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Tranimacies is a neologism that pushes and pulls together transness
and animality so as to better germinate unruly, wily, perverse
relationships between them, and their spawn. Through tranimacies
the book aims at rethinking the linking of liberation struggles
amongst former colonized peoples and lands, minoritized genders and
sexualities, racially marked persons and non-human animals, and
does so in a variety of geopolitical and temporal sites. This rich
compendium includes original scholarship and dialogues as well as
poetry, comix, bioart, and performance documentation. The composite
term of tranimacies enmeshes several everyday and scholarly
concepts: transgender, animal, animacy, intimacies. This edited
volume's bundle of theoretical and artistic works insists on the
beating heart of embodied experiences and political pulses at the
core of these concepts. The authors show that tranimacies are
spread throughout what Mel Y. Chen describes as the "animacy
hierarchies" that delimit zones of possibility and agency,
confounding the vertical order with transversal movements. As an
intervention into the burgeoning debates within and across trans,
animal, critical race, and posthuman studies this publication seeks
to destabilize the logic of "turns" in critical theory, and through
sticky intimacies uncover how animality, race, and gender
underscore the humanist production of meanings. By taking a
decolonial approach (in the main, but not exclusively) the authors
hope to shift debates in animal studies towards accounting for and
delinking from colonial mentalities. Three poems interweave our
selection of chapters, which together forge three lines of inquiry
defined by a certain ethos: transhistories of the present, lessons
from the bestiary, and #animatingephemera. The chapters in this
book were originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.
’I can’t recall us ever talking about anything other than eels and how
to best catch them, down there by the stream. Actually, I can’t
remember us speaking at all. Maybe because we never did.’
The European eel, Anguilla anguilla, is one of the strangest creatures
nature ever created. Remarkably little is known about the eel, even
today. What we do know is that it’s born as a tiny willow-leaf shaped
larva in the Sargasso Sea, travels on the ocean currents toward the
coasts of Europe – a journey of about four thousand miles that takes at
least two years. Upon arrival, it transforms itself into a glass eel
and then into a yellow eel before it wanders up into fresh water. It
lives a solitary life, hiding from both light and science, for ten,
twenty, fifty years, before migrating back to the sea in the autumn,
morphing into a silver eel and swimming all the way back to the
Sargasso Sea, where it breeds and dies.
And yet . . . There is still so much we don’t know about eels. No human
has ever seen eels reproduce; no one can give a complete account of the
eel’s metamorphoses or say why they are born and die in the Sargasso
Sea; no human has even seen a mature eel in the Sargasso Sea. Ever. And
now the eel is disappearing, and we don’t know exactly why.
What we do know is that eels and their mysterious lives captivate us.
This is the basis for The Gospel of the Eels, Patrik Svensson’s quite
unique natural science memoir; his ongoing fascination with this
secretive fish, but also the equally perplexing and often murky
relationship he shared with his father, whose only passion in life was
fishing for this obscure creature.
Through the exploration of eels in literature (Günter Grass and Graham
Swift feature, amongst others) and the history of science (we learn
about Aristotle’s and Sigmund Freud’s complicated relationships with
eels) as well as modern marine biology (Rachel Carson and others) we
get to know this peculiar animal. In this exploration, we also learn
about the human condition, life and death, through natural science and
nature writing at its very best.
As Patrik Svensson concludes: 'by writing about eels, I have in some
ways found my way home again.'
This pioneering study introduces readers to key themes from animal
studies, as a frame within which it examines the representation of
animals and animality in the work of a range of authors. In this
new approach to animal studies, the concept of a relational
universe that has emerged in recent natural and physical science is
argued as being central. With fresh readings of Welsh literary and
non-literary publications, including the Welsh press and
Welsh-language manuals, the book explores relationships among
animals and between humans and animals, to approach subjects such
as intelligence, sensibility and knowledge from an animal
perspective. The possibility of redrawing and reclaiming a history
of rural and industrial Wales is suggested according to an animal
history and agenda. This innovative contribution to Welsh and
animal studies illuminates fascinating and controversial subjects,
including animal domestication, captivity, communication,
biopsychology, human exceptionalism, zoos and farming.
'Clever, compelling, canine and utterly mesmerising' - Helen
Lederer Stupendo the dog has died. But that's just the beginning of
his story. To love and protect. The code of the good dog is clear.
When single mother Tuesday took on mongrel pup Stupendo, she made a
friend for life. Through the best and the worst of times, Stupendo
has been there for her. Ever faithful, ever loyal, ever true.
Nothing could break their bond. Until last week. Stupendo doesn't
know why Tuesday is suddenly ignoring him or why his doggy antics
no longer seem to soothe Baby William. It takes his worst enemy -
the cat next door - to break the news that Stupendo has become a
ghost. Somehow left behind on Earth, Stupendo knows he has
unfinished business. Enlisting the help of the community of animals
in the neighbourhood, Stupendo must get to the bottom of the very
human sadness that hangs over his old home and keeps him from
saying goodbye to Tuesday. Praise for SAYING GOODBYE TO TUESDAY:
'An emotional, lovely read, just perfect for animal lovers. It was
a joy to read, although have tissues handy' - Rachel Wells,
bestselling author of Alfie the Doorstep Cat 'Pawfection. It's
emotional and joyful and utterly compelling' - Alex Brown 'A
gorgeous, ingenious story' - Amanda Brookfield 'This isn't just a
story about a dog, it's a story about the very meaning of life,
told from a unique and bold perspective. Filled with joyful
bittersweetness and clear-eyed wisdom it made me both laugh and cry
and its message of hope will stay with me for a long time to come'
- Alexandra Potter
This book examines trade and trafficking in endangered animal
species and how the trade increasingly puts large numbers of
nonhuman species at risk. Focusing on illegal trafficking, the book
also discusses the harmful aspects of the trade and trafficking
which is taking place in concordance with laws and regulations.
Drawing on the findings of empirical research from Norway and
Colombia, the study discusses how this global, transnational trend
is addressed, and features of the trade and the ways in which it is
controlled in the two case study locations. It also explores the
motives driving the trade, and the consequences in terms of animal
abuse and environmental harm. The book discusses whether
internationally agreed measures, such as international conventions,
actually help prevent the trade. Possible ways to address the harms
of wildlife trade are considered, including a total ban. The work
draws on a green criminology and eco feminist theoretical framework
to provide a broad perspective on concepts such as harm, animal
rights, species justice and speciesism.
This book examines trades in animals and animal products in the
history of the Indian Ocean World (IOW). An international array of
established and emerging scholars investigate how the roles of
equines, ungulates, sub-ungulates, mollusks, and avians expand our
understandings of commerce, human societies, and world systems.
Focusing primarily on the period 1500-1900, they explore how
animals and their products shaped the relationships between
populations in the IOW and Europeans arriving by maritime routes.
By elucidating this fundamental yet under-explored aspect of
encounters and exchanges in the IOW, these interdisciplinary essays
further our understanding of the region, the environment, and the
material, political and economic history of the world.
A heart-breaking and moving story of love and sacrifice, set
against the backdrop of the Blitz. Inspired by true events, and
perfect for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Guernsey
Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Dear Mrs Bird *** Is love
strong enough to survive a war? September 1940. As enemy fighter
planes blacken the sky, Susan Shepherd finds comfort at her home in
Epping Forest, where she and her grandfather raise homing pigeons.
Of all Susan's birds, it's Duchess who is the most extraordinary,
and the two share a special bond. Thousands of miles away, Ollie
Evans, a young American pilot decides to travel to Britain to join
the Royal Air Force. But Ollie doesn't expect his quest to bring
him instead to the National Pigeon Service - a covert new operation
involving homing pigeons - and to Susan. The National Pigeon
Service has a dangerous mission to air-drop hundreds of pigeons
into German-occupied France. Despite their growing friendship Ollie
and Susan must soon be parted - but will Duchess's devotion and
sense of duty prove to be an unexpected lifeline between them?
Based on true events, The Long Flight Home is an uplifting and
timeless wartime novel, that reminds us how, in times of hardship,
hope is never truly lost.
Mahlangeni, the Tsonga word for "meeting place", is one of the most remote ranger stations in the Kruger National Park. Far from everywhere, this isolated corner of the wilderness was home for eleven years to Kobie Kruger, wife of the ranger in charge of the station, and their their three daughters.
Running a household and raising a family in a place where leopards, elephants, snakes and the like are your only neighbours, where you have no telephone, and where a trip to town means first crossing a river full of hippos and crocodiles, is hardly a straightforward business. But Kobie Kruger tackled each problem with undaunted pragmatism and an energy that gives new meaning to word resourceful.
Lonely after their family moves to London, Ben and Hattie are
delighted to find a new friend in the park: a talking lion wearing
a top hat, dress suit and red cravat. But not only is Mr Dandy Paws
an exceptionally well-dressed feline, he's a highway lion who robs
from those who are cruel to animals and invests the proceeds in
animal justice. But with a P.I. on his tail, Dandy's latest scheme
- a daring break-out at Tower Zoo - could get Ben and Hattie into
far more trouble than they bargained for ... A delightfully
old-fashioned debut adventure for modern children aged 7 and up,
full of friendship, daring and fun Set in an off-the-wall 1920s
London complete with talking animals! Strong animal welfare and
ecological themes with a funny and fantastical twist Inside
illustrations with a classic nostalgic feel by Roxana de Rond
Food is routinely given attention in tourism research as a
motivator of travel. Regardless of whether tourists travel with a
primary motivation for experiencing local food, eating is required
during their trip. This book encompasses an interdisciplinary
discussion of animals as a source of food within the context of
tourism. Themes include the raising, harvesting, and processing of
farm animals for food; considerations in marketing animals as food;
and the link between consuming animals and current environmental
concerns. Ethical issues are addressed in social, economic,
environmental, and political terms. The chapters are grounded in
ethics-related theories and frameworks including critical theory,
ecofeminism, gustatory ethics, environmental ethics, ethics within
a political economy context, cultural relativism, market
construction paradigm, ethical resistance, and the Global
Sustainable Tourism Criteria. Several chapters explore
contradicting and paradoxical ethical perspectives, whether those
contradictions exist between government and private sector, between
tourism and other industries, or whether they lie within ourselves.
Like the authors in Tourism Experiences & Animal Consumption:
Contested Values, Morality, & Ethics, the authors in this book
wrestle with a range of issues such as animal sentience, the
environmental consequences of animals as food, viewing animals
solely as a extractive resource for human will, as well as the
artificial cultural distortion of animals as food for tourism
marketing purposes. This book will appeal to tourism academics and
graduate students as a reference for their own research or as
supplementary material for courses focused on ethics within
tourism.
Responding to recent scholarship, this book examines animal
domestication and offers a Soiot approach to animals and
landscapes, which transcends the wild-tame dichotomy. Following
herder-hunters of the Eastern Saian Mountains in southern Siberia,
the author examines how Soiot and Tofa households embrace
unpredictability, recognize sentience, and encourage autonomy in
all their relations with animals, spirits, and land features. It is
an ethnography intended to help us reinvent our relations with the
earth in unpredictable times.
"Living Beings "examines the vital characteristics of social
interactions between living beings, including humans, other animals
and trees.Many discussions of such relationships highlight the
exceptional qualities of the human members of the category,
insisting for instance on their religious beliefs or creativity. In
contrast, the international case studies in this volume dissect
views based on hierarchical oppositions between human and other
living beings. Although human practices may sometimes appear to
exist in a realm beyond nature, they are nevertheless subject to
the pull of natural forces. These forces may be brought into
prominence through a consideration of the interactions between
human beings and other inhabitants of the natural world.The
interplay in this book between social anthropologists, philosophers
and artists cuts across species divisions to examine the
experiential dimensions of interspecies engagements. In
ethnographically and/or historically contextualized chapters,
contributors examine the juxtaposition of human and other living
beings in the light of themes such as wildlife safaris, violence,
difference, mimicry, simulation, spiritual renewal, dress and
language.
The fields of settler colonial, decolonial, and postcolonial
studies, as well as Critical Animal Studies are growing rapidly,
but how do the implications of these endeavours intersect?
Colonialism and Animality: Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Critical
Animal Studies explores some of the ways that the oppression of
Indigenous persons and more-than-human animals are interconnected.
Composed of 12 chapters by an international team of specialists
plus a Foreword by Dinesh Wadiwel, the book is divided into four
themes: Tensions and Alliances between Animal and Decolonial
Activisms Revisiting the Stereotypes of Indigenous Peoples'
Relationships with Animals Cultural Perspectives Colonialism,
Animals, and the Law This book will be of interest to undergraduate
and postgraduate students, activists, as well as postdoctoral
scholars, working in the areas of Critical Animal Studies, Native
Studies, postcolonial and critical race studies, with particular
chapters being of interest to scholars and students in other
fields, such as Cultural Studies, Animal Law and Critical
Criminology.
Edmund Russell's much-anticipated new book examines interactions
between greyhounds and their owners in England from 1200 to 1900 to
make a compelling case that history is an evolutionary process.
Challenging the popular notion that animal breeds remain uniform
over time and space, Russell integrates history and biology to
offer a fresh take on human-animal coevolution. Using greyhounds in
England as a case study, Russell shows that greyhounds varied and
changed just as much as their owners. Not only did they evolve in
response to each other, but people and dogs both evolved in
response to the forces of modernization, such as capitalism,
democracy, and industry. History and evolution were not separate
processes, each proceeding at its own rate according to its own
rules, but instead were the same.
The use of animals in research has always been surrounded by
ethical controversy. This book provides an overview of the central
ethical issues focusing on the interconnectedness of science, law
and ethics. It aims to make theoretical ethical reasoning
understandable to non-ethicists and provide tools to improve
ethical decision making on animal research. It focuses on good
scientific practice, the 3Rs (replacement, reduction and
refinement), ethical theories applied to specific cases and an
overview of regulatory issues. The book is co-authored by experts
in animal research, animal welfare, social sciences, law and
ethics, and provides both animal researchers and members of animal
ethics committees with knowledge that can facilitate their work and
communication with stakeholders and the public. The book is written
to provide knowledge, not to argue a certain position, and is
intended to be used in training that aims to fulfil EU Directive
2010/63/EU.
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