Resultaten voor 'zoei sutton'

1. Zoei , Sutton

Critical Pet Studies

This book defines and argues for a Critical Pet Studies that challenges conventional narratives about human-pet relationships. Bringing together critical theoretical understandings of human-pet relationships and empirical research on them, this book investigates three sites of inquiry: the construction of animals-as-pet-commodities, multispecies cohabitation, and multispecies resistance. This sociological analysis of human-pet entanglements firmly situates them in a broader structural context that enables the categorisation of animals as ‘Pet’. Drawing on over 60 qualitative interviews with 'owners' and stakeholders involved in housing and supporting pet-owning humans, and species-inclusive observation, the author demonstrates that unequal power relations become evident when nonhuman animals are centred in research that concerns them. Committed to the activist-scholarship agenda, this book offers a fruitful contribution to multispecies scholarship and human animal studies more broadly. It moves beyond previously depoliticised and human-centric explorations of human-pet relations, and challenges the reader to re-imagine companionship with other animals.

Human-Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Crisis

With attention to central questions about life in 'the now normal', this book presents studies of multispecies engagements that challenge the perceived distinction between the social worlds of humans and other animals, exploring themes of crisis in relation to climate, environment and zoonotic disease transmission.