Human–animal studies

Human–animal studies (HAS) is a new academic field that examines the relationships between nonhuman and human animals. It includes scholars from a diverse range of fields, including anthropology, sociology, biology, and philosophy.[1]

HAS scholars recognize the lack of scholarly attention given to non-human animals and to the relationships between human and non-human, especially in the light of the magnitude of animal representations, symbols, stories and their actual physical presence in human societies and cultures. Like feminist scholars in the 1970s, these scholars have been inserting the animal into the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

Rather than a unified approach, the field currently consists of several methods adapted from the several participating disciplines to encompass human-nonhuman relationships and occasional efforts to develop sui generis methods.

Contents

Areas of study

Growth of the field

There are now twenty-three college programs in HAS or a related field in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Israel and the Netherlands, as well as an additional eight veterinary school programs in North America, and over thirty HAS organizations in the US, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, France, Germany, New Zealand, Israel, Sweden, and Switzerland.

There are now three primary lists for HAS scholars and students: H-Animal, the Human-Animal Studies listserve, and NILAS, as well as the Critical Animal Studies list.

There are now over a dozen journals covering HAS issues, many of them founded in the last decade, and hundreds of HAS books, most of them published in the last decade. Brill, Berg, Johns Hopkins, Purdue, Columbia, Reaktion, Palgrave-McMillan, University of Minnesota, University of Illinois, and Oxford all offer either a HAS series or a large number of HAS books.

In addition, in 2006, Animals and Society Institute began hosting the Human-Animal Studies Fellowship, a six-week program in which pre- and post-doctoral scholars work on a HAS research project at a university under the guidance of host scholars and distance peer scholars. Beginning in 2011, ASI has partnered with Wesleyan Animal Studies, who will be hosting the fellowship in conjunction with ASI. There are also a handful of HAS conferences per year, including those organized by ISAZ and NILAS, and the Minding Animals conference, held in 2009 in Australia. Finally, there are more HAS courses being taught now than ever before. The ASI Website's course pages list over 300 courses (primarily in North America, but also including Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, and Poland) in twenty-nine disciplines at over 200 colleges and universities, not including over 100 law school courses.

Example papers

Related authors

See also

Notes

  1. ^ DeMello, Margo. Teaching the Animal: Human–Animal Studies Across the Disciplines. Lantern Books, 2010, p. xi.

Further reading

External links
Books
  • Adams, Carol and Donovan, Josephine (1995). Animals & Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations. Duke University Press.
  • Adams, Carol J. 2009. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory, Twentieth Anniversary Edition. New York: Continuum.
  • Arluke, Arnold and Clinton Sanders, eds. 2009. Between the Species: A Reader in Human–Animal Relationships. Boston, Mass.: Pearson Education.
  • Arluke, Arnold and Clinton Sanders, 1996. Regarding Animals. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • Armstrong, Susan and Richard Botzler. 2008. The Animal Ethics Reader. London, England: Continuum.
  • Baker, Steve (2000). Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, and Representation. University of Illinois Press.
  • Bekoff, Marc 2007. The Emotional Lives of Animals. New World Library.
  • Bekoff, Marc, ed. 2007. Encyclopedia of Human–Animal Relationships. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group.
  • Boissonneault, M. F. 2010. Every Living Being: Representations of Nonhuman Animals in the Exploration of Human Well-Being, Portland, OR: Inkwater Press.
  • Boissonneault, M. F. 2009/2011). Nurse or Nemesis? Public Perception of the Australian Grey Nurse Shark, Mandhurrra, WA: Equilibrium Books.
  • DeMello, Margo, ed. 2010. Teaching the Animal: Human-Animal Studies Across the Disciplines. New York: Lantern Press.
  • Donovan, Josephine and Carol Adams, eds. 1996. Beyond Animal Rights: A Feminist Caring Ethic for the Treatment of Animals. New York: Continuum.
  • Eisnitz, Gail. 2007. Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books.
  • Flynn, Clifton, ed. 2008. Social Creatures: A Human and Animal Studies Reader. New York: Lantern Books.
  • Franklin, Adrian. 1999. Animals and Modern Cultures: A Sociology of Human–Animal Relations in Modernity. London: Sage.
  • Gaard, Greta (1993). Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, & Nature. Temple University Press.
  • Haraway, Donna. 1989. Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall.
  • Haraway, Donna. 2007. When Species Meet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Kalof, Linda (2007). Looking at Animals in Human History. Reaktion Books.
  • Kalof, Linda and Amy Fitzgerald, eds. 2007. The Animals Reader: The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings. Oxford and New York: Berg.
  • Kalof, Linda and Brigitte Resl, eds. 2007. A Cultural History of Animals. Oxford and New York: Berg.
  • Kemmerer, Lisa. In Search of Consistency: Ethics And Animals. Leiden: Brill, 2006. xvi + 542 pp. $115.00 (paper), ISBN 978-90-04-14725-6.
  • Manning, Aubrey and James Serpell, eds. 1994. Animals and Human Society: Changing Perspectives. London: Routledge.
  • Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff and Susan McCarthy. 1995. When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals. New York: Delta Trade Paperbacks.
  • Meng, Jenia. 2009. Origins of Attitudes towards Animals. Brisbane: Ultravisum. ISBN 9780980842517.
  • Nibert, David. 2002. Animal Rights; Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Domination. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Podberscek, Anthony L., Elizabeth S. Paul, and James A. Serpell. 2000. Companion Animals and Us. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Regan, Tom and Peter Singer, eds. 1989. Animal Rights and Human Obligations. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall.
  • Rothfels, Nigel, ed. 2002. Representing Animals. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • Sanders, Clinton. 1999. Understanding Dogs: Living and Working with Canine Companions. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • Serpell, James (1996). In the Company of Animals: A Study of Human-Animal Relationships. Cambridge University Press.
  • Singer, Peter. 2002. Animal Liberation, rev. ed. New York: Harper Perennial.
  • Spiegel, Marjorie. 1996. The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery. New York: Mirror Books.
  • Sunstein, Cass R. and Martha Nussbaum, eds. 2004. Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Wolch, Jennifer and Emel, Jody (1998). Animal Geographies: Place, Politics, and Identity in the Nature-Culture Borderlands. New Left Books.
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