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Infrahumanisms - Science, Culture, and the Making of Modern Non/personhood (Paperback) Loot Price: R685
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Infrahumanisms - Science, Culture, and the Making of Modern Non/personhood (Paperback): Megan H Glick

Infrahumanisms - Science, Culture, and the Making of Modern Non/personhood (Paperback)

Megan H Glick

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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Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
Release date: October 2018
First published: 2018
Authors: Megan H Glick
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-0151-5
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society
LSN: 1-4780-0151-8
Barcode: 9781478001515

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