Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan
Book cover

Human and Other Animals

Critical Perspectives

  • Book
  • © 2011

Overview

Editors:
  1. Bob Carter

    1. University of Warwick, UK

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Nickie Charles

    1. University of Warwick, UK

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Human-Animal Connections: An Introduction

    1. Human-Animal Connections: An Introduction

      • Bob Carter, Nickie Charles
      Pages 1-27

  3. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
      Download chapter PDF

    2. The Eternal Return of Sociology’s Repressed Biological Unconscious

      • Steve Fuller
      Pages 31-49

    3. Animal Practices

      • John Law, Mara Miele
      Pages 50-65

  4. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
      Download chapter PDF

    2. My Family and Other Animals: Pets As Kin

      • Nickie Charles, Charlotte Aull Davies
      Pages 69-92

    3. Contested Meanings and Canine Bodies

      • Claire Molloy
      Pages 93-111

    4. The Discursive Representation of Nonhuman Animals in a Culture of Denial

      • Karen Morgan, Matthew Cole
      Pages 112-132

    5. Human Primacy Identity Politics, Nonhuman Animal Experiments and the Oppression of Nonhuman Animals

      • Kay Peggs
      Pages 133-152

    6. ‘Most Farmers Prefer Blondes’: Social Intersectionality and Species Relations

      • Erika Cudworth
      Pages 153-172

    7. A Good Kill: Socio-Technical Organizations of Farm Animal Slaughter

      • Marc Higgin, Adrian Evans, Mara Miele
      Pages 173-194

    8. An Improper Nature? Introduced Animals and ‘Species Cleansing’ in Australia

      • Adrian Franklin
      Pages 195-216

    9. On the Prowl with the Possum Posse: Nature and Nation in Aotearoa/New Zealand

      • Pyrs Gruffudd
      Pages 217-235

    10. Power, Agency and a Different Future

      • Bob Carter, Nickie Charles
      Pages 236-241

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 243-249
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This collection examines human-animal relations and the different ways in which they can be understood, exploring animal rights and animal welfare; whether and 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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Warwick, UK

    Bob Carter, Nickie Charles

About the editors

MATTHEW COLE Sociologist at the Open University, UK ERIKA CUDWORTH Senior Lecturer in International Politics and Sociology at the University of East London, UK CHARLOTTE AULL DAVIES Honorary Research Fellow in Anthropology and Sociology, Swansea University, UK ADRIAN EVANS Research Associate at the School of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University, UK ADRIAN FRANKLIN Held Professorial positions at the University of Bristol, UK, the University of Oslo, Norway, and the University of Tasmania, Australia STEVE FULLER Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK PYRS GRUFFUDD Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Swansea University, UK MARC HIGGIN Lecturer at the University of Exeter, UK JOHN LAW Professor of Sociology at the Open University, UK and a Director of the ESRC funded Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change, UK MARA MIELE Lecturer at the School of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University, UK CLAIRE MOLLOY Senior Lecturer in Media at the University of Brighton, UK KAREN MORGAN Sociologist at the University of Bristol, UK and Lecturer at the Open University, UK KAY PEGGS Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Portsmouth, UK 

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation