
The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 10. December 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
576 pages
978-1-4744-5852-8 (ISBN)
Description
Provides cross-disciplinary perspectives on the study of animals in humanities
This volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on Animal Studies. What new questions and modes of research need come into play if we are to seriously acknowledge our entanglements with other animals? World-leading scholars from a range of disciplines, including Literature, Philosophy, Art, Biosemiotics, and Geography, set the agenda for Animal Studies today. Rather than a narrow specialism, the 35 newly commissioned essays in this book show how we think of other animals to be intrinsic to fields as major as ethics, economies as widespread as capitalism and relations as common as friendship.The volume contains original, cutting-edge research and opens up new methods, alignments, directions as well as challenges for the future of Animal Studies. Uniquely, the chapters each focus on a single topic, from 'Abjection' to 'Voice' and from 'Affection' to 'Technology', thus embedding the animal question as central to contemporary concerns across a wide range of disciplines.
Key Features
Provides in one work prominent scholars in animal studies and their reflections on the trajectory of the fieldEmbeds the 'animal question' as central to contemporary concerns across a wide range of disciplinesBrings discourses from the sciences into dialogue with the arts and humanitiesOpens up new methods, alignments, directions and challenges for the future of animal studiesAfterword from Cary Wolfe (Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English, Rice University)
This volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on Animal Studies. What new questions and modes of research need come into play if we are to seriously acknowledge our entanglements with other animals? World-leading scholars from a range of disciplines, including Literature, Philosophy, Art, Biosemiotics, and Geography, set the agenda for Animal Studies today. Rather than a narrow specialism, the 35 newly commissioned essays in this book show how we think of other animals to be intrinsic to fields as major as ethics, economies as widespread as capitalism and relations as common as friendship.The volume contains original, cutting-edge research and opens up new methods, alignments, directions as well as challenges for the future of Animal Studies. Uniquely, the chapters each focus on a single topic, from 'Abjection' to 'Voice' and from 'Affection' to 'Technology', thus embedding the animal question as central to contemporary concerns across a wide range of disciplines.
Key Features
Provides in one work prominent scholars in animal studies and their reflections on the trajectory of the fieldEmbeds the 'animal question' as central to contemporary concerns across a wide range of disciplinesBrings discourses from the sciences into dialogue with the arts and humanitiesOpens up new methods, alignments, directions and challenges for the future of animal studiesAfterword from Cary Wolfe (Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English, Rice University)
Reviews / Votes
What the various contributions to the Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies demonstrate most, perhaps, is that far more important than the issue of what animal studies may study is the question of what forms of knowing and engagement it may yet produce in the course of continuing to engage - through its diversification and transformation of - the question of the animal. -- Robert Briggs, Curtin University * Derrida Today * From A-Z, this book is full of astute companion writers and scholars entangled in rich webs with the lives and deaths of animals, in story, evolution, politics, science fiction, religion, ethics, queer theory, performance, ordinary living, and more. Here is a book that takes seriously the unanswerable but necessary question that gives the Afterword its title, "Who are these animals I am following?" Follow, read, and emerge in the compost that is always more than human. * Donna Haraway, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of California Santa Cruz *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
11 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 174 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
953 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-5852-8 (9781474458528)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Lynn Turner is a Reader in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Poetics of Deconstruction: on the threshold of differences (Bloomsbury, 2020), co-editor, with Undine Sellbach and Ron Broglio, of The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies (EUP, 2018), editor of The Animal Question in Deconstruction (EUP, 2013) and co-author, with Astrid Schmetterling, of Visual Cultures As... Recollection (Sternberg, 2013). Undine Sellbach is recently appointed Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee, UK, and previously Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Australia. Her research explores the edges of sentience through ethology, psychoanalysis, feminist philosophy of science, art and performance. She is currently completing a co-authored book about the speculative ethologies of Jacob von Uexkuell. Ron Broglio is Associate Professor of Literature and Culture and Sustainability Scholar at Arizona State University Global Institute of Sustainability. He is the author of Beast of Burden: Biopolitics, Labor and Animal Life in British Romanticism (State University of New York Press, 2017), Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) and Technologies of the Picturesque (Bucknell University Press, 2008).
Editor
ReaderGoldsmiths, University of London
Senior Lecturer in PhilosophyUniversity of Dundee
Associate Professor of Literature and CultureArizona State University
Content
Introducing The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies - The Editors
Abjection - Ruth Lipschitz
Affection - Dominic Pettman
Animation -Timothy Morton
The Anthropocene - Kathryn Yusoff and Mary Thomas
Art - Amanda Boetzkes
Biopolitics - Rick Elmore
Capitalism - Nicole Shukin
Death - Dawne McCance
Empathy - Kari Weil
Ethics - Nicole Anderson
Evolution - Thom Van Dooren and Vinciane Despret
Extinction - Matthew Chrulew & Rick De Vos
Farming - Henry Buller
Film - Laura McMahon
Food - Lindsay Kelley
Fragility - Claire Colebrook
Friendship - Johnny Golding
Genealogies - Matthew Calarco
Homo Sapiens - David Wood
Law - Yoriko Otomo
Literature - Derek Ryan
Meaning - Wendy Wheeler
Microbes - Stefan Herbrechter
Nonhuman Philosophy - John O Maoilearca
Performance - Undine Sellbach
Poetics - Aaron Moe
Posthumanism - Franklin Ginn
Queer Theory - Carla Freccero
Races - Christopher Peterson
Religion - Danielle Sands
Revolution - Ron Broglio
Science Fiction - Sheryl Vint
Technology - Richard Iveson
Voice - Lynn Turner
Afterword: Who Are These Animals I Am Following? - Cary Wolfe
Abjection - Ruth Lipschitz
Affection - Dominic Pettman
Animation -Timothy Morton
The Anthropocene - Kathryn Yusoff and Mary Thomas
Art - Amanda Boetzkes
Biopolitics - Rick Elmore
Capitalism - Nicole Shukin
Death - Dawne McCance
Empathy - Kari Weil
Ethics - Nicole Anderson
Evolution - Thom Van Dooren and Vinciane Despret
Extinction - Matthew Chrulew & Rick De Vos
Farming - Henry Buller
Film - Laura McMahon
Food - Lindsay Kelley
Fragility - Claire Colebrook
Friendship - Johnny Golding
Genealogies - Matthew Calarco
Homo Sapiens - David Wood
Law - Yoriko Otomo
Literature - Derek Ryan
Meaning - Wendy Wheeler
Microbes - Stefan Herbrechter
Nonhuman Philosophy - John O Maoilearca
Performance - Undine Sellbach
Poetics - Aaron Moe
Posthumanism - Franklin Ginn
Queer Theory - Carla Freccero
Races - Christopher Peterson
Religion - Danielle Sands
Revolution - Ron Broglio
Science Fiction - Sheryl Vint
Technology - Richard Iveson
Voice - Lynn Turner
Afterword: Who Are These Animals I Am Following? - Cary Wolfe