Dog politics : Species stories and the animal sciences / Mariam Motamedi Fraser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Motamedi Fraser, Mariam, Author.

Contributor:

Fraser, Mariam Motamedi, Contributor.

Series:

Inscriptions

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 1 illustration

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Do dogs belong with humans? Scientific accounts of dogs' 'species story,' in which contemporary dog-human relations are naturalised with reference to dogs' evolutionary becoming, suggest that they do. Dog politics dissects this story.This book offers a rich empirical analysis and critique of the development and consolidation of dogs' species story in science, asking what evidence exists to support it, and what practical consequences, for dogs, follow from it. It explores how this story is woven into broader scientific shifts in understandings of species, animals, and animal behaviours, and how such shifts were informed by and informed transformative political events, including slavery and colonialism, the Second World War and its aftermath, and the emergence of anti-racist movements in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book pays particular attention to how species-thinking bears on 'race,' racism, and individuals.

Contents:

Front Matter

Epigraph

Dedication

Contents

List of figures and tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 It’s a dog’s life and there’s nothing natural about it

2 Dogs’ species story

3 Vanishing animals

4 Do dogs work? The labour of ‘the bond’

5 Dog disputes

6 On the deathlessness of ‘the dog’

7 Dog politics

References

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)

ISBN:

1-5261-7481-2

OCLC:

1432029205