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Literary Animal Studies in the Anthropocene

Author : Jiang Lifu
Publisher : Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. USA
ISBN 13 : 1649974019
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Literary Animal Studies in the Anthropocene written by Jiang Lifu and published by Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. USA. This book was released on 2022-08-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2000, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul J. Crutzen and marine-science specialist Eugene Stoermer coined the term “Anthropocene” based on the assumption that the global impacts of human activities during the last 300 years are so significant and far-reaching in scale that they lead to a new geological epoch. The Anthropocene is adopted to signify the epoch subsequent to the Holocene in which human actions are shaping the planet so profoundly that they are now acting as a geological force. In this era, human activity is the dominant influence on the environment, and all lives on earth. This is the age we are currently living in, though debates about precisely when it began continue to rage. The term has not as yet officially accepted within the field of geology; however as a frame for understanding a period of geological time marked by the significant impact of human activity on the planet, the Anthropocene has “extraordinary potential”, and it is a “unique term simultaneously oriented to the past, present and future” (Human Animal viii). As Morten T∅nnessen, Kristin Armstrong Oma argued, “no matter what one thinks about the Anthropocene, the notion radically changes how we look at nature, and mankind” (viii).

Literary Animal Studies in the Anthropocene

Author : Lifu Jiang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781649974006
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Literary Animal Studies in the Anthropocene written by Lifu Jiang and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis

Author : Sune Borkfelt
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303111020X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis written by Sune Borkfelt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis connects insights from the field of literary animal studies with the urgent issues of climate change and environmental degradation, and features considerations of new interventions by literature in relation to these pressing questions and debates. This volume informs academic debates in terms of how nonhuman animals figure in our cultural imagination of topics such as climate change, extinction, animal otherness, the posthuman, and environmental crises. Using a diverse set of methodologies, each chapter presents relevant cases which discuss the various aspects of these interstices. This volume is an intersection between literary animal studies and climate fiction intended as an interdisciplinary intervention that speaks to the global climate debate and is thus relevant across the environmental humanities.

Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene

Author : Morten Tønnessen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498527973
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene by : Morten Tønnessen

Download or read book Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene written by Morten Tønnessen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term “Anthropocene”, the era of mankind, is increasingly being used as a scientific designation for the current geological epoch. This is because the human species now dominates ecosystems worldwide, and affects nature in a way that rivals natural forces in magnitude and scale. Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene presents a dozen chapters that address the role and place of animals in this epoch characterized by anthropogenic (human-made) environmental change. While some chapters describe our impact on the living conditions of animals, others question conventional ideas about human exceptionalism, and stress the complex cognitive and other abilities of animals. The Anthropocene idea forces us to rethink our relation to nature and to animals, and to critically reflect on our own role and place in the world, as a species. Nature is not what it was. Nor are the lives of animals as they used to be before mankind´s rise to global ecological prominence. Can we eventually learn to live with animals, rather than causing extinction and ecological mayhem?

Animals in the Anthropocene

Author : Edited by the Human Animal Research Network Editorial Collective
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743324391
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)

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Book Synopsis Animals in the Anthropocene by : Edited by the Human Animal Research Network Editorial Collective

Download or read book Animals in the Anthropocene written by Edited by the Human Animal Research Network Editorial Collective and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the discussion on the Anthropocene has centred upon anthropogenic global warming and climate change and the urgency of political and social responses to this problem. Animals in the Anthropocene: critical perspectives on non-human futures shows that assessing the effects of human activity on the planet requires more than just the quantification of ecological impacts towards the categorisation of geological eras. It requires recognising and evaluating a wide range of territories and terrains, full of non-human agents and interests and meanings, exposed to the profound forces of change that give their name to the Anthropocene. It is from the perspective of ‘the animal question’ – asking how best to think and live with animals – that Animals in the Anthropocene seeks to interrogate the Anthropocene as a concept, discourse, and state of affairs. The term Anthropocene is a useful device for drawing attention to the devastations wreaked by anthropocentrism and advancing a relational model for human and non-human life. The effects on animals of human political and economic systems continue to expand and intensify, in numerous domains and in ways that not only cause suffering and loss but that also produce new forms of life and alter the very nature of species. As anthropogenic change affects the more-than-human world in innumerable ways, we must accept responsibility for the damage we have caused, and the debt we owe to non-human species.

Animalities

Author : Michael Lundblad
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474423965
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Animalities written by Michael Lundblad and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New and cutting-edge work in animality studies, human-animal studies, and posthumanismRepresentations of animality continue to proliferate in various kinds of literary and cultural texts. This pioneering volume explores the critical interface between animal and animality studies, marking out the terrain in relation to twentieth-century literature and film. The range of texts considered here is intentionally broad, answering questions like, how do contemporary writers such as Amitav Ghosh, Terry Tempest Williams, and Indra Sinha help us to think about not only animals but also humans as animals? What kinds of creatures are being constructed by contemporary artists such as Patricia Piccinini, Alexis Rockman, and Michael Pestel? How do aanimalities animate such diverse texts as the poetry of two women publishing under the name of aMichael Field, or an early film by Thomas Edison depicting the electrocution of a circus elephant named Topsy? Connecting these issues to fields as diverse as environmental studies and ecocriticism, queer theory, gender studies, feminist theory, illness and disability studies, postcolonial theory, and biopolitics, the volume also raises further questions about disciplinarity itself, while hoping to inspire further work abeyond the human in future interdisciplinary scholarship.Key Features10 provocative case studies focused on representations and discourses of animals and animality in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, art, and film in EnglishNew work from both internationally renowned and emerging figures in the burgeoning fields of animality studies, human-animal studies, and posthumanism, suggesting innovative and significant new directions to exploreBroad introduction to the kinds of questions scholars in the humanities have considered in relation to animals and animality

Writing Animals

Author : Timothy C. Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783030038816
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Writing Animals written by Timothy C. Baker and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys a broad range of contemporary texts to show how representations of human-animal relations challenge the anthropocentric nature of fiction. By looking at the relation between language and suffering in twenty-first-century fiction and drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches, Baker suggests new opportunities for exploring the centrality of nonhuman animals in recent fiction: writing animal lives leads to new narrative structures and forms of expression. These novels destabilise assumptions about the nature of pain and vulnerability, the burden of literary inheritance, the challenge of writing the Anthropocene, and the relation between text and image. Including both well-known authors and emerging talents, from J.M. Coetzee and Karen Joy Fowler to Sarah Hall, Alexis Wright, and Max Porter, and texts from experimental fiction to work for children, Writing Animals offers an original perspective on both contemporary fiction and the field of literary animal studies.

Wildlife in the Anthropocene

Author : Jamie Lorimer
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452944296
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Wildlife in the Anthropocene written by Jamie Lorimer and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elephants rarely breed in captivity and are not considered domesticated, yet they interact with people regularly and adapt to various environments. Too social and sagacious to be objects, too strange to be human, too captive to truly be wild, but too wild to be domesticated—where do elephants fall in our understanding of nature? In Wildlife in the Anthropocene, Jamie Lorimer argues that the idea of nature as a pure and timeless place characterized by the absence of humans has come to an end. But life goes on. Wildlife inhabits everywhere and is on the move; Lorimer proposes the concept of wildlife as a replacement for nature. Offering a thorough appraisal of the Anthropocene—an era in which human actions affect and influence all life and all systems on our planet— Lorimer unpacks its implications for changing definitions of nature and the politics of wildlife conservation. Wildlife in the Anthropocene examines rewilding, the impacts of wildlife films, human relationships with charismatic species, and urban wildlife. Analyzing scientific papers, policy documents, and popular media, as well as a decade of fieldwork, Lorimer explores the new interconnections between science, politics, and neoliberal capitalism that the Anthropocene demands of wildlife conservation. Imagining conservation in a world where humans are geological actors entangled within and responsible for powerful, unstable, and unpredictable planetary forces, this work nurtures a future environmentalism that is more hopeful and democratic.

Animal Remains

Author : Sarah Bezan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000506487
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Animal Remains written by Sarah Bezan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dream of humanism is to cleanly discard of humanity’s animal remains along with its ecological embeddings, evolutionary heritages and futures, ontogenies and phylogenies, sexualities and sensualities, vulnerabilities and mortalities. But, as the contributors to this volume demonstrate, animal remains are everywhere and so animals remain everywhere. Animal remains are food, medicine, and clothing; extractive resources and traces of animals’ lifeworlds and ecologies; they are sites of political conflict and ontological fear, fetishized visual signs and objects of trade, veneration, and memory; they are biotechnological innovations and spill-over viruses. To make sense of the material afterlives of animals, this book draws together multispecies perspectives from literary criticism and theory, cultural studies, anthropology and ethnography, photographic and film history, and contemporary art practice to offer the first synoptic account of animal remains. Interpreting them in all their ubiquity, diversity, and persistence, Animal Remains reveals posthuman relations between human and non-human communities of the living and the dead, on timescales of decades, centuries, and millennia.

Lost Kingdom: Animal Death in the Anthropocene

Author : Wendy A. Wiseman
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648898483
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Lost Kingdom: Animal Death in the Anthropocene written by Wendy A. Wiseman and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors in ‘Lost Kingdom’ grapple with both the catastrophe of mass animal extinction, in which the panoply of earthly life is in the accelerating process of disappearing, and with the mass death of industrial animal agriculture. Both forms of anthropogenic violence against animals cast the Anthropocene as an era of criminality and loss driven by boundless human exceptionalism, forcing a reckoning with and an urgent reimagining of human-animal relations. Without the sleights of hand that would lump “humanity” into a singular Anthropos of the Anthropocene, the authors recognize the differential nature of human impacts on animal life and the biosphere as a whole, while affirming the complexity of animal worlds and their profound imbrications in human cultures, societies, and industries. Confronting the reality of the Sixth Mass Extinction and mass animal death requires forms of narrativity that draw on traditional genres and disciplines, while signaling a radical break with modern temporalities and norms. Chapters in this volume reflect this challenge, while embodying the interdisciplinary nature of inquiry into non-human animality at the edge of the abyss—historiography, cultural anthropology, post-colonial studies, literary criticism, critical animal studies, ethics, religious studies, Anthropocene studies, and extinction studies entwine to illuminate what is arguably the greatest crisis, for all creatures, in the past 65 million years.

Beyond the Human-Animal Divide

Author : Dominik Ohrem
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349934372
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Human-Animal Divide written by Dominik Ohrem and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the potential of the concept of the creaturely for thinking and writing beyond the idea of a clear-cut human-animal divide, presenting innovative perspectives and narratives for an age which increasingly confronts us with the profound ecological, ethical and political challenges of a multispecies world. The text explores written work such as Samuel Beckett’s Worstward Ho and Michel Foucault's The Order of Things, video media such as the film "Creature Comforts" and the video game Into the Dead, and photography. With chapters written by an international group of philosophers, literary and cultural studies scholars, historians and others, the volume brings together established experts and forward-thinking early career scholars to provide an interdisciplinary engagement with ways of thinking and writing the creaturely to establish a postanthropocentric sense of human-animal relationality.

Animal Ethics in the Age of Humans

Author : Bernice Bovenkerk
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319442066
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Animal Ethics in the Age of Humans written by Bernice Bovenkerk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides reflection on the increasingly blurry boundaries that characterize the human-animal relationship. In the Anthropocene humans and animals have come closer together and this asks for rethinking old divisions. Firstly, new scientific insights and technological advances lead to a blurring of the boundaries between animals and humans. Secondly, our increasing influence on nature leads to a rethinking of the old distinction between individual animal ethics and collectivist environmental ethics. Thirdly, ongoing urbanization and destruction of animal habitats leads to a blurring between the categories of wild and domesticated animals. Finally, globalization and global climate change have led to the fragmentation of natural habitats, blurring the old distinction between in situ and ex situ conservation. In this book, researchers at the cutting edge of their fields systematically examine the broad field of human-animal relations, dealing with wild, liminal, and domestic animals, with conservation, and zoos, and with technologies such as biomimicry. This book is timely in that it explores the new directions in which our thinking about the human-animal relationship are developing. While the target audience primarily consists of animal studies scholars, coming from a wide range of disciplines including philosophy, sociology, psychology, ethology, literature, and film studies, many of the topics that are discussed have relevance beyond a purely theoretical one; as such the book also aims to inspire for example biologists, conservationists, and zoo keepers to reflect on their relationship with animals.

Stray

Author : Barbara Creed
Publisher : Power Publications, Sydney
ISBN 13 : 9780909952907
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Stray written by Barbara Creed and published by Power Publications, Sydney. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerfully compelling polemic explores the relationship between human and animal in the context of the stray. Working through examples from both art and literature, with reference to the work of prominent philosophers, the book examines the different ways in which human discourse has labelled animals and people as strays, as well as what human and animal strays have in common. Collectively, it argues for the concept of ananthropogenic stray - a new form of stray produced in and by the Anthropocene, that is, as a result of the effects of human actions on nature. In doing so, the author profoundly lays bare the astonishing contradictions at the heart of the Anthropocene condition, relating to our treatment of non-human animals, and the way dominant nations and groups treat other human beings, such as religious minorities, refugees, and the homeless.

Italo Calvino's Animals

Author : Serenella Iovino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100907699X
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Italo Calvino's Animals written by Serenella Iovino and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The words 'Anthropocene animals' conjure pictures of dead albatrosses' bodies filled with plastic fragments, polar bears adrift on melting ice sheets, solitary elephants in the savannah. Suspended between the impersonal nature of the Great Extinction and the singularity of exotic individuals, these creatures appear remote, disconnected from us. But animals in the Anthropocene are not simply 'out there.' Threatening and threatened, they populate cities and countryside, often trapped in industrial farms, zoos, labs. Among them, there are humans, too. Italo Calvino's Animals explores Anthropocene animals through the visionary eyes of a classic modern author. In Calvino's stories, ants, cats, chickens, rabbits, gorillas, and other critters emerge as complex subjects and inhabitants of a world under siege. Beside them, another figure appears in the mirror: that of an anthropos without a capital A, epitome of subaltern humans with their challenges and inequalities, a companion species on the difficult path of co-evolution.

Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman

Author : Matthias Stephan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666903779
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman written by Matthias Stephan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-05-23 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman: Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward. Bringing insights from the field of literary animal studies, a diverse and international group of scholars examine literary contributions to the ecological framing of human-nonhuman relationships. Collectively, the contributors to this edited collection contemplate the role of literature in the setting of environmental agendas and in determining humanity’s path forward in the company of nonhuman others.

Writing Animals

Author : Timothy C. Baker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030038807
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Writing Animals written by Timothy C. Baker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys a broad range of contemporary texts to show how representations of human-animal relations challenge the anthropocentric nature of fiction. By looking at the relation between language and suffering in twenty-first-century fiction and drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches, Baker suggests new opportunities for exploring the centrality of nonhuman animals in recent fiction: writing animal lives leads to new narrative structures and forms of expression. These novels destabilise assumptions about the nature of pain and vulnerability, the burden of literary inheritance, the challenge of writing the Anthropocene, and the relation between text and image. Including both well-known authors and emerging talents, from J.M. Coetzee and Karen Joy Fowler to Sarah Hall, Alexis Wright, and Max Porter, and texts from experimental fiction to work for children, Writing Animals offers an original perspective on both contemporary fiction and the field of literary animal studies.

What Is Zoopoetics?

Author : Kári Driscoll
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319644165
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book What Is Zoopoetics? written by Kári Driscoll and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together essays dealing with the question of zoopoetics both as an object of study—i.e. texts from various traditions and periods that reflect, explicitly or implicitly, on the relationship between animality, language and representation—and as a methodological problem for animal studies, and, indeed, for literary studies more generally. What can literary animal studies tell us about literature that conventional literary studies might be blind to? How can literary studies resist the tendency to press animals into symbolic service as metaphors and allegories for the human whilst also avoiding a naïve literalism with respect to the literary animal? The volume is divided into three sections: “Texts,” which focuses on the linguistic and metaphorical dimensions of zoopoetics; “Bodies,” which is primarily concerned with mimesis and questions of embodiment, performance, and lived experience; and “Entanglement,” which focuses on interspecies encounters and the complex interplay between word and world that emerges from them. The volume will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of animal studies, area studies and comparative literature, gender studies, environmental humanities, ecocriticism, and the broader field of posthumanism.