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The fast-growing field of Animal Studies is a varied and much contested domain. Engagement with animals has encouraged both collaboration and conflict between researchers within the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Animal Encounters comprises a series of meetings not only between diverse beasts, but also between distinct disciplinary methods, theoretical approaches, and ethical positions. The essays here collected come together from literary and cultural studies, sociology and anthropology, ecocriticism and art history, philosophy and feminism, science and technology studies, history and posthumanism, to study that most familiar and most foreign of creatures, ?the animal ?. These encounters between leading practitioners in the field highlight the promise and potential of interspecies exchange and mutual provocation.… (altro)
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In the second of his Just So Stories, ‘How the Camel Got His Hump’ (1974), Rudyard Kipling recounts that, when the world was new and the Animals were just beginning to work for Man, the Camel refused to play his part, and went instead to live in the Desert where he ate thorns and milkweed and prickles.
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What is needed more than ever is an intersectional analysis and inter- or transdisciplinary (if not post-disciplinary) research teams where various approaches, concepts and actors enter into dialogue, to the mutual benefit and flourishing not only of each field but above all of each of the human and nonhuman animals coming together in it.
The fast-growing field of Animal Studies is a varied and much contested domain. Engagement with animals has encouraged both collaboration and conflict between researchers within the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Animal Encounters comprises a series of meetings not only between diverse beasts, but also between distinct disciplinary methods, theoretical approaches, and ethical positions. The essays here collected come together from literary and cultural studies, sociology and anthropology, ecocriticism and art history, philosophy and feminism, science and technology studies, history and posthumanism, to study that most familiar and most foreign of creatures, ?the animal ?. These encounters between leading practitioners in the field highlight the promise and potential of interspecies exchange and mutual provocation.