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An animal without a...
An animal without an animal within : investigating the identities of pet keeping
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- Redmalm, David, 1981- (author)
- Mälardalens högskola,Örebro universitet,Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap,Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap,HumAnimal Group,Hälsa och välfärd,Örebro universitet, Sweden
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- Uggla, Ylva, Associate professor (thesis advisor)
- Örebro universitet,Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap,Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap
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- Holmberg, Tora (thesis advisor)
- Centrum för genusvetenskap, Uppsala universitet
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- Bertilsson-Rosqvist, Hanna, Docent (opponent)
- Umeå universitet
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- ISBN 9789176689714
- Örebro : Örebro universitet, 2013
- English 119 s.
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Series: Örebro Studies in Sociology, 1650-2531 ; 17
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Abstract
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- If the human is an animal without an animal within—a creature that has transcended the animal condition—what is a pet? This creature balancing on the border between nature and culture, simultaneously included in and excluded from a human “we”, is the focus of this thesis. The thesis analyzes the discourses and normative frameworks structuring the meaning of pets in people’s lives. By extension, it analyzes how the boundary between “human” and “animal” is produced, negotiated, and challenged in the relationship between pet and owner.Each of this thesis’ four constituent studies focuses on an aspect of personal relationships between humans and pets: pets as figures for philosophical thinking, the dual role of pets as commodities and companions, the grief for lost pets, and the power issues at play in the everyday life of pet and owner. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s genealogical approach, crossbred with Donna Haraway’s material-semiotic perspective, the analysis exposes the powers allowing pets to occupy these various positions.The thesis demonstrates that pets occupy a special position as boundary creatures in the lives of humans, allowing humans to play with and thus reproduce dichotomies inherent to the contemporary Western worldview, such as human/animal, person/nonperson, subject/object, and friend/commodity. However, pets’ conceptual transgressions may also challenge this worldview. On the one hand, pets are bought and sold as commodities, but on the other, they are widely included in the human sphere as friends or family members. This paradoxical position is accentuated in the construction of a more-than-human home, and it is also visible when pets pass away. This thesis argues that pets, these anomalous creatures, may help humans understand that there are no humans or animals within, only relations between them. Based on this argument, this thesis develops a sociological approach for analyzing the production of humanity and animality in relations between humans and other animals.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Sociology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- animal studies
- animality
- anomalies
- companion animals
- Michel Foucault
- Donna Haraway
- human-animal studies
- materialsemiotics
- pets
- posthumanism
- Sociologi
- Sociology
Publication and Content Type
- vet (subject category)
- dok (subject category)
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