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How our love of dogs creates social conflict / James K. Beggan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beggan, James K., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dog owners.
- Dogs--Social aspects.
- Dogs.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Social conflict.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 pages)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2022.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2022]
- Summary:
- The author examines the meaning that dogs have for people as friends and family members. This almost magical interspecies connection, which relates to philosophical concepts about the moral responsibility human beings have to dogs, can increase social conflict between people because of differences in how people care for their dogs.
- Contents:
- The importance of dogs
- Identity and dog ownership
- Constructing a liminal space for dogs
- Conceptualizing triads
- Triads of dogs and people
- The moral weight of animal minds
- The perception of dogs as people
- Dogs as active agents in social conflict
- Dogs and societal conflict.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 24, 2022).
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-4049-2
- 9798765184356
- 1-66690-784-7
- OCLC:
- 1335121331
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