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Animals and Agency: An Interdisciplinary Exploration (Human-Animal Studies, 8) by Sarah E. McFarland; Ryan Hediger; Traci Warkentin; Shelly R. Scott; David Lulka; Stephanie Rowe; Rebecca Onion; J.J. Clark; Jed Mayer; Rebecca Bishop; Debra Durham; Debra Merskin; Dipika Nath; Cat Yampell; Matthew Candelaria; Laurence Simmons is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Animals and Agency: An Interdisciplinary Exploration (Human-Animal Studies, 8) about?

While many scholars who write about animals deal with animal agency in some way, this volume is the first to position the question of nonhuman agency as the primary focus of inquiry. Section I presents studies of actual animals demonstrating agency; Section II moves agency into new terrain while considering key representations of animal agency in literature; Section III analyzes animals as mediators and as conveyances of human-to-human communication;and Section IV investigates the agency of beings who defy conventional species categories. The Envoi demonstrates how the microscopic polyp is interwoven into notions of agency and mythical superagency. This volume's interdisciplinary explorations press hard on issues of agency to open up space for more questions about how we can understand relationships between the human and the nonhuman.

Author

Sarah E. McFarland; Ryan Hediger; Traci Warkentin; Shelly R. Scott; David Lulka; Stephanie Rowe; Rebecca Onion; J.J. Clark; Jed Mayer; Rebecca Bishop; Debra Durham; Debra Merskin; Dipika Nath; Cat Yampell; Matthew Candelaria; Laurence Simmons

Publisher

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Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9789047429241

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Sociology