Animals at work [electronic resource] : Identity, politics and culture in work with animals / by Lindsay Hamilton, Nik Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamilton, Lindsay.

Contributor:

Taylor, Nik.

Series:

Human-animal studies ; vol. 16.

Human-animal studies ; vol. 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships.

Animal behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Animals at Work is founded upon a broad and unique variety of empirical research settings - animal sanctuaries, farms, slaughter-houses, veterinary practices and behind the scenes of a natural history documentary film-making team. Hamilton and Taylor apply a breadth of post-structural and post-humanist theories to establish what happens when animal-agents are brought into human networks and spaces of representation, and the artful ways in which they become integral in shared human meaning-making. Interrogating the apparent boundaries of meaning between animals and humans by taking a close-up view of those working with animals in a variety of occupational settings, the book enjoys a rare and original range of empirical research contexts from British dairy farms to the jungles of Borneo.

Contents:

Chapter One Humans and Other Animals

Chapter Two Why Work with Animals?

Chapter Three Farm Animal, Vets and the Transformation of ‘Muck’

Chapter Four Slaughter Workers and the Making of Meat

Chapter Five Shelter Workers and the Construction of ‘Animal Personhood’

Chapter Six Wildlife Presenters, Performance and the Animal ‘Actor’

Chapter Seven Small Animal Vets and the Crafting of Intimacy

Chapter Eight Ethnography and Animals

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 15, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-24933-8

OCLC:

843117819

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004249332 DOI