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Bad Dog - Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice (Paperback)
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Bad Dog - Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice (Paperback)
Series: Feminist Technosciences
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Fifty-plus years of media fearmongering coupled with targeted breed
bans have produced what could be called "America's Most Wanted"
dog: the pit bull. However, at the turn of the twenty-first
century, competing narratives began to change the meaning of "pit
bull." Increasingly represented as loving members of mostly white,
middle-class, heteronormative families, pit bulls and pit bull-type
dogs are now frequently seen as victims rather than perpetrators,
beings deserving not fear or scorn but rather care and compassion.
Drawing from the increasingly contentious world of human/dog
politics and featuring rich ethnographic research among dogs and
their advocates, Bad Dog explores how relationships between humans
and animals not only reflect but actively shape experiences of
race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, nation, breed, and species.
Harlan Weaver proposes a critical and queer reading of pit bull
politics and animal advocacy, challenging the zero-sum logic
through which care for animals is seen as detracting from care for
humans. Introducing understandings rooted in examinations of what
it means for humans to touch, feel, sense, and think with and
through relationships with nonhuman animals, Weaver suggests
powerful ways to seek justice for marginalized humans and animals
together.
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