Saving animals : multispecies ecologies of rescue and care
著者
書誌事項
Saving animals : multispecies ecologies of rescue and care
University of Minnesota Press, c2021
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-245) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
A fascinating and unprecedented ethnography of animal sanctuaries in the United States
In the past three decades, animal rights advocates have established everything from elephant sanctuaries in Africa to shelters that rehabilitate animals used in medical testing, to homes for farmed animals, abandoned pets, and entertainment animals that have outlived their “usefulness.” Saving Animals is the first major ethnography to focus on the ethical issues animating the establishment of such places, where animals who have been mistreated or destined for slaughter are allowed to live out their lives simply being animals.
Based on fieldwork at animal rescue facilities across the United States, Elan Abrell asks what “saving,” “caring for,” and “sanctuary” actually mean. He considers sanctuaries as laboratories where caregivers conceive and implement new models of caring for and relating to animals. He explores the ethical decision making around sanctuary efforts to unmake property-based human–animal relations by creating spaces in which humans interact with animals as autonomous subjects. Saving Animals illustrates how caregivers and animals respond by cocreating new human–animal ecologies adapted to the material and social conditions of the Anthropocene.
Bridging anthropology with animal studies and political philosophy, Saving Animals asks us to imagine less harmful modes of existence in a troubled world where both animals and humans seek sanctuary.
目次
Contents
Introduction
1. Coming to Sanctuary
2. Care and Rescue
3. Creating and Operating Sanctuaries
4. Animal Death
Conclusion: Why Do Sanctuaries Matter?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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