The State of Human-Animal Studies: Solid, at the Margin!

Shapiro, Kenneth

doi:10.1163/156853002320936773

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“…Farm animals' roles in society, their day to day life experience, are dramatically altered, as are the particular ways that livestock affect the social world. Though welfare is the arena in which we have the most scientific knowledge, if we are to increase our understanding of animals in society, as has been argued is an important frontier in the social sciences (Arluke 2002;Shapiro 2002;Wolch 2002;Tovey 2003;Buller and Morris 2003;Kendall et al 2006), farm animals' experiences beyond welfare become important research topics.…”

Section: Farm Animal Welfare As a Social Issuementioning

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For the love of goats: the advantages of alterity

Finan

2010

Agric Hum Values

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Small-scale, artisanal livestock production is framed as ''other'' by conventional livestock producers, and rural communities. This alterity, although not without cost, allows women to be involved as active entrepreneurs and managers in artisanal livestock production and also allows farmers to pursue management strategies with the explicit purpose of enhancing animal welfare. The case study presented here, an artisanal goat dairy farm managed by three women, demonstrates that by embracing feminine care identities, these women carve a space for themselves within livestock production in which they can pursue their own economic and affective goals. Analysis of ethnographic data also demonstrates that farmers' decisionmaking regarding animal production is based on both affective and instrumental concerns. If we are to understand and operationalize the affective component of farmer decision making based on the livestock-farmer relationship, we must begin to consider to what extent livestock themselves are social actors.

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Section: Farm Animal Welfare As a Social Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

For the love of goats: the advantages of alterity

Finan

2010

Agric Hum Values

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“…The field addresses the -lack of scholarly attention given to nonhuman animals and to the relationships between human and nonhuman‖ ( [55], p. 2). HAS investigates human relations to animals and the experiences of animals as autonomous creatures, not merely as -cultural artifacts, symbols, models, or commodities in a largely human-centred world‖ [58]. According to recent HAS theorists, in order to make progress as a scholarly field, HAS will need to identify -ways of understanding animals and human-animal relations that are not constrained by traditional disciplinary boundaries and methods‖ [59].…”

Section: Human-plant Studies (Hps): Addressing the Question Of The Plantmentioning

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“…Through the premise of connectivity between plants and society, HPS would provide a framework for conceptualizing plants as active partners in knowledge production and cultural practices, -as social beings with agentive efficacy‖ ( [69], p. 183). HPS would investigate plants and everyday human-plant interactions-for example, South African botanical species in Western Australia (see Figure 5)-towards a reconsideration of -planthood.‖ Hence, HPS would align closely with the theoretical advances of the ecological humanities, as well as the methodological precedents of ecocriticism [41]; ecocultural studies [17]; human-animal studies [58]; human-plant geographies [10,11]; multispecies ethnography [69]; and biosemiotics [49,79]. Importantly, this framework would look towards Indigenous knowledges in reconceptualizing these divides [7,80].…”

Section: Reconsidering the Role Of Plants In Society Through Hpsmentioning

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Passive Flora? Reconsidering Nature’s Agency through Human-Plant Studies (HPS)

Ryan

2012

Societies

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Plants have been-and, for reasons of human sustenance and creative inspiration, will continue to be-centrally important to societies globally. Yet, plantsincluding herbs, shrubs, and trees-are commonly characterized in Western thought as passive, sessile, and silent automatons lacking a brain, as accessories or backdrops to human affairs. Paradoxically, the qualities considered absent in plants are those employed by biologists to argue for intelligence in animals. Yet an emerging body of research in the sciences and humanities challenges animal-centred biases in determining consciousness, intelligence, volition, and complex communication capacities amongst living beings. In light of recent theoretical developments in our understandings of plants, this article proposes an interdisciplinary framework for researching flora: human-plant studies (HPS). Building upon the conceptual formations of the humanities, social sciences, and plant sciences as advanced by Val Plumwood, Deborah Bird Rose, Libby Robin, and most importantly Matthew Hall and Anthony Trewavas, as well as precedents in the emerging areas of human-animal studies (HAS), I will sketch the conceptual basis for the further consideration and exploration of this interdisciplinary framework.

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“…In the ten-year anniversary issue of Society & Animals (Shapiro, 2002), KS wrote of the increase in scholarly attention to HAS, and also of many of the obstacles still restricting the growth of the field. At that time, he noted the growth of dissertations in the field, but the lack of institutional bases for HAS research.…”

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“…On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Society & Animals (Shapiro, 2002), one of us (KS) wrote an editorial outlining the growth of Human-Animal Studies (HAS) in those ten years. Given the pace of the growth of the field in the past eight years, it did not seem prudent to wait for the 20th anniversary to revisit that subject.…”

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The State of Human-Animal Studies

Shapiro

DeMello

2010

Soc Animals

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The growth of human-animal studies (HAS) over the past twenty years can be seen in the explosion of new books, journals, conferences, organizations, college programs, listserves, and courses, both in the United States and throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. We look as well at trends in the field, including the increasing popularity of animalassisted therapy programs, the rise of new fields like transspecies psychology and critical animal studies, and the importance of animal welfare science. We also discuss the problems continuing to face the field, including the conservative culture of universities, the interdisciplinary nature of the field, the current economic crisis, and general anthropocentrism within academia. We end with a discussion of the tension between the scholarly role and the role of animal advocate, and offer some suggestions for HAS to continue to grow.

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The State of Human-Animal Studies: Solid, at the Margin!

Cited by 29 publications

References 3 publications

For the love of goats: the advantages of alterity

For the love of goats: the advantages of alterity

Passive Flora? Reconsidering Nature’s Agency through Human-Plant Studies (HPS)

The State of Human-Animal Studies

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