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Infrahumanisms - Science, Culture, and the Making of Modern Non/personhood (Paperback)
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Infrahumanisms - Science, Culture, and the Making of Modern Non/personhood (Paperback)
Series: ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
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In Infrahumanisms Megan H. Glick considers how conversations
surrounding nonhuman life have impacted a broad range of attitudes
toward forms of human difference such as race, sexuality, and
health. She examines the history of human and nonhuman subjectivity
as told through twentieth-century scientific and cultural
discourses that include pediatrics, primatology, eugenics,
exobiology, and obesity research. Outlining how the category of the
human is continuously redefined in relation to the infrahuman-a
liminal position of speciation existing between the human and the
nonhuman-Glick reads a number of phenomena, from early
twentieth-century efforts to define children and higher order
primates as liminally human and the postwar cultural fascination
with extraterrestrial life to anxieties over AIDS, SARS, and other
cross-species diseases. In these cases the efforts to define a
universal humanity create the means with which to reinforce notions
of human difference and maintain human-nonhuman hierarchies. In
foregrounding how evolving definitions of the human reflect
shifting attitudes about social inequality, Glick shows how the
consideration of nonhuman subjectivities demands a rethinking of
long-held truths about biological meaning and difference.
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