Imagining New Human-Animal Futures in Australia

ISBN-13: 9781789973143 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 348 str.

Anne Brewster; Jane Mummery; Debbie Rodan

Opis

This interdisciplinary book investigates emerging ideas regarding human-animal interaction and cohabitation in Australia in the twenty-first century. Advocates, activist groups, mainstream media and more are considered in this study, which aims to imagine better models for human-animal communal living in Australia.

Spis treści

Contents: - Imagining Human- Animal Relations in the Australian Anthropocene - Riding the Sheep's Back: From Live Stock to Sentience - Transitioning Australia's Meat- Eating Culture - Making Friends and Kin with Companion Animals: Skippy to Red Dog - Neither Food nor Friend: Cohabiting with the Animals Out There - Stewardship, Sustainability, and Protecting the Great Barrier Reef - Different/ Together: Building More- Than- Human Communities.

O autorze

Jane Mummery is Adjunct Senior Research Fellow with Federation University, having previously held the roles of Senior Lecturer and Lecturer in Philosophy at Federation University and Edith Cowan University. She is the author of four previous books and numerous articles examining ethical and political understandings of and models for social change. Her research explores the ethical and political dimensions of everyday life and currently revolves around the challenging of neoliberal and anthropocentric assumptions. Her specific interests concern the reorienting of value and identity construction across and through the public sphere, activist action, and human-animal-environmental relations.

Debbie Rodan is Honorary Associate Professor in Media & Cultural Studies at Edith Cowan University, having previously held the roles of Masters of Professional Communication Coordinator, Director of a Research Centre (CREATEC), and Senior Lecturer. She is the author of three previous books and numerous articles examining identity construction in the media, digital media activism, and public deliberation about animal welfare. Her specific research interest centres on public attitudes to animal welfare, identity construction, and digital media use for social change.