Undisciplined Animals : Invitations to Animal Studies.cPar Segerdahl
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Author: Par Segerdahl
Page Count: 195 pages
Published Date: 01 Jul 2011
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publication Country: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Language: English
Type: Pdf
ISBN: 9781443829519
File size: 10 Mb
File Name: Undisciplined.Animals.Invitations.to.Animal.Studies.pdf
Download Link: Undisciplined Animals Invitations to Animal Studies
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Animal studies is not a discipline of its own, but emerged simultaneously within many disciplines, such as sociology, geography, biology, art history, education research, philosophy, anthropology, film studies, political science, and gender research. Animal studies stands for a transformed way of doing scholarly work, always through the lens of the human/animal relationship. If anything keeps the field together, it is the productive "incoherence" that it creates wherever it challenges human-centred modes of work. What does it mean to do animal studies? Due to the essential "undisciplinarity" of the field, a traditional textbook approach could not answer the question. Undisciplined Animals is a series of confessions: "this is how I and my basic outlook changed through the efforts of unruly animals, neither of us happily adapting to human-centred perspectives." The hope is that readers will recognize the same productive tensions in their own work; that the book will help them use these tensions and not hide them as breaches of disciplinary rules.
Undisciplined Animals is a collection of invitations to animal studies, addressed to emerging scholars in a variety of fields who want to see how animal studies can vitalize work in their disciplines. The chapters are intersected by short interludes that describe an experience, a notion, or a thought that secretly drives the author's work. These interludes reveal animal studies to transgress not only disciplinary borders, but also borders between the academic and the personal.
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