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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Squier offers a delightful, provocative, and unexpected look into the visible, and often hidden, interrelationships that bind human and fowl." -- Gregg Mitman * author of Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film *
"A quirky mash of essays on chickens and the interplay of biology and culture that manages to blend all of Squier's interdisciplinary interests. She ranges freely, from takes on chickens as subjects of photography and exhibition, playwriting, film, and children's and other literature, to musings on such public-policy issues as risk management, the avian-flu scare, and the societal costs of industrial agriculture." * Chronicle Review *
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Here is a vividly written and thickly researched transdisciplinary book full of proof that chickens are good to think with, good to live with, and good to inhabit thick histories with. These chicken-human worlds propose becoming with, in accountable new and old ways with consequences for the chances of flourishing after the disasters of industrial animal agriculture and epidemic-friendly technoscienticic and globalized economic practices. Here too is a book full of stories to live with, stories that invite human beings and chickens to reintroduce themselves in practices of love and care in art, science, domesticity, farming, and more.
" -- Donna J. Haraway * author of When Species Meet *
"Squier exhibits a deep, imaginative cross-disciplinary understanding of artistic and linguistic representation and reproductive medicine. Highly recommended."
* Choice *
"Squier offers a delightful, provocative, and unexpected look into the visible, and often hidden, interrelationships that bind human and fowl." -- Gregg Mitman * author of Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film *
"This vividly written transdisciplinary book is full of proof that chickens are good to think with, good to live with, good to inhabit thick histories with. Squier's 'partial alphabet' invites human beings and chickens to reintroduce themselves in practices of love and care in art, science, domesticity, farming, and more." -- Donna J. Haraway * author of When Species Meet *
"A quirky mash of essays on chickens and the interplay of biology and culture that manages to blend all of Squier's interdisciplinary interests. She ranges freely, from takes on chickens as subjects of photography and exhibition, playwriting, film, and children's and other literature, to musings on such public-policy issues as risk management, the avian-flu scare, and the societal costs of industrial agriculture." * Chronicle Review *
"
Here is a vividly written and thickly researched transdisciplinary book full of proof that chickens are good to think with, good to live with, and good to inhabit thick histories with. These chicken-human worlds propose becoming with, in accountable new and old ways with consequences for the chances of flourishing after the disasters of industrial animal agriculture and epidemic-friendly technoscienticic and globalized economic practices. Here too is a book full of stories to live with, stories that invite human beings and chickens to reintroduce themselves in practices of love and care in art, science, domesticity, farming, and more.
" -- Donna J. Haraway * author of When Species Meet *
"Squier exhibits a deep, imaginative cross-disciplinary understanding of artistic and linguistic representation and reproductive medicine. Highly recommended."
* Choice *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Why Chickens?
1. Augury
2. Biology
3. Culture
4. Disability
5. Epidemic
6. Fellow-Feeling
7. Gender
8. Hybridity
9. Inauguration
Conclusion: Zen of the Hen
Notes
References
Index
About the Author
