Department of Sociology 2012-13 Animals, Society and Culture SO334

Department of Sociology 2012-13 Animals, Society and Culture SO334 Convenor: Nickie Charles Room number: Ramphal 3.32 Email: nickie.charles@warwick.ac.uk Office hours: Thursday 12.00-1.00 Lecture: Wednesdays at 11.00 in R1.03 Seminars: Thursdays at 10.00 in S2.84 Thursdays at 11.00 in H2.03 Animals, Society and Culture SO334 This module will: (1) explore the significance of animals to society and culture - both historically and contemporaneously - and how changing relations between society and nature, human and animal have been conceptualised sociologically; (2) explore the philosophical and moral underpinnings of social and cultural attitudes and practices towards animals and their implications for animal welfare and animal rights; (3) investigate how social movements concerned with animals have affected both the way we 'see' animals and the way they are treated by humans; (4) explore the ways in which society, social action, agency and notions of the self have been understood and ask whether they can be mobilised to analyse the place(s) of animals in society and culture; (5) investigate the implications for sociology of post-humanist critiques of anthropocentric understandings of the world This module explores the place of animals in society and culture and how this varies cross-culturally and over time It will address the importance of animals to the organisation and development of society, exploring notions of 'co-evolution', 'domestication' and 'human exceptionalism' and the philosophical and moral underpinnings of human-animal relations Animal studies, as a newly-emerging interdisciplinary area of study, draws on different theoretical traditions to make sense of its subject matter Sociology has been particularly slow to take up the challenge of studying animals and the module will investigate why this should be so and whether studying animals poses a particular problem for sociology as a discipline It will consider different aspects of human-animal relations and how taking animals into consideration might challenge our understandings of society Learning outcomes By the end of the module you should be able to: • Explain how relations between humans and animals have changed over time • Evaluate different ways of theorising human-animal relations • Critically assess the material and cultural significance of animals in different types of society • Review the portrayal of animals in art, literature and film • Research, using a range of methods, the key social, political and ethical issues influencing the position of animals in contemporary societies Method of Assessment: the module may be assessed by 100% essay, or 100% examination, or 50% assessed / 50% examined Key Readings Key readings are identified for each week and need to be read before the relevant seminar You will not be expected to read all the key readings for every topic; advice on this will be provided in seminars All the key readings are available electronically as well as in hard copy in the Library There are three types of electronic resources that are accessed via the Library: scanned in extracts; e-journal articles and e-books Other resources can be accessed directly from the internet using the link provided You will need Adobe Reader to access resources electronically, and you can download it free if you don’t already have it on your machine: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html?promoid=DAFYK Scanned in Extracts These are chapters of books available via the Library’s dedicated site for e-resources for this module: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/main/electronicresources/extracts/so/so33 4/ You will need to ensure that you are registered for the module via eMR in order to have access, and you must also sign-in to the intranet site (see top menu bar, righthand-side) Then you simply look for the reference you require (they are arranged alphabetically by author’s surname) It will open as a pdf and the chapter follows on from the Copyright Notice You can read it on screen but you will also need to print a copy to bring to the class and you might also want to save a copy (for your own personal use only) E-journal articles The link provided will take you to the Library Catalogue site for that e-journal You will then need to select a database to access it through, checking that it has the relevant year You will need to be logged in and then the database archive will open and you need to select the Vol and/or No of the journal and page down for the article You can click to open the pdf, which may take a few seconds, but the interface and reliability does vary It is recommended instead to save the pdf to your hard drive or data-stick (right click, select ‘save target as’, then choose a directory and give the file a meaningful name) You can then open the saved document, print it, search it etc E-books The link provided after the reference in the reading list will take you to the Library Catalogue site for that e-book If you are on campus you click for access If you are off-campus click ‘Log In’ (top left of the page), then ‘Athens Users, log in here’ (bottom of screen at the left) and you should be prompted for your normal Warwick login Once you have opened the book you need to search for the relevant chapter You can read this on-screen but if possible you must also print a copy to bring to the class To print a Netbook make sure you have searched for the chapter using the box at the left-hand side, expanding sections as necessary to find it Then select Print from the top banner and choose the option ‘Pages starting with the current page’, inserting the number of pages in the box and clicking OK (where possible, the number of pages is provided in square brackets as part of the reference in this reading list) This will prompt the creation of an Adobe document so click to Run and the chapter will then come up on your screen with an option to print You can also save a copy using File, Save a Copy You will notice that under the terms of University Access to Netbooks only a limited number of pages can be printed each hour, so you may need to access the e-book again later if other library users have used the quota If you are unable to print the reference you must ensure that you have extra detailed notes to bring to the seminar Additional Readings All the additional readings listed below for each topic are available in the library and should be used when you are doing more in-depth work, eg for a seminar presentation, class essay, assessed essay or revision for exams Note: The nature of this course means that students will have different opinions, sometimes quite passionate, about the subject matter While you are encouraged to speak your mind freely in class discussions, you will also be expected to express yourself courteously, showing respect for the opinions and sensibilities of others In addition, some of the material that we will discuss and read about may be challenging or hard to hear and watch Animals, Society and Culture SO334 TERM Lecture outline (1) Introduction to animal studies and to the module (2) What is an animal? (3) The philosopher's dog and Schrodinger's cat – philosophy, science and religion Animals and social change (4) Co-evolution and social change - domestication (5) Animals in industrial society – from beasts of burden to fashion accessories (6) Reading week Animals and culture (7) Kinship with animals (8) Cultures of meat eating and farm animals (9) Cultures of masculinity (10) Animals and cultural identity TERM Representing animals (11 The call of the wild - zoos and safaris (12) Animals as spectacle – circuses, wildlife programmes (13) Anthropomorphism and animal tales (14) Representing animals - art, film and media Challenging speciesism (15) Social movements, animal welfare and animal rights (16) Reading week (17) Species, social construction and power – animal ethics (18) Embodiment - the elephant and the ant – science studies – current research on animal intelligence and emotions (19) Post-humanism and the animal challenge to sociology – animals and agency, selfhood, personhood (20) Understanding the social and cultural positioning of animals - systems or networks? – drawing the course together TERM (21) Revision session (22) Revision session Indicative reading The following will give you a good overview of the key topics covered on this course Berger, J (2009) Why look at animals? Penguin Books Birke, L (1994) Feminism, animals and science, Open University Press Carter, B and Charles, N (2011) Human and other animals: critical perspectives, Palgrave Cudworth, E (2011) Social Lives with Other Animals, Palgrave Ellis, S (2010) Wolf within, London: Harper Franklin, A (1999) Animals and Modern Cultures: A Sociology of Human-Animal Relations in Modernity, London: Sage Publications Haraway, D (2008) When Species Meet, University of Minnesota Peggs, K (2012) Animals and sociology, Palgrave Macmillan Rowlands, M (2008) The Philosopher and the Wolf, London: Granta There are two journals which contain useful articles: Society and Animals Anthrozoos Course texts Many of the key readings on this module come from the following readers and textbooks which you are strongly advised to purchase: • Arluke, A and Sanders, C (eds) (2009) Between the species: a reader in Human-Animal relationships, Boston, Mass: Pearson Education • Cudworth, E (2011) Social Lives with Other Animals, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan • Flynn, C P (ed) (2008) Social creatures: a human and animal studies reader, New York Lantern Books • Gross, A and Vallely (eds) (2012) Animals and the human imagination: a companion to animal studies, Colombia University Press • Hurn, S (2012) Humans and other animals, London: Pluto Press • Kalof, L and Fitzgerald, A (eds) (2007) The animals reader: the essential classic and contemporary writings, Oxford: Berg • Peggs, K (2012) Animals and sociology, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan There is also a series of books which contains many pieces which are useful for the module and which you should familiarise yourself with These books are available from the library: Kalof, L and Resl, B (eds) (2007) A cultural history of animals: volumes 1-6, Oxford: Berg Week Introduction to animal studies and to the module This lecture introduces the interdisciplinary field o animal studies and the module It raises the question of why there is an increasing interest in exploring human-other animal relations within sociology Key reading Ellis, S (2010) Wolf within, London: Harper Rowlands, M (2008) The Philosopher and the Wolf, London: Granta Week What is an animal? This lecture asks what is an animal? It begins to explore such questions as: How we define animals, how such definitions relate to defining what is human, and the way definitions of human and animal, society and nature differ cross culturally Key reading Ingold, T (2012) ‘Hunting and gathering as ways of perceiving the environment’ in A Gross and A Vallely (eds) Animals and the human imagination, New York: Columbia University Press, pp.31-54 Midgley, M (1988) ‘Beasts, brutes and monsters’ in T Ingold (ed.) (1988) What is an Animal? London: Unwin Hyman, pp.35-46 Berger, J (2009) Why look at animals, London: Penguin Books, pp 12-37 and in L Kalof and A Fitzgerald (eds) (2007) The animals reader, Oxford: Berg, Section 5, 26 Seminar questions What is an animal? How does Ingold distinguish between hunter-gatherer and Western ontologies? What does Midgley mean by the species barrier? How definitions of human and animal relate to each other? How can it be argued that animals make us human? Additional reading Arluke, A and Sanders, C R (1996) Regarding Animals, Philadelphia: Temple University Press (chapter 1) Bekoff, M (2007) Encyclopedia of human-animal relationships: a global exploration of our connections with animals, London: Greenwood Press Blake, C, Molloy, C and Shakespeare, S (eds) (2012) Beyond human: from animality to transhumanism, London: Continuum Caras, R A (1996) A perfect harmony: the intertwining lives of animals and humans throughout history, New York: Simon and Schuster Corbey, R (2005) The metaphysics of apes: negotiating the animal-human boundary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Creager, A N H and Jordan, W C (eds) (2002) The animal/human boundary: historical perspectives, Rochester: University of Rochester Press Descola, P and Palsson, G (eds) (1996) Nature and Society: anthropological perspectives, London: Routledge Ellis, S (2010) Wolf within, London: Harper Fudge, E (2002) Animals, London: Reaktion Freeman, C, Leane, E and Watt, Y (2011) Considering animals: contemporary studies in human-animal relations, London: Ashgate Haraway, D (2003) The Companion Species Manifesto, Prickily Paradigm Press Haraway, D (2008) When species meet, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press Hearne, V (2007) Adam’s task, New York: Skyhorse Publishing Herzog, H (2010) Some we love, some we hate, some we eat, Harper-Collins Hobson-West, P (2007) Beasts and Boundaries: An introduction to animals in sociology, science and society Qualitative Sociology Review, 3, 2-41 Ingold, T (1986) The appropriation of nature: essays on human ecology and social relations, Manchester: Manchester University Press Ingold, T (ed) (1988) What is an animal? London: Unwin Hyman Ingold, T (1983) The Architect and the Bee: Reflections on the Work of Animals and Men Author(s): Man, New Series, Vol 18, No 1, pp 1-20 Lynch, M and Collins, H.M (1998) ‘Introduction: humans, animals, machines’, Science, Technology and Human Values, 23, 371-383 Midgley, M (1989) Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature London: Methuen Midgley, M (1983) Animals and why they matter, Athens: University of Georgia Press Mack, A (ed) (1999) Humans and other animals, Columbus: Ohio State University Press Manning, A and Serpell, J (1994) Animals and Human Society London:Routledge Noske, B (1989) Humans and Other animals: beyond the boundaries of anthropology, London: Pluto Press Pluskowski, A (ed) (2007) Breaking and shaping beastly bodies: animals as material culture in the middle ages, Oxford: Oxbow Books Preece, R (2005) Brute Souls, Happy Beasts and Evolution: The Historical Status of Animals, UBC Press: Vancouver Rowlands, M (2008) The Philosopher and the Wolf, London: Granta Shapiro, K (2002) ‘Editor’s introduction: the state of human-animal studies: solid at the margin!’ Society and Animals, 10 (4): 331-337 Sheehan, J.J and Sosna, M (eds) (1991) The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines, Berkeley: University of California Press Shepard, P (1997) The Others: how animals made us human, Island Press Sorenson, J (2006) Ape, Reaktion Thomas, K (1984) Man and the natural world, Harmondsworth: Penguin Williams, E and DeMello, M (2007) Why animals matter, Amherst, N Y: Prometheus Books Week The philosopher's dog and Schrodinger's cat In this lecture we shall begin to explore how definitions of animals and the relation between humans and other animals have developed and changed in philosophy, science and religion Questions such as whether animals have souls, language, intelligence, emotions and how human exceptionalism has been legitimated will be investigated Moral questions of how animals should be treated, they feel pain, they suffer will be approached here but followed up in more detail later in the course Key reading Herzog, H (2009) ‘Human morality and animal research’ in A Arluke and C Sanders (eds) Between the Species, Unit 2, Part 5, 15 Nussbaum, M (2007) ‘The moral status of animals’ in Kalof, L and Fitzgerald, A (eds) (2007) The animals reader, Oxford: Berg, Section 1, Serpell, J (1986) In the company of animals, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, Chapter OR Thomas, K (1984) Man and the Natural World, Harmondsworth: Penguin, Chapter Seminar questions What are the problems with a Utilitarian approach to the treatment of animals? Should justice focus on the individual or the species? What moral dilemmas does Herzog identify in the social treatment of animals? What is human exceptionalism? Where does it originate? Is it a universal belief? What legitimates it? How does it relate to the way animals are treated in contemporary Western societies? Additional Reading Philosophy Aaltola, E (2012) Animal suffering: philosophy and culture, Palgrave Macmillan Adams, C J (1993) Neither man nor beast: feminism and the defense of animals, New York: Continuum Baron, D (2004) The beast in the garden: a modern parable of man and nature, New York: W W Norton Bat-Ami, B O and Ferguson, A (eds) (1998) Daring to be good: essays in feminist ethico-politics, New York: Routledge Carruthers, P (1992) The animals issue: moral theory in practice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Calarco, M and Atterton, P (eds) (2004) Animal philosophy: ethics and identity, London: Continuum Calarco, M (2007) Zoogeographies: the question of the animal from Heidegger to Derrida, NYC: Columbia University Press Coetzee, J M (2001) The Lives of Animals, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press Fudge, Erica, Brutal Reasoning: Animals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern England (Cornell, 2006) (animal/human distinctions historically prior to Descartes, relevant to how humans/animals are distinguished) Gaita, R (2002) The philosopher’s dog, London: Routledge Hearne, V (2007) Adam’s task, New York: Skyhorse Publishing Midgley, M (1983) Animals and why they matter, Athens: University of Georgia Press Midgley, M (1979) Man and Beast, Hassocks: Harvester Noske, B (1989) Humans and Other Animals, London: Pluto Press Rowlands, M (2002) Animals like us, London: Verso Rowlands, M (2008) The philosopher and the wolf, London: Granta Sorabji, R (1993) Animal minds and human morals, London: Duckworth Science Birke, L (1994) Feminism, Animals, and Science the naming of the shrew, Buckingham: Open University Press Fox-Keller, E and and Longino, H (eds) (1996) Feminism and Science, New York: Oxford University Press Franklin, S (2007) Dolly mixtures: the remaking of genealogy, Durham, NC: Duke University Press Gowaty, P A (ed) (1997) Feminism and evolutionary biology: boundaries, intersections, and frontiers, New York: Chapman and Hall Haraway, D (1989) Primate Visions: gender, race and nature in the world of modern science, New York: Routledge Harré, R (2009) Pavlov’s Dog and Schrödinger’s Cat, OUP Hicks, E.K (ed.) (1992) Science and the human-animal relationship, Amsterdam: SISWO Langley, G (ed) (1989) Animal experimentation: the consensus changes, London: Macmillan Regan, T (ed) (1986) Animal sacrifices: religious perspectives on the use of animals in science, Philadelphia: Temple University Press Waldau, P and Patton, K (2006) A communion of subjects: animals in religion, science and ethics, New York: Columbia University Press Westcoat, J L Jnr (1998) ‘The “right of thirst” for animals in Islamic law: a comparative approach’ in J Wolch and J Emel (eds) Animal Geographies, London: Verso, pp 259-279 Religion Bataille, G (1992) Theory of religion, New York: Zone Books Brown, J E (1997) Animals of the soul: sacred animals of the Oglala Sioux, Rockposrt, Mass: Element Folz, R (2006) Animals in Islamic Tradition and Muslim Cultures, Oxford: Oneworld Hobgood-Oster, L (2008) Holy dogs and asses: animals in the Christian tradition, Urbana: University of Illinois Press Kalechofsky, R (ed) (1992) Judaism and Animal rights: classical and contemporary responses, Marblehead, Mass: Micah Publications Linzey, A (1995) Animal theology, Urbana: University of Illinois Press Morris, B (2000) Animals and ancestors: an ethnography, New York: Berg Regan, T (ed) (1986) Animal sacrifices: religious perspectives on the use of animals in science, Philadelphia: Temple University Press Regenstein, L (1991) Replenish the earth: a history of organised religion’s treatment of animals, London SCM Press Waldau, P (2002) Spectres of speciesism: Bhuddist and Christian views of animals, New York: Oxford Univeristy Press Webb, S H (1997) On God and Dogs: a Christian theology of compassion for animals, New York: Oxford University Press Animals in different types of society Week Co-evolution or domestication? Here the focus is on processes of domestication, how they are understood, and how animals have co-shaped human societies We begin to investigate how human-animal relations have changed along with changes in the social organisation of production We also reflect on whether domestication is an ongoing process Key reading 10 Seminar questions How does Marvin use ideas of nature and culture to understand the symbolic significance of the bullfight? How is his analysis gendered? How ideas of authority, control and partnership operate in Haraway’s analysis of training for dog agility? What sort of human-dog relationship is she arguing for? What relationship is there between humans and animals in greyhound and horse racing? How social divisions of class, gender and race structure animal spectacle? Additional reading Cassidy, R (2002) The sport of kings: kinship, class, and thoroughbred breeding at Newmarket, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Davis, S G (1997) Spectacular nature: corporate culture and the sea world experience, Berkeley: University of California Press Franklin, A (1999) Animals & Modern Cultures: A Sociology of Human-Animal Relations in Modernity London: Sage, chapter Geertz, C (1973) ‘Deep play: notes on the Balinese cock fight’ in The interpretation of cultures, New York: Basic Books, pp 412-453 Haraway, D (2003) The Companion Species Manifesto Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press Haraway, D (2008) When Species Meet, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press Hardouin-Fugier, E (2010) Bullfighting: A Troubled History, Reaktion Howe, J (1981) ‘Fox hunting as ritual’ in American Ethnologist 278-300 Jerolmack, C (2007) ‘Animal archaeology: domestic pigeons and the nature-culture dialectic’ in Qualitative Sociology Review, (1): 74-95 Kalof, L (2007) Looking at Animals in Human History, London: Reaktion Books, chapter Marvin, G (1984) ‘The cockfight in Andalusia, Spain: images of the truly male’ in Anthopological Quarterly, 57 (2): 60-70 Marvin, G (1988) Bullfight, Oxford: Blackwell Marvin, G (2000) ‘The problem of foxes: legitimate and illegitimate killing in the English countryside’ in J Knight (ed) Natural enemies: people-wildlife conflicts in anthropological perspective, London: Routledge, pp 189-212 Marvin, G (2001) ‘Cultured Killers: Creating and Representing Foxhounds’ Society and Animals 9(3): 273- 292 Marvin, G (2003) ‘A passionate pursuit: foxhunting as performance’ in Sociological Review, 52 (2):46-60 Marvin, G (2005) ‘Disciplined affection: the making of a pack of foxhounds’ in J.Knight (ed) Animals in person: cultural perspectives on human-animal intimacies, London: Berg TERM Week 11 Animals and cultural identities In this lecture our focus is on how groups and nations are defined through animal symbolism and the consequences of this for animals We shall look at the symbolic importance of animals in hunter-gatherer societies, how the processes involved in colonial conquest affected the animals involved and the obsession with breeding pedigree animals associated with establishing national identities 19 Key reading Baker, S (2001) Picturing the beast, University of Illinois Press, Chapter 2, pp.33-73 Emel, J (1998) ‘Are you man enough, big and bad enough? Wolf eradication in the US’ in J Wolch and J Emel (eds) Animal Geographies, London: Verso, pp 91116 Franklin, A (2011) ‘An improper nature? Introduced animals and “species cleansing” in Australia’ in Carter, B and Charles, N (2011) Human and other animals: critical perspectives, Palgrave, pp 195-216 Pandian, A (2012) ‘Pastoral power in the postcolony: on the biopolitics of the criminal animal in South India’ in A Gross and A Vallely (eds) Animals and the human imagination, Columbia University Press, pp 70-111 Seminar questions How have animals been used as symbols of national identity? What consequences has this had for real animals? Emel draws parallels between wolves, bison and native American Indians in her discussion of the colonial encounter How does she this? How does Franklin link processes of species cleansing to ideas of cultural identity? How does Pandian theorise animality and pastoral power? How does this relate to the biopolitics of colonialism and postcolonialism? Additional Reading Adams, C J and Donovan, J (eds) (1995) Anmals and women: feminist theoretical explorations, Durham, N C: Duke University Press Anderson, V D (2004) Creatures of Empire: how domestic animals transformed early America, Oxford: Oxford University Press Bernd, B (2007) Bears: a brief history, New Haven: Yale University Press Blake, C, Molloy, C and Shakespeare, S (eds) (2012) Beyond human: from animality to transhumanism, London: Continuum Brüggemeier, F J, Cioc, M and Zeller, T (eds.) (2005), How Green Were the Nazis? Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich, Athens, OH: Ohio University Press Bryld, M and Lykke, N (2000) Cosmodolphins: Feminist cultural studies of technology, animals and the sacred, London and New York: Zed Books Cassidy, R (2002) The sport of kings: kinship, class, and thoroughbred breeding at Newmarket, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Coates, P (2007) Strangers on the Land, California Crosby, A (1986) Ecological Imperialism: the biological expansion of Europe, 9001900, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press de John Anderson, V (2004) Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America, New York Derr, M (2004) A Dog's History of America: How Our Best Friend Explored, Conquered, and Settled a Continent, North Point Press Derry, M (2003) Bred for Perfection: Shorthorn Cattle, Collies, and Arabian Horses since 1800, Johns Hopkins Einarsoon, N (1993) ‘All animals are equal but some are cetaceans: conservation and culture conflict’ in K Milton (ed) Environmentalism: the view from anthropology, London: Routledge 20 Franklin, A (2006) Animal Nation: The True Story of Animals and Australia University of New South Wales Press Franklin, S (2007) Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy Duke University Press Gaard, G (ed) (1993) Eco-feminism: women, animals and nature, Philadelphia: Temple University Press Gruffydd, P (2011) ‘On the prowl with the Possum Posse: nature and nation in Aotearoa/New Zealand’ in Carter, B and Charles, N (2011) Human and other animals: critical perspectives, Palgrave, pp.217-235 Hogan, L, Metzger, D and Peterson, B (1998) Intimate nature: the bond between women and animals, New York: Ballantine Isenberg, A C (2000) The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, Cambridge University Press Jones, R (2012) Mosquito Reaktion Marvin, G (2012) Wolf Reaktion Melville, E G K (1997) A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico, Cambridge University Press Schwartz, M (1997) A History of Dogs in the Early Americas, London: Yale University Pres Skabelund, A H (2011) Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World, Cornell University Press Skabelund, A H (2008) ‘Breeding racism: the imperial battlefields of the “German” Shepherd dog’, in Society and Animals, 16 (4): 354-371 Swart, S (2010) Riding High: horses, humans and history in South Africa, Johannesburg, SA: Wits University Press Van Driesche, J and R (2000) Nature out of place: biological invasions in the global age, Wahsington, DC: Island Press van Sittert, L and Swart, S (eds) (2007) Canis Africanis, A Dog History of Southern Africa BRILL Willis, R (ed) (1994) Signifying animals: human meaning in the natural world, New York: Routledge Representing animals Week 12 The call of the wild – zoos, safaris and conservation What are zoos? What are they culturally/socially? When did they originate and why? How they relate to conservation? This lecture explores cultural representations of animals in different contexts and their relationship to imperial conquest and the advancement of scientific knowledge The development of safaris and eco-tourism and the cultural representations of the animals concerned are also considered Key reading Davies, G (1998) ‘Virtual animals in electronic zoos: the changing geographies of animal capture and display’ in Philo, C and Wilbert, C (eds) Animal spaces, beastly places, London: Routledge, pp.243-267 Malamud, R (2007) ‘Zoo spectatorship’ in L Kalof and A Fitzgerald (eds) The Animals Reader, Oxford: Berg, Section 4, 24 Hurn, S (2012) Humans and other animals, Pluto Press, Chapter 13, pp.165-175 21 Peace, A (2005) ‘Loving Leviathan: the discourse of whale-watching in Australian ecotourism’ in J Knight (ed) Animals in person: cultural perspectives on human-animal intimacies, Oxford: Berg, pp.191-210 Seminar questions What relations of inequality are enshrined in zoos? What can we learn about the gaze of spectatorship? How does Malamud relate spectatorship to gender? How are zoos related to scientific knowledge about and human classification of animal species? What types of conservation are identified in the readings? How these incorporate different human-animal relations and representations of animals? Is eco-tourism another form of cultural domination that is damaging the environment? Additional reading Bancel, N et al (eds) (2009) Human Zoos: from the Hottentot Venus to reality shows, Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press Baratay, E and Hardouin-Fugier, E (2004) Zoo: A History of Zoological Gardens in the West, Reaktion Baron, D (2004) The beast in the garden: a modern parable of man and nature, New York: W W Norton Benson, E (2010) Wired Wilderness: Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife, Johns Hopkins University Press Berger, J (2009) Why look at animals, London: Penguin Books, pp 12-37 Bostock, S (1993) Zoos and animal rights: the ethics of keeping animals, New York: Routledge Cioc, M (2009) Game of Conservation, Ohio University Press Hancocks, D (2001) A different nature: the paradoxical world of zoos and their uncertain future, Berkeley: University of California Press Hancocks, D (2007) ‘Zoo animals as entertainment and exhibitions’ in R Malamud (ed) A cultural history of animals in the modern age, vol 6, Ozford: Berg Hoage, R J and Deiss, W A (eds) (1996) New worlds, new animals: from menagerie to zoological park in the nineteenth century, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press Mullan, R and Marvin, G (1999) Zoo Culture, Champaign: University of Illinois Press Rothfels, N.(2002) Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press Rothfels, N (2007) ‘How the caged bird sings: animals and entertainment’ in K Kete (ed) A cultural history of animals in the age of empire, vol 5, Oxford: Berg Week 13 Anthropomorphism and animal tales Most of us are familiar with stories like Lassie, Black Beauty and the fairy stories of the Brother Grimm Stories for children rely on animal characters, but so many that are written for adults We look at the place of anthropomorphism in different literary genres and consider how it functions to create relations of attachment between humans and animals Key reading 22 Manquin, T (2007) ‘Narrative dominion of the animals write back? Animal Genres in literature and the arts’ in K Kete (ed) A cultural history of animals in the age of empire, vol 5, Oxford: Berg, pp 153-174 Fudge, E (2002) Animal, Reaktion Books, Chapter 2, pp 67-92 Superle, M (2012) ‘Animal heroes and transforming substances: canine characters in contemporary children’s literature’ in A Gross and A Vallely (eds) Animals and the human imagination, New York: Columbia University Press, pp 174-202 Leane, E and Pfennigwerth, S (2011) ‘Marching on thin ice: the politics of penguin films’ in C Freeman, E Leane and Y Watt (eds) Considering Animals: Contemporary Studies in Human-Animal Relations, Ashgage, pp 29-40 Seminar questions What is anthropomorphism? How is it put to work in literature for adults and children? Does it have a role in promoting a particular form of relations between animals and humans? What values the anthropomorphic representation of penguins reinforce? Identify the effect of anthropomorphism on human-animal relations as discussed in the readings Can we avoid anthropomorphism in representing animals in fiction? Additional reading Armstrong, P and Potts, A (2004) What animals mean in the fiction of modernity, London and New York: Routledge Coetzee, J M (2000) Disgrace, New York: Penguin Coetzee, J M (1999) The Lives of Animals, Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ Daston, L and Mitman, G (2006) Thinking with Animals : New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism Columbia University Press Denenholz Morse, D and M A Danahay (eds) (2007) Victorian animal dreams : representations of animals in Victorian literature and culture, Farnham: Ashgate Fudge, E (2002) Animal, London: Reaktion Books Morris, B (2000) Animals and ancestors: an ethnography, New York: Berg McHugh, S (2006) ‘One or Several Literary Animal Studies?’ Ruminations 3, http://www.h-net.org/~animal/ruminations_mchugh.html Norris, M (2006) ‘The human-animal in fiction’, Parallax, 12 (1): 4-20 Orwell, G (1989) Animal Farm: a fairy story, Penguin Books Pollock, M S and Rainwater, C (eds) (2005) Figuring animals: essays on animal images in art, literature, philosophy, and popular culture, New York: Palgrave Macmillan Sewell, A (1877/1905) Black Beauty, New York: Scholastic Paperbacks Shapiro, K and Copeland, M (2005) ‘Toward a Critical Theory of Animal Issues in Fiction’ in Society and Animals, 13 (4): 343-346 Woolf, V (2002) Flush: a biography, Vintage Zipes, J (2006) Fairy tales and the art of subversion, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2006 Zipes, J (1986) Don’t bet on the prince, Gower Zipes, J (2002) The brothers Grimm: from the enchanted forest to the modern world, Palgrave Macmillan Week 14 Visual representation of animals 23 This lecture looks at how animals are represented in art and film, focussing particularly on wildlife programmes How have representations of animals and their cultural meaning changed with changing visual technologies? Key reading Burt, J (2007) ‘Animals in visual art from 1900 to the present’ in R Malamud (ed) A cultural history of animals in the modern age, vol 6, Ozford: Berg, pp 163194 Coe, C (2006) Watching wildlife, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Chapter Siegel, S (2005) ‘Reflections on anthropomorphism in The disenchanted forest’ in L Daston and G Mitman (eds) Thinking with animals, New York: Columbia University Press, pp 196-222 Seminar questions Burt identifies different ways animals are used in art – what are they and what meanings to these representations convey? What challenges does art pose for thinking about humanity and animality? How does Siegel justify her approach to representing the orang-utangs for a wildlife documentary? What is the appeal of wildlife documentaries? How they construct the ‘wild’ and the ‘tame’? Additional reading Arluke, A and R Bogdan, (2010) Beauty and the Beast, Syracuse Baker, S (1993) Picturing the beast: animals, identity and representation, Manchester: Manchester University Press Baker, S (2000) The Postmodern Animal London: Reaktion Books Benton, J (1992) The Medieval Menagerie: Animals in the Art of the Middle Ages London: Abbeville Press Birke, L (2006) ‘Meddling with Medusa: on genetic manipulation, art and animals’, AI and Society, 29, 103-117 Brower, M (2010) Developing Animals: Wildlife and Early American Photography, Minnesota Burt, J (2002) Animals in film, London: Reaktion Press Chris, C (2006) Watching wildlife, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press Copeland, M.W (2003) ‘Critter Crusader: “Wildlife Mystery Thriller”’ in Society and Animals Costlow, J T and Nelson, A (eds) (2010) Other Animals: Beyond the Human in Russian Culture and History, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press Donald, D (2007) Picturing Animals in 19th century Art, Yale University Press Ingram, D (2000) Green Screen: Environmentalism and Hollywood cinema, Exeter: University of Exeter Press Kalof, L (2007) Looking at Animals in Human History, London: Reaktion Books Lucie-Smith, E (1998) Zoo: Animals in Art, London: Aurum Press Malamud, A (2012) An introduction to animals and visual culture, Palgrave Macmillan Mitman, G (1999) Reel nature: America’s romance with wildlife on film, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press 24 Mitman, G (2005) ‘Pachyderm personalities: the media of science, politics, and conservation’ in L Daston and G Mitman (eds) Thinking with animals, New York: Columbia University Press, Molloy, C (2011) Popular media and animals, Palgrave Macmillan Pollock, M S and Rainwater, C (eds) (2005) Figuring animals: essays on animal images in art, literature, philosophy, and popular culture, New York: Palgrave Macmillan Rothfels, N (ed) (2002) Representing animals, Bloomington: Indiana University Press Ryan, J (2000) ‘“Hunting with the camera”: photography, wildlife and colonialism in Africa’ in G Philo and C Wilbert (eds) (2000) Animal spaces, beastly places: geographies of human-animal relations, London Routledge Thomas, K (1984) Man and the Natural World, Harmondsworth: Penguin Werness, H B (2007) Continuum Encyclopaedia of Animal Symbolism in World Art Continuum Willis, R (ed) (1994) Signifying animals: human meaning in the natural world, New York: Routledge Wilson, A (1992) The culture of nature: North American landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez, Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell Zipes, J (2011) The enchanted screen: the unknown history of fairy-tale films, Routledge Challenging speciesism Week 15 Social movements, animal welfare and animal rights This lecture looks at social movements which aim to improve animal welfare and/or campaign for animal rights Movements in support of animal welfare emerged in the 19th century which was when organisations such as the RSPCA were founded, and in the latter years of the 20th century welfare movements, environmental movements and animal rights movements have campaigned in different ways to challenge humananimal relations What is the social basis of these movements and what are their underlying philosophies? Key reading Kete, K (2002) ‘Animals and ideology: the politics of animal protection in Europe’ in Rothfels, N (ed) Representing animals, Indiana University Press Pp.19-34 Lansbury, C (2007) ‘The brown dog riots of 1907’ in Kalof, L and Fitzgerald, A (eds) (2007) The animals reader, Oxford: Berg, Section 6, 31 Lyle, M (2008) ‘Caring about blood, flesh and pain: women’s standing in the environmental protection movement’ in C P Flynn (ed) Social Creatures, Lantern Books, pp 386-400 Noske, B (2009) ‘Two movements and human-animal continuity’ in A Arluke and C Sanders (eds) Between the species, Pearson Education, Article 33, pp 354-360 Seminar questions What does Kete’s analysis reveal about the class and gender basis of animal protection movements in the 19th century? How can we explain the gender basis of animal protection movements? Is there a difference between movements in the 19th and 20th centuries? 25 What is Noske’s argument? What role does sentience play in animal rights movements? What is the difference between the philosophical basis of the animal rights and the environmental movements? Is there a philosophical difference between the basis of the animal protection movements of the 19th century and the animal rights movements of the 20th century? Additional reading Best, S and Nocella, A J (2004) Terrorists or freedom fighters? Reflections on the liberation of animals, Lantern Books Boddice, R (2009) A History of Attitudes and Behaviours toward Animals in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain Anthropocentrism and the Emergence of Animals, Edwin Mellen Press Cochrane, A (2010) An introduction to animals and political theory, Palgrave Macmillan Donovan, J and Adams, C J (eds) (1996) Beyond animal rights: a feminist caring ethic for the treatment of animals, Continuum Einwohner, R L (1999) ‘Gender, Class, and Social Movement Outcomes: Identity and Effectiveness in Two Animal Rights Campaigns’ in Gender and Society, 13 (1) pp 56-76 Emberly, J (1998) The cultural politics of fur, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press Emberly, J (1998) Venus and Furs: Cultural politics of fur, I B Tauris, Francione, G L and Garner, R (2010) The animal rights debate: abolition or regulation? Columbia University Press Franklin, A 1999 Animals & Modern Cultures: A Sociology of Human-Animal Relations in Modernity London: Sage Chap.9 Gaardner, E (2008) ‘Risk and reward: the impact of animal rights activism on women’ in Society and Animals, 16 (1): 1-22 Greenebaum, J (2009) ‘“I’m not an activist”: animal rights vs animal welfare in the pure bred dog rescue movement’ in Society and Animals, 17(4): 289-304 Kalof, L (2007) Looking at Animals in Human History, London: Reaktion Books, chapters and Kean, H (2000) Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain since 1800, Reaktion Kemmerer, L (ed) (2011) Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice, University of Illinois Press Lansbury, C (1985) The old brown dog: women, workers, and vivisectin in Edwarian England, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press Leahy, M (1994) Against liberation: putting animals in perspective, London: Routledge Linzey, A and Clarke, P B (2004) Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology, Columbia Molloy, C (2011) Popular media and animals, Palgrave Macmillan, Chapter Munro, L (2005) ‘Strategies, action repertoires and DIY activism in the animal rights movement’ in Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest, (1): 75-94 26 Nibert, D 2002 Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield Peek, C.W., Bell, N J and Dunham, C C (1996) ‘Gender, Gender Ideology, and Animal Rights Advocacy’ in Gender and Society, 10 (4): 464-478 Peggs, K (2009) ‘The social constructionist challenge to primacy identity and the emancipation of oppressed groups: human primacy identity politics and the human/‘animal’ dualism’ in Sociological Research Online 14(1) 1-18 http://www.socresonline.org.uk/14/1/3.html Pichardo, N A 1997 ‘New Social Movements: A Critical Review’ in Annual Review of Sociology, 23: 411-430 Rowlands, M (2002) Animals Like Us, London: Verso, Chapter10 Rudy, K (2008) The role of gender in our social treatment of nonhuman animals, BRILL Singer, P (1974) Animal liberation, New York: Avon Singer, P 1977 Animal liberation : towards an end to man's inhumanity to animals, London: Paladin Sunstein, C and Nussbaum, M (eds) (2004) Animal rights: current debtates and new directions, Oxford: Oxford University Press Sztybel, D (2011) Universal animal rights: winning the ethical debate, Palgrave Macmillan Taylor, A (2003) Animals and ethics: an overview of the philosophical debate, Orchard Park, N Y: Broadview Press Tester, K (1991) Animals and Society: the humanity of animal rights, London: Routledge Zimmerman, M E (ed) (1993) Environmental philosophy: from animal rights to radical ecology, Englewood Cliffs, N J: Prentice Hall Week 16: Reading week Week 17 Species, social construction and power What is speciesism and how are relations between humans and animals constructed? Moral questions of how animals should be treated, they feel pain, they suffer will be considered George Orwell Kay Peggs Erika Key reading Cudworth, E (2011) Social Lives with Other Animals, Palgrave, Chapter Donovan, J (1990) ‘Animal Rights and Feminist Theory’ in Signs, 15(2): 350-375 and in J Donovan and C J Adams (eds) (1996) Beyond animal rights: a feminist caring ethic for the treatment of animals, Continuum, pp 34-59 Noske, B (2008) ‘Speciesism, anthropocentrism, and non-Western cultures’ in C P Flynn (ed) Social creatures: a human and animal studies reader, New York Lantern Books, pp 77-87 Peggs, K (2012) Animals and sociology, Palgrave Macmillan, Chapter Regan, T (2007) The rights of humans and other animals’ in Kalof, L and Fitzgerald, A (eds) (2007) The animals reader, Oxford: Berg, Section 1, Singer, P (2007) ‘Animal liberation or animal rights?’ in Kalof, L and Fitzgerald, A (eds) (2007) The animals reader, Oxford: Berg, Section 1, Seminar questions 27 What is speciesism? Is it limited to Western cultures? What is the difference between Singer’s and Regan’s arguments? On what basis they disagree? What is the basis of Donovan’s critique of Singer and Regan? Is this critique justified? Why does Cudworth develop the concept anthroparchy and how does she define it? Is it useful? Additional reading Adams, C J and Donovan, J (eds) (1995) Anmals and women: feminist theoretical explorations, Durham, N C: Duke University Press Bat-Ami, B O and Ferguson, A (eds) (1998) Daring to be good: essays in feminist ethico-politics, New York: Routledge Benton, T (1993) Natural Relations: Ecology, animal rights and social justice, London: Verso Cochrane, A (2010) Animal rights without liberation, Columbia University Press Cohen, C and Regan, T (2001) The animal rights debate, Lanham, Md: Rowland and Littlefield Cudworth, E (2011) Social Lives with Other Animals, Palgrave Donaldson, S and Kymlicka, W (2011) Zoopolis, Oxford University Press Fellenz, M R (2007) The moral menagerie: philosophy and animal rights, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press Francione, G L and Garner, R (2010) The animal rights debate: abolition or regulation? New York: Columbia University Press Francione, G L (2009) Animals as persons: Essays on the abolition of animal exploitation, Columbia University Press Franklin, J H (2005) Animal rights and moral philosophy, New York: Columbia University Press Francione, G L (1995) Animals, Property, and the Law, Philadelphia: Temple University Press Garner, R (1996) Animal rights: the changing debate, London: Verso Gold, M (1995) Animal rights: extending the circle of compassion, Oxford: Carpenter Gruen, L (2011) Ethics and animals: an introduction, Cambridge University Press (in library) Herzog, H (2010) Some we love, some we hate, some we eat, Harper-Collins Langley, G (ed) (1989) Animal experimentation: the consensus changes, London: Macmillan O’Sullivan, S (2011) Animals, equality and democracy, Palgrave Macmillan Peggs, K (2011) Risk, Human Health and the Oppression of Nonhuman Animals: the Development of Transgenic Nonhuman Animals for Human Use Special issue of Humanimalia: A Journal of Human/Animal Interface Studies.2 (2) 49-69 Peggs, K (2009) ‘A hostile world for nonhuman animals: human identification and the oppression of nonhuman animals for human good’ in Sociology 43 (1): 85102 Peggs, K (2010 ) ‘Nonhuman animal experiments in the European Community: human values and rational choice’ in Society and Animals 18 (1): 1-20 Regan, T (1983) The case for animal rights, Berkeley: University of California Press 28 Ritvo, H (1997) The Platypus and the Mermaid, and other Figments of the Classifying Imagination (about classifying animals, naturalists in the 18th and 19th centuries) Rowlands, M (2009) Animal rights: moral theory and practice, 2nd edition, Palgrave Macmillan Ryder, R (2000) Animal Revolution: Changing attitudes towards speciesism Oxford: Berg Singer, P and Regan, T (eds) (1989) Animal rights and human obligations, Englewood Cliffs, N J: Prentice Hall Singer, P (2006) In defense of animals: the second wave, Oxford: Blackwell Singer, P (1974) Animal liberation, New York: Avon Spiegel, M (1988) The dreaded comparison: human and animal slavery, London: Heretic Steeves, H P (ed) (1999) Animal others: on ethics, ontology and animal life, Albany, N Y: State University of new York Press Wise, S (2000) Rattling the cage: towards legal rights for animals, Cambridge, Mass: Perseus Books Zimmerman, M E (ed) (1993) Environmental philosophy: from animal rights to radical ecology, Englewood Cliffs, N J: Prentice Hall Week 18 Embodiment - the elephant and the ant This lecture looks at research into animal behaviour, how communication happens between different species and how scientists understand other animals It explores phenomenological approaches to understanding other animals and raises questions such as: Can we ever understand what it is to be a bat? Key reading Bekoff, M (2007) Wild justice and fair play: cooperation, forgiveness, and morality in animals in L Kalof and A Fitzgerald (eds) (2007) The animals reader, Oxford: Berg, Section 2, 11 Candea, M (2010) ‘“I fell in love with Carlos the meerkat”: engagement and detachment in human-animal relations’ in American Ethnologist, 37 (2): 241258 Masson, J M and McCarthy, S (2007) ‘Grief, sadness and the bones of elephants’ in L Kalof and A Fitzgerald (eds) (2007) The animals reader, Oxford: Berg, Section 2,12 Sanders, C G and Arluke, A (2007) ‘Speaking for dogs’ in L Kalof and A Fitzgerald (eds) (2007) The animals reader, Oxford: Berg, Section 2, 10 Shapiro, K (2008) ‘Understanding dogs through kinaesthetic empathy, social construction, and history’ in C P Flynn (ed) Social creatures: a human and animal studies reader, New York Lantern Books pp.31-48 OR Shapiro, K (1997) ‘A phenomenological approach to the study of nonhuman animals’ in R W Mitchell, N S Thompson and H L Miles (eds) Anthropomorphism, anecdotes, and animals, State University of New York Press, pp 277-295 Seminar questions Why is an emotional attachment to individual animals considered not to be part of ‘good’ science? 29 What is ‘critical anthropomorphism’? How does it help us understand animal behaviour? What evidence is there for the existence of culture and morality amongst nonhuman animals? How does Shapiro define a phenomenological approach and how can it help us understand other animals? Additional reading Balcombe, J (2006) Pleasurable kingdom: animals and the nature of feeling good, New York: Macmillan Balcombe, J (2010) Second Nature: the inner lives of animals, Macmillan Bekoff, M and Jamieson, D (eds) (1990) Interpretation and explanation in the study of animal behaviour, Boulder, Colo: Westsview Press Bekoff, M and Jamieson, D (eds) (1999) Readings in Animal Cognition, Bradford Books Bekoff, M and Jamieson, D (2002) The Cognitive Animal Bradford Books Burkhardt, Jr, R W (2005) Patterns of behaviour: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the founding of ethology, Chicago: University of Chicago Press Cavalieri, P and Singer, P (eds) (1993) The great ape project: equality beyond humanity, New York: Macmillan Crist, E (1999) Images of animals: anthropomorphism and animal mind, Philadelphia: Temple University Press De Waal, F (2006) Primates and philosophers: how morality evolved, Princeton, N J: Princeton University Press De Waal, F (2001) The ape and the sushi master: cultural reflections by a primatologist, New York: Basic Books Grandin, T and Johnson, C (2006) Animals in translation: using the mysteries of autism to decode animal behaviour, Bloomsbury: London Gates, P (1997) Animal communication, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Griffin, D R (2001) Animal minds: beyond cognition to consciousness, Chicago: University of Chicago Press Haraway, D (2003) The Companion Species Manifesto, Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press Haraway, D (2008) When Species Meet, University of Minnesota Masson, J M (2003) The pig who sang to the moon: the emotional world of farm animals, New York: Ballantine Books Masson, J M and McCarthy, S (1995) When elephants weep: the emotional lives of animals, New York: Delta Trade Paperbacks Mitchell, R W et al (eds) (1997) Anthropomorphism, anecdotes and animals, Albany: State University of New York Press Pepperberg, I M (1999) The Alex studies: cognitive and communicative abilities of grey parrots, Cambridge:Harvard University Press Pepperberg, I M (2008) Alex and me: how a sceintist anda parot uncovered a hiden world of animal intelligence – and formed a deep bond in the process, New York: Harper Collins Risau, C (ed) (1991) Cognitive ethology: the minds of other animals, Hillsdale, N J: L.Erlbaum Associates Week 19 The animal challenge to sociology 30 Why is it that sociology has taken so long to begin looking at animals? What is it about the study of other animals that is problematic for sociology? We consider how notions of animal agency, personhood and selfhood pose problems for sociology and challenge the very idea of society and sociology’s object of study Key reading Hobson-West, P (2007) ‘Beasts and Boundaries: An introduction to animals in sociology, science and society’ Qualitative Sociology Review, 3, 2-41 Hurn, S (2012) Humans and other animals, Pluto Press, Chapter 10 Irvine, L (2007) ‘The question of animal selves: implications for sociological kowledge and practice’ in Qualitative Sociology Review, (1): 5-22 Nibert, D (2003) ‘Humans and Other Animals: Sociology’s Moral and Intellectual Challenge’ in International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 23(3): 425 Smith, J A (2003) ‘Beyond dominance and affection: living with rabbits in posthumanist households’ in Society and Animals, 11 (2): 181-97 Seminar questions Why is it that studying non-human animals poses a challenge to sociology? What are the implications of sociological studies of animals for the way we conceptualise society? Nibert argues that animals pose a moral and intellectual challenge to sociology – what form does this challenge take? Is intersubjectivity possible between humans and other animals? What are the arguments for and against this possibility? What arguments are advanced in support of animal agency? Which intellectual traditions are they derived from? Additional reading Alger, J and Alger, S (1997) ‘Beyond Mead: Symbolic Interaction between Humans and Felines’ Society and Animals (1): 65-81 Alger, J M and Alger, S F (2003) ‘Drawing the line between humans and animals: an examination of introductory sociology textbooks’ International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 23(3): 69-93 Arluke, A and Sanders, C R (1996) Regarding animals, Philadelphia: Temple University Press Arluke, A (2002) ‘A Sociology of Sociological Animal Studies’ in Society and Animals 10 (4), 369-374 Arluke, A (2003) ‘Ethnozoology and the future of sociology’ in International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 23(3): 26-45 Blake, C, Molloy, C and Shakespeare, S (eds) (2012) Beyond human: from animality to transhumanism, London: Continuum Carter, B and Charles, N (eds) (2011) Human and other animals: a critical approach, Palgrave Macmillan (chapter 1) Cerulo, K A (2009) ‘Nonhumans in social interaction’ in Annual Review of Sociology, 35: 531-52 Flynn, C P (2003) A course is a course, of course, of course (unless it’s an animals and society course): challenging boundaries in academia International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 23(3): 94-108 31 Ingold, T (2000) The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skil, London : Routledge Irvine, L (2004) If you tame me: Understanding our connection with animals, Temple University Press Irvine, L (2003) ‘George's Bulldog: What Mead's Canine Companion Could Have Told Him About the Self’ Sociological Origins (1): 46-49 Jerolmack, C (2009) ‘Humans, animals and play: theorising interaction when intersubjectivity is problematic’ in Sociological Theory, 27 (4): 371-389 Johnson, L (2012) Power, knowledge, animals, Palgrave Macmillan Kheel, M (2008) Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective, Lanham: Rowan and Littlefield Publishers Knight, J (ed) (2005) Animals in person: Cultural perspectives on human-animal intimacies, Oxford: Berg Kruse, C R (2002) ‘Social Animals: Animal Studies and Sociology’ Society and Animals 10 (4), 375-378 Laurier, E, Maze R and Lundin, J (2006) ‘Putting the Dog Back in the Park: Animal and Human Mind-in-Action’ in Mind, Culture, and Activity, 13: 2-24 McFarland, S E and Hediger, R (eds) (2009) Animals and Agency: An Interdisciplinary Exploration, Brill Morris, B (2000) Animals and ancestors: an ethnography, New York: Berg Newton, T (2007) Nature and sociology Routledge: London and NewYork Peggs, K (2012) Animals and sociology, Palgrave Macmillan, chapter Sanders, C R (1995) ‘Killing with kindness: veterinary euthanasia and the social construction of personhood’, Sociological Forum, 10, 195-214 Sanders, C R (1993) ‘Understanding dogs: caretakers’ attributions of mindedness in canine-human relationships’ in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 22, 205-226 Tovey, H (2003) ‘Theorising nature and society in sociology: the invisibility of animals’ in Sociologia Ruralis, 43 (3): 196-215 Willerslev, R (2007) Soul Hunter: Hunting, Animism and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs Berkeley , CA : University of California Press Wolfe, C (2003) Animal Rites – American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory, Chicago University Press Wolfe, C (2009) What is Posthumanism? University of Minnesota Press Wolfe, C (ed) (2003) Zoontologies: the question of the animal, Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press Week 20 Understanding the social and cultural positioning of animals This lecture draws the course together and evaluates the different theoretical perspectives used to understand human-animal relations Is it important to consider social structures or are networks a better way of comprehending the ways in which humans and animals relate to each other? What are the moral questions raised by the current state of human-animal relations? Key reading Carter, B and Charles, N (2011) ‘Human-animal connections: an introduction’ in B Carter and N Charles (eds) Human and other animals: critical perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, pp 1-30 32 Coetzee, J M (2001) ‘The lives of animals’ in The Lives of Animals, Princeton University Press, pp.15-72 Law, J and Miele, M (2011) ‘Animal practices’ in B Carter and N Charles (eds) Human and other animals: critical perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, pp 5068 Michael, M (2000) Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature: From Society to Heterogeneity, London: Routledge, Chapter 2, pp 18-44 Seminar questions How you think we can best understand the relationship between human and other animals in western societies? What can sociology contribute to this understanding? What can we learn about human-animal relations by looking at different types of society? What are the key theories we have used to explore human-animal relations? Is it important to retain a conception of social structure in order to understand human-animal relations? How, if at all, does this relate to animal agency? Additional reading Haraway, D (1992) ‘Other worldly conversations; terrain topics; local terms’ in Science as Culture, 3: 64-99 Haraway, D (2003) The Companion Species manifesto, Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press Haraway, D (2008) When Species Meet Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press Horigan, S (1988) Nature and Culture in Western Discourses, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Latour, B (2004) The Politics of Nature, Harvard University Press MacNaghten, P and Urry, J (1998) Contested Nature, London: Sage Michael, M (2000) Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature: From Society to Heterogeneity, London: Routledge, Chapters and Philo, G and Wilbert, C (eds) (2000) Animal spaces, beastly places: geographies of human-animal relations, London Routledge Shukin, N (2009) Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times Twine, R (2010) Animals as biotechnology – ethics, sustainability and critical animal studies, Earthscan Whatmore, S (2000) Hybrid geographies: natures, cultures and spaces, London: Sage Wolch, J and Emel, J (eds) (1998) Animal geographies: place, politics, and identity in the nature-culture borderlands, London: Verso 33 .. .Animals, Society and Culture SO334 This module will: (1) explore the significance of animals to society and culture - both historically and contemporaneously - and how changing... for sociology of post-humanist critiques of anthropocentric understandings of the world This module explores the place of animals in society and culture and how this varies cross-culturally and. .. opinions and sensibilities of others In addition, some of the material that we will discuss and read about may be challenging or hard to hear and watch Animals, Society and Culture SO334 TERM