Animal Entanglements

Muddied Living in Dog–Human Worlds

Erika Cudworth (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

254 Seiten

2024
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-8019-8 (ISBN)

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This book provides an insight into the everyday lives and experiences of people who live with dogs as companions; and glimpses aspects of the lives of the dogs who share their homes. It is framed sociologically and as such, considers the various forms of power relations which shape the lives of those kept as pets and their human owners. In recounting stories of companion humans and dogs, the co-constituted quality of life is clear. However, while dogs – as agential beings with needs, desires and a point of view – are able to shape outcomes and change aspects of their lived experience, the world they inhabit is profoundly geared to human inhabitants; and the most privileged ones at that. The book revisits the notion of pet keeping as the interplay between domination and affection arguing that these do not exist as a continuum, but a mesh of complex relations played out in the use of homespace, in the kitchen, the bedroom, the in the public world of park and the street. Those living with dog companions, as well as the dogs themselves, find their lives are muddied, both literally and figuratively; boundaries are tested and recast and the complications of inter-species cohabitation negotiated by all parties.
Through an innovative theoretical contribution, Cudworth conceptualizes human relations with companion dogs in terms of complex social relations that involve both systemic forms of domination as well as nonhuman agency in shaping social relations and social forms.

Erika Cudworth is senior lecturer in the School of Applied Social Sciences at De Montfort University. Her interdisciplinary research interests coalesce around complexity and posthumanist approaches, intersectionality and asking feminist questions of our relations with nonhuman animals and the earth. Her previous books include Developing Ecofeminist Theory and Social Lives with Other Animals, and, with Steve Hobden, Posthuman International Relations and The Emancipatory Project of Posthumanism. She has edited many collections, most recently, with Ruth McKie and Di Turgoose, Feminist Animal Studies.

Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Introduction: Domination and Affection in Dogland
Chapter One: Research Pack
Chapter Two: Walking Edgelands
Chapter Three: Sharing Home
Chapter Four: Eating Animals
Chapter Five: Making Oddkin
Chapter Six: Working and Caring
Conclusion: Muddied Living
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	26.03.2024
Reihe/Serie	Radical Cultural Studies
Zusatzinfo	9 BW Photos
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 236 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Tiere / Tierhaltung
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5381-8019-7 / 1538180197
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-8019-8 / 9781538180198
Zustand	Neuware