Animals as Experiencing Entities

Les Mitchell

ISBN 10: 3031464559 / ISBN 13: 9783031464553

Published by Springer Nature Switzerland Apr 2024, 2024

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume explores the experiences of those with little or no power-usually, although not exclusively, animals. The theme of animals as experiencing entities is what links the chapters and characterises the volume. Broadly each author in this volume contributes in one of two ways. The first group, in Section 1, theoretically engages animal subjectivity, animal experiences, and ways in which these are to some extent accessible and knowable to humans. The second group of authors, in Section 2, offer narrative accounts about specific animals or groups of animals and explore to some extent their subjective historical experiences. In summary, the first section diversely theorises about animal experiences, while the second section's authors assume animals' subjective experiences and construct narratives that take into account how animals might have subjectively experienced historical phenomena. 320 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Animals as Experiencing Entities
• Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland Apr 2024
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031464559
• ISBN 13: 9783031464553
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 153H x 22D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 153 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
• Weight: 528 grams

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Synopsis

This volume explores the experiences of those with little or no power―usually, although not exclusively, animals. The theme of animals as experiencing entities is what links the chapters and characterises the volume. Broadly each author in this volume contributes in one of two ways. The first group, in Section 1, theoretically engages animal subjectivity, animal experiences, and ways in which these are to some extent accessible and knowable to humans. The second group of authors, in Section 2, offer narrative accounts about specific animals or groups of animals and explore to some extent their subjective historical experiences. In summary, the first section diversely theorises about animal experiences, while the second section’s authors assume animals’ subjective experiences and construct narratives that take into account how animals might have subjectively experienced historical phenomena.

About the Author

Michael Glover is an animal historian specialising in cattle histories in southern Africa during the colonial period. Michael is an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and a member of the Australasian Animal Studies Association. 

Les Mitchell is a Research Fellow at the International Studies Group, University of the Free State. He is also a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. He has a particular interest in the critical analysis of texts relating to nonhuman animals.