Detailansicht
Human and Other Animals
Critical Perspectives
ISBN/EAN: 9780230246591
Umbreit-Nr.: 9054116
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xii, 249 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 04.10.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
- Zusatztext
- This collection examines human-animal relations and the different ways in which they can be understood, exploring animal rights and animal welfare; whether and under what circumstances animals are regarded as social actors with agency; media representations of human-animal relations; and the relation between animals and national identity.
- Kurztext
- Features leading scholars in the field including Steve Fuller and John Law Recent medical advances, coupled with social movements defending animal rights, question the relationship between humans and animals and between society, culture and nature - this collection grapples with these issues First book to examine human-animal relations from a sociological perspective
- Autorenportrait
- MATTHEW COLE Sociologist at the Open University, UK ERIKA CUDWORTH Senior Lecturer in International Politics and Sociology at the University of East London, UK CHARLOTTE AULL DAVIES Honorary Research Fellow in Anthropology and Sociology, Swansea University, UK ADRIAN EVANS Research Associate at the School of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University, UK ADRIAN FRANKLIN Held Professorial positions at the University of Bristol, UK, the University of Oslo, Norway, and the University of Tasmania, Australia STEVE FULLER Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK PYRS GRUFFUDD Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Swansea University, UK MARC HIGGIN Lecturer at the University of Exeter, UK JOHN LAW Professor of Sociology at the Open University, UK and a Director of the ESRC funded Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change, UK MARA MIELE Lecturer at the School of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University, UK CLAIRE MOLLOY Senior Lecturer in Media at the University of Brighton, UK KAREN MORGAN Sociologist at the University of Bristol, UK and Lecturer at the Open University, UK KAY PEGGS Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Portsmouth, UK