Feeling Animal Death (eBook)

Being Host to Ghosts

Brianne Donaldson, Ashley King (Herausgeber)

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2019
364 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78661-115-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The emotional exchange between so-called "e;humans"e; 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.

Autor

lt;span style="font-weight:bold;">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.

Inhalt

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

Ashley King



11 Macey's Ashes: After-Death Care of Companion Animals as Interspecies Family

Amy Defibaugh



12 The Transformer: Approaching the Assisted Death of Animals and Humans with

Epistemic Humility and Uncertainty

L. Syd M Johnson



13 “How Do you Know His Name is Gabriel?”: Finding Communion with the Singular Lives of Creatures

Anne Mamary



14 Nikki: The Passing of a Herd's Matriarch

Susie Coston



III: Experiments in Feeling and Ritual



15 Visual Feeling Three

Adam Wolpa



16 Logos, Pathos, and the Absent Presence of the Persons We Eat

Brian G. Henning and Hope Philea Henning



17 Ghosts at a Glance: Four Animal Fragments

Anat Pick, with illustrations by Shira Avivi-Weisz



18 Goats of My Childhood: Rethinking Islamic Sacrifice without Animals

Saadullah Bashir



19 Living in Awareness of the Dead: Buddhist Experiments in Ethical Sensibility

Justin Fifield



20 Francisco y Chica: Feeling Memory Across Borders

Juan Fernando Villagómez



21 Salvaging Shame, Saving Ourselves: The Productive Role of Shame for Animals and

Marginalized Life

Brianne Donaldson and Isaac Willis



22 Ghost Stories: An Epilogue

Ashley King

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 9 Illustrations including: - 9 Black & White Illustrations.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Schlagworte: affect theory • Animal ethics • Animal welfare • Care Ethics • Critical Animal Studies • Empathy • Environmental Ethics • Environment Studies • Indentity • moral agency • Moral Philosophy • ritual studies
• ISBN-10: 1-78661-115-5 / 1786611155
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78661-115-4 / 9781786611154