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Peter J. Lis pathbreaking new book, Animal Welfare in China, is
timely and valuable. ANTHROZOOESThe issue of animal welfare has
attracted attention in Australia in recent decades. Activists and
welfare organisations have become increasingly vigorous in
promoting a new ethical relationship between humans and animals,
and in challenging practices they identify as inhumane. In 2011
this agitation culminated in the temporary suspension of cattle
live exports, with significant economic and political implications
for Australia. Similar campaigns have focused on domestic food
production systems and the use of animals in entertainment.Despite
this increased interest, the policy process remains poorly
understood. Animal Welfare in Australia is the first Australian
book to examine the topic in a systematic manner. Without taking a
specific ethical position, Peter John Chen draws on a wide range of
sources including activists, industry representatives and policy
makers to explain how policy is made and implemented. He explores
the history of animal welfare in Australia, examines public opinion
and media coverage of key issues, and comprehensively maps the
policy domain. He shows how diverse social, ethical and economic
interests interact to produce a complex and unpredictable
climate.Animal Welfare in Australia will be of interest to scholars
and practitioners of public policy, those interested in issues of
animal welfare, and anyone wishing to understand how competing
interests interact in the contemporary Australian policy
landscape.Some supplementary graphs and images can be found at
https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/15349
Animal death is a complex, uncomfortable, depressing, motivating
and sensitive topic. For those scholars participating in
Human-Animal Studies, it is - accompanied by the concept of 'life'
- the ground upon which their studies commence, whether those
studies are historical, archaeological, social, philosophical, or
cultural. It is a tough subject to face, but as this volume
demonstrates, one at the heart of human-animal relations and
human-animal studies scholarship. ... books have power. Words
convey moral dilemmas. Human beings are capable of being moral
creatures. So it may prove with the present book. Dear reader, be
warned. Reading about animal death may prove a life-changing
experience. If you do not wish to be exposed to that possibility,
read no further ... In the end, by concentrating our attention on
death in animals, in so many guises and circumstances, we, the
human readers, are brought face to face with the reality of our
world. It is a world of pain, fear and enormous stress and cruelty.
It is a world that will not change anytime soon into a human
community of vegetarians or vegans. But at least books like this
are being written for public reflection. From the Foreword by The
Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG
Throughout the 19th century, animals were integrated into staged
scenarios of confrontation, ranging from lion acts in small cages
to large-scale re-enactments of war. Initially presenting a handful
of exotic animals, travelling menageries grew to contain multiple
species in their thousands. These 19th-century menageries
entrenched beliefs about the human right to exploit nature through
war-like practices against other animal species. Animal shows
became a stimulus for antisocial behaviour as locals taunted
animals, caused fights, and even turned into violent mobs. Human
societal problems were difficult to separate from issues of cruelty
to animals. Apart from reflecting human capacity for fighting and
aggression, and the belief in human dominance over nature, these
animal performances also echoed cultural fascination with conflict,
war and colonial expansion, as the grand spectacles of imperial
power reinforced state authority and enhanced public displays of
nationhood and nationalistic evocations of colonial empires.
Fighting Nature is an insightful analysis of the historical legacy
of 19th-century colonialism, war, animal acquisition and
transportation. This legacy of entrenched beliefs about the human
right to exploit other animal species is yet to be defeated.'When
does fighting end and theatre begin? In this fascinating study,
Peta Tait - one of the most prominent authors in the
Performance/Animal Studies intersection - explores animal acts with
a particular focus on confrontation. The sites of the human-animal
encounter range from theatres, circus, and war re-enactments
investigating how the development of certain human fighting
practices run in parallel with certain types of public exhibits of
wild animals. Tait's account is historical, looking at animal acts
- from touring menageries to theatrical performances - from the
1820s to the 1910s.'Lourdes Orozco, Lecturer in Theatre Studies,
University of Leeds
Humans and nonhuman animals engage with each other in a multitude
of fascinating ways. They have always done so, motivated by both
necessity and choice. Yet, as human population numbers increase and
our impact on the planet expands, this engagement takes on new
meanings and requires new understanding.In Engaging with Animals:
Interpretations of a Shared Existence experts in the field of
human-animal studies investigate, from a variety of disciplinary
perspectives, the ways in which humans and other animals interact.
Grouped into three broad sections, the chapters focus on themes
ranging from attitudes, ethics and interactions to history, art and
literature, and finally animal welfare outcomes. While offering
different interpretations of human-non-human interactions, they
share a common goal in attempting to find pathways leading to a
mutually beneficial and shared co-existence.
Obaysch: A Hippopotamus in Victorian London tells the remarkable
story of Obaysch the hippopotamus, the first 'star' animal to be
exhibited in the London Zoo. In 1850, a baby hippopotamus arrived
in England, thought to be the first in Europe since the Roman
Empire, and almost certainly the first in Britain since prehistoric
times. Captured near an island in the White Nile, Obaysch was
donated by the viceroy of Egypt in exchange for greyhounds and
deerhounds. His arrival in London was greeted with a wave of
'hippomania', doubling the number of visitors to the Zoological
Gardens almost overnight. Delving into the circumstances of
Obaysch's capture and exhibition, John Simons investigates the
phenomenon of 'star' animals in Victorian Britain against the
backdrop of an expanding British Empire. He shows how the entangled
aims of scientific exploration, commercial ambition, and imperial
expansion shaped the treatment of exotic animals throughout the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Along the way, he
uncovers the strange and moving stories of Obaysch and the other
hippos who joined him in Europe as the trade in zoo animals grew.
'A fascinating microscopic and telescopic look at the life of
Victorian England's most famous animal. John Simons' richly
exhaustive account of nineteenth-century hippomania engages with
imperialism, Orientalism, progress, and the cultural history of
Europe where Obaysch, captured from an island in the Nile River,
had the misfortune to spend his life as a blockbuster attraction at
the London Zoo. Poignant and empathetic, this account of an
animal's appropriation and exploitation is one of those books that
unfurls more about its moment in time than you could have imagined
when you picked it up.' Professor Randy Malamud, Georgia State
University
Most members of the Stolen Generations had white fathers or
grandfathers. Who were these white men? This book analyses the
stories of white fathers, men who were positioned as key players in
the plans to assimilate Aboriginal people by 'breeding out the
colour'. The plan to 'breed out the colour' ascribed enormous power
to white sperm and white paternity; to 'elevate', 'uplift' and
disperse Aboriginality in whiteness, to blank out, to aid cultural
forgetting. The policy was a cruel failure, not least because it
conflated skin colour with culture and assumed that Aboriginal
women and their children would acquiesce to produce 'future
whites'. It also assumed that white men would comply as ready
appendages, administering 'whiteness' through marriage or white
sperm. This book attempts to put textual flesh on the bodies of
these white fathers, and in doing so, builds on and complicates the
view of white fathers in this history, and the histories of
whiteness to which they are biopolitically related.
Before the birth of modern insecticides, farmers and gardeners used
predatory and parasitic wasps and flies, insect-eating birds,
lizards and toads as agents of biological control. In the late 19th
century sugar cane scientists carried cane toads from Barbados to
Puerto Rico, to Hawai'i and then Queensland to control pests. Toads
were introduced to some 138 countries, and are now ranked among the
world's most invasive species. Queensland's sugar scientists
released the toad into cane fields in 1935. They were supported by
cane growers, politicians, the nation's leading scientists, the
premier of Queensland and the prime minister of Australia. Only a
lone voice objected. In the following 70 years they spread as far
as western NSW and Western Australia. This story is about good
intentions, unintended consequences and of simple acts leading to
catastrophic outcomes. It is about scientists so committed to
solving a problem, serving their country, their leaders and the
industry that employed them, that they are blinkered to adverse
impacts. There are lessons to learn from the toad's tale. And as
the tale shows, we still come perilously close to repeating the
mistakes of the past.
A Life for Animals is the story of a life devoted to a radical
idea: that animals should be treated with dignity and respect.
Christine Townend founded Animal Liberation Australia in 1976 after
reading Peter Singer's book of the same name. Despite a largely
indifferent and sometimes hostile public, she campaigned
relentlessly to raise awareness of animal welfare and to build the
movement's momentum in Australia. In 1990, weary of Australian
politics, she accepted an invitation to visit a small, run-down
animal shelter in Rajasthan. There she encountered shocking human
and animal suffering - but also the extraordinary power of human
and animal interaction. As she edged her way into the life of the
shelter, she found herself unexpectedly attached: to the animals,
to her colleagues, and to India.A Life for Animals is Townend's
account of this journey. She records the successes and challenges
of animal welfare work, the critical moments that have shaped her
philosophy, and the profound personal and political consequences of
sharing a life with animals.
Do depictions of crazy cat ladies obscure more sinister structural
violence against animals hoarded in factory farms? Highlighting the
frequent pathologization of animal lovers and animal rights
activists, this book examines how the "madness" of our
relationships with animals intersects with the "madness" of taking
animals seriously. The essays collected in this volume argue that
"animaladies" are expressive of political and psychological
discontent, and the characterization of animal advocacy as mad or
"crazy" distracts attention from broader social unease regarding
human exploitation of animal life. While allusions to madness are
both subtle and overt, they are also very often gendered, thought
to be overly sentimental with an added sense that emotions are
being directed at the wrong species. Animaladies are obstacles for
the political uptake of interest in animal issues-as the
intersections between this volume and established feminist
scholarship show, the fear of being labeled unreasonable or mad
still has political currency.
Do depictions of crazy cat ladies obscure more sinister structural
violence against animals hoarded in factory farms? Highlighting the
frequent pathologization of animal lovers and animal rights
activists, this book examines how the "madness" of our
relationships with animals intersects with the "madness" of taking
animals seriously. The essays collected in this volume argue that
"animaladies" are expressive of political and psychological
discontent, and the characterization of animal advocacy as mad or
"crazy" distracts attention from broader social unease regarding
human exploitation of animal life. While allusions to madness are
both subtle and overt, they are also very often gendered, thought
to be overly sentimental with an added sense that emotions are
being directed at the wrong species. Animaladies are obstacles for
the political uptake of interest in animal issues-as the
intersections between this volume and established feminist
scholarship show, the fear of being labeled unreasonable or mad
still has political currency.
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