The Gospel of Kindness: Animal Welfare and the Making of Modern America

Li, Chien-hui

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“…They were known then as now to prey on "beloved songbirds," and were associated with disease and superstitions about the occult. The bird lovers in the Pasadena Humane Society proposed an extermination program for stray cats in 1903; it did not pass, but bird lovers killed stray cats without compunction (Davis, 2016).…”

Section: The Colonial Eramentioning

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“…This change importantly acknowledged dogs' capacities for emotional as well as physical suffering. Yet killing was regarded as the only solution to animal overpopulation, and humane publications advised "How to Mercifully Shoot Horses, Dogs, and Other Animals," as well as how to control cat populations by drowning litters of kittens "except one" to suckle and relieve the engorged mother (Davis, 2016). Clearly there was concern to prevent suffering here, but also tolerance for practices that are condemned today.…”

Section: The Colonial Eramentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While we can readily imagine the suffering of caged and suffocating animals, perhaps drowning was regarded as a relatively peaceful end due to its invisibility and quiet. In addition, other methods of preventing overpopulation such as spaying and neutering were unavailable or unaffordable, and gas and chloroform were probably among resources that were in short supply (Davis, 2016).…”

Section: The Colonial Eramentioning

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“…Jewish slaughter methods, intended to be quick and painless, were targeted as inhumane because the animal needed to be fully conscious when its throat was slit. Cockfighting (a global pastime) was pointedly referred to as a "Latin" blood sport, and Filipino groups were considered barbarians for eating dogs (Davis, 2016).…”

Section: The Colonial Eramentioning

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“…The humane movement's targets expanded at the turn of the twentieth century to include cruel fashions: Bird hat and fur wearers were linked to American Indians' "savagery" and denounced (Davis, 2016). Wild animals were now considered worthy of protection.…”

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This essay shows how the labor of interspecies care at Animal Rescue in Action (ARA), an animal shelter in South Korea, invites two divergent interpretations. On the one hand, this labor embodies gendered exploitation by being vulnerable to the co-optation of the moralizing politics of “interspecies pity.” On the other hand, it becomes a site for intra- and inter-species entanglements, that are irreducible to the logic of exploitation. The activities of ARA become not only sustainable but also bound by the politics of interspecies pity, which translates the labor of care into selfless affection and grace, thus reproducing gendered exploitation. At the same time, however, everyday entanglements in ARA shelters still create affective excesses that are not entirely subsumed by the politics of pity and generate new forms of care and sociality. Overall, I suggest seeing not only the co-constitutiveness of social inequalities and interspecies relations but also the possibility of new, simultaneously open terrains. 초록 이 글은 한국의 동물 단체 ARA에서 수행되는 종간 돌봄 노동이 두 개의 상이한 해석을 요청하는 상황에 주목한다. 이 노동은 한편으로는 “종간 연민”의 정치에 취약해질 수 밖에 없는 상황에서 젠더화된 착취를 체현하나, 다른 한편으로는 착취의 논리로만 환원될 수 없는 얽힘의 장소가 된다. ARA의 활동은 종간 연민의 정치에 의해 지속가능해질 뿐 아니라 동시에 구속되며, 그 속에서 그들의 돌봄 노동은 이타적 애정과 ‘순수 선물’로 번역되고 그 결과 젠더화된 착취가 재생산된다. 하지만, ARA 쉼터에서 이루어지는 일상의 얽힘들은 연민의 정치 안에 완전히 포섭되지 않을 뿐 아니라 새로운 유형의 돌봄과 사회성을 구성하는 정동적 과잉을 창출한다. 이 글에서 나는 사회적 불평등과 종간 관계의 상호구성됨, 더 나아가 그 속에서 새롭게 열리는 가능성의 지형들에 주목할 것을 제안한다.

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This paper examines the legacies of the emergence of the animal control and sheltering industry in the United States and their impact on contemporary public animal shelters. While decades of gradual reform have helped substantially reduce the number of animals entering shelters and being killed there, contemporary animal sheltering largely continues to follow the path set when animal sheltering developed in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Three key interrelated legacies of the pound model of early animal control and sheltering enduringly shape sheltering today: (1) the institutional culture of animal shelters grounded in the logics of caging and killing; (2) the lack of visibility and transparency, especially within government shelters; and (3) the economic logics of the pound model, including the disparities in sheltering resources across communities. Examining the origins of animal control and sheltering and identifying the specific legacies of this pound model within contemporary government-funded shelters improves understanding of why such shelters in the US have developed with a particular set of practices and ideologies, and thus provides an important footing for envisioning and enacting radical changes in animal sheltering.

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The Gospel of Kindness: Animal Welfare and the Making of Modern America

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Defining animal maltreatment: historical and contemporary perspectives

Defining animal maltreatment: historical and contemporary perspectives

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Coming to Terms with the Legacies of the Pound Model in Animal Sheltering in the United States

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