Animal Labor: A New Perspective on Human-Animal Relations

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 trope...

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Other Authors: Estebanez, Jean 1982- (Editor), Porcher, Jocelyne 1956- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld transcript-Verlag [2019]
Series:Human-Animal Studies 18
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Online Access:DE-1043
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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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Sep 2019)
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9783839443644
DOI:10.14361/9783839443644

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