Henning and Hope Philea Henning 17 Ghosts at a Glance: Four Animal Fragments Anat Pick, with illustrations by Shira Avivi-Weisz 18 Goats of My Childhood: Rethinking Islamic Sacrifice without Animals Saadullah Bashir 19 Living in Awareness of the Dead: Buddhist Experiments in Ethical Sensibility Justin Fifield 20 Francisco y Chica: Feeling Memory Across Borders Juan Fernando Villagómez 21 Salvaging Shame, Saving Ourselves: The Productive Role of Shame for Animals and Marginalized Life Brianne Donaldson and Isaac Willis 22 Ghost Stories: An Epilogue Ashley King
