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Description
The emotional exchange between so-called “humans” and more-than-human creatures is an overlooked phenomenon in societies characterized by the ubiquitous deaths of animals. This text offers examples of people across diverse disciplines and perspectives—from biomedical research to black theology to art—learning and performing emotions, expanding their desires, discovering new ways to behave, and altering their sense of self, purpose, and community because of passionate, but not romanticized, attachments to animals. By articulating the emotional ties that bind them to specific animals’ lives and deaths, these authors play host to creaturely ghosts who reorient their world vision and work in the world, offering examples of affect and feeling needed to enliven multi-species ethics.
Table of Contents
List of Images
Introduction-Transformed by Ghosts: Toward Futures of Less Loss
Brianne Donaldson
I: Overcoming Institutional Numbness
1 Visual Feeling One
Jo-Anne McArthur
2 The Gift of the Monkey Who Danced into Oblivion and the One Dressed in a Cage
John P. Gluck
3 Mourning Tiger Mascots in Baton Rouge
Nathan P. Kalmoe and Kathryn K. Will
4 Ghostly Greyhounds: Running the Race, Living through Memory
Bradley Rowe and Suzanne Rice
5 Encountering Loss: A Search for Minnesota's Moose in a Changing Climate
Elizabeth Singleton
6 Claimed by Roadkill
Matthew Calarco
7 Prophetic Labrador: Expanding (Black) Theology by Overcoming the Invisibility of
Animal Life and Death
Christopher Carter
II: The Public Power of Intimate Sorrow
8 Visual Feeling Two
Julia Schlosser
9 “Every Love Story is a Ghost Story”: The Transformative Power of Dog Dedication
Jessica Ullrich
10 Hos-Pet-Ality: Handmade Selves and Transspeciated Femininity
Product details
| Published | 20 Jun 2019 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 364 |
| ISBN | 9781786611147 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Illustrations | 17 b/w illustrations; |
| Dimensions | 228 x 161 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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This is an ambitious collection that brings an intimate voice to the discussion of ethical issues that are usually developed in more distanced rights-based discussions.
Jane Desmond, Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
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This topical collection of essays takes part in “the affective turn” of animal ethics, and is distinguished by its focus on personal experiences and a type of auto-scholarship wherein the writers explicitly draw from their own affective engagements with nonhuman animals.
Elisa Aaltola, Collegium Research Fellow, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Turku
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