Animals in the Anthropocene : Critical Perspectives on Non-Human Futures.
Probyn-Rapsey, Fiona.
Animals in the Anthropocene : Critical Perspectives on Non-Human Futures. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (297 pages) - Animal Publics Series . - Animal Publics Series .
Intro -- Animals in the Anthropocene -- Animals in the Anthropocene -- Contents -- Introduction -- Works cited -- The paradox of self-reference: sociological reflections on agency and intervention in the Anthropocene -- Self-referentiality: the lineage of social science -- The world as a self-referential system -- Life in the Anthropocene as general systematicity of life -- Works cited -- Anthropocene: the enigma of 'the geomorphic fold' -- The narcissistic subject -- The ends of the human -- The enigmatic fold -- Geostory and the fire species -- The detrivorous turn -- Learning how to die in the Anthropocene -- Works cited -- Cycles of anthropocenic interdependencies on the island of Cyprus -- Pleistocene colonisations and extinctions -- Animal translocations -- Dynamic equilibrium -- Modern dynamics -- Conservation conundrums -- Conclusions -- Works cited -- Ecosystem and landscape: strategies for the Anthropocene -- The objects and subjects of the Anthropocene -- Ecosystem -- Landscape -- Nativism and naturalisation: strategies for the Anthropocene and the case of feral cats -- Cats and the UK -- Feral cats in Australia -- Nationalism and animals in the UK -- Nationalism and animals in Australia -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- The matter of death: posthumous wildlife art in the Anthropocene -- Materiality of animal bodies in art practice -- Translations from tradition to contemporary practice -- Works cited -- A game of horseshoes for the Anthropocene: the matter of externalities of cruelty to the horseracing industry -- A brief paleoethology of multiple-bodied entities -- Bodies killed with kindness -- Research diary entry 1 -- Situatedness of horse rescue in Australia -- Research diary entry 2 -- Material resonances of racehorses and the performativity of art -- Affective moments towards interrogating interspecies violence. Resolution in playful material-discursivity -- Materiality of blood sports -- Agencies of the underworld -- Social contracts for post-industry equines -- Positive experiences-that-matter -- Works cited -- Painfully, from the first-person singular to first-person plural: the role of feminism in the study of the Anthropocene -- The impact of animal exploitation on the Anthropocene -- Ecofeminism and animal studies -- A culture of predation -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- Works cited -- We have never been meat (but we could be) -- Meat: a key marker of human and animal difference -- Janus flesh -- We have never been meat (but we could be) -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Multispecies publics in the Anthropocene: from symbolic exchange to material-discursive intra-action -- The public: a brief genealogy -- From transaction to intra-action -- Seeing ourselves as a species in the Anthropocene -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Apiculture in the Anthropocene: between posthumanism and critical animal studies -- Colony collapse disorder -- Honeybees as livestock -- Of hives and hybrids -- From domination to trust -- Entangled politics in the Anthropocene -- Works cited -- The welfare episteme: street dog biopolitics in the Anthropocene -- Street dogs in India -- The welfare episteme -- Intervening on and for dogs -- Individuals and collectives, harm and care -- Immersion and subjectification -- Agential subjectification and centrifugal animal welfare discourses -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Wild elephants as actors in the Anthropocene -- Species interconnections -- Relationships between humans and wild elephants in Yunnan Province -- Involvement of the World Wildlife Fund -- The Sixiao Highway -- Alternate histories and animal governmentalities -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- New World Order - nature in the Anthropocene -- Works cited. About the contributors -- Index.
The term Anthropocene is a useful device for drawing attention to the devastations wreaked by anthropocentrism and for advancing a relational model for human and non-human life. As anthropogenic change affects the more-than-human world, we must accept responsibility for the damage we have caused, and the debt we owe to non-human species.
9781743324868
Electronic books.
QL85.A556 2015
Animals in the Anthropocene : Critical Perspectives on Non-Human Futures. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (297 pages) - Animal Publics Series . - Animal Publics Series .
Intro -- Animals in the Anthropocene -- Animals in the Anthropocene -- Contents -- Introduction -- Works cited -- The paradox of self-reference: sociological reflections on agency and intervention in the Anthropocene -- Self-referentiality: the lineage of social science -- The world as a self-referential system -- Life in the Anthropocene as general systematicity of life -- Works cited -- Anthropocene: the enigma of 'the geomorphic fold' -- The narcissistic subject -- The ends of the human -- The enigmatic fold -- Geostory and the fire species -- The detrivorous turn -- Learning how to die in the Anthropocene -- Works cited -- Cycles of anthropocenic interdependencies on the island of Cyprus -- Pleistocene colonisations and extinctions -- Animal translocations -- Dynamic equilibrium -- Modern dynamics -- Conservation conundrums -- Conclusions -- Works cited -- Ecosystem and landscape: strategies for the Anthropocene -- The objects and subjects of the Anthropocene -- Ecosystem -- Landscape -- Nativism and naturalisation: strategies for the Anthropocene and the case of feral cats -- Cats and the UK -- Feral cats in Australia -- Nationalism and animals in the UK -- Nationalism and animals in Australia -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- The matter of death: posthumous wildlife art in the Anthropocene -- Materiality of animal bodies in art practice -- Translations from tradition to contemporary practice -- Works cited -- A game of horseshoes for the Anthropocene: the matter of externalities of cruelty to the horseracing industry -- A brief paleoethology of multiple-bodied entities -- Bodies killed with kindness -- Research diary entry 1 -- Situatedness of horse rescue in Australia -- Research diary entry 2 -- Material resonances of racehorses and the performativity of art -- Affective moments towards interrogating interspecies violence. Resolution in playful material-discursivity -- Materiality of blood sports -- Agencies of the underworld -- Social contracts for post-industry equines -- Positive experiences-that-matter -- Works cited -- Painfully, from the first-person singular to first-person plural: the role of feminism in the study of the Anthropocene -- The impact of animal exploitation on the Anthropocene -- Ecofeminism and animal studies -- A culture of predation -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- Works cited -- We have never been meat (but we could be) -- Meat: a key marker of human and animal difference -- Janus flesh -- We have never been meat (but we could be) -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Multispecies publics in the Anthropocene: from symbolic exchange to material-discursive intra-action -- The public: a brief genealogy -- From transaction to intra-action -- Seeing ourselves as a species in the Anthropocene -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Apiculture in the Anthropocene: between posthumanism and critical animal studies -- Colony collapse disorder -- Honeybees as livestock -- Of hives and hybrids -- From domination to trust -- Entangled politics in the Anthropocene -- Works cited -- The welfare episteme: street dog biopolitics in the Anthropocene -- Street dogs in India -- The welfare episteme -- Intervening on and for dogs -- Individuals and collectives, harm and care -- Immersion and subjectification -- Agential subjectification and centrifugal animal welfare discourses -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Wild elephants as actors in the Anthropocene -- Species interconnections -- Relationships between humans and wild elephants in Yunnan Province -- Involvement of the World Wildlife Fund -- The Sixiao Highway -- Alternate histories and animal governmentalities -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- New World Order - nature in the Anthropocene -- Works cited. About the contributors -- Index.
The term Anthropocene is a useful device for drawing attention to the devastations wreaked by anthropocentrism and for advancing a relational model for human and non-human life. As anthropogenic change affects the more-than-human world, we must accept responsibility for the damage we have caused, and the debt we owe to non-human species.
9781743324868
Electronic books.
QL85.A556 2015