Phenomenology and the Study of Animal Behavior

Ruonakoski, Erika

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“…Rather than being fearful of our human perspective we should embrace this and open up to encountering the 'other' as a living body rather than an object of study (Ruonakoski, 2007). Effective research in multispecies leisure from this perspective is more likely to be useful if the researcher is attuned to the behavioural nuances of the 'other' and follows the phenomenological method, and maintains the phenomenological attitude (Brymer & Schweitzer, 2017).…”

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An ecological-phenomenological perspective on multispecies leisure and the horse-human relationship in events

Dashper

Brymer

2019

Leisure Studies

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An ecological-phenomenological perspective on multispecies leisure and the horse-human relationship in events

Dashper

Brymer

2019

Leisure Studies

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“…In the 1980's and 90's, the discovery of mirror neurons in the premotor cortex and other brain areas of primates, birds, and humans gave these concepts a neurological corollary and some posit these neurons are the centers of self-awareness that is more literally a reciprocal awareness of self and other (Oberman & Ramachandran 2005). Intersubjectivity and empathy have influenced fieldwork in sociology more than in other fields, such as in the natural sciences, yet new work is emerging to suggest applications for research (Ruonakoski 2007). Ultimately these concepts and the methods drawn from them could alter the field of biology and how we relate to non-humans and non-human animals in research and in wildlife management.…”

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Whom Would Animals Designate as “Persons”?

Oriel

2014

J. Eth. Emerg. Tech.

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Humans are animals; humans are machines. The current academic and popular dialogue on extending the personhood boundary to certain non-human animal species and at the same time to machines/robots reflects a dialectic about how “being human” is defined, about how we perceive our species and ourselves in relation to the environment. While both paths have the potential to improve lives, these improvements differ in substance and in consequence. One route has the potential to broaden the anthropocentric focus within the West and honor interdependence with life systems, while the other affords greater currency to a human-purpose-driven worldview–furthering an unchecked Anthropocene. The broadening of legal personhood rights to life systems is underway with a ruling for dolphins in India, for a river in New Zealand and with Laws of the Rights of Mother Earth in Bolivia. Many philosophers, ethicists, and ethologists define personhood within the confines of the dominant anthropocentric paradigm, yet alternate eco-centric paradigms offer an inclusive model that may help dismantle the artificial wall between humans and nature. In this paper, I explore these eco-centric paradigms and the implications of an associated worldview for human perceptions, self-awareness, communication, narrative, and research.

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“…Truly understanding the 'essence' or the self of the other is not as important as simply sharing embodied presence and developing sui generis constructions of one another. As Ruonakoski's (2007) comprehensive overview of the phenomenology of (studying) animals attests (along with decades worth of anthropological field research on animals cultures), lived experience with animals in situ is perhaps the best means of fostering a sense of ontological connectedness or sympathetic understanding of others.…”

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The Terrier [Men]

Atkinson¹

2014

Sociology of Sport Journal

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‘Terrier work’ is an historical and deeply significant rural practice in the United Kingdom, in which small or medium size terriers are employed to track, capture and kill foxes in the larger context of an organized foxhunt. Between 2007-2009, I spent time following a small group of ‘terrier men’ and their dogs around the East Midlands countryside as part of an ethnographic project on the use of dogs in rural (mainly fox) hunting cultures. A small faction of these terrier men living in England and Wales participate in a quasi-legal hunting subculture. In this paper, and drawing heavily upon animal standpoint theory (Best, 2013), I shift analytic focus in human-nonhuman animal studies away from human constructions/ uses/ meanings of animals in animal ‘blood sports’ (Gillett & Gilbert, 2013), and consider a fox hunting case study from the positions and subjectivities of the animals involved. This reading calls sociologists of sport and physical culture to reconsider how human-animal sports, analyzed from marginalized or silenced standpoints, direct attention to the interplay between power, instincts, and desires involved when species interactively meet.

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Phenomenology and the Study of Animal Behavior

Cited by 6 publications

References 3 publications

An ecological-phenomenological perspective on multispecies leisure and the horse-human relationship in events

An ecological-phenomenological perspective on multispecies leisure and the horse-human relationship in events

Whom Would Animals Designate as “Persons”?

The Terrier [Men]

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