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Animal Labor : A New Perspective on Human-Animal Relations / ed. by Jean Estebanez, Jocelyne Porcher.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Human-Animal Studies ; 18Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2019]Copyright date: 2019Description: 1 online resource (182 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783839443644
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.27 23
LOC classification:
  • QL85 .A5146 2019.
  • QL85 .A556 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Animal labor -- 2. Elmo and Paro -- 3. Horses in the laboratory -- 4. Are screen animals actors? -- 5. For a new conservation para -- 6. Guide dogs -- 7. The wolf and the Patou dog -- 8. Military and police dogs -- 9. From desolation to the creation of a common world -- 10. Draft horses in viticulture -- Authors
Summary: Do animals work? Is it possible to work with animals without exploiting them? Might animals even be empowered through work? This provocative collection offers original answers to these questions and allows readers to think about human relationships with domestic animals beyond the well-trodden tropes of domination or animal welfare. To study animal work means to look at animals in new ways and to discover in them unsuspected skills and knowledge that open up new ethical and political horizons.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9783839443644

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Animal labor -- 2. Elmo and Paro -- 3. Horses in the laboratory -- 4. Are screen animals actors? -- 5. For a new conservation para -- 6. Guide dogs -- 7. The wolf and the Patou dog -- 8. Military and police dogs -- 9. From desolation to the creation of a common world -- 10. Draft horses in viticulture -- Authors

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Do animals work? Is it possible to work with animals without exploiting them? Might animals even be empowered through work? This provocative collection offers original answers to these questions and allows readers to think about human relationships with domestic animals beyond the well-trodden tropes of domination or animal welfare. To study animal work means to look at animals in new ways and to discover in them unsuspected skills and knowledge that open up new ethical and political horizons.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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