Considering animals : contemporary studies in human-animal relations / edited by Carol Freeman, Elizabeth Leane, and Yvette Watt.

Other author Freeman, Carol.
Other author Leane, Elizabeth.
Other author Watt, Yvette.
Format Book
Publication InfoFarnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2011.
Descriptionxvi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Human-animal relationships.
Human-animal relationships--Philosophy.

Contents Contemporary art and animal rights / Steve Baker -- Marching on thin ice: the politics of penguin films / Elizabeth Leane and Stephanie Pfennigwerth -- The traumatic effort to understand: Werner Herzog's Grizzly man / Undine Sellbach -- Naming and the unspeakable: representations of animal deaths in some recent South African print media / Wendy Woodward -- Possum magic, possum menace: wildlife control and the demonisation of cuteness / Kay Milton -- Pleasure's moral worth / Jonathan Balcombe -- The nature of the experimental animal: evolution, vivisection, and the Victorian environment / Jed May -- "Room on the Ark?": the symbolic nature of U.S. pet evacuation statutes for nonhuman animals / Marsha L. Baum -- Making animals matter: why the art world needs to rethink the representation of animals / Yvette Watt -- The speech of dumb beasts / Helen Tiffin -- Extinction, representation, agency: the case of the Dodo / Carol Freeman -- Cetaceans and sentiment / Philip Armstrong -- Zones of contagion: the Singapore body politic and the body of the street-cat / Lucy Davis -- When is nature not? / Tim Low.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [207]-227) and index.
LCCN 2011001594
ISBN9781409400134 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN1409400131 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9780754698630 (ebook)
ISBN0754698637 (ebook)
Standard identifier# 100567302

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Joyner General Stacks QL85 .C667 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold