Feeling Animal Death

Being Host to Ghosts

Brianne Donaldson, Ashley King (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

364 Seiten

2019
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78661-114-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Brianne Donaldson Brianne Donaldson is the author of Creaturely Cosmologies: Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal and Planetary Liberation (2015), and the forthcoming Insistent Life: Foundations for Bioethics in the Jain Tradition (2020, co-authored with Ana Bajželj). She is the editor of Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature: A Common World for Animals and the Environment (2014), and The Future of Meat Without Animals (2016; co-edited with Christopher Carter). She is assistant professor and Shri Parshvanath Presidential Chair in Jain studies at University of California, Irvine. Ashley King is a doctoral candidate in religious studies at Northwestern University. Their dissertation project, “Body, Flesh, Meat: A Science-fictional Theory of Soteriology,” develops the concepts of “flesh” and “meat” to theorize racialized queerness, transness, and animality in the viscously embodied soteriologies of contemporary science fiction.

Acknowledgements
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

Erscheinungsdatum	12.07.2019
Zusatzinfo	17 b/w illustrations;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 228 mm
Gewicht	721 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
ISBN-10	1-78661-114-7 / 1786611147
ISBN-13	978-1-78661-114-7 / 9781786611147
Zustand	Neuware