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Blattner, Charlotte E.; Coulter, Kendra; Kymlicka, Will

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“…While understood by some participants as working with beavers, it was seemingly characterised by beavers working for humans. Even when described by beaver believers, this discourse of how beavers labour for human benefit aligns closely with traditional thinking from the animal labour literature on animals being used, put to work to grow water and shade for humans, even if described as 'coworkers' rather than labourers (Blattner et al, 2019). Such use value was originally theorised by Marx (1976) as the value from nature realised in use by humans and furthered by Porcher (2015) as definitional of animal work.…”

Section: Beaver As Labourermentioning

confidence: 60%

“…Within each mode, beavers' relative values fluctuate depending on how the human–beaver relationship is storied and practiced, demonstrating the power of environmental discourses to influence practices, and in particular, human–animal working practices. This paper thereby contributes to interconnected conversations occurring throughout geography and beyond, ranging from analysing animal work and labour (Barua, 2016, 2019; Blattner et al, 2019) to the commodification and capitalisation of lively beings (Collard, 2014; Collard & Dempsey, 2013) to resurgence and collaboration amongst more‐than‐human assemblages (Haraway, 2016; Tsing, 2015). This paper extends this work by theorising ‘multispecies collaboration’—a term often used but underexplored—as a practice of not only working with nature, but living with nature.…”

Section: Working With Naturementioning

confidence: 98%

“…Theories of animal work and labour build heavily upon the concept of the human–animal dualism, with recent attempts to deconstruct it and build alternative framings for better animal work. One of these framings is Blattner et al's (2019) ‘good work’, which includes more ethical, agentic labour and working conditions for nonhuman animals:

There may be certain activities that animals enjoy doing, whose social, legal, and political recognition as ‘work’ could have transformative effects. From this perspective, animal labour, properly recognised and regulated, could serve as a potentially valuable site of social membership, personal meaning, and material security, and an exemplary case of how to secure both rights and relationships with animals.…”

Section: Thinking With Beaversmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Anthropomorphism too can prevent animals from being commodified or objectified (Pachirat, 2011 in Govindrajan, 2018). It presents an argument against exploitation of beaver labour, potentially awarding them some rights within human society (Blattner et al, 2019). In California, this gave some beavers more than just the right to live, but the right to space and ultimate autonomy in decisions over their work, towards wild animal sovereignty (Donaldson & Kymlicka, 2011), with humans adjusting to their damming patterns.…”

Section: Modes Of ‘Working With Beavers’mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sitting amidst ideas of both work and life, multispecies collaboration has the potential to build upon and disrupt scholarship on animal work and labour, putting forward a more agentic and ethical (Blattner et al, 2019) pathway for multispecies to work and live well together. In particular, I focus here on how multispecies collaboration relates to and expands Coulter's (2016) concept of interspecies solidarity.…”

Section: Multispecies Collaborationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Conceptualising multispecies collaboration: Work, animal labour, and Nature‐based Solutions

Welden

2022

Trans Inst British Geog

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Tracing the story of beaver restoration across California, this paper investigates the emerging discourse of ‘working with nature’ through the lens of animal work and labour, exploring possibilities for, multispecies collaboration. At the intersection of animal geographies, environmental anthropology, and geographies of conservation, this paper finds three concurrent modes of working with beaver: beaver as labourer, beaver as coworker, and beaver as community. Beaver as labourer emerges as a mode where beavers go from material resource to low‐wage labourer, their liveliness predicated on their ability to be working for humans. Beaver as coworker transitions beavers from labourers to workers, respected for their skills as ecosystem engineers to be working with. Beaver as community emerges as a mode in which beavers and humans live with each other as kin, amidst wider multispecies assemblages. This mode sets the foundation to theorise the concept of multispecies collaboration, a term often used in the literature without definition. This paper explores the concept through theories of animal work and labour, challenging the premise of work altogether, while situating multispecies collaboration as an in‐between, a both/and space of working and living with ‘nature’. This paper serves as an reflection on the ways in which humans ‘work with nature’, in a time where various nonhumans are being made to be ‘workers’. It presents and analyses these relations, ruminates on implications for governance of these multispecies spaces, and develops the concept of multispecies collaboration as a critical consideration for Nature‐based Solutions.

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Section: Beaver As Labourermentioning

confidence: 60%

Section: Working With Naturementioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Thinking With Beaversmentioning

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Section: Modes Of ‘Working With Beavers’mentioning

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Section: Multispecies Collaborationmentioning

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Conceptualising multispecies collaboration: Work, animal labour, and Nature‐based Solutions

Welden

2022

Trans Inst British Geog

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Marx’s non-speciesist concept of labour

Sommer¹,

Stache²

2023

Capital & Class

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Human–animal scholars have repeatedly accused Marx of standing in the tradition of a Cartesian human–animal dualism. One central piece of evidence brought forward to substantiate the attack is Marx’s concept of labour. The present article, however, argues that Marx’s conceptualisation of labour is actually non-speciesist and recognises non-waged and other than human forms of labour as well without renouncing qualitative distinctions between them. For Marx, both useful labour and the historically specific capitalist form of social labour cannot be reduced to something peculiar to man. Useful labour encompasses a wide range of ways to transform nature. Due to the bourgeois social relations, capitalist social labour is instead limited to human productive wage labour, excluding numerous types of human labour as well as animal labour. Thus, his concept of labour proves that Marx is not just another ‘speciesist’ scholar in the long Western tradition of philosophy.

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Animal Protection, Law Enforcement, and Occupational Health: Qualitative Action Research Highlights the Urgency of Relational Coordination in a Medico-Legal Borderland

Rault

Adams

Springett

et al. 2022

Animals

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Across Canada and internationally, laws exist to protect animals and to stop them from becoming public nuisances and threats. The work of officers who enforce local bylaws protects both domestic animals and humans. Despite the importance of this work, research in this area is emergent, but growing. We conducted research with officers mandated to enforce legislation involving animals, with a focus on local bylaw enforcement in the province of Alberta, Canada, which includes the city of Calgary. Some experts regard Calgary as a “model city” for inter-agency collaboration. Based on partnerships with front-line officers, managers, and professional associations in a qualitative multiple-case study, this action-research project evolved towards advocacy for occupational health and safety. Participating officers spoke about the societal benefits of their work with pride, and they presented multiple examples to illustrate how local bylaw enforcement contributes to public safety and community wellbeing. Alarmingly, however, these officers consistently reported resource inadequacies, communication and information gaps, and a culture of normalized disrespect. These findings connect to the concept of “medico-legal borderlands,” which became central to this study. As this project unfolded, we seized upon opportunities to improve the officers’ working conditions, including the potential of relational coordination to promote the best practices.

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Conceptualising multispecies collaboration: Work, animal labour, and Nature‐based Solutions

Conceptualising multispecies collaboration: Work, animal labour, and Nature‐based Solutions

Marx’s non-speciesist concept of labour

Animal Protection, Law Enforcement, and Occupational Health: Qualitative Action Research Highlights the Urgency of Relational Coordination in a Medico-Legal Borderland

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