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Humans, Animals and Biopolitics - The More Than Human Condition

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Informationen zum Autor Kristin Asdal is Professor of Science, Technology and Culture at TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Norway. Tone Druglitrø is Postdoctoral Fellow at TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Norway. Steve Hinchliffe is Professor of Geography at the Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK. Klappentext Human-animal co-existence is central to a politics of life! how we order societies! and to debates about who 'we' humans think 'we' are. This book reflects the multi-sited! multi-species! multi-logic and multiple ways in which lives are and have been assembled! disassembled! practised and possibly policed and politicized. Zusammenfassung Human-animal co-existence is central to a politics of life, how we order societies, and to debates about who 'we' humans think 'we' are. This book reflects the multi-sited, multi-species, multi-logic and multiple ways in which lives are and have been assembled, disassembled, practised and possibly policed and politicized. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: The ‘More Than Human’ Condition: Sentient Creatures and Versions of Biopolitics Kristin Asdal, Tone Druglitrø and Steve Hinchliffe 2. The Practice of Fishy Sentience John Law and Marianne Lien 3. Making Pig Research Biographies: Names and Numbers Vibeke Pihl 4. Modifying the Biopolitical Collective: The Law as a Moral Technology Kristin Asdal and Tone Druglitrø 5. Pastorale: Sheep Traffic in Modern Trauma Surgery Martina Schlünder 6. The Measure of the Disease: The Pathological Animal Experiment in Robert Koch’s Medical Bacteriology Christoph Gradmann 7. Knowing Sentient Subjects: Humane Experimental Technique and the Constitution of Care and Knowledge in Laboratory Animal Science Robert G. W. Kirk 8. One Health, Many Species: Towards a Multispecies Investigation of Bird Flu Natalie Porter 9. Sensory Biopolitics: Knowing Birds and a Politics of Life Steve Hinchliffe 10. Loving Camels, Sacrificing Sheep, Slaughtering Gazelles: Human-Animal Relations in Contemporary Desert Fiction Susan McHugh ...

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Authors Tone Asdal Druglitro
Assisted by Kristin Asdal (Editor), Asdal Kristin (Editor), Tone Druglitro (Editor), Tone Druglitrø (Editor), Druglitro Tone (Editor), Steve Hinchliffe (Editor), Hinchliffe Steve (Editor)
Publisher ASHGATE PUB CO
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 28.05.2016
 
EAN 9781472448651
ISBN 978-1-4724-4865-1
No. of pages 224
Series Multispecies Encounters
Multispecies Encounters
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Sociology

Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Animals & society, Animals and society

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