Shared Lives of Humans and Animals (eBook, ePUB)

Animal Agency in the Global North
Redaktion: Räsänen, Tuomas; Syrjämaa, Taina

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Produktbeschreibung

The book focuses on animal agency and interactions between humans and animals. It explores the reciprocity of human-animal relations and the capacity of animals to act and shape human societies. The chapters draw on examples from the Global North to explore questions of how industrialization, urbanization, and human life in modernity have been a

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351857109
• Artikelnr.: 48210110

Autorenporträt

Tuomas Räsänen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of European and World History at the University of Turku, Finland. His research interests include animal history, environmental history and history of science. He has published several articles concerning the history of marine sciences and politics in the Baltic Sea area and the history of Finnish environmentalism. Taina Syrjämaa is Professor of European and World History at the University of Turku, Finland. She has studied urban history, the history of the exhibition medium, the belief in progress, historical spatiality and diffuse agency. She is currently leading the research project "Animal Agency in Human Society."

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Tuomas Räsänen and Taina Syrjämaa Part I Co-Living Individuals
1. Whose Agency? Humans and Dogs in Training Leena Koski and Pia Bäcklund
2. Human and Non-Human Agency in Icelandic Film: Of Horses and Men Stella
Hockenhull 3. Horses as Co-Constructors of Knowledge in Contemporary
Finnish Equestrian Culture Nora Schuurman 4. Living with Horses: Horse
Agency in Human-Horse Cohabitation in Nineteenth-Century Finnish Swidden
Culture Riitta-Marja Leinonen 5. Spectacles of Modern Companionship: Men,
Dogs and Early Finnish Dog Shows Taina Syrjämaa Part II Interspecies
Communities 6. Case Study of a Changing Human-Animal Relationship: Wild
Rabbits in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Onset of Myxomatosis
John Martin 7. Does a Dead Wild Animal Have Agency? The White-Tailed Eagle
as a Catalyst for an Ideational Revolution in Finland Tuomas Räsänen 8.
Cosmological Changes: Shifts in Human-Fish Relationships in Alaska's Bering
Strait Region Julie Raymond-Yakoubian and Vernae Angnaboogok 9. The Baltic
Herring as Agents in the Socio-Ecological System in Rymättylä Fisheries
Kirsi Sonck-Rautio Part III Agency Represented 10. Rangifer Tarandus in
Textual Service: Positioning Reindeer as an Agent in a Human/Non-Human
Interactional Context in Three Texts Jukka Nyyssönen 11. Anthropogenic Food
Sources in the Co-Existence of Humans with Liminal Animals in Northern
Environments: Representations from National Geographic Magazine Linda
Kalof, Cameron Whitley, Stephen Vrla, and Jessica Bell Rizzolo 12. Changing
Narratives of Human: Large Carnivore Encounters in Nineteenth-Century
Sweden Karin Dirke 13. The Wise Salmon That Returned Home Outi Autti 14.
The Co-Living of Humans and Wolves in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem J.
Dwight Hines Epilogue Harriet Ritvo