humanimalia: A Pathfinder

This is a computer-generated pathfinder created against the Distant Reader study called humanimalia.

Each Distant Reader study carrel is composed of many individual items. Each item is bibliographically described with author, title, date, summary, and keyword values. Below is a list of the items' most signficant keywords as well as lists of the items themselves. Purpusing the content of this pathfinder provides the student, researcher, or scholar with one way to get their heads around the scope of the carrel. The keywords include:

Animal; Animals; Studies; Species; Humanimalia; Life; Work; Chapter; History; Book; Nature; World; Dogs; Horse; Film; Conservation; Zoo; Non; Beings; Review; Multispecies; Birds; Reading; Pigs; York; Bees; U.s; Sri; Crocodile

Depending on how this pathfinder was created, many of the bibliographic sections will include elaborations on the meaning(s) of the given keywords. These elaborations were generated by feeding the items' summaries to a large langauge model and asking the model to address the question, "What is X?", where "X" is the keyword. The result will be a few sentences of elaboration. Be forewarned. The elaborations are often plausible, but they should not be take as truth. Instead, they should be taken as points for consideration.

• All Hat, No Cattle: Review of Tracey Owens Patton and Sally M. Schedlock, Gender, Whiteness, and Power in Rodeo: Breaking Away from the Ties of Sexism and Racism by Vaught, Jeannette (2013) - However, despite their acumen in critiquing the workings of visual hegemony, the authors unilaterally call women in rodeo “cowgirls,” a term which, on the one hand, infantilizes women rodeo participants, and on the other, highlights the degree to which human and animal are co-constitutive in rodeo culture. Tracey Owens Patton and Sally M. Schedlock take a communications-theory approach to rodeo, manifest in analyses of roughly 600 publicity photographs taken during the twentieth century, as professional rodeo evolved from Wild West shows to its modern, corporatized format. Keywords: animal; authors; patton; rodeo; women
• Other Selves Are Possible: Review of Gilbert Simondon, Two Lessons on Animal and Man by Lammare, Thomas (2013) - Herein lies the challenge of Simondon’s approach for animal studies, theories of the posthuman, and psychoanalytic thought. L I A 4:2 Thomas Lamarre Other Selves Are Possible Gilbert Simondon. Keywords: animal; human; simondon
• When Women Birthed Mooncalves and Moles: The Display of Fetal Remains and the Invisibility of Females in Museums by Porth, Emily (2012) - The described kangaroo specimen is still too young to have survived outside of the pouch and, as such, can be similarly described and compared to other fetal animals. Alexa also believes that the protocols around displaying animal bodies should not be any different than those of humans because “they are a sobering reminder that we are part of the animal kingdom. Keywords: animal; bodies; century; display; emily; females; fetal; fetus; history; http://www.pdfcomplete.com/cms/hppl/tabid/108/default.aspx?r=q8b3uige22; human; hunterian; museum; natural; origin; porth; remains; species; specimens; story; women
• The Death of the Horse: Transforming Conceptions and Practices in Finland by Schuurman, Nora; Leinonen, Riitta-Marja (2012) - In studies of horse owners made by Birke, the naturalizing and anthropomorphizing of horses emerge as dualistic interpretations of the animals. The question about slaughtering horses divides horse owners, but the divide is not always about whether slaughtering is acceptable or not. Keywords: animal; care; death; equine; finland; finnish; horse; human; leinonen; owner; relationship; riding; slaughtering; society; studies; way; work
• The Goat that Couldn’t Stop the Mud Volcano: Sacrifice, Subjectivity, and Indonesia’s “Lapindo Mudflow” by Drake, Phillip (2012) - As political and economic elites seek to protect their power and interests during the crisis, they often resort to denying the rights and status of mudflow victims, a denial that echoes the dehumanizing objectification of the other that is expressed in animal sacrifice. Implied in Derrida’s statement about animal sacrifice is the permeable and undecidable nature of subjectivity. Keywords: aesthetic; animal; bataille; disaster; goat; human; image; individuals; indonesia; lapindo; meaning; mudflow; power; reason; ritual; sacrifice; sidoarjo; status; studies; victims; violence; volcano
• The House of Beasts’ Symposium: Enquiries into the Human and the Animal by Davies, Sophie; Rucinska, Karolina; Thomas, Gareth (2012) - As an integral part of the “tree of life” animals, he pointed out, share a surprisingly large amount of biology with “non human animals,” and homo sapiens are consequently not so different from their non-human counterparts. Animal death and troubling the human-animal dichotomy. Keywords: animal; beasts; davies; death; farmer; house; human; non; symposium
• Chicken Wisdom: Review of Annie Potts, Chicken by Davis, Karen (2012) - Chicken traces the history of chickens, from their earliest known ancestry dating to a “pre-chicken” fossil record of 50 million years ago, to the “post-chicken” of industrialized animal farming ― “post-chicken” meaning that the worldwide chicken industry is doing everything possible, from genetics to advertising, to destroy the chicken intrinsically and in public perception as a living being and fellow creature. Chickens disappeared into “chicken.” Keywords: animal; birds; chickens; egg; potts; poultry
• Love and the Dingo: Review of Deborah Bird Rose, Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction by Freeman, Carol (2012) - She asks, how do animal deaths relate to human death ― particularly massacre, genocide, and mass slaughter? The reality of animal death is confronted with an equanimity not often found in theoretical books in a passage where the dead body of a hunted animal is being prepared to be eaten. Keywords: animal; book; death; dingoes; dog; extinction; human; rose
• Zarathustra’s Philosafari by Traisnel, Antoine (2012) - Rather, I see this allegorical distance as necessary in order to unsettle both a strictly figurative viewpoint and a naturalist perspective on animal life.7 When Benjamin invokes the remedial potential of allegory, it is not because of the symbolical reconciliation it appears to promise – whereas Fontenay aspires to a metaphor-free idiom overcoming the “Great Divide”8 between man and animal – but, on the contrary, because allegory is, in Deleuze’s words, a “power of figuration” that “uncovers nature and history according to the order of time.”9 In an ironic gesture, Nietzsche suggests that language might not simply be the human’s privilege over animals that are presumed to be speechless, but rather the symptom of his compulsion to express himself, his having “forgotten how to be silent” (108),2 or better, his having forgotten how to forget. Keywords: animal; benjamin; cows; distance; heidegger; human; journal; language; nature; new; nietzsche; number; sense; things; trans; world; zarathustra; übermensch
• Narrative, Affect, Love and Confusion: Review of Kathy Rudy, Loving Animals. Toward a New Animal Advocacy by Holmberg, Tora (2012) - Animal studies have witnessed a similar trend, and scholars such as Ralph Acampora, Josephine Donovan, Vinciane Despret, Eva Hayward, and Donna Haraway have sought to understand what affect and corporeality mean in terms of interspecies communication and the generation of more ethical relationships with other animals. Whether the answer to these questions read “symphysis,” “attention,” “anthropo-zoo- genesis,” “impression,” or “response-ability,” these authors and others carefully engage with both the philosophical and political implications of living with other animals. Keywords: affect; animal; author; example; love; rudy; stories; studies
• Eating Girls: Deleuze and Guattari’s Becoming-Animal and the Romantic Sublime in William Blake’s Lyca Poems by Heymans, Peter (2011) - The idea of being eaten — by humans or other animals — is traditionally considered unnatural and horrifying because it redefines the power relationship between the eater and the eaten, and implies a final and irreversible loss of human subjectivity and agency. Even the ingestion of an animal that had died a natural death or had been killed by other animals was considered taboo in the Bible, since it bypassed human involvement and animalized the eater into a scavenger. Keywords: aesthetic; animal; blake; burke; deleuze; experience; guattari; human; kant; lyca; nature; new; peter; self; studies; subject; sublime; theory; volume; woman
• Ornithological Biography, Animal Studies, and Starling Subjectivity by Karnicky, Jeff (2011) - Starlings, like other birds subject to biography, are sexed, named, raised as children, cared for in their old age, and mourned in death. Would I kill our feral cats if I learned they were a problem for the local quail or other birds? Keywords: animal; animal studies; audubon; biography; bird; cats; companion; derrida; haraway; human; robert; species; starlings; studies; subjectivity; turkey; world
• Genuine Zoocentrism or Dogged Anthropocentrism? On the Personification of Animal Figures in the News by Gouabault, Emmanuel; Dubied, Annik; Burton-Jeangros, Claudine (2011) - Over the past few decades, animal figures seem to have been increasingly personified in Euro-American information media. The human tendency to personify animal figures has been discussed in terms of spheres other than the media, in a number of situations related to the history of human-animal relationships. Keywords: animal; case; context; dubied; figures; gouabault; human; knut; media; nature; paris; personification; process; zoocentrism
• What's in It for the Lobster? Review of Richard J. King, Lobster & Elisabeth Townsend, Lobster: A Global History by Bayer, Ellen (2011) - Townsend also expresses her concern that new technology designed to kill lobsters more quickly and humanely than current standard methods of boiling or slicing live lobsters will divorce us “from the primal experience of killing our dinner,” which puts us “in danger of losing the connection between the food we ingest and its origin” (8).3 While it’s true that most humans are dangerously disconnected from the food they eat, ultimately Townsend’s principal worry stems from the possibility that, “The idyllic experience of eating a freshly boiled lobster on a coastal dock may become extinct” (8). Her discussion of new “imitation” lobsters (seafood sold as lobster-like or passed off as lobster) serves as an interesting counterpoint to King’s insistence on the difficulty of defining lobsters; Townsend explores this question in terms of the difficulty diners may have in determining whether what they are eating is truly lobster. Keywords: animal; chapter; human; king; lobster; townsend
• Loop-holes of Possibility in the Literary Imagination : Review of Laura Brown, Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination by Gordon, Joan (2011) - By this time, I was making note after note connecting these works, and Brown=s readings of them, to Frankenstein (1816). The Tempest=s (1611) Caliban also anachronistically haunts the chapter, but he makes no appearance either. Keywords: animal; brown; chapter; human
• And say the animal responded . . . in Klingon? Review of Sherryl Vint, Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal by McHugh, Susan (2011) - Pushing Jacques Derrida’s famous proposition (“And say the animal responded?”) to describe her dog’s precise, intentional, and intense modes of communication as those of a Klingon warrior princess, Donna Haraway’s more recent investigations of companion species extend a longstanding assumption that science fiction offers the best suggestions for transforming ideas about non/human relations. Cleverly written both to introduce seasoned researchers in animal studies to the study of science fiction, as well as to clarify the relevance of this small sub-field of literary studies to much broader and growing interdisciplinary discussions, Animal Alterity makes the case that some exceptional writers in this genre offer ideal models for “find[ing] a way to connect with and respect alterity without reducing it to an image of self” (225). Keywords: animal; fiction; science
• Insectalia Technics: Review of Jussi Parikka, Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology by Murphy, Graham J. (2011) - Included in Parikka’s nonhuman studies are forays into art and popular culture before Insect Media concludes with a lengthy analysis of Lynn Hershman-Lesson’s Teknolust (2002), a film about self-replicating automatons (SRA) that is “a peculiar intervention into the practices and representations of biodigitality as it has been discussed since the 1990s” (171). Graham J. Murphy — Insectalia technics 117 In the Acknowledgements, Parikka dedicates Insect Media to “Milla: we hate insects and spiders together but love things material, not least cultural theory” (vii). Keywords: animal; fiction; insect; media; parikka; science; studies
• Pissing Angels by Filippi, Massimo (2011) - In short, the human being consists of a double lack: it lacks the shortcomings of other animals and the golden completeness of angels. As a consequence, he contends that “property is what is dirty” (7): the common practice humans and other animals use to acquire the property of what is beyond their Massimo Filippi — Keywords: angels; animal; body; environment; human; property; serres
• Future Mix: Remodelling Biological Futures by Franklin, Sarah (2011) - And we might add that using Dolly as a figurative doppelganger is merely once again to impose on animal bodies the burden of human wants. A task thus remains for the humanimalistic scholar of elucidating such animals — their ontologies, their politics, their ethics, or their “stakes,” as Haraway would put it. Keywords: animal; art; derrida; dolly; franklin; future; hand; haraway; human; mix; new; project; sarah; school; sheep; students; studies
• Animal Rights: Mapping the Debate: Review of Francione and Garner, The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation? and Milligan, Beyond Animal Rights: Food, Pets and Ethics by Salzani, Carlo (2011) - The Animal Rights Debate consists of three parts: a first chapter in which Francione defends the reasons of animal rights, a second chapter in which Garner defends the Carlo Salzani — Animal Rights: Mapping the Debate 135 reasons of animal protectionism, and a third part reporting a dialogue between Francione and Garner which re-proposes and expands the arguments presented in the two previous chapters. 3. Robert Garner begins his chapter on an apparently more restrained tone: he does not want to criticize animal rights per se, and even states that “a great deal of the ethics of animal rights is convincing” (103). Keywords: animal; debate; francione; garner; milligan; rights
• Is a Wolf Wild as Long as It Does Not Know That It Is Being Thoroughly Managed? by Tønnessen, Morten (2010) - That used to be the normal position of the wolf — consider Næss’ dated statement that wolves “are rarely seen and very careful to stay out of trouble. But if the coexistence of wolves and sheep farmers causes insoluble problems, we are told ”territorial changes must be considered: the removal of wolf or sheep or farmers” (352). Keywords: animal; human; management; næss; population; wild; wolf; wolves
• The Cannibal–Animal Complex in Melville, Marx, and Beyond by Pollock, Greg (2010) - In like manner, Marx’s representations of animals and his rhetorical uses of cannibalism show a fraught relationship between the inhuman and political economic critique. In contrast to Typee and Capital, I argue that Moby-Dick establishes a hospitable relation to cannibalism, enabling a more nuanced conception of animals and ethics. Keywords: animal; cannibal; cannibalism; capital; capitalism; complex; dick; human; marx; melville; moby; narrator; new; relation; unconscious; whale
• To Turn: California’s Proposition 2 and the Ethics of Animal Mobility in Agriculture by Lulka, David (2010) - In the following section, the different conceptions of animal welfare put forth by the opposing factions are examined. Another interviewee, whose organization took no official position on Proposition 2, put this concern in more precise terms by listing different measures of animal welfare: One way is to measure behavior, and try to mimic natural behaviors of animals, such as in the wild. Keywords: agriculture; animal; birds; cage; california; egg; farm; hens; initiative; life; lulka; movement; number; opponents; production; proposition; public; systems; turn; welfare
• When Species Kiss: Some Recent Correspondence between Animots by Turner, Lynn (2010) - I elaborate key elements of Derrida’s increasingly glossed essay “The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)” to show both their commonality with deconstruction more broadly and their conceptual importance in rethinking relations between humans and other animals in particular. Chimpanzees kiss, as do other animals” (728). Keywords: animal; body; cat; cixous; derrida; fall; hand; haraway; human; infinity; kiss; kisses; mirror; question; schneemann; species; woman; work
• Teaching the Animal: Review of Margo DeMello, ed., Teaching the Animal: Human‑Animal Studies across the Disciplines by Pedersen, Helena (2010) - Similarly, Paul Waldau (“Religion and Other Animals”) suggests an exercise he calls “personal archaeology” for both students and teachers as a way of uncovering multilayered personal histories with animals and their associated modes of learning, and initiating an inquiry into the complex process by which knowledge of other animals is built up. What are the different implications of “including” animal issues into existing curricula, as compared to recognizing that animals are always already part of hybrid educational assemblages and might require a critical posthumanist working through of entire curricular logics? Keywords: animal; course; education; teaching
• Biodialectics: Review of Roberto Esposito, Bíos: Biopolitics and Philosophy by Vint, Sherryl (2010) - Esposito rejects both responses that suggest the only way to avoid repeating the horror of Nazism is to create a concept of the human “as distinguished from other animal life” (150) and the conceptual distinction between (human) political life and (animal) biological life important to Agamben’s theorizations and to the Heideggerian Dasein. Further, this model requires acknowledging the interdependence of all life – including human life – on other forms of life. Keywords: animal; community; esposito; human; life; politics
• “The Tame from the Wild”: Handling Political Economies of Life at the Emergence of Capital by Griffiths, Michael R. (2010) - As an influential early eighteenth-century figuration of animal property, Robinson Crusoe reflects and portends shifts in the dispositif by which forms of life would come to be assigned value in the enlightenment. In the Further Adventurers of Robinson Crusoe Crusoe happily joins with a Papist against the greater evil of the island’s new population of “Spaniards” who “were the main Body of the [island’s] Family” but have neglected to baptize their “savage” wives (1). Keywords: animal; cats; century; crusoe; defoe; economy; family; forms; goats; hand; human; life; new; non; person; property; robinson; studies; tame; trans; wild
• Animals in Looking-Glass World: Fables of Überhumanism and Posthumanism in Heidegger and Nietzsche by Iveson, Richard (2010) - Sense thus carries an imbrication of the material and the semiotic that always exceeds any reduction to the words spoken by human animals alone. This logic must thus be understood as the entanglement of both material and symbolic economies, and in this the contemporary question of being-with other animals is not only a question of and to capital, a question of the literal rendering of animals’ bodies that underpins so many diverse industries, but is at once a demand which infinitely exceeds the economico-juridico-democratic ordering founded upon, and conserved by, the semantics of an agent-centered conception of subjectivity and of the sovereign (human) subject of rights and duties. Keywords: animal; beings; dasein; death; essence; fact; having; heidegger; human; image; language; nietzsche; nonhuman; place; possibility; relation; sense; thinking; truth; way; world
• Mustang: The Paradox of Imagery by Dalke, Karen (2010) - After analysis, two guiding principles separate Spanish mustangs from other BLM mustangs: 1) Spanish mustangs tend to be of a certain color or pattern of color, and 2) when a herd has been identified as Spanish there appears to be more human intervention, emphasizing a conformation standard. Although no one would say directly that the Spanish mustangs were more valued than other BLM mustangs, observations revealed that people would most often categorize and remark about features associated with the Spanish mustang including color or striping on the legs. Keywords: american; animal; blm; culture; dalke; horse; human; images; lands; management; mustang; people; public; studies; west; wild
• Animal or Animality? Review of PMLA 142.2 (March 2009) – Special section on Animal Studies by Gordon, Joan (2010) - She sees “most work in animal studies” as “motivated either by direct advocacy for animals or by the connection of animals with other subjects of political advocacy” (367). Yep, I want animal studies: we can be animals, too. Keywords: animal; animality; field; human; issue; studies
• After Species Meet: Review of Donna Haraway, When Species Meet by Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan (2010) - They are historical not only like human animals, but with them. While dogs may eat with us, most other animals at our tables are eaten by us, often through the help of our canine kapos. Keywords: animal; beings; cat; cyborg; derrida; dogs; haraway; human; life; species; wsm
• At the Heart of the Home: An Animal Reading of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Heart of a Dog by Fudge, Erica (2009) - The new social structure required new humans to live within it, and “[t]he architects of the revolution were confronted with the problem of constructing this new man, one who would be psychologically, physically, and culturally at home in the radically different society envisioned by communism” (546). But in her current work Susan McHugh is offering a counter to such a reading, and is interpreting Animal Farm as also being about animals and humans. Keywords: animal; bulgakov; dog; experiment; heart; home; human; london; novella; order; professor; reading; rejuvenation
• Animal Farm’s Lessons for Literary (and) Animal Studies by McHugh, Susan (2009) - Offering similar glimpses of how meat animals operate as agents, contemporary meat stories such as Ruth Ozeki’s bestselling 1998 novel My Year of Meats and its very different source text, Sue Coe’s 1995 artist’s book Dead Meat, likewise use this narrative form against itself, only more deliberately contrasting it with visual forms of representation. Collapsing any spaces between humans and animals, this aspect of the novel lends itself to interpretation as ending any possibility of sustaining species distinctions.15 However, in the process, visual media become propaganda tools with which pigs, chief among them the boar Napoleon, manifest control over other animals, a trope that bleeds into alternate potentials as it becomes materialized in film. Keywords: animal; animal farm; farm; film; human; meat; new; novel; orwell; pigs; point; reading; species; story; studies; york
• “Hooters for Neuters”: Sexist or Transgressive Animal Advocacy Campaign? by Urbanik, Julie (2009) - The campaign intersects with issues of social movement strategies around animal advocacy, and with issues of gender and animals with respect to where and how stereotypical gender categories are challenged or reinforced in nature-society interactions. The link between Hooters and animal advocacy via “Hooters for Neuters” campaigns first came to my attention through a letter published in Best Friends Magazine in 2006 by “Disgusted.” Keywords: advocacy; animal; city; events; figure; gender; hooters; human; male; neuters; new; overpopulation; people; place; spay; wolch; women
• Appetizing Anthropocentrism: Review of Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Freeman, Carrie Packwood (2009) - One of Pollan’s main theses in opposition to animal rights is that our relationship with domesticated farmed animals is symbiotic and not exploitative; therefore, if humans just allow other animals a safe and somewhat natural place for them to live for a period of time under our protection, they will earn a more humane death than they might have in the wild. This dissociation presumably gives Pollan increased credibility with a mainstream audience, as he is not so “extreme” as to promote animal rights or veganism. Keywords: animal; eating; food; humans; meat; pollan; rights
• An Animal-Centric Literature: Review of Philip Armstrong, What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity by Copeland, Marion (2009) - With readings such as Armstrong provides here and a glass half full instead of half empty, readers will discover in our literatures, past and present and future, narratives that depict nonhuman animal selves and subjects as accurately and convincingly as they depict human animal characters. Although usually characterized as animal novels, these texts follow some of the earliest texts Armstrong considers in presenting nonhuman characters either as under human control, without agency or intention, or, in the case of Martel, 73 Marion W. Copeland – An Animal-Centric Literature used solely as metaphors in what Armstrong reveals to be “a rhapsody to the power of the (touristic, all-consuming, privileged, globalized, Western) human spirit” (179). Keywords: animal; armstrong; chapter; human; literature
• Biocapital, Vol. I: Review of Nicole Shukin, Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times by Uddin, Lisa (2009) - In a supple set of case studies of animals in industrial and post-industrial contexts, the book offers a versatile critical framework through which to consider how animal life is enmeshed in and integral to market cultures. Animal Capital is a catalytic piece of scholarship that brings animal studies into in-depth conversation with transnational cultural studies and intensifies the Marxist politics of both. Keywords: animal; capital; human; life; shukin; studies
• Tracking the Animal in Derrida: Review of Jacques Derrida, The Animal That Therefore I Am by Calarco, Matthew (2009) - Also in these initial pages, Derrida offers his two hypotheses (in contrast to Heidegger’s “theses” on the world formation of human, animal, and stone) concerning animals. The chapter first appeared in English translation in Critical Inquiry in 2001 and has been the object of careful analysis by many authors working in animal studies. Keywords: animal; chapter; derrida; question
• Theriotopologies: Review of Lorella Bosco and Micaela Latini, eds., Animals and Humans in German Literature, 1800–2000 by Salzani, Carlo (2022) - In their introduction to this new collection, Animals and Humans in German Literature, 1800–2000, editors Lorella Bosco and Micaela Lat- ini adopt the theoretical grid recently proposed by German literary scholar Roland Borgards (a theoretical grid that also explicitly struc- tures most chapters of the book), according to which there are es- sentially two roles that can be assigned to animals in literature: they can act either as “semiotic” animals — that is, they are endowed with a semiotic function, they symbolize or represent something else, usually some human concern — or as “diegetic” animals — animals who have a place as living beings in the diegesis, that is in the nar- rative representation.4 The wager of Literary Animal Studies is pre- cisely to discover the diegetic animal in fictional representations and under the multiple layers of the cultural imagination of differ- ent epochs. Animals and Humans in German Literature, 1800–2000: Exploring the Great Divide. Keywords: animal; bosco; chapters; latini; literature; salzani; studies
• The Rise of Regional Creatures in Literary Animal Studies: Review of Charis Olszok, The Libyan Novel: Humans, Animals and the Poetics of Vulnerability by McHugh, Susan (2022) - Scholars in literary animal studies should take note here that Olszok thereby identifies a bridge between positions predominantly characterized as oppositional in Euro-American contexts: on the one hand, that which emphasizes the vulnerability of the human as a creaturely state, which is typified by Eric Santner’s On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Ben- jamin, Sebald (2006) and relies heavily on Giorgio Agamben’s reading of Michel Foucault’s biopolitics; and on the other hand Anat Pick’s exemplary framing of the creaturely in terms of the precarity shared by humans and other animals in Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film (2011), drawn primarily through the mystical philosophy of Simone Weil. In this respect, Olszok’s attention to the human-historical signifi- cance in detailed close readings of scenes featuring humans, animals, and human–animal relationships comes arguably at the expense of developing the theoretical scaffolding that would demonstrate the significance of them for literary animal studies. Keywords: animal; human; mchugh; novel; olszok; studies
• Facing Extinction: Animal Death Masks in the Post-Mortem Museum Representation of Gorillas by Burke, Verity (2022) - Animal death masks are, by contrast, almost completely unstudied. Research into animal death masks has largely been limited to exhibition catalogues, such as Near Life: the Gipsformerei — 200 Years of Casting Plaster (2019), which accompanied an exhibi- tion that ran from August 2019 to March 2020 at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and in- cluded the death masks of a boar, a wolf, a goat and a crocodile, as well as that of Knut, the famous polar bear of the Berlin Zoo. Keywords: alfred; animal; animal death; art; bobby; bristol; burke; celebrity; death; death mask; display; extinction; face; gallery; gorilla; history; humanimalia; life; masks; mount; museum; plaster; samson; taxidermy; zoo
• Imagining Home: Performing Adoptability in Transnational Canine Rescue and Rehoming by Schuurman, Nora (2022) - [Rehomed dog: Cida (Field girls)], Rescueyhdistys Kulkurit, last updated 18 November 2019, https://kulkurit.fi/cida-peltotytot/. 67 “Kodin saanut koira: Eliisa” [Rehomed dog: Eliisa], Rescueyhdistys Kulkurit, last updated 14 March 2020, https://kulkurit.fi/eliisa/. https://kulkurit.fi/cida-peltotytot/ https://kulkurit.fi/eliisa/ Schuurman, Imagining Home | 95 Humanimalia 13.1 (2022) is then contextualized in a situation described in the narrative, as in the story of Ambra who seems to be wary of other dogs: When treats are delivered, Ambra would also very much like to join in. [Rehomed dog: Rolle (in Finland)], Rescueyh- distys Kulkurit, last updated 10 March 2020, https://kulkurit.fi/rolle/. https://viipurinkoirat.fi/fei https://kulkurit.fi/alaska/ https://kulkurit.fi/rolle/ 94 | Schuurman, Imagining Home Humanimalia 13.1 (2022) narratives where the dogs express intense emotions such as excess devotion to humans, as in the story of Cida: Cida is the wild one in the group, absolutely the liveliest of the puppies. Keywords: adoptability; adoption; agency; animal; care; dogs; family; home; human; humanimalia; imagining; life; pet; pets; practices; rehoming; schuurman
• The History of Animals in the Present Moment: Rumination 2.0 by Fudge, Erica (2022) - Indeed, in an article from 2016 Joshua Specht pro- claimed the “triumph” of animal history, arguing that it is no longer emerging, but “has arrived”.2 Along the way, new scholarship has challenged earlier debates substantially — to the extent that I would say that during that sixteen-year period, I have had my mind changed. Animal history was also beginning to rec- ognize that agency could be unintentional. Keywords: animal; anthropocene; chakrabarty; fudge; history; human; new; past; species; work
• Lin May Saeed and Post-Anthropocentric Art: Review of Robert Wiesenberger et al., Lin May Saeed: Arrival of the Animals by Herman, David (2023) - The vol- ume captures the chief focus of the exhibition, namely, Saeed’s dec- ades-long concern with the forms — and formal representation — of creatural life, in all of its diversity and specificity, and with asym- metrical power relationships between humans and other animals. More precisely, her works model an aesthetic purpose-built both for trac- ing out genealogies of speciesism — Richard Ryder’s term for atti- tudes and practices that favour humans over other animals solely on the basis of species characteristics — and for registering its destruc- tive effects across various cultural settings at any given historical moment. Keywords: animal; art; chen; exhibition; herman; human; saeed; works
• Agamben’s Entwicklungsfähigkeit: Review of Carlo Salzani, Agamben and the Animal by Kotsko, Adam (2022) - Here I am distinctly in the minor- ity among Agamben scholars, for whom the remarkable consist- ency of Agamben’s project is often taken to be all but axiomatic. In the meantime, he has given us a rigorous and informative work that will serve as an indispensable point of reference for Agamben readers and animal studies scholars alike. Keywords: agamben; animal; book; salzani
• Afterlives of the Clouded Leopard: Likulau Heirlooms and Paiwan Culture by Lemaitre, Agathe (2023) - I ar- rived at the village in Pingtung one evening to meet with this informant, who was a member of an important noble family and in possession of clouded leopard artefacts. Clouded leopard items are representative of these so- cial changes. Keywords: afterlives; animal; artefacts; clouded; county; humanimalia; items; lemaitre; leopard; paiwan; past; people; presence; skins; time; village
• Voice: A Primordial Tool in the Training of Young Horses by Porcher, Jocelyne; Barreau, Sophie (2023) - Our relationships with them are often contextualized by and mediated through work, but, like human work, animal work (in all its forms) is much more than pure productivity; it also involves multifaceted approaches and reactions to “real work”, recognition of that work, and affective responses to working relationships and contexts.7 The question of work is thus central to understanding our relationships with animals, and observing animals at work allows us to see precisely what they do autonomously and outside of proce- dures. 9 Porcher, Éleveurs et animaux. 166 | Barreau and Porcher, Voice Humanimalia 13.2 (2023) plane with a parachute, or a guide dog focused on the task of safely walking his handler across the street while suppressing his instinctive behaviours, e.g. sniffing.10 Often including opportunities for pleasure and suffering,11 animal work is just complex as human work while also affording opportunities for subjective growth.12 As such, we define animal work as the physical and mental effort that an animal must make, over and above what is prescribed, to achieve set objectives.13 The work of equines within equestrian sport provides new opportu- nities to understand not only human–horse relationships, but also to move one step closer towards answering the question: why would an animal engage in work? Keywords: animal; barreau; blondeau; communication; contact; gesture; horses; human; humanimalia; jocelyne; porcher; real; rhythm; trainers; training; voice; work; working; école
• Adults Together: Mares, Women, and the Enduring Constraints on Mature Multispecies Relations by Vaught, Jeannette (2023) - Women horse trainers were given the moniker “pretty horse- breakers”, a sharp-edged term that pointed to their assumed sexual availability to men of the upper classes. At the risk of stating the obvious: while horse training and sex were co-interpreted through a dominant framework of trangressive fem- inine sexuality, women horse trainers were not all prostitutes. Keywords: adults; animal; behaviours; body; companion; control; equine; gilbert; girls; horse; human; humanimalia; mares; maturity; mchugh; relationships; riding; sassy; sexuality; stories; time; vaught; women; work
• Untamed Nature: A Cultural History of the Modern Dutch cat by Ronnes, Hanneke; Reddick, Harry (2023) - The famous poster by Theophile Steinlen, in which the haughty and independent cat was promi- nent, established an even stronger association between cats and 44 Morris, Cats in Art, 81–102; Rubin, Impressionist Cats and Dogs. Cats at the Vanguard The Tachtigers’ love of cats is documented from their earliest gatherings. Keywords: amsterdam; animal; artists; avantgarde; cat; cats; century; charrière; cultural; dutch; elite; het; history; humanimalia; love; members; nature; netherlands; new; nineteenth; press; reddick; ronnes; society; tachtigers; university; van; welfare
• A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: James McNeill Whistler, The White Girl, and the Animal(s) in Question. by Gelfand, Laura (2023) - As he had in the Peacock Room, Whistler mocks Leyland for wearing fancy frilled shirts, but he also ridicules his musical pretentions, and characterizes him as obsessed with Chinese pots. In this essay I suggest that Whistler represented a mounted wolf’s head sitting on top of a large sheepskin rug, i.e., a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Keywords: academy; animal; art; artist; clothing; fantin; gelfand; girl; guw; head; hiffernan; humanimalia; james; mcneill; painting; red; salon; sheep; viewers; whistler; white; wolf; woman
• The Feral at Home: The Rogue Trajectory and Unexpected Relations of a “Feral Pig” by Keil, Paul (2025) - Their grandparents were itinerant shearers and farmhands, who in their spare time caught wild pigs with their dogs for some “poor man’s pork”.52 Scott inherits a history of entan- glements with free-living pigs now banned by biosecurity legislation or discouraged by food and health authorities — consuming wild pig is rare, as it is popularly considered diseased or disgusting.53 While Scott was incapacitated at the time of our meetings and unable to hunt, Jamie hunted and brought home pigs to eat. Writing about Pig-pig and Scott helps expand our understanding of feral pigs (and hunters) — including who they are and who they can be with. Keywords: animal; australia; feral; home; https://doi; human; humanimalia; hunters; hunting; keil; living; multispecies; pig; pigs; population; property; relations; scott; species; ways; wild
• From Anthroponormativity to Creaturely Ethics: Rethinking Animals as Comparative Literary Subjects: Review of Dominic O’Key, Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature: Narrating the War against Animals by Ray, Sreyashi (2023) - In Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature: Narrating the War against Animals, Dominic O’Key initiates a dialogue between two fields that are all too seldom brought together — com- parative literature and animal studies — to determine the theoretical/ methodological frameworks that might interpret animal figures, pro- duced across literary traditions and geopolitical concerns, through a shared set of critical coordinates. O’Key focuses on animal figures in the works of W. G. Se- bald, J. M. Coetzee, and Mahasweta Devi to show that they “dramatize Copyright © 2023 Sreyashi Ray This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Humanimalia 13, no. 2 (2023): 253–262. Keywords: animal; animality; creaturely; form; human; o’key; pterodactyl; sebald
• Embracing the Radical Cartographies of the Doggy Dérive : A Walk in Three Acts by O'Brien, Darren (2024) - Embodying the Canine Soundscape An early experiment in deep canine topography considered the ca- nine soundscape, specifically how experiencing my canine compan- ion’s spatial position, might unsettle my body as a bounded object and bring us into closer sensory union. A photo-essay, mapping a typical daily walk from the canine point of view; 2) Creative writing, in the form of short passages of prose as imagined from the canine perspective; and 3) The main body of the text, which explores the practice of deep canine topography, or the doggy dérive, in relation to theoretical discourse. Keywords: act; animal; bodies; body; canine; cartographies; companion; concept; dog; dérive; guattari; human; humanimalia; o’brien; psychogeography; research; topography; walking
• The Spanish Horse and the Thunder Drum: Taxidermied Subjects and Animal-Made-Objects in the Early Nineteenth Century by Mattfeld, Monica (2025) - Over the period, as Keith Thomas argues, older, and often minority, views on animal care and cruelty became of interest to more and more people; and it was also a period where animal life was important enough to preserve with legislation and protection societies.36 While the discourses themselves had not changed in great measure from their earlier iterations, by the end of the eighteenth century they were “much more widely dispersed, and they were much more ex- plicitly backed up by the religious and philosophical teachings of the time”.37 Gibraltar’s agency, in turn, in- vites us to question the usual binaries of live/dead, recognizable/ faceless, subject/object, and culture/nature which, as I will argue, some recent scholarship on animal lives and deaths, memory, and attitudes towards the nonhuman other (animal, thing, matter) con- tinues to perpetuate. Keywords: amphitheatre; animal; astley; bennett; care; century; charger; dead; death; decastro; drum; gibraltar; history; horse; horse humanimalia; humanimalia; life; london; matter; mattfeld; military; object; taxidermy; thunder; university
• Writing on the Animal’s Side: Review of Éric Baratay, Animal Biographies: Toward a History of Individuals by Motamedi Fraser, Mariam (2023) - Where Krebber and Roscher propose that the aim of animal biography is “to account for [animals’] individuality without having to read their minds, recon- struct their feelings or infer their intentions”,1 Baratay argues by con- trast that this is precisely the aspiration: to adopt the individual an- imal’s “point of view” and “to understand what it lives, experiences, and feels” as such (8). Baratay’s restitution of the giraffe’s and of Warrior’s experiences renders transparent the role played by official documents in erasing individual animal lives, not least by ex- purgating the reality of what they endure in service of more flatter- ing portraits of their conditions, and of their relations with their hu- man handlers: the physical and emotional constraints and coercions, the boredom, the casual disregard, the numerous implications that flow from human ignorance, incomprehensibility, and lack of com- passion and empathy. Keywords: animal; baratay; biography; book; fraser; human; motamedi; review
• Rewiring Humanism: Review of Beastly Modernisms: The Figure of the Animal in Modernist Literature and Culture, edited by Saskia McCracken and Alex Goody by Sen, Anushka (2023) - Animals also provoke philosophical speculation, as seen in Carrie Rohman’s D. H. Lawrence-inspired meditation on animals becoming authors through the process of marking flesh. The collection speaks to the effort of delineating a field as precise as modernist animal studies while embracing the horizontal currents realigning modernist scholarship of late. Keywords: animal; goody; mccracken; modernism; review; sen
• “A satire is when it’s the same as here but there’s animals in it”: Review of Robert McKay and Susan McHugh, eds., Animal Satire by Quinn, Emelia (2024) - As Robert McKay and Susan McHugh’s 2023 co-ed- ited volume Animal Satire attests, the history of satire is a history of satirical animals, with animal satire employed to mock the po- litically powerful for over 2500 years. DOI: 10.52537/humanimalia.18487 http://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.18487 Quinn, Review of McKay and McHugh | 311 Humanimalia 14.2 (2024) in human allegory implicates animal satire in a troubling anthro- pocentricism that is antithetical to the aims of much of the work of contemporary animal studies. Keywords: animal; human; mchugh; mckay; quinn; review; satire; studies; work
• (In)tangible Teamwork: Human Perception of Nonhuman Sensing in the Case of Human-Sniffer Dog Ensembles by Paul, Bettina (2024) - Paul , (In)tangible Teamwork | 83 Humanimalia 15.1 (2024) Entering the Ontology of Dog Handlers: From the Genetic Fit to “They Are All Individuals”.27 When talking to dog handlers, whether within the police, customs or in the private security sector, one quickly discovers that they share a common knowledge concerning the nature of dogs, both as a spe- cies and with regard to specific breeds. While human dog handlers are confronted with scepticism concerning the teams’ reliability and capacity in detection work, they also have to cope with their nonknowledge when considering what their canine partners smell when searching for explosives. Keywords: animal; canine; dog; dogs; field; handler; human; humanimalia; knowledge; partner; paul; police; security; sniffer; teamwork; thinking; training; work
• Don't Let Them Eat Horse: Review of Kari Weil, Precarious Partners: Horses and Their Humans in Nineteenth-Century France by Gundermann, Christian (2024) - Whilst there is, once again, a lot of terrain covered in the course of this chapter, Weil ends with a discussion of the philos- opher of language Stanley Cavell and the poet and dog and horse trainer Vicki Hearne, both of whom theorize the question of train- ing not so much as a unilateral flow of influence and hypnotism as in Gustave LeBon’s fantasy of “educating the masses” following the model of horse training as a kind of programming of the mind, but rather as a mutual language game. Had she woven her discussion of Bonheur into the rich fabric of Baucher’s legacy, Weil could have augmented her analysis of equine agency in French culture by con- sidering the importance that Baucher holds today in horse training when understood as artistic dialogue with horses.5 Unlike in the dominant conception of dressage as an equine sport where the horse serves as a tool or instrument akin to a bicycle or a motor vehicle, mechanistically executing what the rider instructs him or her to do, in artistic (also sometimes called “academic”) dressage, 3 See Donna Landry, Noble Brutes: How Eastern Bloodstock Transformed English Culture (Baltimore, MD: Keywords: animal; baucher; bonheur; century; chapter; gundermann; horses; human; review; training; weil
• Interspecies Mapping and Timing: A View from Mithun Country by van Schendel, Willem (2024) - In Bangladesh, mithun sacrifices have also been re- ported among Muslims. For example, after a long period of religious stability, in which mithun sacrifices were fundamental rituals that structured the annual cycle as well as human lifecycles, the cosmological landscape changed.76 From the late nineteenth century, people in Mithun Country began to em- brace new religions, notably forms of Christianity and Buddhism that frowned upon mithun sacrifice. Keywords: animal; asia; bangladesh; bos; china; example; fig; forest; frontalis; gayal; history; humanimalia; humans; india; interspecies; mithun; mithun country; naga; new; nonhuman; people; press; region; schendel; south; spirits; state; university; van; van schendel; wild; world
• Guest Editors’ Introduction by Bartram, Angela; Hällsten, Johanna; Parker, Christine (2024) - Some of the concerns of those early debates remain as important as ever: the avoidance of anthropocentrism, an attention to the lives and experience of nonhuman animals that does not reduce them to symbolic representations of human values, and a recognition of the contested, but necessary role of animal advocacy within the field of animal studies. Our aim with this special issue is to convey a sense of what the in- terdisciplinary field of animal studies looks like now from a cultur- ally significant and visual perspective, to give contemporary criti- cal appraisal through a discussion of varying related concerns. Keywords: animal; conference; guest; humanimalia; issue; university
• Dangerous Play: Orcas, Mêtis, and the Global Lockdown by Hardt, Deborah (2024) - As a means for the disempowered to shift unequal power relation- ships, mêtis can be adapted to describe orca behaviours. Both Homer’s mêtis and the tactics described by Certeau help con- textualize orca behaviour. Keywords: animal; behaviour; boats; certeau; development; esteban; hardt; human; humanimalia; killer; life; lópez; marine; mêtis; new; noise; orcas; play; resistance; strait; study; vessels; waters; whales
• Into the Cat Show Ring: Review of Cat People: Human–Cat Interrelatedness in the Cat Fancy by Emily Stone (2023) by Beste, Maura (2024) - Speaking with a veterinarian, she is told “I think there’s prob- ably thousands of cat breeders and showers who have got cats who are bloody terrified, and they think they are just sitting there chilled” (55). Spending more time ob- serving and documenting the emotional expressions, preferences, and quirks of specific cats, as Stone does with her human partici- pants, could offer a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between behavioural science, breeders’ interpretations of feline be- haviour, and the lived experiences of cats. Keywords: animal; beste; cat; cats; feline; stone
• Becoming Pheasant: The Making, Unmaking, and Remaking of a Hunted Bird by van Heijgen, Eugenie (2025) - Hij heeft het vlakke veld noodig, dat hem in den zomer een gewenscht verblijf met van Heijgen , Becoming Pheasant | 167 Humanimalia 15.2 (2025) “tied to any particular type of landscape but feel equally at home in polders, forests, or dunes”.73 Second, when the environmental con- ditions were favourable, hunters took further measures to support existing populations of wild pheasants. The Dutch literature shows a slight preference for “pure” strains, but no real effort seem to have been taken to keep them so — all varieties could interbreed and produce fertile offspring, meaning that wild pheasants would all inevitably become “bastards”. Keywords: animal; anthropocene; birds; care; conservation; een; fazant; feral; game; heijgen; het; history; https://doi; human; humanimalia; hunters; hunting; landscapes; lives; management; nature; netherlands; pheasants; rearing; releasing; sovon; species; status; stewardship; time; van; van heijgen; ways; wild; wildlife
• Robot Dogs and the Paw Patrol: Police Dogs and Racial Biocapitalism in the Americas and Palestine by Selby, Ishaan (2025) - The paper reads the historical use of police dogs against Black protesters from the Civil Rights Era to the present, the children’s television show PAW Patrol, and Israel’s use of robot dogs in its ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip as examples of policing as an operation of life sorting and as a manifestation of racial (bio)capitalism that makes use of the lively capacities and properties of dogs. Keywords: PAW Patrol, racial capitalism, abolition, Palestine, police dogs, copaganda Bio: Ishaan Selby is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University in the Department of English. Keywords: accumulation; animal; capitalism; dogs; history; humanimalia; life; palestine; palestinian; paw patrol; police; police dogs; policing; power; press; race; robot dogs; selby; settler; studies; university; use; war; work
• Fuzzy Boundaries: Review of Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life (2024) by Elizabeth Effinger by Choudhury, Poulomi (2025) - Effinger argues that the Gothic’s myriad incarnations — horror, Gothic horror, ecogothic — make it an unstable and protean concept, fraught with definitional dilemmas that have long agitated scholars. He argues that animals in Gothic literature can disrupt entrenched anthropocentric and masculinist ideologies, insisting that they be read not merely as reflections of human interiority but as agents that unsettle human exceptionalism itself.4 For Effinger, however, it is the affective jolt of recognizing parallelism — what Jane Desmond, in McHugh and Bez- an’s Configurations issue, calls a “transspecies speculation”5 of be- coming the animal — that lies at the heart of Gothic horror. Keywords: animal; choudhury; effinger; gothic; horror; humanimalia; review; studies; taxidermy
• In Pursuit of Animal Justice: Review of The Three Ethologies (2024) by Matthew Calarco by Castelló, Pablo P. (2025) - Zoopolis’s differentiated theory of animal rights also contends that wild animal peoples should have a collective right to self-determination because wild animal communities have their own forms of social organiza- tion, cultures, and are attached to their familiar territories. Seeing-with other animals is imbued with “an affirmative passion” that seeks to behold the world and see it “with fresh eyes — an ac- tivity the ancients called theoria” (108). Keywords: animal; calarco; castelló; donaldson; ethology; family; hutto; kymlicka
• An Introduction to Marco Reggio’s Activism and Research by McShane, Suleiman; Clancy, Erin (2025) - 4 Indra Sinha, Animal’s People (London: Simon & Schuster, 2007); Reggio, “A quattro zampe”. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani1010083 McShane and Clancy, Introduction to Marco Reggio | 77 Humanimalia 15.2 (2025) the ideological and infrastructural machinery of speciesism. This 7 See Reggio, “Club degli umani”. 8 See Matthew Cole and Karen Morgan, “Vegaphobia: Derogatory Discourses of Ve- ganism and the Reproduction of Speciesism in UK National Newspapers,” The Brit- ish Journal of Sociology 62, no. 1 (2011): 134–63; see also the Italian blog Vegefobia, https://it.vegephobia.info/ and Reggio, “L’attivismo antispecista.” https://it.vegephobia.info/ McShane and Clancy, Introduction to Marco Reggio | 79 Humanimalia 15.2 (2025) parallel is the subject of Rasmus Rahbek Simonsen’s A Queer Ve- Keywords: animal; clancy; feminoska; humanimalia; introduction; liberazioni; marco; marco reggio; mcshane; reggio; resistance; speciesism; vegan
• “Happy” Goats: or, Taking Embarrassment Seriously by Reggio, Marco; McShane, Suleiman; Clancy, Erin (2025) - The nonhuman “etc.” of the species axis, or, more concretely, of the gaze that includes other animals, provokes a gestalt reorientation: you see everything under a different, rather unsettling, light. One of the first things you find is that animal exploitation is everywhere — in every object, every commodity; that human history is founded on it, literally on animal blood — and, perhaps even more disconcert- ingly, that domination over other animals is present in our ideas, in the ways we are taught to think from childhood. Keywords: agitu; animal; bears; care; exploitation; farmers; food; goats; happy; humanimalia; italian; italy; liberation; meat; non; reggio; time; trentino; zone
• Crow Time by Driscoll, Kári (2025) - This view stands in implicit critical dialogue Pablo Castelló’s review of Matthew Calarco’s The Three Ethologies (2024), in which Castelló mounts a defence of liberal political theories of animal rights — es- pecially Donaldson and Kymlicka’s Zoopolis — which, in his view, has been unfairly dismissed by critical animal studies scholars as be- ing purely individualist, when in fact such accounts retain crucial tools for articulating collective territorial rights and animal subject- hood. Choudhury praises the book’s ambition and interdisciplinary scope but notes its limited engagement with the material conditions of animal death. Keywords: animal; death; editorial; human; humanimalia; issue; life; species; taxidermy
• Native American Ethology and Animal Protectionist Rhetoric in the Long Enlightenment by Doran, Thomas (2020) - The practice of hunting deer by trapping them within a circle of fire was commonly cited by Euro-colonial naturalists as evidence of Indigenous animal cruelty. After all, how would Western perceptions of Indigenous animal cruelty or overhunting change if we more accurately measured Indigenous contributions to the science of animal behavior and its contributions, in turn, to animal protectionist rhetoric? Keywords: american; animal; bartram; beaver; behavior; colonial; deer; doran; enlightenment; ethology; euro; hearne; history; human; hunting; indian; knowledge; lawson; long; manitou; narrative; native; naturalists; north; number; protectionist; rhetoric; studies; thomas; thompson
• Screening Slaughter: The Repressed Politics and Troubled Aesthetics of Gabriel Serra Argüello’s La Parka (2013) by Close, Glen (2020) - Shots of the animals’ eyes, as Jonathan Burt observes with regard to other animal films, form an important motif in that they represent a mutual human-non-human gaze that can signify “not just a psychic connection” but also the potential “basis of a [non-verbal] social contract” (39) and “the possibility of animal understanding” (71, italics in original). O’Brien argues that “the desire for knowledge of real human death ... incites the production and reception of cinematic representations of violent animal death” (53) and that cinema’s “recourse to animal death” is thus “supplementary” (50) in nature, in that “the medium presents images of violent animal death as a supplement for representations of human death ... Keywords: animal; argüello; beef; cattle; close; death; documentary; film; gabriel; gabriel serra; garcía; garmendia; human; jiménez; jiménez garcía; journal; la parka; meat; mexican; mexico; number; online; parka; politics; serra; slaughter; slaughterhouse; studies; u.s; workers
• Herding Community: Entanglement in Of Horses and Men by McKinnon, Ann Marie (2020) - In Of Horses and Men, the camera caresses horse bodies covered in hair and the landscapes of rock and snow, inviting the viewer to respond to the images in an intimate and embodied way. But unlike most domesticated horses worldwide, Icelandic horses have never lived exclusively on private property. Keywords: animal; cinema; community; death; entanglement; eye; film; gaze; horses; human; iceland; look; mare; men; non; world
• Women and Cattle “Becoming-With” in Botswana by Petitt, Andrea; Hovorka, Alice (2020) - In short, class dynamics manifested within enhanced cattle commercialization shape how cattle are becoming-with women cattle owners in Ghanzi, and people more broadly, in Botswana through spatial controls, breeding programs, and marketing channels. The way that cattle are becoming-with women cattle owners, directly or mediated through hired labor and/or technology, is most visibly shaped by class. Keywords: animal; botswana; cattle; class; ethnicity; gender; ghanzi; herero; hovorka; human; journal; petitt; power; relations; sector; studies; women
• “That’s when he comes rushing into her life.”: Swedish Literary Depictions of Human-Animal Sexual Contact at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century by Lönngren, Ann-Sofie (2020) - “I’m writing an article about a few Swedish literary narratives that I’ve found about people having sex with animals.” With regards to sexual acts between humans and animals, however, there has been a different discourse since 1944. Keywords: animal; bestiality; birgitta; century; contact; depictions; det; dog; hennes; hon; human; jag; life; lönngren; och; sex; som; stories; studies; sweden; swedish; translation; turn; vera; woman
• Affective Animals: Transspecies Encounters in Modern British Animal Writing by Huggan, Graham (2020) - Animal writing may not only be about humans, but it continues to be mostly about humans, just as nature writing, an always-tricky category that is by no means synonymous with animal writing, continues to negotiate the tension between its egocentric inclinations and its ecocentric claims. Backing up my earlier reflections on the animal gaze, I will turn first to two pairings of texts that illustrate the potentially visionary quality of modern animal writing while also showing its limits of vision in relation to the various “transspecies encounters” (Haraway) it wishes to enact.3 Hawk “I”s. Keywords: animal; animal writing; baker; british; contemporary; encounters; hawk; human; life; nature; otter; self; studies; text; transspecies; wild; work; world; writing
• The Squirrel’s Heartbeat : Review of Ivan Kreilkamp, Minor Creatures: Persons, Animals, and the Victorian Novel by Taylor, Michelle M. (2020) - (127) Like a shepherd raising his sheep to be killed, the author of a realist novel creates animal characters destined to be marginal — if not stoned off like Fanny’s “prosthetic” dog then simply forgotten about. Though Schreiner does much to alter the traditions of the realist novel, in some ways its original conventions, including the ephemeral nature of animal characters, are well-suited to her purposes. Keywords: animal; form; human; kreilkamp; novel; victorian
• Animal Subjectivity and Child Animality in Children’s Media: Review of Amy Ratelle, Animality and Children’s Literature and Film by Monteleone, Amanda (2020) - However, Ratelle argues, an ambiguity between human and animal becomes apparent in child protagonists who develop intimate connections with animals, and in animal protagonists who attempt to find their footing in human worlds. Ratelle argues that by assigning subjectivity to animals and/or rendering children in an animalistic way, children’s books and movies complicate their own apparent function of establishing human subjectivity and a clear boundary between animals and humans. Keywords: animal; children; film; human; ratelle; texts
• At Least as Good as Human: Review of Caroline Hovanec, Animal Subjects: Literature, Zoology, and British Modernism by Hughes, Zoe (2020) - Not only does it challenge the “‘two cultures’ narrative,” showing modernist authors to be engaged with animal science -- and vice versa: animal scientists invested in the epistemic value of characterization and speculation -- it deconstructs the animal studies version of that narrative whereby there are no animals in modernist literature. He and Lawrence allowed that animals had the capacity for self-expression and play, and used animal stories to imagine alternatives to traditional marriages (in the grebe, Huxley found a model for a committed and gender- equitable relationship; in the goat and tortoise, Lawrence saw a surrender to primal, masculine urges). Keywords: animal; hovanec; human; huxley; modernist; science
• Sensibility and the Human–Animal Bond: Review of Katherine M. Quinsey, ed. Animals and Humans: Sensibility and Representation, 1650–1820 by Wennerstrom, Courtney (2020) - In “Animals and the country-house tradition of Leapor and Austen,” for instance, Barbara K. Seeber contends that these two writers challenge the callousness behind the subjugation of women and animals by appealing to a higher moral sensibility. Animals and Humans: Sensibility and Representation, 1650-1820. Keywords: animal; century; human; sensibility; volume
• Parrot Poll: Animal Mimesis in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe by Borgards, Roland (2020) - The first sentence of the journal sets a tone of despair, with Crusoe bemoaning his fate: I poor miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwreck’d, during a dreadful Storm, in the offing, came on Shore on this dismal unfortunate Island, which I call’d the Island of Despair, all the rest of the Ship’s Company being drown’d, and my self almost dead. This is why the journal begins with the letter or word “I”: “I poor miserable Robinson Crusoe.” Keywords: animal; crusoe; defoe; friday; human; imitation; journal; mimesis; parrot; poll; robinson; robinson crusoe; self
• Horror and the Posthuman: Edgar Allan Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Nonhumans, and Ethics by Hinds, Janie (2020) - Notably, neither yell nor scream is verbal in the precise meaning of the word, but I choose to call the exchange verbal in the face of the long history of separation of nonhumans from human animals on the basis of language, because both the seagull and the men derive meaning from, give attention to, and take action in response to the sound the other makes, as is the case with language, human or otherwise.3 This school of thought insists on a firm — what Jacques Derrida would term “abyssal” — boundary between humans and other animals to put nonhuman animality on the map as specifically not-human in order to begin to deconstruct the binaries definitive of liberal humanist thinking by exposing the constructedness of those binaries (“The Animal” 381). Keywords: animal; arthur; bird; encounter; ethics; gordon; human; narrative; nonhuman; poe; presence; pym; seagull; self; studies; tiger
• Fleshy Encounters: Meddling in the Lifeworlds of Zoo and Aquarium Veterinarians by Braverman, Irus (2020) - (174) This Heideggerian realization of the importance of the hand for the use of tools invites further reflections about the particular nature of the tools used in animal procedures, as well as the continued coproduction of agency through the interaction of the human and animal body through the tool. The new question is: “How clean is too clean for aquarium animals?” Keywords: animal; aquarium; author; bonn; braverman; encounters; fish; interview; irus; lifeworlds; studies; van; veterinarians; video; zoo
• The Capacities and Limitations of Language in Animal Fantasies by Leatherland, Douglas (2020) - Ursula Le Guin’s short story, “‘The Author of the Acacia Seeds’ and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics” (1974), features a discipline called “therolinguistics’, the study of animal languages specifically. Le Guin’s speculations on the potential languages of plants reflect similar speculations about animal languages at the time her short story was written. Keywords: adams; animal; capacities; communication; fantasies; flora; human; language; lapine; limitations; nonhuman; novel; number; rabbits; species; speech; story; studies; watership
• The Rise of Therapy Animals’ Personhood: A Note on the Ontological Dimensions of Professional Dynamics by Michalon, Jérôme (2020) - Furthermore, the Sommer Foundation has released a directory of different institutions, associations, and local authorities offering and/or training in animal mediation practices, including 248 addresses throughout France. A third, broader objective can be added to these first two, that of contributing to reflections on animal work. Keywords: animal; care; des; dogs; dynamics; equine; france; horse; human; personhood; practices; professional; relationship; riding; rise; social; sociology; therapy; work; world
• From the Dawn Chorus to the Canary Choir: Notes on the Unnatural History of Birdsong by Petri, Olga; Howell, Philip (2020) - The broader choreography of bird performances reveals the exacting level of care that was taken to minimize such capricious behavior. Instead, canary performances are predominantly domestic, though this does not preclude the elaborate choreographies of nonhuman propensities and human direction. Keywords: animal; birds; birdsong; canaries; canary; choir; history; howell; human; journal; music; nature; notes; performance; petri; philip; recording; singing; sounds; studies; technology; training; wild
• Can the Horse be Modern? Review of Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld, eds. Equestrian Cultures: Horses, Human Society, and the Discourse of Modernity by Renton, Kathryn (2020) - Equestrian Cultures: Horses, Human Society, and the Discourse of Modernity. A new collection of essays edited by Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld, Equestrian Cultures: Horses, Human Society, and the Discourse of Modernity, responds to an increasingly robust literature on the horse in the fields of animal studies, literature, and history. Keywords: animal; century; horse; human; modern; modernity; technology
• Putting Derrida to Work: Review of Sarah Bezan and James Tink, eds., Seeing Animals after Derrida by Still, Judith (2020) - Yet the article is haunted by classic presumptions about animal silence and the human ability to communicate, and thus tells us more about how human beings see themselves and their relationship to animals than about either dogs or indeed Derrida’s writing on the animot. Seeing Animals After Derrida. Keywords: animal; derrida; human; work
• Living Machines with Gentle Looks: Materiality and Animal Body in Modernizing Finnish Animal Husbandry by Kaarlenkaski, Taija (2019) - With the help of microscopes and other equipment, earlier invisible “truths” about the natural processes of animal bodies were revealed, and this required specialist knowledge (Milk, Modernity 87-88). Thus, the vernacular practical and “superficial” knowledge about animal bodies was supplemented and even replaced by more “deep” expert knowledge. Keywords: agency; animal; animal body; animal husbandry; bodies; body; cattle; century; cows; dairy; example; finland; finnish; guidebooks; human; husbandry; kaarlenkaski; machines; milk; milking; production; studies; time
• Narrative, Meaning, and Multispecies Ethical Ontologies by McCormack, Brian (2019) - Perhaps the most important articulation of such an ontology for a concept of nonhuman animal narrative is that offered by Val Plumwood. I draw out and develop some key points of connection between nonhuman animal narrative and an Uexküllian concept of meaning in more detail than has been done so far. Keywords: animal; concept; ethical; experience; herman; human; making; meaning; multispecies; narrative; nonhuman; organism; plumwood; uexküll; world
• Through the Shadows of Roadkill by MacKay, Carley (2019) - In this article, I problematize how we often fail to acknowledge roadkill animals and argue that our relations with roadkill warrant ethical kinds of engagement, which I explore through an analysis of death and intimacy. As I make clear, death does not inhibit our relations with roadkill animals but instead acts as a catalyst for them. Keywords: analysis; animal; bodies; bureaucracies; death; human; lives; roadkill; shadows
• Multispecies Politics in the City: Review of Tora Holmberg, Urban Animals: Crowding in Zoocities by Hunold, Christian (2019) - Holmberg’s suggestion that documentary photographs and videos of animals recorded by animal welfare officials during investigations of allegations of animal hoarding might serve to communicate the animals’ agency is intriguing but not developed in much depth. In engaging this question, Tora Holmberg does not reduce politics to mere discourse or equate politics with rational deliberation aimed at reaching consensus on controversies involving urban animals. Keywords: animal; crowding; holmberg; human; politics
• What Is It Like to Be a Sequential Animal? Review of David Herman, ed. Animal Comics: Multispecies Storyworlds in Graphic Narratives by Doran, Thomas (2019) - In applying this problem of incongruence to Animal Comics, a volume whose contributors are predominately literary studies scholars, the decisive question concerns whether the volume makes more of a contribution to comics studies and animal studies, or comparative narrative theory. The history of animal representation in comics art is so long, vast, and varied that it is surprising the medium does not already dominate arts and humanities scholarship in animal studies. Keywords: animal; art; comics; history; medium; studies
• Introduction to the Special Issue by Geroux, Robert (2021) - To appropriate and redeploy settler language, non-human animals and others are Founders. We can begin with the awareness that non-human animals are kin, co-founders of communities and revolutionary agents, but where do we find an institutional home for various deployments of the knowledge at the heart of our various projects? Keywords: animal; decolonizing; human; issue; knowledge; questions; space; studies; work
• Human-Bison Relations as Sites of Settler Colonial Violence and Decolonial Resurgence by Taschereau Mamers, Danielle (2019) - Rather than importing the critical resources of Euro-Western theorists to the site of bison relations, I center Indigenous scholarship that emerges from the particularity of human-bison relations in the west. However, Indigenous relations with buffalo nations extend beyond physical co-presence on the landscape. Keywords: american; animal; animal relations; bison; bison relations; buffalo; colonial; conservation; extermination; herds; histories; human; knowledge; land; life; nations; peoples; plains; relations; relationships; settler; species; studies; treaty; work
• Animal Colonialism: Illustrating Intersections between Animal Studies and Settler Colonial Studies through Diné Horsemanship by John, Kelsey (2019) - The topics in this paper emerged as I reflected deeply on the theoretical framework of my dissertation research with Navajo horses and decolonization in my community. This work was inspired by my own experience riding and training Navajo horses. Keywords: animal; animal colonialism; animal studies; colonialism; community; diné; horses; human; land; livestock; nation; navajo; peoples; settler; settler colonialism; studies; work
• Reclaiming Indigenous Identity through Animal Advocacy in Art: Adrian Stimson and Dana Claxton by Kozak, Luba Stephania (2019) - By situating the buffalo as a significant animal in their works, the artists emphasize the need to protect the animal and highlight the extensive conservation efforts of Indigenous animal activists, demonstrating how the conservation of an animal can lead to the conservation of human culture. Non-Indigenous animal rights activists have the challenge of approaching thousands of years of Indigenous ways of knowing and practices. Keywords: adrian; adrian stimson; animal; art; bison; buffalo; claxton; dana; human; identity; non; people; redemption; stimson
• Becoming Avian in the Anthropocene: Performing the Feather Dance and the Owl Dance at Pvlvcekolv by Koons, Ryan A. (2019) - US ethnologist Frank Speck described one of the few other Feather Dance performances to appear in the ethnographic literature, a performance at Taskigi Town, and included two different transcriptions of Feather Dance songs (186-190). Counteracting the noösphere, Mohawk and Anishnaabe sociologist Vanessa Watts notes that Anishnaabe, Haudenosaunee, and many other Indigenous peoples conceive humans to be made from the land: “our flesh is literally an extension of soil” (27). Keywords: animal; anthropocene; arbor; birds; busk; colonial; community; dance; decolonization; feather; feather dance; human; journal; koons; land; multispecies; owl; owl dance; pvlvcekolv; relationships; ritual; ryan; settler; song; studies
• Toward Interspecies Thinking as a Collaborative Concept: Autoethnographies at the Intersection of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Animal Studies by Fix, Adam J.; Burnam, Hugh; Gutteriez, Ray (2019) - As a result, Indigenous ways of knowing eventually went underground and were hidden from the public, in order to survive. The heated discourse and disagreement is clearly embedded, to me, as glimpses into the past — that survival meant to separate Indigenous ways from the mainstream US and Canadian society. Keywords: american; animal; animal studies; community; concept; haudenosaunee; human; indian; interspecies; journal; knowledge; people; studies; tek; thanks; thinking; ways
• Equine/Human Lyme Embodiments: Towards a Feminist Ecology of Entangled Becomings. by Gundermann, Christian (2019) - I will be proposing that Lyme disease is a phenomenon that puts in relief the limitations of the dominant mechanistic, reductionist, and materialist bias in the life- and medical sciences of our present episteme. In Lyme disease (as in the myriad autoimmune conditions that have taken center stage in our contemporary health scene), biomedicine may have found its stumbling block from which it could learn that eliminating an infection is not only not the same as healing, but that the static self/non-self ontology undergirding immunology’s approach to pathogenic micro-organisms may come to oppose or even obviate healing. Keywords: animal; body; caspio; disease; equine; feminist; horses; human; infection; intra; lyme; lyme disease; medicine; number; ponies; self; species; studies; study; symptoms; therapy; treatment
• Will Curiosity® Kill the Cat? Technoscience and Free Living Cats “Down Under” by Bunyak, Garrett (2019) - Recent popular articles including titles such as “The war on feral cats will need many different weapons” (Moseby and Read) and “Feral cats kill billions of small critters each year” (Nuwer) deploy similar language to suggest cats are a threat to “native” species, echoing nationalist and anti-immigration discourses (Subramaniam). Eco-nationalism stresses a romantic ideal of nature that is uninterrupted by the destructive forces of human culture, and suggests that nature must be cleansed through the eradication of “invasive species,” including feral cats. Keywords: animal; australia; bunyak; cats; companion; control; curiosity; efforts; eradication; human; journal; kill; living; native; nature; new; people; populations; progress; science; species; studies; technoscience; zealand
• Animal Answers to the Jewish Question: Review of Jay Geller, Bestiarium Judaicum: Unnatural Histories of the Jews by Jacobs, Joela (2019) - He explores the ways in which Jews, particularly in German-speaking European Modernity (between 1750 and the Shoah), have been dehumanized through images of animals, and how they, in turn, have written back to undermine these anti- Semitic stereotypes with animal figures of their own. The following seven chapters of Bestiarium Judaicum engage with predominantly nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature featuring animal figures, written by German-Jewish writers such as Heinrich Heine and Franz Kafka. Keywords: animal; bestiarium; chapter; geller; jew; jews; kafka
• Breed: Introduction by Guest, Kristen; Mattfeld, Monica (2021) - To think about animal breed is to think about human society and its structure, its labeling, and its ongoing struggles over identity, class, race and belonging. Looking to the controversial bovine milk industry, Calvert suggests how Haraway’s feminist theories of the cyborg allow for “breeching bovine-human boundaries as well as bovine-machine boundaries” in a way that results in a reworking of familiar categories and epistemologies associated with gender, the family, animal breed, and feminist practice. Keywords: animal; breed; human; identity
• A Perfect Nicking Pattern by Nash, Richard (2021) - Throughout the eighteenth century, even as the importance of pedigree came to be considered as contributing to the value of an animal, that metonymic designation continued to hold sway with “race horse” gradually supplanting “running horse,” and with identity generally seen as defined by function. If a Spanish stallion were crossed with suitable mares, he believed the match could provide good horses for schooling, cavalry, riding, hunting, and racing. Keywords: animal; breeding; cavendish; century; fairfax; horse; human; nicking; pattern; pedigree; racing; sense; success
• Ready for the Robot: Bovines in the Integrated Circuit by Calvert, Scout (2018) - But cow robots could be built, designed to adapt to the variations in cow bodies and personalities that exist even under such intense selection pressures as are exerted through pedigree practices. The labor of oxen pulling a plow may be obvious, whereas making milk may not appear as work because it is not clear that dairy cows have a subjective relationship to lactation. Keywords: animal; bodies; bovines; breeding; calvert; cattle; circuit; cows; cyborg; dairy; data; haraway; human; labor; milk; milking; relations; robot; science; technologies; time; traits; work
• A Question of Sex: Cloning, Culture, and Legitimacy Among American Quarter Horses by Vaught, Jeannette (2018) - After Jeannette Vaught -- A Question of Sex: Cloning, Culture, and Legitimacy Among American Quarter Horses 105 the American Civil War, as cattle ranching became an established economy in Texas, the term Quarter Horse began to be more frequently used to describe these quick, agile horses used for managing cattle. Through an analysis of the intersections between the sexual mechanics of cloning, the history of the American Quarter Horse Association, and the freighted cultural dimensions of the term “breed,” this essay argues that this ban was meant to clearly delineate the appropriate methods of sexual contact among equines who could be genetically considered Quarter Horses, and it did so by removing cloning from among the possible ways in which a “legitimate” Quarter Horse could be created. Keywords: american; animal; aqha; association; book; breed; breeders; breeding; clone; cloning; culture; equine; foal; horse; human; legitimacy; new; number; offspring; quarter; quarter horse; reproduction; sex; stud; tamu; texas
• If Not for Her Spots: On the Art of Un/naming a New Ass Breed by Bolender, Karin (2021) - Ruth’s site sucked me instantly deeper into a swirl of mysterious and inviting images, personal anecdotes and travelogues, and gems of information detailing what happens when a person’s dreams and directives are suddenly and unexpectedly hijacked by spotted asses. As another ass consumer whose passion was catalyzed by the three loaded words chosen to designate this new equine breed, I can attest that “spotted asses” is indeed packed with potent material-semiotic meaning. Keywords: aliass; american; animal; art; ass; ass breed; asses; bolender; breed; equine; horse; human; naming; new; species; spots; stories; ways; word
• “We Need to Talk…” Evolving Conversations about Wildlife Ethics in Hunting Media by Von Essen, Erica (2018) - In this paper, contemporary western hunters’ reflexivity over their ethics is examined over recent decades in Sweden: how are ethics and ideas of right and wrong discussed and how do Swedish hunters view ethics discussions generally — desirable, necessary or uncomfortable? nationalism and pride over Swedish hunting ethics. 2.1. Keywords: animal; discussion; ethical; ethics; forum; hunters; hunting; jakt; journal; magazines; media; need; public; svensk; swedish; talk; von; wildlife
• Fuzzy Bounds: Doing Ethnography at the Limits of the Network and Animal Metaphor by Hansen, Paul (2021) - And there are social networks, broadband networks, and global networks of X or Y. All are, of course, useful shorthand referents in terms of general processes. A final example to reinforce this point can be seen in the work of anthropologist and political activist Didier Fassin, in particular a study, albeit limited to the human, that addresses a very real macro/micro dilemma in focusing on observational human networks as a guiding concept when considering participatory more-than-human meshworks might be more appropriate. Keywords: animal; anthropology; bounds; connections; cow; cows; dairy; ethnography; example; farm; fuzzy; hansen; hokkaido; human; japan; macro; network; number; relationships; social; studies; terms
• Meat Cultures: Review of Carol J. Adams, Burger and Ted Geier, Meat Markets: The Cultural History of Bloody London by Miller, John MacNeill (2021) - Perhaps that is because the book is engaged with so many emerging and interdisciplinary fields (posthumanism, animal studies, food studies, and biopolitical theory) that it is difficult to locate the right scholarly genre for this kind of story about culture, modernity, and meat. Consequently, it would have been helpful for Meat Markets to devote more time to clarifying its place in ongoing conversations at the intersection of animal studies, literary studies, and biopolitics. Keywords: adams; animal; burger; food; geier; history; literary; markets; meat; studies
• Artists Unsettling Anthropocentrism: Review of Giovanni Aloi, Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene by Turner, Stephanie (2021) - In this ambitious contribution to studies of animal representation in the arts and, more broadly, human/animal studies, art historian Giovanni Aloi examines a range of contemporary artwork featuring taxidermy animals, inquiring into their potential, as complex sites of material-discursive practices, to rethink anthropocentrism. Yet such consideration is needed, given the many ways contemporary artists are engaging with taxidermy animals, as Aloi makes clear in the examples he examines throughout his book. Keywords: aloi; animal; art; artists; human; realism; taxidermy; works
• A Well-Done “Meat Culture” Is Best Served Rare(ly): Review of Annie Potts (Ed.), Meat Culture by Freeman, Carrie (2021) - I was most surprised by the final chapter, written by American ecofeminist Greta Gaard, where she introduces readers to “plant studies” — a field advocating plants’ capacities and critiquing animal studies for its anthropocentrism and zoocentrism in “treating plants like meat” (273). Yvette Watt, an arts lecturer in Tasmania, answers the question she poses in Chapter 9 “Down on the farm: Why do artists avoid farm animals as subject matter?” Keywords: animal; chapter; culture; eating; human; meat; studies
• “Chimeric Pasts, Presents, and Futures”: Review of Animals in the Anthropocene: Critical Perspectives on Non-Human Futures, edited by the Human Animal Research Network Editorial Collective by Dolle, Christopher (2021) - Christopher V. Dolle -- “Chimeric Pasts, Presents, and Futures” 253 The University of Sydney’s Human Animal Research Network’s 2015 collection, Animals in the Anthropocene: Critical perspectives on non-human futures, seeks to challenge these assumptions, shifting critical focus away from the humans from whom the epoch derives its name and toward the assemblage of non-humans living and dying with us amid the Anthropocene. In doing so, the collection offers more questions than answers, complicating current Anthropocene discourse and drawing readers into a web of human-animal relations. Keywords: animal; anthropocene; chapter; collection; futures; human; non; questions
• Religious Animals and Animal Gods: Review of Barbara Allen, Animals in Religion: Devotion, Symbol & Ritual, and Donovan O. Schaefer, Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power by Marovich, Beatrice (2018) - More importantly for the arguments that he makes about animal lives, affect is something that we not only share with other animals but which also functions in and through the most stereotypically “animal” elements of our human bodies. In conversation with work in cognitive ethology, illuminating the intellectual and emotional lives of other creatures, many new projects on religion and animals explore the religious and spiritual powers in, and around, animal life. Keywords: animal; life; religion; schaefer
• Creatural Frictions: The Trouble with Becoming-Animal: Review of David Herman, Creatural Fictions: Human-Animal Relationships in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature by Bowen, Liz (2018) - In Thiyagarajan’s analysis, human-animal proximity — namely, metaphor and meat eating, common bogeymen in animal studies — looks nothing like the radical decentering of the human that has become a go-to critical move, and yet Thiyagarajan’s readings of literary animals still have clear political stakes for both postcolonial and critical animal studies. The collection, edited by David Herman (Durham University), begins with a meditation on the term “creatural,” which Herman helpfully distinguishes from “creaturely” as a way of understanding creatureliness to include human animals, as well as describing relationships between human and nonhuman beings. Keywords: animal; collection; fictions; human; nonhuman; relationships; studies
• Phantom Limbs: Review of Chez, Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture by Margini, Matt (2018) - L I A 9:2 Reviews Matt Margini Phantom Limbs Keridiana W. Chez, Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth- Century Literature and Culture. $69.95 Toward the end of the excellent Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men, Keridiana W. Chez makes a claim that should sound plausible to anyone who has ever observed the pampered pooches of contemporary American metropoli: “We are not merely ‘Other Victorians’ (to paraphrase Michel Foucault’s famous 1978 opinion); we are obtusely and profligately ‘Victorian’ about our pets” (152). Keywords: animal; century; chez; dog; dogs; human; victorian
• A Not So New Basis for Animal Ethics: Review of Bernie Rollin, A New Basis for Animal Ethics: Telos and Common Sense by Everett, Jennifer (2018) - Jennifer Everett – A Not So New Basis for Animal Ethics 205 Rollin’s third theme is that the practice of science has been corrupted by an ideology that conflicts deeply with common sense about the reality of animal minds, about the place of values in scientific practice, and about the ethics of animal research. What surprised me was his reaction upon learning that I was a philosopher who teaches a course in animal ethics. Keywords: animal; basis; book; ethics; rights; rollin; sense; telos
• “Nature, Read in Tooth and Claw”: Review of Gregersdotter et al., eds., Animal Horror Cinema: Genre, History and Criticism by Rooks, Isaac (2018) - The editors draw clear parameters when identifying animal horror as a distinct subgenre. The editors note that the limited attention previously given to animal horror has gravitated towards the big three: King Kong, The Birds, and Jaws. Keywords: animal; anthology; films; horror; human; non
• The Domestic Chicken as Legal Fiction: Cruelty for Profit by Crenshaw, Estée (2017) - My goal is not to examine every instantiation of chicken agriculture law as it relates to legal fictions, but to provide a framework that can be used to interpret these and other animal agriculture laws more generally. The federal government in the United States neglects to acknowledge chicken life by excluding chickens from protective laws meant to prevent animal abuse. Keywords: agriculture; animal; chickens; cruelty; fictions; food; individuals; laws; life; meat; potts; poultry; profit; states; united; welfare
• Attending the Giraffe by Berland, Jody (2017) - Taking up the insight that an animal is a medium and the medium is the message means acknowledging, as Jon Durham Peters does in his book The Marvelous Clouds, that thinking about animals in the context of mediation is not just important for our consideration of human animal relations; it expands our understandings of mediation itself. Animals, of course, touched humans before now, but how animals figure into the management of our experiences, how affect is mediated and toward what ends, what affective entanglement means in this context, has changed profoundly.7 Affect is a subtler concept for talking about these media encounters than McLuhan’s speculative cybernetic physiology, in part because McLuhan was not very attuned to affect, or to politics, or to animals, for that matter, but also because the processes that he intuited have become so much more explicit. Keywords: animal; april; berland; giraffe; history; mcluhan; media; mediation; medium; nature; new; people; species; studies; tribute; world
• What is Philosophical Ethology? by Marchesini, Roberto (2017) - The problem of animal subjectivity. In the past century, research on animal subjectivity has faced several obstacles. Keywords: animal; animality; behavior; body; capacities; condition; expression; human; individual; machine; model; subjectivity; world
• Companion Species and Model Systems: Researcher and Animal Relationships in the Work of Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree, Jr. by Jackson, J. Kasi (2017) - In her art and the correspondence that sprang from it she advanced ideas developed in the course of her laboratory research that can provide fresh perspectives for feminist ethics around the use of animal models. Sheldon’s confidence in evolutionary explanations created discomfort for many of her contemporaries as well as for some more recent critics, because placing human behavior into an evolutionary context lacking internal significance and meaning along with animal models can lead to the objectification of humans. Keywords: alice; animal; behavior; feminist; human; laboratory; lipsitz; model; non; psychologist; psychology; rats; relationships; research; science; sheldon; species; studies; systems; tiptree; work
• How to Fuck a Kraken: Cephalopod Sexualities and Nonbinary Genders in eBook Erotica by Van Engen, Dagmar (2017) - These highly eroticized, nonrealist, and genderqueer fantasies offer important bridges between trans or gender-nonconforming bodies and the nonbinary universe of invertebrate animal genders and sexualities. See Roughgarden’s Evolution’s Rainbow, which draws on scientific research to argue that biologists over-rely on heteronormative and gender-binaristic assumptions about animal genders and sexualities that result in both cultural problematics and bad science. Keywords: alien; animal; animality; bodies; ebook; erotica; gender; human; invertebrate; kraken; monster; nonbinary; nonhuman; queer; sex; sexualities; species; stories; studies; trans; women; world; xavier
• Life and Relation beyond Animalization: Review of Richard Iveson, Zoogenesis: Thinking Encounter with Animals by Calarco, Matthew (2017) - In configuring the outside of the human in this manner, Deleuze and Guattari run the risk of missing precisely the kinds of encounters with animal singularities that Kafka and Derrida track and ending up in a kind of undifferentiated, deep ecological holism. Iveson suggests that the key limitation with the transhumanist technological project is that it is based on an attempt to master animal life and finitude more generally, seeking to guide zoogenetic becomings along a single dimension or axis (largely structured by the demands of capital). Keywords: animal; human; iveson; life; relations
• 19th Century French Animal Protection, No Longer a Bête Curieuse: Review of Christophe Traïni, The Animal Rights Struggle: An Essay in Historical Sociology by Cherry, Elizabeth (2017) - In comparison, we know very little about early animal protection movements in France, and this book begins to fill that gap. The most interesting parts of the book, which contribute the most to our understanding of early animal protection movements in France, come in Chapters Three and Four, where Traïni brings to light several particularly French issues regarding animal protection. Keywords: animal; chapter; movements; protection; rights; traïni
• Beyond Ireland’s Myth, Its Folklore, and Its Two-Dozen Indigenous Animals: Review of Animals in Irish Literature and Culture, ed. Kathryn Kirkpatrick and Borbála Faragó by Myers, Nathaniel (2017) - As with Madden’s essay, Animals in Irish Literature and Culture is at its strongest when it draws from animal studies to investigate various cultural issues in Ireland. In fact, one wishes there might have been a bit more interrogation into what Irish Studies might bring to animal studies throughout Animals in Irish Literature and Culture, rather than vice versa. Keywords: animal; collection; human; ireland; irish; studies
• Animals in Contemporary Architecture and Design by Wolch, Jennifer; Owens, Marcus (2017) - One way of discussing animal design projects in our survey is in terms of this relationship to material functionality and aesthetics. To answer this question, we analyzed a small sample of contemporary animal design projects, taken both from the oeuvres of established practitioners as well as one-off projects and competition entries circulating on design culture media platforms. Keywords: animal; architecture; art; culture; design; figure; human; interface; jennifer; journal; landscape; marcus; number; owens; projects; species; studies; technology; wildlife; wolch; zoo
• Revising Posthumanist Aesthetics in the Ethical Treatment of Nonhuman Animals by Sherbert, Michael (2017) - “Levinas and Our Moral Responsibility Toward Other Animals.” Such an approach opens new avenues through which to evaluate and reframe humanist notions of subjectivity, experience, and ethical relations, in ways that reflect new knowledge of — and increased concern for — nonhuman animals. Keywords: animal; biases; care; conservation; derrida; ethics; heidegger; human; humanism; new; nonhuman; posthumanist; species; support; system; wolfe
• Becoming Zoö-curious: Reading Sexual Differences in the Field of Animal Life by Rother, Adeline (2017) - Oliver writes, “By considering the multitudes of animal sexes, sexualities, and reproductive practices, perhaps we can expand our ways of thinking about the sexes, sexualities, and reproductive practices of ‘man’” (55). The turn to a concept of gender, broadly signifying a continuum of differences among and within our human selves, and associated with agency and the possibility of performance, free play, and unlimited engenderment, might owe something to the fantasm of “animal sex,” to the idea of a base, instinctual drive to reproduce that is limiting, constraining, animal. Keywords: animal; ant; cut; derrida; differences; gender; human; insect; life; male; number; reading; sex; sexes; silkworm; structure; studies; zoö
• The Protection of Meat (Kip Andersen & Keegan Kuhn, Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret) by Freeman, Carrie Packwood (2017) - He interrogates why governmental and environmental groups do not emphasize the destructiveness of animal farming and fishing, but does not get a satisfactory rationale from most of the environmental NGO leaders. Humanimalia: a journal of human/animal interface studies Volume 8, Number 1 (Spring 2017) 174 The clips from the middle and later parts of the film that I have outlined above are the best ways to showcase how fishing and animal farming that might otherwise be presumed to be sustainable as well as “humane,” are still ethically and ecologically problematic in comparison with organic or veganic crop farming. Keywords: andersen; animal; cowspiracy; environmental; farming; film; industry; meat; rights
• Newcomers to the Farm? (Marianne E. Lien, Becoming Salmon: Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish) by Message, Reuben (2017) - Lien both emphasizes the empirical warrant (contemporary salmon aquaculture suggests a new phase in the history of domestication), and says that “biosocial becomings” are what have “already and always” defined the co-constitution of humans and animals (15). In doing so, she approaches salmon aquaculture as a site for exploring the multiple agencies and relations (human and animal) involved in domestication as an open-ended practice. Keywords: animal; aquaculture; domestication; human; law; lien; nature; salmon
• Joseph Campana & Scott Maisano, eds. Renaissance Posthumanism by Kolb, Justin (2017) - Early modern animal studies alone has produced important recent titles like Laurie Shannon’s The Accomodated Animal: Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales; Andreas Höfele’s Stage, Stake, and Scaffold: Humans and Animals in Shakespeare's Theatre; and Bruce Boehrer’s Animal Characters: Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature. Renaissance Posthumanism. Keywords: animal; human; marsyas; modern; posthumanism; renaissance
• Eben Kirksey, Emergent Ecologies by Drake, Phillip (2017) - There is nothing superficial about this hope, which Kirksey fosters by tarrying with ecological transformation at various locations, tracing entangled actors large and small, human and nonhuman, as they interact to build “possible futures” against the ever- present threat of destruction. Ruin — degradation, exploitation, death, and extinction — Humanimalia: a journal of human/animal interface studies Volume 8, Number 1 (Spring 2017) 192 lurks in each of Kirksey’s field sites, which include the Canal Zone of Panama, Costa Rica’s highland cloud forests and diverse lowland forests and pastures, Florida’s riparian wilderness, and New York’s art galleries. Keywords: animal; chapter; ecologies; hope; human; kirksey; species
• The Presence of the Withdrawn: Review of Representing the Modern Animal in Culture, ed. Jeanne Dubino, Ziba Rashidian, and Andrew Smyth (2014) by Hutchison, Bill (2017) - In “Anthropomorphism: Animals as Metaphors in the Age of Darwin,” the second section in the book, the problem of animal representation is dealt with more overtly. “Modernity,” writes Jeanne Dubino, “is marked by the increasing disappearance of animals.” Keywords: animal; culture; darwin; representation; section
• Mark Essig, Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig by Kelleher, Hillary (2017) - New technologies gave rise to factory farms in which pigs began living their entire lives in horrific conditions: forced to lie in their own excrement on a diet Humanimalia: a journal of human/animal interface studies Volume 8, Number 1 (Spring 2017) 198 containing drugs and the remains of other pigs, most never see daylight between birth and slaughter. He hopes for pre-dinner dialogue as wide ranging as Victorian colonial power — from lists of material objects like “shoes — and ships — and sealing wax” to abstract scientific inquiries like “why the sea is boiling hot” and “whether pigs have wings.” Keywords: animal; beasts; essig; hog; meat; pigs; pork; suffering; swine
• Interpellation and Affect: Activating Political Potentials Across Primate Species at Jakhoo Mandir, Shimla by Solomon, Daniel Allen (2016) - Monkeys living on Jakhoo Hill commit the same trespasses that Delhi monkeys do, stealing food and laundry from residents and tourists residing on the lower portions of Jakhoo Hill, occasionally biting people, and even once reputedly killing a man;13 and likewise, they are harassed by dogs and stone-throwing, rod-wielding humans, and they can suffer from obesity or malnutrition as they feed themselves on the inadequate staples most easily available to urban humans. In situations where there are dense populations of monkeys, removing one set of monkeys from a given locale may only serve to create a “vacuum effect” where other monkeys of the same species as the removed individuals may simply translocate themselves into the resource-rich zone formerly occupied by the removed monkeys. Keywords: affect; animal; daniel; delhi; food; hanuman; hill; human; india; interpellation; jakhoo; journal; labor; macaques; mandir; menace; monkeys; new; power; primate; rhesus; shimla; social; species; studies; temple; urban; web; world
• What if Christopher Smart’s Cat Responded? A Human-Animal Studies Perspective on Jubilate Agno’s Cat Jeoffrey by Ożarska, Magdalena (2016) - This paper sets out to examine how an analysis of the Cat Jeoffry section in the poem titled Jubilate Agno by the English poet Christopher Smart (1722-1771) can benefit from a Human-Animal Studies perspective. To date, the figure of Cat Jeoffry has been interpreted in ways corresponding to the overall design of the poem, i.e. Smart’s insistent praising of the Lord (Shell; Kenyon Jones; Miller; Ożarska, “Presentation”; Ożarska, Meanderings; Perkins), proof of Smart’s religious enthusiasm (Hawes), or a metaphorical representation of the poetic process (Ennis). Keywords: animal; cat; cat jeoffry; century; christopher; human; jeoffry; jubilate; non; pet; poet; relationship; smart; studies
• At the Intersection of Animal and Area Studies: Fostering Latin Americanist and Caribbeanist Animal Studies by Domínguez, Daisy (2016) - • Animals and civilization — [Country/Continent] — History — [date] • Animals and history. Previously, Fudge created a threefold classification system for animal histories: intellectual, humane, and holistic. Keywords: american; americanist; animal; animal studies; animales; area; caribbean; century; country; histories; history; human; journal; language; latin; new; puerto; relationships; rico; scholarship; studies; subject; welfare
• The Patterned and Emergent Boundaries of Wilderness Beings: Ponderings on the Creature at the Edge of the Woods by Perry, Donna (2016) - We have established that the potency of human experience with wildlife is variable, thus setting up limitations in human knowledge about these free living creatures. Proportionate being is “whatever is to be known by human experience, intelligent grasp, and reasonable affirmation” (416). Keywords: animal; boundaries; coyote; creatures; encounters; experiences; finality; human; knowledge; lonergan; potency; understanding; wildlife
• Animal Doubles of the Buddha by Ohnuma, Reiko (2016) - As he rushes toward the Buddha, he utterly destroys all signs of human civilization (such as houses, buildings, and gateways) and kills many people and other animals along the way. And since the Buddha, in some sense, constitutes the Ultimate Human Being, we should not be surprised to find that his character is clarified through the functioning of such animal “doubles.” Keywords: animal; beings; bodhisattva; buddha; buddhist; bull; chandaka; doubles; elephant; fact; horse; human; kanthaka; life; number; nāḷāgiri; prince; studies
• Beyond the Human/Non-human Dichotomy: The Philosophical Problem of Human Animality by Cimatti, Felice (2016) - “Verbal thought” (Vygotsky and Luria) is the specific way in which human animals think. All the numerous forms of dualism and transcendence that present themselves in human life are derived by this originary separation. Keywords: animal; animality; body; deleuze; human; immanence; language; life; lion; object; subject; transcendence
• Human-Animal Interaction in Post-Tsunami Japan by Kajiwara, Hazuki (2016) - This paper provides a perspective on the animal-human nexus in Japan by examining the experience of people caught up in the tragedy of the March 2011 tsunami which whisked away both humans and companion animals in the matter of a few hours. Whatever the motivation to own a pet may be, the assessment of companion animals in the United States over the past 50 years by Brackenridge et al. leads to the conclusion that the relationship between people and animals has become very close. Keywords: animal; companion; disaster; dogs; housing; human; interviewees; japan; japanese; number; owners; people; pet; pets; relationship; studies; tsunami
• Microbial Zoopoetics in Octavia Butler’s Clay’s Ark by Magnone, Sophia Booth (2016) - And yet, although this relationship is both involuntary and severely distressing for human hosts, it also confers benefits. Infection inaugurates a new kind of existence for human hosts, forcing them to reckon with the nonhumans that participate in their bodies, minds, and families. Keywords: animal; ark; butler; clay; community; eli; human; infection; microbe; new; novel; octavia; organism; species; world; zoopoetics
• Canine Uncanny Zone: Review of: Adrienne L. McLean, ed., Cinematic Canines: Dogs and Their Work in the Fiction Film; Ann-Janine Morey, Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves: Vintage American Photographs; Philip Howell, At Home and Astray: The Domestic Dog in Victorian Britain by Young, Elizabeth (2016) - As McLean puts it in her Introduction, “I worry about film dogs ... Elsewhere, he emphasizes more liberatory Elizabeth Young -- Canine Uncanny Zone 139 strands of debates over dog domestication, arguing that dog cemeteries were “not, or not merely, a confirmation of human privilege, [but] also a challenge to the established boundaries of the anthropocentric orthodoxy,” with “genuine potential for resistance” (148). Keywords: animal; canine; dog; dogs; domestication; film; home; human; morey; photographs; volume
• Rethinking the Age of Zoo Reform: Review of Lisa Uddin, Zoo Renewal: White Flight and the Animal Ghetto by Ito, Takashi (2016) - The examination of three selected individuals including Morris shows how the discourse of the naked cage “gained momentum by connecting zoo animals’ condition of nakedness to the condition of other urbanities in the 1960s and 1970s, mirroring white middle-class shame over racial injustice in America cities” (29). This argument has a historiographical significance: the postcolonial function of particular zoo animals as transforming the memory of past violence into the prospect of flourishing and nourishing offers a useful frame of reference, especially for a comparative analysis of zoos in different regions and time periods. Keywords: animal; human; san; uddin; white; zoo; zoos
• No Logos: Phenomenology, Animal Studies, and Logocentrism: Review of Louise Westling, The Logos of the Living World: Merleau-Ponty, Animals, and Language by Meighoo, Sean (2016) - She further claims that Merleau-Ponty’s work provides a more productive approach to animal studies than the largely deconstructionist approach that dominates the field today: “Merleau-Ponty’s work on the animal question anticipated and even moved beyond the positions of most current commentators in critical animal studies” (8-9). The Logos of the Living World adds to the emerging body of scholarship within the closely related fields of ecocriticism and animal studies on the mid-twentieth-century French philosopher of phenomenology Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Keywords: animal; human; merleau; ponty; studies; work
• Affective Clamor: Review of Tobias Menely, The Animal Claim: Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice by Schwartz, Janelle (2016) - As Menely demonstrates, “we must continue to ask how animal claims have been recognized, amplified, and instituted, how the sovereign state or subject is made answerable, and how the essentially poetic quality of law and lawmaking informs the horizons of political community” precisely because “the claims of the animal continue to haunt the liberal state” (12, 201). Menely’s focused literary critique of poetry from the long eighteenth century, coupled to his insightful accounting of the emergent politico-cultural discourse of animal voice and the rights — arguably natural, divine, or juridical — pursuant to it, is a stunning accomplishment. Keywords: animal; human; studies
• The Bio-Politics of Bees: Industrial Farming and Colony Collapse Disorder by Nimmo, Richie (2015) - Even  where  the  actual  death  of  the  animal  is  not  the  primary  output  or  product  of  the   industrial  process,  as  in  intensive  egg  or  milk  production  for  example,  the  process  can   still   be   grasped   as   one   of   objectification   and   de-­‐‑animalization,   in   which   the   specific,   irreducible,  and  qualitative  animal  is  made  absent,  rendered  non-­‐‑specific  and  fungible,   a   living  obj s   mechanistic  materialism.   In   industrial   monoculture   it   is   the   environment   itself   that   is   the   object   of   bio-­‐‑power,   encompassing   the   complex   ecological   interrelationships   among   multiple   entities   including   plants,   animals,   insects,   the  material   qualities   of   soil,   and   myriad  micro-­‐‑organisms. Keywords: animal; bees; collapse; colony; disorder; honeybees; human; journal; pollination; production; studies; systems
• “I’m told I’m famous on the internet”: Henri the Cat and the Critical Possibility of Anthropomorphism by Myers, Caitlin Rose (2015) - The importance of Henri being alone, set apart from humans and other cats, is that it allows him to be identified by the viewer as a conscious, unique subjectivity. Henri is set apart from both humans and from the human expectations of cats. Keywords: animal; cat; derrida; henri; human; language
• The Future of the Extinction Plot: Last Animals and Humans in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy by Schuster, Joshua (2015) - The end of an animal species raises complex questions about how to define species, how speciation works, how to record species loss, and how human power and attitudes toward species difference are factors in escalating rates of animal extinction today. Scientists began to use the phrase “The Sixth Mass Extinction” a few decades ago to describe the recent escalation in plant and animal extinction, comparing the current depletion of species to five previous massive extinction events that have been verified using fossil records (Leakey and Lewin). Keywords: animal; biodiversity; butler; earth; extinction; future; gene; human; life; new; oankali; science; species; studies; trilogy; zoo
• Coshaping Digital and Biological Animals: Companion Species Encounters and Biopower in the Video Games Pikmin and Pokémon by Attebery, Stina (2015) - The best of the articles that take this approach are Anne Allison’s study of the way the Pokémon’s “cuteness” is commoditized differently depending on the cultural context (382) and Max Haiven’s analysis of how the “playbour” of the child consumer, using Julian Kücklich’s term (qtd in Dyer- Whitherford and De Peuter 527) becomes a key feature of the way imagination gives meaning and direction to Pokémon games and merchandise. This narrative choice has been taken up and challenged by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in their two parody Pokémon games: Pokémon Black and Blue (2012) and Pokémon Red, White, and Blue (2013). Keywords: animal; biological; biopolitical; biopower; companion; games; games pikmin; human; new; olimar; pikmin; player; pokémon; pokémon games; relationships; species; training; video; video games
• The Captive Imagination: Inhumanity, Animality, and Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 2 by Sharma, Devika (2015) - What distinguishes the functions of biopower today, these materialist critiques suggest, is not only that they continuously produce and reproduce the internal limit defining man against shifting figures of inhumanity, but also that they are deeply invested in producing, administering, distributing, and consuming animal life as, precisely, life that has been rendered too abstract and ghostly to count as an object of politics. Simultaneously, we are reminded of the importance of the capture of animal life — and the ownership of animals — to the historical institution of the rodeo, an institution generating masculinity, wildness, and capital. Keywords: animal; animal life; animality; barney; captivity; cremaster; deleuze; derrida; film; gilmore; guattari; houdini; human; inhumanity; life; matthew; new; prison
• Toward an Imaginary Animal Studies: Review of Boria Sax, Imaginary Animals: The Monstrous, the Wondrous, and the Human by Iveson, Richard (2015) - Human animals, in short, are “uniquely elusive” insofar as they Humanimalia: a journal of human/animal interface studies Volume 6, Number 2 (Spring 2015) 170 lack any uniquely human characteristic; rather, they are always “disguised, airbrushed, rethought, hidden, exaggerated or otherwise altered” (24). In positing the existence of a mythic and timeless animal realm, particularly one that reserves for human animals alone the possibility of experiencing an authentic “primordial response,” Sax suggests that the primary function of “Nature” is in fact to humble a self-aggrandizing humanity that would otherwise be consumed by arrogance and hubris.2 Humanimalia: a journal of human/animal interface studies Volume 6, Number 2 (Spring 2015) 172 At this point, Sax cites Donna Haraway’s equally well-known critique of the Derrida passage, in which she justifiably takes Derrida to task for failing to consider the actuality of the cat — that is, her singular, nonsubstitutable existence and specific ways of being — as being relevant to the encounter. Keywords: animal; animal studies; derrida; human; sax; studies; time
• Bugging Foucault: Review of Janice Neri, The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 by Kelleher, Hillary (2015) - Will its black and white reproductions of colorful insect images disrupt or reinforce the logic of specimens? Not until the eighteenth century would natural history texts “catch up Hillary Kelleher – “Bugging Foucault” 181 with visual images, notably their very narrow focus on a restricted number and type of structures” (189). Keywords: animal; foucault; history; image; insect; nature; neri
• Tracing the Animal in the Human: Review of Christopher Peterson, Bestial Traces: Race, Animality and Sexuality by Diamond-Lenow, Chloe (2015) - Peterson here makes recourse to “nature” as if there is a transparent unmediated way to know what animal sexuality is. Christopher Peterson’s Bestial Traces: Race, Sexuality, Animality poses provocative and challenging questions for scholars working at the nexus of animal studies, sexuality studies, and critical race theory. Keywords: animal; human; peterson; race; racism; sexuality
• Interrogating the Human/Animal Relation in Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents by Ray, Nicholas (2014) - Where earlier — deploying a paradigm that will recur many times later in the text — Freud has conceptually assimilated to “the animal” what is least civilized within human beings, now he suddenly invokes non-human animals to exemplify civilized life in its absolute form: the termitary as the paradigm of civilization without discontents. Freud’s human being, then, is not, as Wolfe believes, somehow sensorially superior to non-human animals owing to a “visual prowess” that supervenes after the diminution of the sense of smell. Keywords: animal; animal relation; animality; chapter; civilization; death; discontents; drive; freud; human; hypothesis; laplanche; life; nicholas; ray; relation; text
• Should We Let Sleeping Dogs Lie… With Us? Synthesizing the Literature and Setting the Agenda for Research on Human-animal Co-sleeping Practices by Thompson, Kirrilly; Smith, Bradley (2014) - Researching such cases would provide interesting perspectives on the social dimensions Humanimalia: a journal of human/animal interface studies Volume 6, Number 1 (Fall 2014) 122 of sleep, where “social” is defined in a way that includes “humans and other animals,” as is accepted practice in the field of animal studies. Concerns include the unlikely risk of anthroponotic diseases as well as negative impacts on animal social relations and behavior. Keywords: animal; attachment; bed; children; dogs; human; pets; research; sleeping; smith
• Reading in the Zoopolis: Review of Aaron M. Moe, Zoopoetics: Animals and the Making of Poetry by Googasian, Vicky (2014) - A good example is Moe’s reading of cummings’ “(im)c-a-t(mo),” which takes its lead from a letter cummings wrote to his Japanese translator describing the behavior of a falling cat. Despite its emphasis on attentiveness, I think Moe’s zoopoetics achieves this tricky epistemic balance quite nicely. Keywords: animal; moe; reading; species; zoopoetics
• Eyes/Open: Review of Jean-Christophe Bailly, The Animal Side by Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan (2014) - Encounters with non-human animals create a sense of profound personal experience, a “vision, nothing but a vision … but clearer than any thought” (3). Bailly goes over some familiar territory covered by European animal philosophers: the open, becoming-animal, the self-quarantining of the human, and the implications of animal Umwelten. Keywords: animal; bailly; book; human; open; world
• Bees Making Art: Insect Aesthetics and the Ecological Moment by Kosut, Mary; Moore, Lisa Jean (2014) - Even the first humans’ visually depicted bees — representations of bees and ancient “honey hunters” can be found in numerous petroglyphs drawn on cave walls throughout Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia (Crane).1 Bees have been a part of visual culture since the prehistoric era, but current depictions are often framed by growing cultural concern surrounding the global threat of a “bee apocalypse” that has been widely publicized.2 Colony Collapse Disorder or CCD, the elusive syndrome responsible for the mysterious disappearance and death of honeybee colonies has transformed the bee into a cause and a symbol of ecological frailty (Moore and Kosut). According to a U.N. report, of the 100 crop species that supply 90% of the world’s food, bees’ pollinate more than 70%.3 If honeybees became extinct the global diet would fundamentally change, as the bee is responsible for pollinating one third of food sources currently available. Keywords: aesthetics; animal; art; artists; bees; honey; human; insect; journal; kosut; making; moment; moore; new; species; studies; work; world; york
• Animal Viewpoints in the Contact Zone of Adam Hines’s Duncan the Wonder Dog by Gordon, Joan (2014) - I have outlined elsewhere, in my entry on ”Animal Studies” in The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2009), how well suited science fiction is ”as an exploratory site for animal studies” (331) since it allows one to ”imagine the relationships of humans with other animals” as various sciences and philosophies propose, and can give voice to speculative alien viewpoints of animals other than ourselves (332). Hines’s imagined autoethnography, his fictional testimonio on behalf of other animals, uses the ”ordinary language of action” to ”recover” the ”immanent, experiential perspective of animals.” Keywords: adam; animal; contact; dog; duncan; hines; human; language; studies; viewpoints; wonder; zone
• Horse as Significant Other: Discourses of Affect and Therapy in Susan Richards’s Chosen by a Horse: How a Broken Horse Fixed a Broken Heart by Nyman, Jopi (2014) - Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines. As Lisa Jopi Nyman – “Horse as Significant Other” 69 Sarmicanic suggests, the fact that companion animals occupy a place in our homes tells of their difference from other animals, wild and domesticated (164). Keywords: affective; animal; horse; human; life; narrative; narrator; non; relationship; richards; self; studies; text; way
• A Cat May Look upon Descartes: Review of Laurie Shannon, The Accommodated Animal: Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales by Kolb, Justin (2014) - Shannon argues that the early chapters of Genesis “do not distinguish man and animal for every purpose,” but rather unite them as creatures, “living artifacts of Creation in a shared status that is, at once, both contingent and stakeholding — the classic ambivalence inherent in the structure of the political subject as such” (40-41). Descartes, and his reduction of animals to mere bête-machines in The Discourse on Method, is Shannon’s great adversary, the devil in the garden, whose promises of human exceptionalism led to the fall of Zootopia, the cleaving of the mind from the body, and the negation of animal reason, emotion, and desire. Keywords: animal; cat; creatures; descartes; look; shannon
• History from the Howdah: A New Methodology for Animal History: Review of Susan Nance, Entertaining Elephants: Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus by Vandersommers, Daniel (2014) - This book is an untold history of circus elephants in America that should be viewed as a must-read for scholars interested in the American entertainment industry. Entertaining Elephants advances a straightforward and two-part historical argument about circus elephants in America. Keywords: animal; circus; elephants; history; nance
• Uncommon Horse Sense: Review of Erin McKenna, Pets, People, and Pragmatism by Kelleher, Hillary (2014) - “Both views— unreflective relations of use and making other animal beings seem human—enable us to see animal beings, pets in particular, as being here primarily for our pleasure,” which leads to mistreatment (34). Through this pluralist mingling, McKenna advances “a new approach, not just an extension of moral theories” and develops “a Pragmatist feminist account of the possibilities for relationships between human beings and other animal beings that will help us all re-think how we live together” (24). Keywords: animal; beings; human; mckenna; pets; pragmatism
• The Power of Silence: Review of Kalpana Rahita Seshadri, HumAnimal: Race, Law, Language by Chrulew, Matthew (2014) - See Matthew Chrulew, “Animals in Biopolitical Theory: Between Agamben and Negri,” New Formations 76 (2012), pp. 53-67; Giorgio Agamben, The Open: Man and Animal, trans. This is an intriguing and quite original book that makes a significant contribution to Agamben scholarship, the philosophy of race, and the “posthumanities” more generally. Keywords: agamben; animal; language; power; seshadri; silence
• Stories of Animal Passports: Tracing Disease, Movements, and Identities by Birke, Lynda; Holmberg, Tora; Thompson, Kirrilly (2014) - Whilst the stories told by human passports have been considered (e.g., Kumar; Lloyd), what stories do animal passports tell? Just as human passports represent multiple histories — of colonialism, of immigration, of diaspora, as well as ideas of nation (see Kumar) — so too do animal passports bear histories of myriad animal-human linkages. Keywords: animal; animal passports; belonging; birke; control; disease; dogs; holmberg; horse; human; identification; movements; number; passports; species; stories; surveillance; thompson
• Animating the Corpse: The Sutured Hybridity of Animal Puppets in Ladislas Starewitch’s The Tale of the Fox by McCown, Julie (2013) - Then again, when a film features animal puppets, there exists the possibility of a compromise between Lippit’s undying animal and Shukin’s disassembled animal corpses. The reality of the lack of distinction between nature and culture is more easily detected and expressed with animal puppets than with real, living animals. Keywords: animal; animal bodies; animal body; animal puppets; body; film; fox; human; hybridity; life; medieval; reynard; starewitch; suture; tale; taxidermy
• Vicious Circles: Intersections of Gender and Species in Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain by Piskorski, Rodolfo (2013) - Tommy’s and the film’s strategic disavowal of animal death is, then, fully understandable in its function of enabling the dialectical construction of human individuality by the means of the Negation of the animal. By fragmenting its plot into three separate storylines that are all concerned with gender difference, the film tries to establish the man-woman pairing as the natural and timeless foundation necessary for the discussion of its issues: death, (im)mortality, transcendence, and love. Keywords: animal; death; film; fountain; gender; human; immanence; izzy; life; spain; species; storyline; tommy; transcendence
• Animal Mobilegalities: The Regulation of Animal Movement in the American City by Braverman, Irus (2013) - This article contributes to the growing fascination with animals in the city by discussing the following questions: How are urban animals classified by animal laws? Structurally, I begin by introducing Michael’s term “animobilities,” its uses in animal studies scholarship, and my extension of this term to include animal law. Keywords: american; animal; buffalo; city; classification; code; cruelty; dog; example; human; law; laws; mobilegalities; n.y; new; pets; regulation; state; wild; wildlife; york
• The Ugly Animal: Aesthetics, Power, and Animal-Human Relationality by Snyder, Emily (2013) - While the term ”companion animals” is used most often to describe pets, work animals, and leisure animals, the term ”companion species” is much broader and is to include all “critters”6 Humanimalia: a journal of human/animal interface studies Volume 5, Number 1 (Fall 2013) 140 on the earth (WSM 134-35; CSM 14-15). The work of Didier Gille is of value here, as it explores the changing relationships that humans have with animal feces, and the various symbolisms that can be attached to Emily Snyder – The Ugly Animal 151 them at different points in history. Keywords: aesthetics; animal; disgust; feces; haraway; human; ideas; parasite; pigeon; politics; power; relationality; relations; serres; species; ugliness; work
• The Holographic Human: Review of Dominic Pettman, Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines by Grebowicz, Margret (2013) - This is to be expected given Pettman’s other work, like Love and Other Technologies (2006), in which he shows that our most erotic, libidinal, and “spiritual” modes of being depend on tools, prosthetics, and media, all in the business of trying to capture the elusive human element, that mythic thing that sets us apart from “other animals.” In particular, Derrida’s articulation of the ontological presuppositions, or, to use Pettman’s term, micromistakes behind the question “does the animal speak?” is in productive alignment with Haraway’s ongoing struggle to work out what she means by “semiotic agency” in the case of animals, a fascinating problem that continues to haunt posthumanist scholarship in spite of the obvious anthropocentrism and -morphism governing all imaginaries of what counts as language. Keywords: animal; book; haraway; human; pettman
• How to See a Magpie: Review of Joan B. Landes, Paula Young Lee, and Paul Youngquist, eds., Gorgeous Beasts: Animal Bodies in Historical Perspective by Poliquin, Rachel (2013) - Animals always exceed human reckoning because “animals realize a life that exceeds the small circle of our so-called humanity, a full and feral life irreducible to reason and its pale twin, propriety” (1). In the concluding chapter, Cecilia Novero exposes the dark and deadly play of deceptions underlying conventional ways of seeing animals in Daniel Spoerri’s Carnival of Animals (1995) and his use of Le Brun’s seventeenth-century animal physiognomies. Keywords: animal; beasts; human; images; magpie; volume
• A Hand-On Approach: Review of Tom Tyler, Ciferae: A Bestiary in Five Fingers by Traisnel, Antoine (2013) - There is not “one true Hand,” Tyler insists, or even for that matter two, but a countless assortment of hands “each gripping and grasping after its own fashion” (243). One refrain of Tyler’s thought-provoking book is that animals have commonly “been taken in hand” by philosophy.“ Keywords: animal; book; hand; human; nietzsche; tyler; wittgenstein
• Posthumanism: A Political Perspective: Review of Cary Wolfe, What is Posthumanism? by Geroux, Robert (2013) - But even so, second order systems analysis tends to prioritize the homeostatic, even as it adds the temporal dimension. Above and beyond the common critique of the political utility of deconstruction (how does one convert “unspeakability” into a program for action?), one has to ask about systems analysis and agency. Keywords: animal; human; systems; wolfe
• Broadcasting Beasts: Review of Claire Molloy, Popular Media and Animals by Vint, Sherryl (2013) - Claire Molloy’s Popular Media and Animals is published in Palgrave Macmillan’s Animal Ethics series, designed to explore the centrality of animal issues to contemporary scholarship and in particular to consider the ethical implications of our new knowledge of animal sentience, cognition and awareness. For example, the discussion of animal performers in chapter 3, “Stars,” does not cite Jason Hribal’s important work on evidence of animal resistance, work that includes Hollywood animal performers but extends to animals involved in other attractions such as circuses, zoos, and rodeos, a historical dimension lacking from Sherryl Vint – Broadcasting Beasts 211 Molloy’s discussion. Keywords: animal; book; chapter; film; molloy
• Converging on Ancient Bones: A Review of the Evidence for the Close Relatedness of Humans (Homo sapiens) and Spotted Hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) by Baynes-Rock, Marcus (2015) - The bone cracking and carcass lifting adaptations of modern spotted hyenas evolved at different times in their history, and the suite of adaptations that define spotted hyenas as they are known today only evolved one million years ago (Lewis and Werdelin 93). Spotted hyenas — Africa’s second largest of carnivores — are adaptable, highly social creatures living in fission-fusion groups of between five and ninety individuals (Holekamp). Keywords: africa; animal; bones; carnivore; crocuta; evidence; evolution; hominid; hominins; human; hyenas; journal; scavenging; species; studies; years
• Sellfare: A History of Livestock Welfare Commodification as Governance by Torssonen, Sami (2015) - The European Union’s 2012 animal welfare strategy, published at an event titled “Empowering consumers and creating market opportunities for animal welfare” (European Commission, “Animal Welfare”), propounds active “valorization of welfare standards as a means to enhance competitiveness of EU food industry” and attempts to seize “every opportunity to express in economic terms the value added by animal welfare policy” (European Commission, “Communication From the Commission” 4, 7). Scientific attention truly turned towards animal welfare in the 1970s amidst growing public concern. Keywords: agriculture; animal; animal welfare; article; century; commodification; connection; european; food; governance; history; human; journal; livestock; livestock welfare; london; new; non; number; policy; process; production; public; quality; science; sellfare; society; studies; welfare
• “The Simple Magic of Life”: Phenomenology, Ontology, and Animal Ethics by Weisberg, Zipporah (2015) - With a weak conception of suffering at its foundation, Singer’s ethics is unable to account for the substantive positive obligations we might have to other animals. While we cannot fully understand the internal subjective experience of other animals — and as we will see phenomenology helps illuminate this epistemic limit — phenomenology can help us understand some of the constitutive elements of animal subjectivity, in particular embodiment, perception, and world-making. Keywords: animal; beings; body; ethics; human; life; meaning; merleau; new; nonhuman; nussbaum; ontology; phenomenological; phenomenology; ponty; singer; subject; suffering; world
• Humanimal Methods and Methodologies: Review of Lynda Birke and Jo Hockenhull, Crossing Boundaries: Investigating Human-Animal Relationships by Bull, Jacob (2015) - They give us space to discuss how transdisciplinarity meetings might enable methodologies that negate unhelpful binaries, they give us space to develop tools that might include different animals or engage animals differently. It documents what the author did in her attempts to investigate human animal relationships in a frank, open style that does not always characterize our discussions of methodology and method in Human-Animal Studies. Keywords: animal; chapter; methodologies; methods; relationships; research; species
• The Question of the A̶n̶i̶m̶a̶l̶ Great Blue Heron: Review of Steven H. Semken, Soul External: Rediscovering the Great Blue Heron by Sax, Boria (2015) - Derrida follows in many ways the agenda pioneered by Descartes. Soul External: Rediscovering the Great Blue Heron by Stephen Semken and Andrew R. Driscoll in many ways fulfills the agenda that Derrida announced but did not pursue. Keywords: animal; book; derrida; descartes; heron; soul
• Relocating “Stuffed” Animals: Photographic Remediation of Natural History Taxidermy by Turner, Stephanie S. (2013) - I consider here some examples of how photographers of natural history museum taxidermy are remediating dead animal objects. In describing the Taxinomia series, Hatanaka links the preservation of dead animal objects with their study. Keywords: animal; art; artist; dead; history; history taxidermy; images; mode; museum; new; objects; photograph; poliquin; series; storage; taxidermy; viewer
• Deeply Ecological Deleuze and Guattari: Humanism’s Becoming-Animal by Iveson, Richard (2013) - Whether that is as a “pet” or as a “pack,” this exceptional tropological function, this uniquely human capacity to constitute something as something, is itself symptomatic of an all too familiar human-animal discontinuity founded upon the possession of language being awarded to human animals alone. Animal 41 absolute discontinuity between Man and Nature, with the latter the eternal background upon which, at the border, human animals alone can affect their becomings-other by way of the demonic. Keywords: animal; becomings; deleuze; derrida; guattari; human; nature; nonhuman; pack; reality; way; wild
• Stunning Australia by Probyn-Rapsey, Fiona (2013) - Taking up Cohen’s and Zerubavel’s discussions of denial, Deidre Wicks elaborates on the everyday social tact that goes into avoiding the subject of animal slaughter, in order to remain on the side of the well mannered: Without conscious negotiation, people know which facts are better not noticed and which trouble spots to avoid. As someone trained in literary studies I do not often come across texts that describe animal death in such terms, let alone describe the gruesome experiments done in order to establish, scientifically, what death is. Keywords: adams; animal; australia; cattle; death; denial; human; indonesia; pride; report; slaughter; studies; suffering; terror
• Bringing the Laboratory Dog Home: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and the Antivivisection Narrative by Walker, Alyssa Chen (2013) - Envisioning laboratory animals against a domestic backdrop forces Dr. Steele to draw a connection between the scores of dogs he sacrificed in the name of scientific Alyssa Chen Walker — Bringing the Laboratory Dog Home: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and the Antivivisection Narrative 111 progress and his beloved boyhood companion, Barry. In “‘The Fashionable Diseases’: Women’s Complaints and Their Treatment in Nineteenth-Century America,” Wood documents the rhetorical associations these women forged between the abuse of laboratory animals and the Humanimalia: a journal of human/animal interface studies Volume 4, Number 2 (Spring 2013) 106 treatment of female patients for “mental illness, ‘nervous’ conditions, and sexual difficulties” (25). Keywords: animal; antivivisection; canine; caro; dog; dogs; elizabeth; home; human; journal; laboratory; laboratory dog; miriam; narrative; pet; phelps; public; readers; steele; stuart; tammyshanty; trixy
• Beyond the Great Rupture: Review of Arthur MacGregor, Animal Encounters: Human and Animal Interaction in Britain from the Norman Conquest to World War One by Armstrong, Philip (2013) - Yet those categories of encounter most likely to produce mutuality, wonder, or unpredictability — the kinds of interaction most capable of destabilizing relations of domination between humans and other animals — are explicitly excluded from this study: interspecies companionship, non-predatory engagement with wild nature, experiences with exotic animals, imaginative representations of human-animal relations. Throughout the book, without recourse to theoretical jargon, MacGregor remains sensitive to the continuities and differences between the past and the present, as well as to the continuities and differences amongst and between humans and other animals. Keywords: animal; book; encounters; history; macgregor; relations; rupture
• Donkey Tales: A Story of Pride and Prejudice: Review of Jill Bough, Donkey by Hockenhull, Jo (2013) - While the welfare of working donkeys is increasingly being studied, our knowledge and understanding of the donkey as a species is far behind that of other domesticated animals. This remarkable history follows no consistent attitudinal pattern; for example, the UK legislation passed to enforce lunch breaks for working donkeys on Blackpool beach in 2005 is followed by the mass slaughter of thousands of feral donkeys in Australia in 2009, but it brings home just what a story of contrasts donkeys have had during their long association with humans. Keywords: animal; donkey; horse; mules
• Animal Meaning: Review of Linda Kalof and Georgina M. Montgomery, eds. Making Animal Meaning by Cronin, J. Keri (2013) - This book rejects the notion that animal meaning derived through representations is always dependent upon human modes of understanding: “while we have been busily sorting out the meaning of animals, they have been leaving their own traces and signs — thus actively creating their own meaning ” (ix). I have grappled with these questions a lot in recent months, and appreciate books like Making Animal Meaning for providing a forum for thinking through some of the important ways in which representations of nonhuman animals collide with the physical, lived realities of the species we share the planet with. Keywords: animal; making; meaning; studies; ways

• Taxidermy as Knowledge: Review of Rachel Poliquin, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing by Walls, Alissa (2013) - While both Wakeham’s and Poliquin’s books investigate the relationship between taxidermic animals and human animals, Poliquin’s could go much further in exploring what animal studies scholar Cary Wolfe described in his Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory (2003) as, “The trope of the animal in the history of philosophy, and in contemporary popular culture, as the figure that is not merely below or beside ‘the human’ but actively constitutive of the human” (xiv). Poliquin organizes each chapter to address the various reasons that humans preserve non-human animals, from rare objects included in Renaissance Wunderkammern to memorials of deceased family pets. Keywords: animals; history; human; poliquin; taxidermy; zoo
• Meadowarts’ House of Beasts: Reimagining Human & Non-human Animal Relations at Attingham Park by Latimer, Joanna (2012) - But in the form of civilization that we find at Attingham human endeavor is to some extent tempered by its connections to the nature that it enhances. I want to thus to suggest that the exhibition helps us to see, momentarily, how non-human animals have to “become” human if they are to be included in the domestic fold as companions. Keywords: animals; attingham; exhibition; house; human; kind; life; relations
• Thinking Otherwise about Animals: Review of Nik Taylor and Tania Signal, eds. Theorizing Animals: Re-thinking Humanimal Relations by Kendall-Morwick, Karalyn (2012) - Discussing performances ranging from the highly scripted movements of Lipizzaner Stallions to the “unscripted behaviors” that attract whale- Humanimalia: a journal of human/animal interface studies Volume 4, Number 1 (Fall 2012) 152 watchers, Szarycz concludes that “the most important factor” in animal performances is their capacity to underscore nonhuman agency: “In performance, animals reveal something we did not know of them” (169, 171). By underscoring the jellies’ agency rather than their victimhood, she intimates that any theorizing about our ethical relations with nonhuman animals must begin by acknowledging the mutually constitutive effects of our material interactions. Keywords: agency; animals; human; relations; studies; theory; thinking
• Radically Reasonable Politics: Animals Rights and Liberal Democracy: Review of Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka. Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights by Varsava, Nina (2012) - Siobhan O’Sullivan’s Animals, Equality, and Democracy (2011), for example, develops a liberal democratic theory of animal rights (which incidentally reaches conclusions very different from Zoopolis); and Alasdair Cochrane’s Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (2010) surveys contemporary Western political theory and its relation to nonhuman animals. Animal rights do not become tangible, however, without legal support; and as anyone working in animal rights is well aware, the law has a long way to go to catch up with ethics. Keywords: animals; donaldson; rights
• Beyond Considerability: Review of Carol Freeman, Elizabeth Leane, and Yvette Watt, eds. Considering Animals: Contemporary Studies in Human-Animal Relations by Weil, Kari (2012) - Humanimalia: a journal of human/animal interface studies Volume 4, Number 1 (Fall 2012) 176 In its insistence on the importance of uncertainty regarding what and how we know about other animals, and its inquisitive openness to research that draws from a range of disciplines to give new shape to what we do know about them, this volume makes clear the complexities and the exciting potential of animal studies today. The hope of these essays is that research in animal studies and advocacy for animals can work together and it is addressed especially to those who share that concern. Keywords: agency; animals; essay; humans; science; studies
• Storied-Places in a Multispecies City by van Dooren, Thom; Rose, Deborah Bird (2012) - Part IV: Urban Convivialities: Attentiveness to these kinds of tangled multispecies stories — histories of flying foxes and penguins in city places, newly arrived or pre- dating the city itself — work to disrupt the long western tradition of thinking in terms of an urban/rural dualism in which the city is seen as a strictly human space. As recent scholarship — especially from human geographers — has so clearly demonstrated, nonhumans have always been a part of the fabric of city places; all cities are inescapably multispecies affairs — for better or worse (Davison and Ridder 306). Keywords: animals; cities; city; dooren; fidelity; flying; foxes; human; multispecies; new; penguins; places; return; species; storied; story; sydney; urban; van
• Zoopoetics: A Look at Cummings, Merwin, & the Expanding Field of Ecocriticism by Moe, Aaron (2012) - As poetics is, in part, the study of what poetry does—what it accomplishes as a verb—zoopoetics provides a theoretical focus to explore what a poem does—as a verb—to our understanding of and relationship with nonhuman animals. Though the fundamental premise for ecocriticism is that all that exists is dynamically interrelated, Bate’s definition excludes the ways nonhuman animals engage the “human other.” Keywords: agency; animals; culture; cummings; earth; ecocriticism; energy; gestures; human; language; merwin; moe; nonhuman; poem; poetry; studies; zoopoetics
• Placing Wild Animals in Botswana: Engaging Geography’s Transspecies Spatial Theory by Bolla, Andrea; Hovorka, Alice (2012) - Our aim in this paper is to engage transspecies spatial theory and illuminate the dynamics of human “placement” of animals and resulting human-animal encounters through a case study of wild animals in Kasane, Botswana. First, we explore human imaginings of wild animals based on respect for and exploitation of nonhuman animals that together shape dominant conservation and tourism agendas, and fix wild animals in discrete “protected areas” across the landscape. Keywords: animals; areas; botswana; chobe; conservation; encounters; figure; human; kasane; national; park; statistics; studies; theory; tourism; transspecies; wild; wildlife
• Anthropomorphism and Mechanomorphism by Karlsson, Fredrik (2012) - If anthropomorphism is understood as making homologous comparisons, then the criticism may be understood as a warning against presuming unwarranted similarities between human beings and other animals. The “old,” explicit anthropomorphism was done away with by the radical behaviorists, but as behaviorism was adapting to a more complex view of the causality of animal behavior it also became vulnerable to unconscious anthropomorphic assumptions (4, 157). Keywords: animals; anthropomorphism; crist; descriptions; human; kennedy; language; mechanomorphism; studies; terms
• Kathy Rudy’s Feel-Good Ethics: Review of Kathy Rudy, Loving Animals. Toward a New Animal Advocacy by Steiner, Gary (2012) - That logic proceeds from the proposition that because the lives of human beings and non-human animals are inextricably intertwined, it is unrealistic to pursue courses of action that would seek to separate the two. This appeal to the sanctity of sacrifice loses its initial plausibility once it becomes clear that the only beings called upon in Rudy's world to make any real sacrifices are non-human animals. Keywords: animals; beings; gary; love; rudy
• Species and Power: Review of Erika Cudworth, Social Lives with Other Animals: Tales of Sex, Death and Love by Birke, Lynda (2012) - L I A 3:2 Lynda Birke Species and Power Erika Cudworth, Social Lives with Other Animals: tales of sex, death and love. But, crucially, she takes issue with the view (apparent in some theoretical writing about humans and other animals) that boundaries between “the human” and the “nonhuman animal” are collapsing. Keywords: animals; human; power; relations; species
• “Loving-Knowing” Women and Horses: Symbolic Connections, Real Life Conflicts and “Natural Horsemanship” by Savvides, Nikki (2011) - Linda Kohanov’s The Tao of Equus, Betsy Kelleher’s Sometimes a Woman Needs a Horse, and a recent two-volume essay compilation entitled Of Women and Horses (including chapters by horse-women Deborah Day, Kim McElroy, Mary Midkiff, and Cherie King) are, among many others, a reflection of women’s relations with horses. The mutuality implied by a co-created language system can be corrupted through misunderstandings between horse and human which may “cause one or the other to Nikki Savvides — “Loving-knowing” women and horses: Symbolic connections, real life conflicts and “natural horsemanship” 69 react in a manner that may be harmful to both” (Brandt 309). Keywords: animals; connection; female; horsemanship; horses; human; interviewees; life; relations; riding; training; women
• Metaphysical Separatism and Its Discontents: Review of Kelly Oliver, Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human by Noll, Samantha (2011) - For Beauvoir, while other female animals have a fixed identity that is determined by biology (because female animals are caged by their ability to reproduce), only human females, as human beings, have the capacity to transcend evolution and rise above their “biological destiny.” Indeed, while Beauvoir claims to be trying to undermine patriarchal stereotypes, her argument is ultimately built upon the claims that man is fundamentally different from other animals, and that women can only become equal with men if they acquire traditionally masculine traits and make the animal radically “other.” Keywords: animals; oliver; rousseau
• “Listen to the Animals”: A Manifesto on Animal Husbandry: Review of Jocelyne Porcher, Vivre avec les animaux: Une utopie pour le XXIe siècle by Sax, Boria (2011) - Porcher does not mention it, probably because her subject is farm animals rather than pets, but this parallels a development with companion animals. Porcher’s vision of human animal relations governed by intersubjectivity has some resemblance to theories of a social contract, since much of its foundation lies in reciprocity. Keywords: animals; beings; people; porcher
• Minding Animals — The Human Re-Engagement with Animals by Bennison, Rod; Williams, Linda; O’Sullivan, Siobhan (2011) - Nevertheless, they all have a common theme, a new re-engagement by human animals with nonhuman animals (hereafter referred to as animals). Rod Bennison, et al — Minding Animals – the Human Re-Engagement with Animals 3 Kay Peggs tackles the controversial exploitation of those many millions of animals used in biomedical research for supposed improvements in human health. Keywords: animals; conference; research
• A Trace of Kinship: The Place of Animals in Environmental Aesthetics by Fellenz, Marc (2011) - Moreover, this deconstruction is not warranted merely by the play of words, for the resulting text illuminates several significant features of aesthetic experience that modern aesthetic theories have not emphasized. Indeed, it suggests that in aesthetic experience the subject and object are not entirely separate, for such experience is grounded on the shared origin of observer and observed, their natural connectedness. Keywords: aesthetic; animals; appreciation; art; experience; human; kinship; nature; plotinus; sense; world
• Risk, Human Health, and the Oppression of Nonhuman Animals: The Development of Transgenic Nonhuman Animals for Human Use by Peggs, Kay (2011) - So the progress that Sasaki et al. claim requires the potential genetic deterioration (via the introduction of “faulty” human genes) of the marmosets, which would improve their use value to human health research because their genetic deterioration would have the potential to be employed for the (genetic) improvement of humans. This is followed by consideration of how experiments using nonhuman animals have been utilized in the quest to diminish human health risks. Keywords: animals; experiments; health; human; marmosets; nonhuman; potential; research; risk; sasaki; sasaki et; science; transgenic
• Unfamiliar Biological Futurities: Animals in Techno-Science (an introduction to Sarah Franklin’s “Future Mix”) by Holmberg, Tora (2011) - Helena Pedersen argues in Animals in Schools: Processes and strategies in human- animal education that animals are at once visible and invisible in school curricula. Although much of her research involves the bio-technological use of other animals and the far-reaching cultural consequences and contexts of this kind of animal experimentation, Franklin’s way of approaching human-animal relations is perhaps unfamiliar to most readers. Keywords: animals; franklin; holmberg; human; science; transgenic
• Just Don’t Call Me “Mom”: Pros and Cons of a Family Law Model for Companion Animals in the U.S. by Miller, Alyce (2011) - I’ve lived with pets longer than without them, and over the years, particularly as basic practices of pet owning have evolved, my views on pet owning have been transformed through both my work in animal law and the courses I teach, like “Animals and Ethics” and “The Literary and Legal Animal.” Not surprisingly, the start-up was controversial, since “animal law” is often conflated with “animal rights,” and mentioning “animal rights,” one of the most misunderstood terms of the century, often has the same effect of dropping a ticking bomb in a room, especially in a state where farming, hunting, and fishing are important businesses. Keywords: animal law; animals; companion; companion animals; dog; family; family law; family model; human; law; love; model; mom; number; owner; people; pet; pets; property
• Eat, Love, Hate: Review of Hal Herzog, Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat by Birke, Lynda (2011) - Herzog is, undeniably, right that we are morally inconsistent in our thinking about other animals — even (or perhaps especially) those of us who work in animal studies or activism. Lynda Birke — Eat, Love, Hate 117 Cockfighting illustrates well the complex relationships we have with other animals. Keywords: animals; book; herzog; human; people
• Is Speciesism Inevitable? Review of Hal Herzog, Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat by Markowitz, Lee J. (2011) - Three (often implicit) themes recur: (a) humans’ thinking about nonhuman animals (hereafter “animals”) tends to be both speciesist and illogical;1 (b) for the most part, there is no moral problem with such speciesist thinking and behaving; and (c) such thinking and behaving are inevitable. In Some We Love…, Hal Herzog, a distinguished scholar of human-animal relations, discusses research and theory on human thinking about, and attitudes towards, animals. Keywords: animals; herzog; thinking
• Serving the Moral Agenda: Review of Tom Regan and Andrew Linzey, eds., Other Nations: Animals in Modern Literature by Gordon, Joan (2011) - There is too little here to carry a whole literature course, even at the high school level, and the range is too narrow to offer any indication of how literature deals with the issues of animal studies. The preface explains the rationale for the book: to serve high school and college courses on animals in literature, to offer “writing of the highest quality” (xviii), focusing “almost exclusively on modern literature, especially fiction” that will be “accessible, even to newcomers to the field” (xix). Keywords: animals; literature; selections
• Working with Sentient Property: Review of Rhoda M. Wilkie, Livestock/Deadstock: Working with Farm Animals from Birth to Slaughter by Bayer, Ellen (2011) - Again, Wilkie provides a brief historical overview of women and men’s changing roles in animal production that efficiently contextualizes the gendered nature of livestock production today. Wilkie notes that much of the literature on livestock production has been developed by animal advocates, many of whom have no first-hand experience with livestock, leading to static representations of commercial animal production (i.e. Humanimalia: a journal of human/animal interface studies Volume 2, Number 2 (Spring 2011) 126 intensive production is bad and the workers are uncaring) and overlooks the possibility that some handlers may have more dynamic experiences with livestock. Keywords: animals; livestock; producers; production; research; wilkie; work
• Animist Hunting: Review of Rane Willerslev, Soul hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs by Holmberg, Tora (2010) - The subsequent sections of the book, discussing humans and other animals as a continuum rather than as different kinds, and understanding animal personhood, are unfortunately almost similarly weak. The rules seem to function as a way to handle the inherent dilemma in killing other animals for one’s own survival (and/or pleasure). Keywords: animals; author; hunting; killing
• When Species Meat: Confronting Bestiality Pornography by Grebowicz, Margret (2010) - beastforum.com invites users to “share you opinions, creations, and experiences with others,” and on www.beasttoons.com, in the very same frame in which the aforementioned French maid cartoon protagonist encounters the gorilla, she promises us an educational experience: “with your membership you’ll also get full access to our extensive zoophilia database that covers everything you want to know about animal sex.” Haraway denaturalizes animal sex at the same moment that she endows the dogs with not just desire, but sexual agency: “they invented this game” (100). Keywords: agency; animals; bestiality; consent; feminist; human; mackinnon; porn; pornography; sex; species; women
• The Posthumanism of Roberto Marchesini by Sax, Boria (2010) - L I A 1:2 Boria Sax The Posthumanism of Roberto Marchesini Taken in the most literal way, the word “posthumanism” can have two alternative meanings: “after humanism” or “after human beings.” According to Marchesini, our symbiosis with animals is now relatively psychological or spiritual, yet no less intimate, because animals have provided most of the images, models, analogies, concepts, intuitions, and metaphors that are the foundation of human culture. Keywords: animals; machines; marchesini; posthumanism; roberto
• War Horse: Review of War Horse, produced by National Theatre (UK) and Handspring Puppet Company by Birke, Lynda (2010) - But the mounted cavalry stood little chance against machine guns, and Nicholls — along with many horses — is killed. Untold numbers of horses, dogs, and pigeons were sent off to “take part” in these wars of human making. Keywords: albert; animals; horse; joey; london; story; theatre; war
• Filling the Ark: Review of Leslie Irvine, Filling the Ark: Animal Welfare in Disasters by Birke, Lynda (2010) - And, of course, many animals that were rescued were never able to be reunited with their owners — there were simply so many animals that it was difficult to find specific individuals. All of these show up the cracks in our categorization of other 136 Humanimalia: a journal of human/animal interface studies Volume 1, Number 2 (Winter 2010) beings and their worth, and indicate that it is human actions in the wake of disasters which put many animals at risk. Keywords: animals; disasters; irvine; people; rescue
• Naming Names — or, What’s in It for the Animals? by Birke, Lynda (2009) - Part of that context, for many animals, is humans. Naming, describing other animals is, in the story, a way of not communicating, of not understanding who they are. Keywords: animals; change; human; names; research; studies; welfare; women
• Cynematographic Doubling: Dogs’ Phenomenal Presence in Hollywood Feature Films by László, Borbála (2022) - Furthermore, while Lawrence suggests that digital enhancement is also “effective dramatically” as it can make dog characters “more anthropomorphically expressive”,31 it also cuts back on the dogs’ agency in this respect. In other words, while digital manipulation makes dog characters more effective economically and dramatically, this also means that they eliminate the characters’ creaturely dimen- sion, the layer which, as I have argued throughout this paper, con- tributes to evoking a profound emotional experience in the viewer. Keywords: actor; animals; canine; character; cute; cynematographic; dog; dogs; doubling; eyes; fiction; film; hollywood; humanimalia; layer; lászló; representation
• Re-Animalizing Animal Farm: Challenging the “Anthropo-Allegorical” in Literary and Pedagogical Discourse and Practice by Drew, John (2022) - The standard political allegorical interpretation of Animal Farm not only subordi- nates the allegorical vehicle (the animal story), but it also largely ne- gates it, thereby adhering to John Simons’s argument that animal fa- bles use animal representations “merely as vehicles for the human”.5 The vast majority of the scholarly analysis of the text adheres to such negation of animals, emphasizing almost exclusively Orwell’s use of historical and political allegory.6 Through this reductive allegorical hermeneutic, animals are discursively diminished in ways that reflect, as well as reproduce, their wider material debasement. Keywords: animals in literature; animals in education; Animal Farm; allegory; Anthropo-allegorical, George Orwell, Animal Farm Bio: John Drew is an assistant professor in the Department of English, French, and Writing at King’s University College at Western University on the traditional and treaty lands of the Anishnaabek, Haudenosaunee, Chonnonton, and Lūnaapéewak Peoples. Keywords: allegory; animal farm; animals; anthropo; bhabha; book; cole; cultural; derrida; education; farm humanimalia; george; human; humanimalia; humanist; language; literature; new; orwell; pigs; reading; species; text; university; western
• Learning to See Mice: (Stray Philosophy III) by Meijer, Eva (2022) - She used this to comfort other mice in their final moments, and by ac- companying them to the vet and staying very close to them. But it also makes reality more unbear- able, because I now better understand the suffering of other mice, in- side and outside the laboratory. Keywords: animals; care; example; humanimalia; humans; laboratory; language; learning; meijer; mice; mice humanimalia; mouse; new; relations; running; time
• The Habit in Cohabitation: (Or, How to Meet a Tiger on the Path) by Weston, Kath (2022) - Even, and perhaps especially, for humans who work diligently to educate themselves about so- called animal habits in a well-intentioned move to come up with creative ways to live beside or amongst them, as I did on my Alaska sojourn. Our guest instructors share a membership in Animalia Charismatica: the club for charismatic animals whose fates are increasingly mediated by the threats and charms they ex- ert in the minds of humans.1 Under such imaginatively inflammatory conditions, how are nonhu- man animals and human animals supposed to live together? Keywords: animals; bears; behaviour; change; cohabitation; cohabitation humanimalia; ethnographic; habit; habituation; history; human; humanimalia; india; multispecies; new; present; press; relations; researchers; reserve; space; studies; tigers; time; university; way; weston
• Crimes against Reproduction: Domesticating Life in the Animal Trials by Arseneault, Jesse; Collard, Rosemary-Claire (2023) - In this paper we discuss secondary sources concern- ing the animal trials alongside feminist theories of reproduction, domestication, and anthropocentrism to suggest that animal trials, like witch trials, are sites of struggle over the domestication of reproduction. Keywords: Law, reproduction, domestication, anthropocentrism, animal trials, witch trials Jesse Arseneault is an Associate Professor in English at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Keywords: animal trials; animals; arseneault; bestiality; collard; crime; domestication; england; europe; evans; familiars; france; gendered; human; humanimalia; infanticide; law; life; modern; order; press; prosecution; reproduction; social; university; witch trials; women
• Animals and Exile: Review of Mensch und Tier in Reflexionen des Exils, ed. Ursula Seeber, Veronika Zwerger, Doerte Bischoff, and Carla Swiderski by Arnds, Peter (2023) - Email: arndsp@tcd.ie Book Review mailto:arndsp@tcd.ie This book focuses on the connections between human exile and nonhuman animals, on aspects of dehumaniza- tion, on animals as companion species during the searches humans undertake to find sanctuaries, and on the cultural representation of human–animal relationships under totalitarian rule, specifically of Jews driven into exile during the Third Reich. The various highly readable chapters explore how home, exile, and the return from exile configure in view of migrating animals in litera- ture and film; they furthermore highlight how animals become com- panions during exile, allowing those exiled to cope with and work through their trauma of expulsion; and, finally, they engage with a rhetoric of dehumanization in the concentration camps. Keywords: animals; arnds; exile; humans
• The Animals’ Point of View: Review of Chiara Mengozzi, ed. Outside the Anthropological Machine: Crossing the Human–Animal Divide and Other Exit Strategies by Krebber, André (2022) - Even her characterization of the anthro- pological machine remains superficial at best, adopted as a general shorthand for the attempts of humans in the Western world to distin- guish themselves from and raise themselves above other animals. As a way of disrupting our societal dealings with other animals, Mengozzi embraces the recognition that “animals are simultaneously like us and different from us (but each of them in their particular way) and that their life is neither inferior nor superior than [the lives of] humans” (3–4). Keywords: agamben; animals; human; machine; mengozzi; studies; volume
• Biological Weapons Testing at Porton Down: The Strategic Effacement of Nonhuman Animals, 1947–1955 by Duxbury, Catherine (2023) - Abstract: This article focuses on the use of nonhuman animals for biological weapons testing by military scientists at Porton Down Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, 1948–1955. My analysis reveals the partial workings of the Porton Down Laboratory through its historical use of nonhuman animals. Keywords: animals; cauldron; defe; duxbury; effacement; efstathiou; experiments; humanimalia; humans; ignorance; laboratory; negation; operation; porton; report; research; results; science; scientists; trials; use; warfare; weapons
• Parallel Lives: Human–Cow Entanglements at a Finnish Prison Farm by Kroløkke, Charlotte; Honkatukia, Mervi (2023) - During the second trip, we learn that Amma now lives on a farm as a companion animal along with a group of other cows and horses. As noted by Sakari Tamminen in his ethnography of Finnish biogenetic resources, non- human animals have become vital in the making of the Finnish na- tion state. Keywords: animals; bank; care; conservation; cows; finncattle; finnish; gene; honkatukia; human; humanimalia; inmates; kroløkke; lives; living; nonhuman; parallel; prison; work
• Animal Drag: The Critical and Conscious Performance of Animality by McCartney, Nicola (2024) - Abstract: This essay proposes Animal Drag as an activist performance in which a human critically and consciously performs animality to de-centre the human. Through theories of dress and prosthesis, highlighting how techne facilitates in-between and “becoming” states, and affect theory, this article argues that humans and nonhumans might share vulnerabilities via Animal Drag. Keywords: animal drag; animals; artist; body; culture; film; gender; humanimalia; mccartney; nonhuman; notary; oleg; performance; primate; species; square; theory; work
• Editor’s Introduction by Driscoll, Kári (2022) - The field of animal studies has long been preoccu- pied with the “disappearance” of animals from everyday modern life and, concomitantly, with the (im)possibility of authentic, un- mediated encounters with nonhuman others. This broad range is reflected in the current issue, which features six research articles on subjects ranging from taxidermy and display practices of nonhuman primates in natural history museums (Verity Burke) and the construction of nonhuman personalities at several animal shelters in Finland (Nora Schuurman), to human–tiger cohabita- tion in India (Kath Weston) and human–mouse cohabitation in Am- sterdam (Eva Meijer), to the phenomenal presence of dogs in clas- sic Hollywood cinema (Borbála Lászlo), and the hermeneutic and pedagogical challenge and necessity of reading literary animals as animals (John Drew). Keywords: animals; editor; humanimalia; journal; new
• Animals, Capitalism, Resistance: Review of Fahim Amir, Being and Swine: The End of Nature (As We Knew It) by Wadiwel, Dinesh (2023) - The first relates to Amir’s original account of animal resistance. Animal resistance has been theorized by a select group of scholars within animal studies.7 Amir’s work on resistance advances a distinctive view;8 and it is one that has proved highly influential for my own theoretical work describing animal in- subordination to power.9 My interest in Amir’s work is in the use of 6 “Soli” here is a shortened form for “solidaristic” or “solidarity”. Keywords: amir; animals; chapter; example; resistance; review; swine; text; wadiwel; work
• A Dino Fix: “Linus the Vegetarian T. Rex” as a Picturebook for the Anthropocene by Andrianova, Anastassiya (2023) - Because picturebook dinosaurs, like the titular Linus, can mobilize the intense “conceptual interest” in dinosaurs found among young children, I argue that a co-reading of Linus can help initiate conversations and facilitate learning about difficult “adult” concepts, such as evolution, extinction, and the Anthropocene, in children primarily but not limited to ages four to six. A study of children aged four to nine suggests that “young children are far less speciesist than adults, at least in the context of dogs and pigs”, and that they “prioritize hu- mans to a far lesser extent than adults. Keywords: andrianova; animals; ann; anthropocene; books; children; dinosaurs; empathy; fix; human; humanimalia; like; linus; literature; museum; neubecker; picturebook; rex; ruth; science; vegan; vegetarian
• How to Win Multispecies Friends and Influence Anthropocentric People: Review of Jane Mummery and Debbie Rodan, Imagining New Human–Animal Futures in Australia by Rutledge-Prior, Serrin (2023) - The directives that the book offers are osten- sibly simple: we must share our spaces and facilities with other an- imals; we must care about other animals beyond their usefulness to us; we must develop interspecies solidarity as a commitment to making political change for animals; and we must cultivate under- standing of the needs and preferences of other animals, and how they communicate these things to us. While important for earlier debates in animal ethics,4 where the question of whether animals could have rights at all was still up for grabs, this is a debate from which the an- imal rights literature has largely moved away.5 Instead, more recent scholarship has focused on how we might grant animals rights in the context of an interconnected and imperfect society, where hu- mans still — for better or worse — rely on the labour and services of animals (and they rely on ours). Keywords: animals; australia; book; chapter; mummery
• Westernizing Arabian Horses: Examples of Purity Breeding in Relation to Authenticity and Improvement, 1880–2020 by Derry, Margaret (2023) - Passionate about Arabian horses, Raswan believed that Arabian horse breeding in the West had moved away from Arabic roots and culture, thereby resulting in a breed that was not authen- tic. To provide his horses with pedigrees, Davenport decided to establish a new registry for Arabian horses in 1908.30 30 “Breeders of the Northeast”, 143–4; Craver, “Davenport Arabian Horses”, 1–5. Keywords: animals; arabian; authenticity; blunt; book; breeders; breeding; century; derry; horses; humanimalia; new; polish; purity; raswan; registry; sanguszko; skowronek; stallions; strain; stud; waho; westernizing
• Uneven Evolutions: Review of Mackenzie Cooley, The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance by Guest, Kristen (2023) - In taking up this focus, Cooley not only deepens our understanding of the di- verse philosophies that informed breeding practice, but also high- lights continuities with the present that take in, among other things, the idea of eugenics, a breeding philosophy “seized upon cyclically across the ages as a means of shaping the future to meet the inter- ests of the present” (5). Cooley employs a deliberately expansive view of both “breeders” and “philosophy” to take in the range of formal and informal practices and ideologies that shaped breeding practice. Keywords: animals; breeding; cooley; ways; world
• Bigfoot Swims in the Garden of Eden: A History of Hellbenders and American Cultural Identity by Craig, Andrew (2024) - Working to define themselves as American cit- izens who could govern a modern nation after the American Revo- lution, American men again echoed both Indigenous narratives of hellbender encounters as well as colonial observers’ hellbender fan- tasies in the descriptions they produced about hellbenders as they worked to classify and name this “peculiar” species as a particularly American animal. In the first decades of the twentieth century, hellbender encounters would continue to play a role in a larger debate about the relation- ship between American men and animals that drove the creation of modern American environmental conservation. Keywords: american; animals; barton; bigfoot; carolina; century; club; colonial; conservation; craig; eden; encounters; fantasies; garden; grinnell; groves; hellbender; hellbender encounters; history; humanimalia; kephart; like; men; nature; new; north; press; species; university; way; wilderness; york
• Wild Horse Roundups and Removals: Affect, Gender, Interspecies Politics by Britton, Jennifer L; Del Grosso, Abigail; Ellis, Cassidy; Hunold, Christian (2023) - A recurring theme in this literature is the unique difficulty of negotiating with wild horse advocates who are passion- ately immersed in wild horse preservation.5 For example, Kirk Davies and Chad Boyd note that “science-based ecosystem conservation is confounded by human psychology and the politics and sociology of horse advocacy groups. However, lest there be any confusion about whose capacity for reason is being questioned here, the vast majority of wild horse advocates happen to be women. Keywords: advocates; affective; agency; american; analysis; animals; blm; britton; britton et; complex; conservation; data; emotion; et al; herd; horse; horse advocates; horse roundups; https://doi; humanimalia; interspecies; lands; management; nonhuman; politics; public; range; rangeland; removals; research; science; species; use; valley; wild
• Apace: Dog Walking, Kinaesthetic Empathy, and Posthuman Ethos in the Great North Woods by McHugh, Susan (2024) - Other dogs of my childhood had their skulls smashed in abandoned leg-hold traps, were shot by game wardens, and be- came roadkill. Days went by, and they lingered on in this manner, unperturbed by our comings and goings for dog walks. Keywords: animals; apace; days; deer; dog; dogs; house; humanimalia; life; maine; mchugh; new; north; pond; ravens; snow; species; spring; time; university; walking; white; winter; woods; year
• Goodbye Old Man? The Evolution of the Soldier–Horse Relationship in Myth and Memory, 1880–1939. by Flynn, Jane (2024) - in Landry, Noble Brutes, 13. 10 Dorothy E. Brooke, “British war horses’ sad plight”, Morning Post 16 April 1931. Abstract: On the battlefield, it was the soldier–horse relationship that formed soldier and horse into an effective weapon against the enemy. Keywords: animals; army; british; flynn; goodbye; great; history; horse; horse relationship; humanimalia; images; life; london; man; memory; military; officer; people; press; soldier; university; war; war horse; warfare
• Horizon/Horse: On Photography and Multispecies Bonding by Deigaard, Lee (2024) - Horses are kept in horse places, which often means confinement. Quilt, Company of other horses w texture Knit him a cowl Knit him an embrace … Make him a mural of mares… A scene he can see himself in. … Fig. 9 Photograph: “a scene he can see himself in”, April 2016. Keywords: animals; blue; body; deigaard; eye; fig; horizon; horse; horse humanimalia; humanimalia; intimacy; landscape; love; memory; miles; pain; phone; time; touch; years
• Disorderly Theory: Review of Sundhya Walther, Multispecies Modernity: Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature by Sandhar, Jason (2023) - While Walther could have done more to demonstrate how inter- species subalternity lends itself to alliances between marginalized people and animals, the remainder of the introduction admirably troubles animal representation in visual art and literature. To make a claim about animal subalterns, Walther would have to first justify why we would map the problem of human subaltern speech upon beings who literally do not speak. Keywords: alliances; animals; human; interspecies; sandhar; subaltern; walther
• A Pet Revolution? Review of Jane Hamlett and Julie-Marie Strange, Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life (London: Reaktion, 2023) by Breeze, Daniel (2023) - It is, for the most part, a history of sentiment rather than re- spect; it’s unlikely that many of the pet-keepers whose words fill this book felt moral duties towards the animals they owned in the same way that animal advocates today understand their relation- ships with companion animals. Breeze, Review of Hamlett and Strange A Pet Revolution? Daniel Breeze Review of: Jane Hamlett and Julie-Marie Strange, Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life. Keywords: animals; hamlett; pet; pets; strange
• Editorial by Driscoll, Kári (2023) - In her investigation into this site, Catherine Duxbury focuses on the role of wilful ignorance and what she calls the “strategic efface- ment” of nonhuman animals in the production of scientific objectiv- ity. As such, the historical prosecution of these “crimes against reproduction” high- lights to the role of animality in the construction of gendered repro- ductive norms, and may, perhaps, in turn point towards alternative modes of relating to animal life. Keywords: animals; articles; care; editorial; history; humanimalia; issue
• Cat–Human Intersubjectivity and Joint Meaning-Making within Multispecies Families and Communities by Hill, Kristine (2024) - The Cat–Human Case Studies The case study approach sought to examine cat–human intersub- jectivity (joint meaning-making) and the different types of relation- ships that are formed between cats and non-cat animals (including human guardians and friends), both inside and outside their home. Cats develop auditory communications in- tended specifically for their humans and use vocalizations more frequently when communicating with humans than with other cats.35 Cats can recognize the names given by humans to other feline fam- ily members, and possibly to other human family members too, and conversely cats develop distinct calls that their humans can often recognize.36 In the context of a cat-human relationship, a cat will learn what signals their humans respond to. Keywords: animals; cat; cats; conkey; families; fkh; hill; human; humanimalia; intersubjectivity; interview; memphis; mih; mimi; multispecies; social; study
• The Line is Death: Animal Fugitivity and Urban Planning: Review of Maan Barua, Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology and Peter S. Alagona, The Accidental Ecosystem: People in Wildlife in American Cities by Grigorovich, Imogen (2024) - In his preference for a specific kind of geometry, Le Corbusier ne- glected the needs of urban animals, and cities re-structured by his philosophy made animal life precarious, forcing them to rapidly adapt to human-centred patterns of urban living. Furthermore, urban animals, through their existence in-between categories and their frequent movements across them, throw into question the very words we use to know them, showcasing the op- pressive and bloody histories of categories such as “pest”, “feral”, and “wild”. Keywords: animals; barua; cities; city; delhi; grigorovich; human; line; urban
• The Literary Labour of Ants: Refabulation, Digression, and Utopian Form in Daniel Sada’s Porque parece mentira la verdad nunca se sabe (1999) by Gutiérrez Negrón, Sergio (2024) - Original quote? Gutiérrez Negrón , The Literary Labour of Ants | 117 Humanimalia 15.1 (2024) which obfuscates the nonhuman animals in animal representations and recasts them “as mere resources for (literal and symbolic) hu- man consumption”.45 Beyond the basic indicative description of the column of ants moving across the ground, everything else the nar- rator proclaims is explicitly conditional, understood as a suggestion, as unambiguous fantasy. “La omnisciencia paródica en Porque parece mentira la verdad nunca se sabe de Daniel Sada.” Keywords: animals; ants; ants humanimalia; collective; digression; form; gutiérrez; humanimalia; idleness; labour; life; los; mentira; narrator; negrón; novel; parece; parece mentira; parry; porque; porque parece; sada; work
• Leonine Visibility and the Production of Nature: Review of Myth and Menagerie: Seeing Lions in the Nineteenth Century by Katie Hornstein (2024) by Gelfand, Laura (2024) - In Chapter Four, Hornstein examines lion hunts and explores how the visual theme and cultural practice of hunting lions became emblem- atic of French colonial expansion in North Africa. DOI: 10.52537/humanimalia.18481 Leonine Visibility and the Production of Nature Laura D. Gelfand Review of: Katie Hornstein, Myth and Menagerie: Seeing Lions in the Nineteenth Century. Keywords: animals; french; gelfand; hornstein; lions; painting
• Letting Beings Be: Review of What We Owe to Nonhuman Animals by Gary Steiner (2024) by Pepper, Angie (2024) - To my mind, one of the virtues of Steiner’s account is that while he is keen to stress “the extensive commonalities between human and Humanimalia 15.1 (2024) 190 | Pepper, Review of Steiner nonhuman animals, rather than their apparent differences” (217), he does not pretend (as some do) that there are no cognitive differences between some humans and other animals or that those differences don’t matter in normatively significant ways. The ba- sic thought seems to be that Donaldson and Kymlicka’s model of in- terspecies justice, which regards domesticated animals as already members of the political community and advocates for the formal recognition of that fact, is nonetheless underpinned by a moral hi- erarchy that privileges humans over other animals. Keywords: animals; anthropocentric; ethics; justice; pepper; steiner
• Unsettling the Columbian Exchange: Review of The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 by Marcy Norton (2024) by Guest, Kristen (2024) - By contrast, the Indigenous societies Norton examines classify all animals (including human animals) in explicitly relational, subjec- tive terms. Such animal exception- alism suggests not only how metaphoric connections aligned some animals with humans, but also the extent to which the eating / eaten dichotomy is rooted in cultural practices that confer subjective sta- tus through training relationships. Keywords: animals; human; norton; ways; wild
• What Are Animals Worth? Review of Animals and Capital by Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel (2023) by Guha-Majumdar, Jishnu (2024) - DOI: 10.52537/humanimalia.19680 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.19680 Guha-Majumdar, Review of Wadiwel | 213 Humanimalia 15.1 (2024) something like a preliminary Das Kapital for food animal production. Wadiwel’s main task here is to illuminate the unique structural position that food animals occupy within capitalism. Keywords: animals; capital; food; labour; production; value; wadiwel
• Food for Thought: Review of Just Fodder (2022) and Food, Justice, and Animals (2023) by Josh Milburn by Salzani, Carlo; Weisberg, Zipporah (2025) - DOI: 10.52537/humanimalia.22631 http://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.22631 Salzani and Weisberg, Review of Milburn | 243 Humanimalia 15.2 (2025) New Answers to Old (and New) Questions Just Fodder focuses on a number of philosophical and practical questions concerning the feeding of other animals, especially ob- ligate carnivores, while upholding animal rights. In our view, the distinguishing feature between moral and political approaches to animal rights is not whether veganism is a necessary foundation for a peaceable future with other animals, but whether veganism (or animal rights more generally) is a moral and/ or a political issue. Keywords: agriculture; animals; food; humanimalia; milburn; review; rights; salzani; weisberg
• Kinship of Different Kinds: Horses and People in Iceland by Nash, Catherine (2020) - However, attitudes vary as to the appropriateness of a familial idiom to describe horse relationships. Horse people in Iceland insist that the quality of the human-horse relationship depends on recognizing that relationships between horses are fundamental to horse behavior and to the quality of a horse’s life with humans and among horses. Keywords: animals; breeding; care; connection; difference; family; horses; human; iceland; interspecies; kinship; people; relations; relationships; riding; studies; terms; work
• Shared Creation of a Not-So-Human World: Review of Jocelyne Porcher and Jean Estebanez, eds., Animal Labor: A New Perspective on Human-Animal Relations by Sax, Boria (2020) - Life in the wild is not, contrary to what is often supposed, one of absolute freedom, since wolves and other animals are constrained not only by the struggle for survival but also the social structure of the pack. In “For a new conservation paradigm,” Nicolas Lainé looks at the social role of working animals in India and East Asian countries. Keywords: animals; human; porcher; work; world
• Queering Multispecies Bonding: Reading Donna Haraway’s Dog Stories as Queer Feminism by Irni, Kuura (2020) - I argue that reading Haraway’s writing on dogs from a queer theoretical perspective and in terms of her alternative accounts of dog love demonstrates that they critique more than the problematic anthropomorphizing of nonhuman animals. In particular, I focus on alternatives to normative perceptions of relationships.5 I critically assess the assumption and ideal that intimacy, sex, and romantic love are involved in, as well as restricted to, a couple relationship between people, and the centrality of reproduction in the conceptualization of relationships in both people and nonhuman animals. Keywords: animals; companion; critique; dog; feminist; haraway; love; multispecies; nonhuman; queer; reading; relationships; sex; species; studies; work
• Place Attachment and the Roots of Spiritual Relating in Animals by Brooks Pribac, Teya (2020) - An additional question that emerges when considering the potential of place as a relational variable is its capacity for healing effects (or otherwise) upon animal bodies and minds, and the impact of anthropogenic interference with spaces inhabited by other animals upon this healing capacity and perhaps necessity. Could other animals, I pondered, encounter phenomena that resist categorization, a condition that has been proposed to give rise to the feeling of awe in humans (e.g. Shiota, Keltner and Mossman), potentially leading to either dread or bliss? Keywords: animals; attachment; brooks; capacity; environment; experience; human; infant; journal; life; nature; organism; place; place attachment; pribac; relating; religion; self; space; volume
• Zoo Stories: Review of John Bierlein and the Staff of HistoryLink, Woodland: The Story of the Animals and People of Woodland Park Zoo & Andrew Flack, The Wild Within: Histories of a Landmark British Zoo by Rothfels, Nigel (2020) - It is a classic shot of a popular modern genre of zoo photograph, of photographs visitors to zoos are always trying to take themselves. Then, in the latter part of the nineteenth century and through the post-WWII period, the zoo participated in a growing sentimentalization of zoo animals as, according to Flack, the public became more comfortable with Darwinian ideas of continuities between humans and animals. Keywords: animals; book; flack; zoo
• Fish Encounters: Aquariums and their Veterinarians in a Rapidly Changing World by Braverman, Irus (2019) - But while the use of the AVMA Guide is Irus Braverman -- Fish Encounters: Aquariums and their Veterinarians on a Rapidly Changing Planet 21 appropriate for vets working with fish species in controlled settings, they may conflict with circumstances in “the field,” and thus a different set of criteria and indications may be applied in such instances. With the exception of certain marine mammals, aquarium animals have thus rarely been championed by animal rights campaigns, which have tended to focus more on captive zoo animals such as elephants and apes. Keywords: animals; aquarium; braverman; care; conservation; euthanasia; fish; human; interview; jørgensen; number; pain; species; veterinarians; wild; zoo
• Green Infrastructure and Urban Wildlife: Toward a Politics of Sight by Hunold, Christian (2019) - However, the logic of declaring urban wild animals as legitimate yet also unwanted is stretched rather thin by the proliferation of urban wildlife. The shaky legitimacy of urban wild animals has been tied up with their everyday invisibility — interrupted, for the most part, only when they enter humans’ field of vision, often as “nuisance” animals (Donaldson & Kymlicka). Keywords: animals; cities; city; coyotes; environmental; green; human; hunold; infrastructure; journal; june; nature; online; philadelphia; politics; sight; species; urban; wildlife
• The Melancholic Animal: On Depression and Animality by Meijer, Eva (2019) - Further, investigating nonhuman animal depression can help us get a better grasp on the phenomenon for humans and other animals. Studying animal depression is not simply a matter of doing more biological research. Keywords: animality; animals; care; depression; example; humans; journal; madness; meijer; nonhuman; relations; studies; world
• Animals, Law, and Power: Review of Robert Garner and Siobhan O'Sullivan, eds. The Political Turn in Animal Ethics by Johnson, Lisa (2019) - Direct action power is appealing because the lives of individual animals are important, though strategic placement power may have a larger impact on groups of animals. The most compelling applied theory emerges in the forms of labor rights for animals (Cochrane), enfranchisement of animals (Garner), and a justification for refusing to defer to political institutions, which rests upon the rejection of the status quo of moral pluralism related to animals (Friederike Schmitz’s “Animal Ethics and Human Institutions: Integrating Animals into Political Theory”). Keywords: action; animals; placement; power; rights; turn
• Show and Tell: Exposing Anthroparchy in Children’s Culture: Review of Matthew Cole & Kate Stewart, Our Children and Other Animals: The Cultural Construction of Human-Animal Relations in Childhood by Hübben, Kelly (2019) - In the introduction they state how their “interest in children’s relations with other animals was sparked by this specific contemporary cultural artefact: the promotional tie-in meal offered by fast food chains that juxtapose nonhuman animal ‘characters’ as images and toys alongside the mangled body parts of other animals” (4). This short column contains a number of implicit claims about children and animals that are common in the West. Keywords: animals; authors; book; children
• A Theology of Animality: Review of Eric Daryl Meyer, Inner Animalities: Theology and the End of the Human by Beverly, Jared (2019) - Meyer’s book provides analyses of how various theologians attempt to circumvent the problem of human animality and proposals for how theologians today might avoid such anthropological exceptionalism. The project proceeds in two parts: a historical part focusing mostly on figures from fourth-century Christianity (Gregory of Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa) and a constructive part that creatively rethinks human animality. Keywords: animality; animals; gregory; human; meyer
• Returning to Wild? Four Lions’ Journey from Circus to “Sanctuary” by Vander Meer, Elizabeth (2019) - Four lions’ journey from circus to “sanctuary” 189 body size than other lions that had come through the centre before. Recent studies of subjective well-being in lions (Gartner et al; Dunston et al), with trait-mapping over time and considerations of individual idiosyncrasy, may enrich our interpretations of lion experiences in permanent captive environments. Keywords: animals; captivity; center; circus; context; enclosure; human; life; lions; marc; rescue; sammy; sid; skinny; staff; wild; zoo
• Go West, Oxen, Horses, and Mules: Review of Diana L. Ahmad, Success Depends on the Animals: Emigrants, Livestock, and Wild Animals on the Overland Trails, 1840–1869 by Erby, Kelly (2019) - The nearly three hundred thousand men, women, and children who trekked across the North American continent in the mid-nineteenth century looking for a better life in the American West depended on animals to successfully make the journey. In seven brief chapters, Ahmad examines nineteenth-century Americans’ concepts about animals, the role that animals played on the overland trails, and the impact of westward migration on the relationships between emigrants and animals. Keywords: ahmad; animals; emigrants; trails
• Saving Species, One Individual at a Time: Zoo Veterinarians Between Welfare and Conservation by Braverman, Irus (2018) - If until the latter part of the twentieth century the health of zoo animals was administered by a variety of zoo professionals, and especially by zoo keepers, contemporary laws and standards increasingly identify the zoo veterinarian as the exclusive medical provider for zoo animals. Such populations of zoo animals are often referred to as insurance populations. Keywords: animals; braverman; communication; conservation; human; individual; situ; species; time; veterinarians; vets; welfare; wild; zoo; zoo animals; zoo veterinarians; zoos
• Why Animals and Religion Now? by Matthews, Paul Robert (2018) - Yet, I would like to point toward two developments which, though more or less “external“ to religious studies, have contributed to the turn within religious studies toward other animals and have little to do with thought or reason; although, both “reasons” nonetheless have forced us to rethink or reimagine the possibility of animal religion. While it may still be “laughable” or even “offensive” to speak of animal religion, the time has come, particularly for those of us working in the field of religious studies, to take seriously the possibility of animal religion or, at the very least, to begin to take seriously the challenge of rethinking “religion” from the vantage point of “the animal.” Keywords: animal religion; animals; bear; bororo; hegel; human; question; religion; smith; studies; thinking; thought; time; way
• Unnatural Pet-Keeping: Pet-Custody Disputes in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina by Zelinger, Amir (2018) - By way of juxtaposing human-animal relations with main issues highlighted by recent studies in the sociology and historiography of natural catastrophes (cf., Bankoff, “Learning about Disasters from Animals”), this article aims to contribute to this effort of disclosing some of the critical social “burden” that caring for Amir Zelinger -- Unnatural Pet-Keeping: Pet-Custody Disputes in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina 95 animal pets necessarily carries. Bednarik claims that as many as 98% of Katrina pets were not spayed or neutered, and about 85% had heartworms (ibid. Keywords: aftermath; animals; custody; disaster; disputes; dog; dogs; homes; human; hurricane; hurricane katrina; katrina; keepers; keeping; new; number; orleans; owners; people; pet; pets; studies; welfare
• Humanimalia Roundtable on Breed by Guest, Kristen; Mattfeld, Monica; Derry, Margaret; Haraway, Donna; Landry, Donna; Ritvo, Harriet; Swart, Sandra (2021) - Certainly from a teleological perspective, animal breeding is the final place where ideas about purity of breed and openly eugenic discourse can be freely embraced, alongside classism and even sexism. The resilience of culture in animal breeding remains remarkably strong, and trying to understand why is important. Keywords: animals; breed; breeding; dogs; donna; history; horses; humanimalia; idea; like; people; purity; question; species; time; type; way
• Do Animals Have a Homeland? Ancient Greeks on the Cultural Identity of Animals by Kostuch, Lucyna (2017) - Logic suggests that the Hellenes and the foreign tribes would be described in a similar manner: namely, the Hellenes would be represented by Greek animals, and the foreign tribes by foreign animals. In this way, Greek animals became an inalienable part of the Hellenic “national” legacy. Keywords: ancient; animals; aristotle; dog; foreign; greece; greek; hellenes; herodotus; history; homer; human; identity; lands; pausanias; thought; world
• Thinking with Vinciane Despret: Review of Vinciane Despret, What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? by Fudge, Erica (2017) - All the participants, Despret writes, “behaved like good subjects: they were willing to be taken Erica Fudge -- Thinking with Vinciane Despret 163 hostage by a problem of which no one knew how far their interest in that problem went and how they themselves would construct it” (90-91). In ranging across various issues — whether animals can be said to be artists; what imitation might actually be, and whether animals do it, whether they might have a sense of justice — Despret views the world with a kind of practical pragmatism, and takes people at their word in a way that is not naïve or gullible, but interested, trusting, Erica Fudge -- Thinking with Vinciane Despret 167 open, and, because of that, is revealing. Keywords: animals; despret; questions; sheep; subjects; vinciane; way; work
• Mustangs and Domestic Horses: Examining What We Think We Know About Differences by Dalke, Karen; Olson Hunt, Megan (2017) - Interestingly, since mustangs are herd animals and follow other horses, domestic horses are used to lure mustangs into traps during the mustang gathering process. Upon one of this manuscript’s authors adopting two mustangs from the Bookcliffs, who were part of the aforementioned study, she began wondering what differences really exist between mustangs and domestic horses: Do mustangs exhibit the same behaviors in a domestic setting as displayed in the wild? Keywords: animals; behavior; domestication; grooming; horses; length; mustangs; study; time; wild; years
• Responding to Dogs by Andreyev, Julie (2017) - Dogs tend to wag with a right-sided bias when they happily greet their humans or someone else of interest; dogs tend to wag to the left when greeting an unfamiliar dog (Horowitz 113). As with Berns’s experiments with dogs in the fMRI environment, Tom’s and Julie Andreyev -- Responding to Dogs 135 Sugi’s autonomy was respected, in that they could withdraw from the situation at any time. Keywords: andreyev; animals; attention; ball; body; canine; communication; dogs; ethics; gestures; human; interface; journal; julie; methods; musicians; number; play; processes; research; scent; spring; studies; sugi; time; tom; use; work
• Spontaneous Development of Hunting-like Behavior in a Juvenile Human: A Case Study by Dinets, Vladimir (2016) - Some individual chimpanzees have developed novel hunting behaviors, such as hunting human children (Cohen). Bird et al.); on cultural acquisition of such behavior by children growing up in hunter-gatherer societies (MacDonald); on social, economic and developmental importance of children’s hunting in such societies (Jones et al.; Walker et al.; Hewlett and Lamb; Crittenden et al.); or on environmental factors influencing hunting success (Collins). Keywords: age; animals; behavior; case; development; dinets; human; hunting; instinct; interest; killing; study; time; wildlife
• More Ethics Than Politics, More Animals Than Species: Review of Raymond Corbey and Annette Lanjouw, eds. The Politics of Species: Reshaping our Relationships with Other Animals by MacClellan, Joel (2016) - The Politics of Species: Reshaping our Relationships with Other Animals. The Politics of Species: Reshaping our Relationships with Other Animals (hereafter, The Politics of Species) is an interdisciplinary anthology that addresses the plight of nonhuman humans in a cultural landscape dominated by anthropocentric worldviews and institutional practices. Keywords: animals; apes; ethics; human; new; politics; rights; species; speciesism; studies
• Interspecies Solidarity: Review of Kendra Coulter, Animals, Work and the Promise of Interspecies Solidarity by Birke, Lynda (2016) - Part of the problem in recognizing animal work is the prevailing ethos of working for pay — which animals evidently do not. Yet other areas of animal work are unpaid, through volunteerism. Keywords: animals; coulter; human; work
• Reanimating Chicago: Review of Dave Aftandilian and Gavin Van Horn, eds. City Creatures: Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness by Mershon, Katharine (2016) - One could imagine borrowing excerpts for a wide range of classes covering anything from animal ethics, art history, and Chicago history, to environmental studies, urban history, and literary studies. For students of nonhuman life, the volume also has a larger appendix at the end that is categorized by subject, with sections such as “animals in art,” “Chicago metropolitan nature,” and “philosophical and humanities perspectives on animals.” Keywords: aftandilian; animals; book; chicago; city; creatures; human; nature; section
• Working Identities: Review of Lindsay Hamilton and Nik Taylor, Animals at Work. Identity, Politics, and Culture in Work with Animals by Baár, Monika (2016) - Identity, politics, and culture in work with animals analyzes the relationship between animals and humans in diverse situations: in veterinary surgeries, in slaughterhouses, on farms, in the wilderness, and in animal shelters. L I A 8:1 Reviews Monika Baár Working Identities Lindsay Hamilton and Nik Taylor, Animals at Work. Keywords: animals; book; chapter; work
• “Post-Anthropocentrism” in Animal Philosophy and Ethics: The Disparity of the Prefix “Post” by Aigner, Andreas; Pieper, Karl; Grimm, Herwig (2016) - This logocentric notion of the subject identifies humans as being humans, in contrast to animals, and therefore, it effectively avoids seeing human beings as human animals. Recognizing a certain characteristic as being morally relevant is not based on some “perspective-neutral” or objective insight, but requires a specific human perspective, human categories, or epistemological differentiations between the human (whatever notion of the human this may be) and other animals. Keywords: animals; anthropocentrism; beings; community; derrida; ethics; excess; human; justice; notion; post; sentient; steiner
• Blood and Paint: Review of Stephen F. Eisenman, The Cry of Nature: Art and the Making of Animal Rights by Freund, Amy (2016) - His introduction traces two major threads of thought about animal rights in modern Europe and America: on one hand, a reformist position that seeks only to minimize suffering, and on the other, a radical position that argues for the autonomous selfhood of animals and their right to freedom. Eisenman’s dazzling negotiation of sources and approaches and his commitment to animal rights make The Cry of Nature a challenging and deeply moving read. Keywords: animals; art; cry; eisenman; human; nature; rights
• “Thus, I Give Up the Spear!”: Sovereignty and Violence against Animals: Review of Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel, The War Against Animals by McCorry, Seán (2016) - Taking issue with Kymlicka and Donaldson’s analysis of animal sovereignties, and with the advocates of Great Ape sovereignty, Wadiwel suggests that animal political agency must not be thought on the basis of their similarity to human forms of social organization; that is, on their ability to be incorporated within a humanist conceptual vocabulary of representation, citizenship, population, territory, and security. (219) Chapters 7 and 8 engage directly with theories of sovereignty, with Chapter 7 engaging with liberal theorists of animal sovereignty (discussed briefly above), and Chapter 8 arguing that sovereignty itself is a “groundless claim” (62) through which humans declare their superiority over (and thus their right to dominate) animals following their victory over them. Keywords: animals; human; sovereignty
• Animal Activism and the Zoo-Networked Nation by Vandersommers, Daniel (2015) - Animal activists consistently made demands on the behalf of zoo animals, and throughout the first two decades of the National Zoo’s existence, these demands encouraged the zoo to improve its enclosures. Many of the stories told of and through zoo animals, however, may not have led directly to the goals of activists, yet they always problematized the animal as a singular entity expressing a single and identifiable symbolism. Keywords: activism; animals; archives; baker; box; dunk; elephant; folder; gunderson; institution; institution archives; letter; national; national zoo; new; park; park zoo; record; record unit; rights; scrapbooks; smithsonian; smithsonian institution; unit; washington; zoo; zoo animals; zoogoers; zoological; zoos
• A Bold Introduction to Human–Animal Studies: Review of Margo DeMello, Animals & Society: An Introduction to Human–Animal Studies by Weitzenfeld, Adam (2015) - Part one of Animals and Society serves to introduce HAS and describes the social construction of animals. (For those who identify with critical animal studies, Animals and Society[italics] is worth checking out for a very accessible analysis of violence against animals and interlocking oppressions). Keywords: animals; chapters; demello; humans; society; studies; violence
• Horns, Fangs, and People: Review of Isabelle Mauz, Gens, Cornes et Crocs by Granjou, Céline (2015) - She was then able to document how the return of the wolves disturbed and re- shaped the previous entanglements of mountain people and mountain animals (ibex and chamois), as well as her own research work. For both groups of people animals mark a dynamic of decline, but for different reasons: decline due to nature (livestock) becoming wilder and wilder according to the first group, and to a dynamic of degradation of the environment according to the second. Keywords: animals; mauz; people; wolves
• What Is a “Good Death” for an Animal? Review of Jocelyne Porcher, Pour une Mort Digne des Animaux by Sax, Boria (2015) - While many animals may have some understanding of death, it seems reasonable to think that the variation among them must be vastly greater. It is noteworthy that even the word “sacrifice” (the same in French as in English) is never employed in her book, though it is regularly used by many academic authors to designate the taking of animal life. Keywords: animals; death; farmers; porcher; relations
• Jocelyne Porcher, an Introduction by Sax, Boria (2014) - Whether or Boria Sax — “Jocelyne Porcher, an Introduction” 3 not we agree with Porcher’s ideas, I believe they could add vigor to the somewhat moribund state of animal studies today. One big limitation of animal studies so far, as Richard Bulliet has shown in Hunters, Herders and Hamburgers, is that its foundation is profoundly embedded in the history, culture, and philosophy of the English-speaking world, to a point where it can often impress people elsewhere as an expression of cultural imperialism. Keywords: animals; dominance; human; porcher; world
• The Work of Animals: A Challenge for Social Sciences by Porcher, Jocelyne (2014) - When I started to approach the question of animal work some years ago, I found myself facing the same sorts of problems that I had encountered while researching the love between farmers and animals. The aim of our research is to conceptualize animal work that is to understand what work means for animals. Keywords: animals; farmers; human; question; relations; sciences; work
• Thinking with Horses: Troubles with Subjects, Objects, and Diverse Entities in Eastern Mongolia by Irvine, Robin (2014) - These skills and practices involving horses did not necessarily stand in opposition to cross-breeding and selling horses outside the area, but they did allow the family to maintain a strong claim to being good horsepeople Robin Irvine — “Thinking with Horses: Troubles with Subjects, Objects, and Diverse Entities in Eastern Mongolia” 69 from various local and external perspectives. This is particularly the case when dealing with charismatic animals Robin Irvine — “Thinking with Horses: Troubles with Subjects, Objects, and Diverse Entities in Eastern Mongolia” 73 such as horses, who, compared to the plants, fungi, and microbes are rhetorically advantaged — from many North Atlantic perspectives, at least — in terms of human perception of “response” in human-animal relationships (ibid. 664). Keywords: animals; eastern; entities; family; fig; fortune; herd; horses; human; khongor; mongolia; mor; objects; relationships; studies; subjects; uugaa
• Living with Transgenic Animals by Clark, Jonathan L. (2014) - Though we lack precise figures, however, it is probably safe to say that relatively few laboratory animals ever make it out of the lab alive.1 Jonathan L. Clark — “Living with Transgenic Animals” 89 And for a whole host of reasons, including the particular legal and cultural context, some types of laboratory animals are probably more likely to be adopted than others (Carbone, “Euthanasia”). Needless to say, Congress has yet to provide for the “retirement”3 of surplus mice, rats, or fish, despite the fact that these animals make up the vast majority of laboratory animals in the United States. Keywords: adoption; animals; canadian; enviropigs; farm; friedrich; jan; laboratory; laboratory animals; moccia; research; sanctuary; studies; transgenic; university; web
• Animals/Artists: Review of Steve Baker, Artist | Animal by Gigliotti, Carol (2014) - Full disclosure: I am mentioned in Steve Baker’s book Artist | Animal, and I previously have published a dialogue with him about art and animals in my edited book, Leonardo’s Choice: Genetics and Animals. Perhaps the most important thing I should disclose at the outset is that I believe that animals are sentient, conscious, intelligent, and creative beings who are just as necessary to the world as human animals. Keywords: animals; artists; baker; book; work
• The Friends of My Friends: Review of Dominique Lestel, Les Amis de mes amis by Granjou, Céline (2014) - They refused to grant animals feelings, sensations, initiative, and intelligence. The book examines friendship between people and animals and promotes a new definition of friendship as physical proximity and attachment. Keywords: animals; friendship; humans; lestel
• Kiwis on Kiwis: Review of Annie Potts, Philip Armstrong, and Deidre Brown, A New Zealand Book of Beasts: Animals in Our Culture, History and Everyday Life by McHugh, Susan (2014) - The book’s third section, “Art Animals,” likewise takes a long view of a specific set of cultural practices, here the incorporation of animals in visual culture. The book’s second section on companion animals, authored by Potts — an expert in popular culture who published Chicken (Reaktion, 2011) in the series Animal — delves deeper into the longer human-animal histories of Aotearoa. Keywords: animals; book; human; new; potts; zealand
• Beasts, Savages, and Beyond: Review of Michael Lundblad, The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture by Koncul, Ana (2014) - Together with Freudian psychoanalysis, Humanimalia: a journal of human/animal interface studies Volume 6, Number 1 (Fall 2014) 160 particularly its naturalization of animal instincts and of heterosexuality, Lundblad sees Darwinism as the foundation of the laws of the jungle. Heat of passion – the inability to resist animal instincts – was introduced into juridical discourse as a mean of defense. Keywords: animality; animals; class; discourse; jungle; lundblad
• Treasures from Trash: Review of Kelsi Nagy and Philip David Jonson II, eds. Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species by Weiss, Andrew (2014) - Trash Animals offers a close look at a variety of animal species that are widely treated in an uncritical and destructive manner. Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species. Keywords: animals; collection; editors; encounters; prairie; species; trash
• Running with Butkus: Animals and Animality in Rocky by Price, Jason (2014) - I’m interested, however, in taking the animal actors and animal bodies in the Rocky series seriously and on their own terms. What happens when we read Rocky’s dogs and the beef carcasses he punches not as a way to show that Rocky is fierce or innocent or friendly (and they certainly can be and perhaps are intended to be read this way for the most part) but as animal bodies? Keywords: animality; animals; balboa; bodies; body; boxing; butkus; character; fight; film; meat; paulie; rocky; stallone; suffering; way
• “Narratives for Resurrection”: Review of Samuel J. M. M. Alberti, ed. The Afterlives of Animals: A Museum Menagerie by Porth, Emily (2014) - Like the unnamed bird that stands proudly upright within a tiny reconstructed marshland, encased in a table top habitat diorama on the cover of The Afterlives of Animals: A Museum Menagerie, humans gaze at animals and specimens stare back, unseeing through glass eyes. However, Fudge (2002) has pointed out that anthropomorphism can be problematic because it prevents humans from having a full understanding of the agency of other animals, and this would have been an important point to make and elaborate upon. Keywords: alberti; animals; book; chapter; museum; specimens
• Londoners and Other Animals: Review of Hannah Velten, Beastly London: A History of Animals in the City by Kendall-Morwick, Karalyn (2014) - In medieval and early modern London, members of all social classes delighted in the baiting of bulls, bears, and other animals, but by the mid- Karalyn Kendall-Morwick – “Londoners and Other Animals” 131 18th century, the public view of this bloody amusement had shifted to “abhorrence. L I A 5:2 Reviews Karalyn Kendall-Morwick Londoners and Other Animals Hannah Velten, Beastly London: A History of Animals in the City. Keywords: animals; century; chapter; city; human; london; londoners; velten
• Political Communication with Animals by Meijer, Eva (2013) - However, although Donaldson and Kymlicka’s political theory is promising, it raises questions concerning political animal agency and human-animal communication, and concerning extending human liberal democratic concepts and institutions to include other animals. Viewing language as a collection of language-games is a good starting point for thinking about animal languages and shared human-animal communication because it can capture and reflect the multitude of (linguistic) interactions that exist between animals and humans. Keywords: animals; communication; concepts; conversations; donaldson; games; human; kymlicka; language; new; relationships; rights
• Pets, Death, and Taxes: Review of Barbara Ambros, Bones of Contention: Animal and Religion in Contemporary Japan by Marran, Christine (2013) - Animal memorial rites may have emerged in the premodern period, but it is with the relatively recent commodification of animals that animal memorial rites began to pursue a “ritualized perfection in the face of the mechanized and often bloody realities of modernity” (52). The endorsements adorning the back of Barbara Ambros’ enticing monograph describe Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan as a study of pet memorial rites in the archipelago, but the book is about much more than that. Keywords: ambros; animals; japanese; rites
• #SaveBenjy: Sexuality, Queer Animals, and Ireland by Mc Loughlin, Eimear (2015) - In a world where heterosexual reproductive sexual activity is viewed as the norm, same- sex non-reproductive sexual activity is seldom associated with non-human animals, even though homosexual behavior has been detected in more than 450 animal species around the world (Bagemihl 12).2 The marginalizing of the bull to symbolic status denied Benjy his agency; an agency that communicates sexual selection at odds with both the demands of the livestock industry and our preconceived notions of non-human animal sexuality. Keywords: animals; benjy; bull; gay; human; ireland; queer; sex; sexuality
• Paying Mr. Bewick: Review of Diana Donald, The Art of Thomas Bewick by Irmscher, Christoph (2015) - L I A 7:1 Reviews Christoph Irmscher Paying Mr. Bewick Diana Donald, The Art of Thomas Bewick (with contributions by Paul F. Donald). Mr. Bewick, who happened to be present himself, told him that each Humanimalia: a journal of human/animal interface studies Volume 7, Number 1 (Fall 2015) 124 of them was 13s, which happened to be exactly the amount Proctor had saved up. Keywords: animals; audubon; bewick; birds; proctor

• Living Capital and the Quantum Ethnography of Spider Goats: Review of Lisa Jean Moore, Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature by Fish, Kenneth (2023) - But it’s perhaps the contradictory experience of Moore herself that is revealed most effectively in this quantum ethnog- raphy of spider goats as she faces the many destabilizations she Humanimalia 14.1 (2023) 450 | Fish, Review of Moore encounters in a self-reflexive way, questioning her assumptions as sociologist, feminist and mother. To Moore’s credit, these transformations are present in the form of the Anthropocene, late capitalism, danger capitalism, the risk society, neoliberalism, Fordism / Taylorism, and rationaliza- tion, to name a few; indeed, the title of the book itself conveys a de- sire to derive big conclusions about “our future” from an ethnogra- phy of spider goats. Keywords: goats; moore; science; spider; studies
• Who Benefits from Multispecies Justice? Review of The Promise of Multispecies Justice, ed. Sophie Chao, Karin Bolender, and Eben Kirksey (2022) by Otjen, Nathaniel (2024) - As an early-ca- reer researcher myself who works on multispecies justice from in- ter- and transdisciplinary positions, I felt a spirit of collaboration while reading the book. Drawing inspiration from Sara Ahmed’s The Promise of Happiness, the edited volume exam- ines the cultural articulations of multispecies justice and asks what kinds of worlds are possible in its “promise”. Keywords: beings; human; justice; multispecies; promise; studies
• Challenging and Changing Humanity’s Absoluteness: Review of Megan H. Glick, Infrahumanisms: Science, Culture, and the Making of Modern Non/Personhood by Warczak, Katie (2020) - Though not the focus of Glick’s monograph, this lack of attention to infrahumanism’s implications is out of place in a discussion of the era that saw the rise of a myriad of rights-based movements that had to grapple with the effects of infrahumanist narratives. Such an approach is incredibly valuable because, although the social construction of sexual, racial, gender, disability, and other identities has been acknowledged, human identity remains largely biological and absolute in academic circles. Keywords: chapter; glick; human; infrahuman; studies

• Eiseley’s Stygian Oracle by Beachly, William (2012) - Reading Eiseley later in life, I realized my childhood experiences in Lincoln intersected with many of his own, though I had a much happier time of it. From these writers it is not unexpected that one would develop empathy for the animal perspective, but Eiseley went further to understand something more of the human condition. Keywords: antrodiaetus; burrow; cave; eiseley; fall; hours; life; man; nebraska; new; oracle; species; spiders; stygian; time
• Cross-Species Intimacies from Guide Dogs to Artificial Meat: Review of Susan McHugh, Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines by Armbruster, Karla (2012) - Thus, the questions she asks go beyond what types of relationships are represented between humans and other animals to how the texts affect and even enact intimacies between species. While McHugh situates the development of these narratives in its cultural and historical context (down to the role that changing styles of women’s underwear played in the evolution of professional riding by women and girls), her primary focus is, of course, the possibilities for intersubjectivity between humans and other animals. Keywords: human; mchugh; narratives; species
• Still Life/Nature Morte: Review of Carol Freeman, Paper Tiger: A Visual History of the Thylacine by Borrell, Sally (2011) - In sum, Paper Tiger makes a valuable contribution to the understanding not only of thylacines and their extinction, but also of the impact of human constructions of other species and the ethical implications of this for animal representation. However, even during their existence, thylacines were the stuff of legend, and their disappearance ended neither the tales of sightings nor the scientific and popular fascination with the species. Keywords: species; thylacine; tiger
• Reversing Extinction: Restoration and Resurrection in the Pleistocene Rewilding Projects by Chrulew, Matthew (2011) - Their anthropogenic Matthew Chrulew — Reversing Extinction: Restoration and Resurrection in the Pleistocene Rewilding Projects 9 extinction as the result of overhunting by the Clovis culture has left a glaringly empty environmental niche, unfilled for millennia and awaiting replenishment.6 A prominent commentary piece in Nature (followed by another in American Naturalist) by a number of scientists (including Martin, Dave Foreman, and Michael Soulé) has put this idea square on the agenda of conservation biology: “we advocate Pleistocene rewilding — reinstituting ecological and evolutionary processes that were transformed or eliminated by megafaunal extinctions — as a conservation priority in North America” (Donlan et al., “Pleistocene Rewilding” 661; Donlan et al., “Re-Wilding” 913). Such Pleistocene rewilding projects represent a new modality in the process of civilizing nature that defines the history of wilderness areas, challenging many long-held preservationist assumptions. Keywords: american; conservation; extinction; human; mammoth; martin; nature; new; park; pleistocene; pleistocene rewilding; projects; restoration; resurrection; rewilding; species; wilderness; zimov
• Recentring the Animal in Multispecies Ethnography: Review of John Hartigan, Jr., Shaving the Beasts: Wild Horses and Ritual in Spain by Vaught, Jeannette (2024) - If horse people could explain several elements of what was happen- ing in the rapa, then would the conclusions from this project speak only to other ethnographers? But would it be possible to craft an ethnography that would be able contribute something to our collective understanding of horses that horse people themselves could not? Keywords: equine; ethnography; hartigan; horses; multispecies; rapa; review; species; vaught
• Another Word for Home: Review of Roger Thompson, No Word for Wilderness: Italy’s Grizzlies and the Race to Save the Rarest Bears on Earth by Gigliotti, Carol (2019) - As superb protectors of their flocks, Maremmas have stood as guardians of that peace so the shepherds of Italy could willingly relinquish a certain number of their flock (often already dead) to scavenging by wolves and bears, thereby allowing the “nature tax,” another tradition of Abruzzo. Thompson points out that people continue to see bears as all the same, when in reality each subspecies of bear has evolved through a symbiotic relationship with the characteristics of their habitat, “as unique as accents in human language” (73). Keywords: abruzzo; bears; italy; species; subspecies; thompson
• Endangered Species and Intrinsic Value: A Virtue-Centered Approach: Review of Ian A. Smith, The Intrinsic Value of Endangered Species by Donhauser, Justin (2019) - Yet, Callicott’s overall view is not inconsistent with Smith’s virtue- centered position, since Smith provides a conception of the intrinsic value of species that would enable one to extend other-regarding sentiments to HSC species. He argues, rather, that Callicott’s further argument for why we ought to extend moral considerability to other species of organisms does not provide sufficient reasons to conclude that we ought to extend moral considerability to species. Keywords: chub; hsc; johnson; smith; species; value; view
• Enchanted Bee-ings: Encounters and Movements beyond the Human by Barlow, Matt (2017) - The classroom itself presented practical and professional challenges; Moore and Kosut found they were “simultaneously taking notes about bees combined with learning how to be a beekeeper, while also attempting a sociological meta-level analysis of who was in the room and thinking about their concerns and connections to other humans and European honeybees” (4). Enchanted Bee-ings: Encounters and Movements beyond the Human 151 knowing bees, moving (with) bees, entangling with bees, and eventually arriving at an anthropology of being with bees, an anthropology of “bee-ing.” Keywords: bees; enchantment; encounters; hive; humans; kosut; life; moore; species; way; ways; world
• “Wildness Without Wilderness”: Review of Irus Braverman, Wild Life: The Institution of Nature by Menely, Tobias (2016) - This claim impels a wide-ranging investigation of conservation practices in this current phase of the Holocene/Anthropocene extinction, as the “biopolitical” institutions of the liberal state come to be dedicated to the sustention of the least “viable” species. The idealization of in situ conservation, she argues, relies on a discredited “idea of wild nature” (17). Keywords: braverman; conservation; human; species; wild

• Pachyderm Matriarchy : Elephants and Authorship in the Land of the Akeleys, 1912–1940 by Alvey, Mark (2023) - See First Uganda Journal; Delia Akeley to Tom and Winifred Akeley, October 29, 1910, CEA, Expeditions: Africa, AMNH 1909–1911, Mss .A344; Mary Jobe Akeley pa- pers; Carl Akeley to Wilfred Osgood, December 6, 1910, Dept. of Zoology Akeley cor- respondence, Field Museum Archives; “Carl E. Akeley and His Work”, Mentor, 25. The present article pursues a reading of “Authors and Versions” against a more robust historical background, including published sources, and primary archival materials, in order to deepen, and correct, the broader story of the authorship and intellectual labour behind the AMNH African Hall, in particular the purported suppression of Delia Akeley’s voice and labour. Keywords: Carl Akeley, Delia Akeley, Mary Jobe Akeley, American Museum of Natural History, Donna Haraway, “Teddy Bear Patriarchy” Bio: Mark Alvey’s research interests include the art and inventions of Carl Akeley, and American television of the 1960s. Keywords: african; akeley; alvey; american; amnh; bull; carl; carl akeley; delia; delia akeley; elephant; expedition; field; hall; haraway; history; humanimalia; hunting; journal; mary; matriarchy; museum; new; pachyderm; roosevelt; tbp; york
• Crossing Worlds in Buildings : Caring for Swifts in Brussels by d'Hoop, Ariane (2023) - d’Hoop, Caring for Swifts in Brussels Crossing Worlds in Buildings Caring for Swifts in Brussels Ariane d’Hoop Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles, CESIR Université de Liège, SEED HUMANIMALIA 14.1 (Fall 2023) Moving across sites in Brussels, the essay articulates how an attentiveness takes shape between swifts, their storied-places, and the human caretakers who learn about them, as well as the tensions and contradictions that arise. Keywords: apus; attention; birds; boxes; brussels; buildings; city; crossing; d’hoop; holes; humanimalia; martine; nest; places; putlog; sites; swifts; towers; worlds
• “Iberians are different”: On Breed, Power, and Queer Subversion by Gundermann, Christian (2023) - To mention Garcilaso, one of Spanish America’s most famous early mestizo authors, in the context of a discussion of horse breed and purity is not entirely fanciful. Abstract: Historically, Iberian horse breeds were considered the height of perfection, but with the development of the Thoroughbred (the embodiment of enlightened modernity), they increasingly were aligned with Spanish obsolescence. Keywords: altamirano; baroque; breed; breeding; century; dressage; english; equine; gundermann; horse; humanimalia; iberian; modernity; nature; philip; power; pre; project; purity; queer; raza; sarduy; spain; spanish; sport; stud; thoroughbred
• The Pursuit of Virtù by Hofstetter, Angela (2023) - Keywords: horse stories; classical dressage; sexual abuse; personal narrative; trauma; psychology; domestic violence Bio: Angela Hofstetter shares her rural home in Story, Indiana with giant dogs, plump horses, and assorted flora and fauna from the Hoosier National Forest. Fragil- ity can understandably frustrate trainers devoted to helping horses and humans find as much beauty and balance as their forms allow. Keywords: body; dressage; eroika; hofstetter; horse; humanimalia; mare; pursuit; rider; riding; truth; virtù
• Shaping the Equine Body: Roundtable by Guest, Kristen; Mattfeld, Monica; Raber, Karen; Forrest, Susanna; Nash, Richard; Vaught, Jeannette (2023) - There is so much fantasy about wild horses. Currently there is a utilitarian argument for wild horses in which they’re positioned as guardians of the landscape and restorers of ecosystems, which is what’s happened in Mongolia (along with other grazing and conservation projects in the West. Keywords: breeding; century; equine; horses; human; humanimalia; kind; people; relationships; roundtable; things; thinking; time; ways; wild
• Older Humans and Their Dogs: Interspecies Companionship and Anticipating Loss by Bartram, Angela (2024) - Grebowicz states that “within life with dogs […] the dis- tinction between self and world pretty much disappears”, and this is typical of the reciprocity in our friendship, which sees enjoyment in the experience of togetherness with mutual engagement and equal reward.43 The self, for Grebowicz, relates to both the human and dog, each of us alike in this context, and this extends into our introduc- tion to the meetings and the people in attendance. Using an approach of working with (rather than on) people, this informs sensitive and sympathetic methodologies for an analysis of the significance and benefit of interspecies companionship for older people in the initial stages of my artistic research project, Dogs and the Elderly. Keywords: attachment; bartram; care; companion; companionship; dogs; experience; humanimalia; humans; interspecies; life; loneliness; people; project; relationship; research; stories
• Passing – Captive – Still : (Rare Breed Birds) by Wilson and Snæbjörnsdóttir, Mark and Bryndís (2024) - Keywords: contemporary art; othering; captive birds; interspecies; interspecific gaze; anthropocentrism Bio: Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson are a collaborative art partnership. Abstract: The images in Passing Captive Still depict humans together with birds in cages, their respective presence conjoined at eye-level. Keywords: art; birds; humanimalia; snæbjörnsdóttir; space; wilson
• “My Kingdom for a Barking Dog!”: A Critical History of Sheepdog Trialling with Border Collies, and Why It Matters to Sheep by Theunissen, Bert (2025) - In addition, gentry landowners regularly provided silver cups worth up to fifteen pounds.74 The Barcrofts’ star dog White Bob earned his owners more than seventy pounds in a single season, and George Barcroft’s total income from prizes and trophies was reported to have amounted to some 2,500 pounds.75 By the 1900s, trial dogs were still diverse in outward appearance, but less so than in the early years, when some dogs were of the bigger drover type, others of the smaller collie type, and still others some- thing beardie-like in between. Furthermore, trial dogs were directed for an important part by gestures, a method that was useless in the misty weather common in the mountains. Keywords: august; bala; barking; border; british; collie; dog; dogs; field; flock; herding; history; humanimalia; instance; kingdom; london; october; september; sheep; sheep dog; sheepdog trials; sheepdogs; shepherd; shepherding; theunissen; training; trialling; trials; type; working
• Slowly, slowly by Driscoll, Kári (2024) - According to the definition proposed in 1973 by the Haiku Society of America, haiku is “an unrhymed Japanese poem recording the es- sence of a moment keenly perceived, in which Nature is linked to human nature.” If Issa’s poem seems to invite us to empathize with the snail, or to hear the imperative to climb — but slowly, slowly — as directed at ourselves, this has less to do with the dreaded reductio ad figuram that inscribes animals within a purely anthropomorphic schema of signification, and more to do with a fundamental sense that “human nature” is itself “an interspecies relation”,4 and that this is in fact the reason why the experience of nature can be “intuitively linked” to the human condition in the first place, as the HSA’s updated definition has it. Keywords: editorial; haiku; human; humanimalia; interspecies; poem; snail
• The Webs of Life: Review of The Sounds of Life (2022) and Gaia’s Web (2024) by Karen Bakker by De Bruyn, Ben (2025) - Humanimalia 15.2 (2025) 234 | De Bruyn, Review of Bakker Yet the most distinct feature of The Sounds of Life is not its interest in sound, biodiversity, and multispecies knots, but its refreshingly upbeat embrace of digital recording technologies and AI algorithms that are able to harvest and analyse vast quantities of acoustic data rapidly. Email: ben.debruyn@uclouvain.be RevIew ARtIcle http://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.18481 mailto:ben.debruyn@uclouvain.be Before her untimely death in 2023, the Canadian researcher Karen Bakker completed two insightful and accessible books that articulate valuable lessons for readers inter- ested in multispecies studies and digital technology: The Sounds of Life (2022) and Gaia’s Web (2024). Keywords: bakker; bruyn; humanimalia; humans; life; review; sounds

• In the Vermicular: Review of Janelle A. Schwartz, Worm Work: Recasting Romanticism by Bayer, Ellen (2013) - Schwartz claims that, “worm studies in particular present an untraced opportunity to revise inquiries into ‘the creature’s formation’ from ‘impenetrable’ to comprehensible and to recast our understanding of Shelley’s narrative plan as a whole” (153-54). This movement between the material worm and the metaphorical use of worm work might prove problematic for readers like myself who approach the book through the lens of Human-Animal Studies (HAS). Keywords: chapter; life; schwartz; text; work; worm

• Umwelt, Biology, and Bio-Politics: A Foray into Uexküll’s World: Review of Jakob von Uexküll, A Foray into the World of Animals and Humans, with A Theory of Meaning by Geroux, Robert (2012) - A 3:2 142 Robert Geroux Umwelt, Biology, and Bio-Politics: A Foray into Uexküll's World Jakob von Uexküll. (Uexküll, 92) Keywords: fly; human; subject; uexküll; work; world
• Gender and Power in Narratives of “Natural Horsemanship”: The Production of “Prey-Identified Masculinity” by Tom, Erica (2015) - Lynda Birke’s articles “’Learning to Speak Horse’: The Culture of ‘Natural Horsemanship’” and “Talking about Horses: Control and Freedom in the World of ‘Natural Horsemanship’” examine the rise of Natural Horsemanship, the cultural shift within the equestrian world, and explore how horses are represented within the discourses of Natural Horsemanship respectively. Certainly, the efforts of horse trainers such as Dorrance and Hunt to move the conversation from domination to concepts of connection, or control, have been important.8 Notwithstanding the “better deal” horses may be getting, it is evident that equines remain at the mercy of humans. Keywords: brannaman; cowboy; film; gender; horse; horsemanship; human; masculinity; narratives; new; power; prey; roberts; tom; women; work

• Salmon Tales: Review of Peter Coates, Salmon (Reaktion Animal Series) by Bull, Jacob (2010) - It is therefore superb to find such a work on salmon in the Animal series, and the concern Coates shows for the subject is careful and stimulating. The range of topics included in the text is wide reaching, covering the biological understandings of salmon, cultural significance, tins of salmon, a salmon- skin-bikini, and the conflicts which arise between different social groups and individuals as well as between humans and salmon. Keywords: chapter; coates; fish; salmon
• Animal Immanence: Review of Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani, eds. Animality in Contemporary Italian Philosophy by Amberson, Deborah (2022) - In the third and final chapter, “What is Italian Antispeciesism?”, Giorgio Losi and Niccolò Bertuzzi survey the various activist threads within Italian animal advocacy, clarifying key terminology and challenging the practical and ethical force of an activism grounded within mainstream neoliberalism as opposed to a more radical resistance that deliberately sets itself up as a coun- ter-hegemonic practice. What Esposito and, in turn, Cimatti and Salzani discern in Italian thought is a sustained engagement with life, a circumstance that has meant that, though born and named in France, biopolitics grew up in Italy (6). Keywords: animality; chapter; cimatti; human; salzani; thought; volume
• Beyond Allegory: Human–Animal Encounters and Mutual Vulnerability in the Libyan Novel: Review of Charis Olszok, The Libyan Novel: Humans, Animals and the Poetics of Vulnerability by Sinno, Nadine (2022) - In Chapter 3, Olszok provides exquisite close readings of al-Kūnī’s al- Tibr (1989; Gold Dust, 2008) and al-Ghazāl’s al-Tabut (2004, The Cof- fin) and al-Khawf abqani Hayyan (2008, Fear Kept Me Breathing). One of the chapter’s many strengths is Olszok’s attentive treatment of the camels that appear in al-Tibr and al-Tabut. Keywords: chapter; libyan; novel; olszok
• Galloping through Culture: Horse Racing and Global History: Review of The Running Centaur: Horse-Racing in Global-Historical Perspective, ed. Sinclair W. Bell, Christian Jaser and Christian Mann by Willekes, Carolyn (2023) - It also pro- vides a strong base for further scholarship in this field to pursue the study of horse races and race horses in other cultural contexts, such as the history of racing practices in horse-centric regions like Cen- tral Asia and Mongolia. The Running Centaur: Horse-Racing in Global-Histor- ical Perspective seeks to investigate the importance of the horse through the lens of horse racing in a global context as a way of high- lighting cross cultural and chronological connections. Keywords: bell; chapter; horse; races; racing; willekes
• Who Are the Eaters? Review of Heather Paxson, ed., Eating beside Ourselves: Thresholds of Foods and Bodies by Kuen, Laura (2023) - Unlike Annemarie Mol’s recent book Eating in Theory (2021) which tries to find fresh answers to the question of what it means to be human by taking eating as a philosophical starting point, the objective of Eating beside Ourselves aims to decentre the human from conceptual- izations of eating and feeding. Overall, Eating beside Ourselves is empirically diverse and insightful and articulates eating as a fundamental form of relating. Keywords: chapter; eating; human; kuen; review; volume
• Porcine Paradox: Review of The Medieval Pig by Dolly Jørgensen (2024) by Crannell-Ash, Marissa (2024) - Biblical stories involving pigs, like that of the Gadarene swine, formed the basis of Christian thought about these animals and their relation to humans, solidify- ing the role of pig as resource: “[T]hey become the home of demons and they are herded for potential meat” (59). Dolly Jørgensen is no stranger to medieval pigs. Keywords: book; chapter; jørgensen; medieval; pigs
• The Nose Knows: Review of Frank Rosell, Secrets of the Snout: The Dog’s Incredible Nose by Gordon, Joan (2020) - Each chapter begins with an anecdote illustrating some aspect of dogs’ remarkable sense of smell and goes on to discuss a particular cluster of scientific and practical knowledge loosely connected to that anecdote, emphasizing the role of working dogs. Chapter 5, “Search and Rescue,” gives fans of Frankenstein (1818) the evocative fact that “between 1816 and 1818, there were heavy snowstorms” in the Alps that, sadly, “took the lives of many dogs in avalanches while searching for people” (76). Keywords: chapter; dog; dogs
• Michał Piotr Pręgowski and Justyna Włodarczyk. Free Market Dogs: The Human-Canine Bond in Post-Communist Poland by Gordon, Joan (2017) - I had the opportunity to observe and meet a number of dogs when off- duty and noticed a few differences between Polish dogs and American ones. So I was eager to see the more thorough and informed view of Polish dogs that this volume provides. Keywords: chapter; dogs; poland; polish
• Of Gods and Men (and Dogs): Review of Laura Hobgood-Oster, A Dog’s History of the World: Canines and the Domestication of Humans by Gordon, Joan (2014) - Other general histories of the co-evolution of dogs and humans exist, of course, although they are breezier in their approaches, including Katherine Rogers’s First Friend: A History of Dogs and Humans (2005) and Stanley Coren’s The Joan Gordon — “Of Gods and Men (and Dogs)” 141 Pawprints of History: While chapter 1 never gets past ancient Rome, Chapter 2, “Journey to the Afterlife: Best Friends Forever,” moves back and forth between ancient burial practices and modern pet cemeteries to make an elegant point about the liminality of dogs as “providing a border between humans and nature ... hover[ing] between nature and culture, human and animal” (49). Keywords: chapter; dogs; human
• Who’s Laughing Now? Review of Mikita Brottman, Hyena by Thornburg, Ann Marie (2014) - After introducing the four species of hyena in chapter one, Brottman moves on to human conceptions of, and relations to, hyenas. In chapter five, Brottman appropriately turns to a discussion of how living hyenas fare in relation to their mythical and symbolic counterparts. Keywords: brottman; chapter; hyena; men
• Running Dogs in Capitalist Japan: Review of Aaron Herald Skabelund, Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World by Gordon, Joan (2013) - In the nineteenth century, “an age of rampant Darwinism and social Darwinism” (47), Skaeblund notes that since most Japanese dog breeds looked Joan Gordon – Running Dogs in Capitalist Japan 197 “wolfish” and therefore suggested a kind of continuum rather than a clear division between domestic and wild, Westerners found them “deeply unsettling” (48). In a kind of cultural cringe, Japanese elites adopted “civilizationist and scientific racist” language and attitudes to vilify native dog breeds and extol imported ones. Keywords: chapter; dogs; hachikō; japan; skabelund
• Pigeon Stories: Review of Colin Jerolmack, The Global Pigeon by Holmberg, Tora (2013) - As for now, Jerolmack sometimes falls into the same trap — the nature-culture divide reproduced by the social sciences — that he criticizes, for example when he dismisses the notion that humans and pigeons interact through shared symbols (37) while at the same time describing in detail how certain pigeons obviously recognize certain feeders, such as the classical “pigeon lady,“ and are invited — if not through symbols then what? People of all ages enjoy feeding pigeons, and in some settings, such as Trafalgar Square in London, pigeons are iconic to the “place images“ (Shields) held and practiced. Keywords: book; chapter; human; nature; pigeon; social
• Wolf in Chic Clothing: Review of Garry Marvin, Wolf by Gordon, Joan (2013) - Wolf, after a brief introduction, consists of five developed chapters: ”Canis lupus,” a brief evolutionary and ethological introduction to the species; ”Lupophobia,” an historical and cultural overview of the wolf as hated predator; ”Lupicide,” about the destruction of wolves; ”Lupophilia,” about more positive views of wolves; and ”Rewilding,” about their reintroduction into their former habitats. Humanimalia: a journal of human/animal interface studies Volume 4, Number 2 (Spring 2013) 138 ”Canis lupus” begins by discussing the emergence of the species from Cynodictis to Cynodesmus to Tomarctus to the divergent evolutionary paths of wolves and foxes and, by the late Pliocene, forms of Canis, and ”emergent wolf species” (13). Keywords: chapter; language; volume; wolf; wolves

• Caring and Coping in the City of Dogs: Review of Chris Pearson, Dogopolis: How Dogs and Humans Made Modern New York, London, and Paris by Howell, Philip (2022) - Instead, I have examined how human actors understood ca- nine emotions, how dogs affect humans emotionally, and how hu- man emotions have transformed the lives of urban dogs in the West” (189). But if Pasteurism whipped up the emotions in a potentially self-defeating manner, Pearson shows that it was an essential part of the civic inclusion of dogs: “Pasteur’s vaccine, greater surveillance of dogs, and muzzling had sufficiently blunted the effect of canine biting to allow dogs to be integrated into dog opolis” (82). Keywords: canine; dogs; history; new; pearson
• Swimming with Whales and History: Review of Jason M. Colby, Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator by Rothfels, Nigel (2020) - In reviews of the book and interviews with Jason Colby that are available on YouTube, the work inevitably gets described as “personal,” because one of the orca catchers in the history is the author’s father. In the end, while the Reids and others may have invited Jason Colby into their homes because of his father, they ended up sharing their thoughts with him because of who he is and what kind of historian he is. Keywords: book; colby; history; people; whales
• Milking the Zeitgeist: Review of Mathilde Cohen and Yoriko Otomo, eds. Making Milk: The Past, Present, and Future of our Primary Food by Wright, Laura (2019) - In their chapter, they “re-inscribe plant milk into the social, political, economic, and cultural history of food, primarily with a focus on the 20th and 21st centuries” (196), noting that plant milk challenges the notion of what milk is, a point that opens plant milks up to scrutiny and, as is the case in the U. S. at present, potential litigation. Dairy producers claim that it is unfair, for plant-based products lack the nutritional profile and taste of dairy milk but are taking advantage of the milk “brand” (Irfan). Keywords: dairy; food; history; industry; milk; plant

• Disarranging Narrative: Review of Louise Green, Fragments from the History of Loss: The Nature Industry and the Postcolony by Nuttall, Sarah (2024) - Nature, Green shows, is violently contested despite the diamond’s mythifi- cation as a rarefied and precious commodity, one from which the point of extraction has to be excised. In this scenario, Green points out, nature retained a residue of uto- pian promise. Keywords: africa; book; green; nature
• Armchair Sciurologist? Review of Peter Coates, Squirrel Nation: Reds, Greys and the Meaning of Home by Krauss, Judith (2024) - Chapter seven also shares recent genetic research demonstrating that cer- tain aristocrats played an outsized role in facilitating greys’ origi- nal expansion, as genetic stocks suggest that grey squirrels would not have been able to populate the UK in the same way without humans releasing them to estates in other parts of the country (244).1 This underscores that vilifying the greys, rather than prob- lematizing the humans who have facilitated their translocation and expansion, is problematic. Red squirrels, generally deemed an emblem of native British fauna, are now limited to Scotland and a few strongholds in mostly more coniferous hab- itats in Wales and northern England. Keywords: book; coates; greys; krauss; reds; squirrels
• The Way of Reconciliation: Review of Gavin Van Horn, The Way of Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds by Gigliotti, Carol (2020) - If that phrase seems too vague to address the current agreement among climate scientists that we have eleven years to shift our path from that of environmental collapse, Van Horn might agree. Van Horn moved to Chicago, Illinois in 2010 to take the position of Director of Cultures of Conservation at the Center for Humans and Nature. Keywords: book; chicago; horn; van; way
• So What Do Polar Bears Think about Us? Review of Michael Engelhard, Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon by Fee, Margery (2017) - Excellent books by Ian Stirling and Andrew Durocher on the biology and behavior of polar bears have been published recently, but the story of the white bear’s persistent ability to capture human imaginations has not, until now. As Engelhard makes clear in his introduction, the intersection of modern humans and polar bears has led to a depressing history of slaughter, beginning in the late nineteenth century, when whalers and sealers found themselves in the far north. Keywords: bears; book; engelhard; polar
• Extinction Stories: Review of Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson, You Must Carry Me Now: The Cultural Lives of Endangered Species by Aglert, Katja; Holmberg, Tora (2016) - As one prominent example of how the book operates, a strong narrative is told about California condors and their relationships by documenting the personal histories of Humanimalia: a journal of human/animal interface studies Volume 8, Number 1 (Spring 2017) 152 individual dead birds. Animals haunt the valleys of the Colorado River, which used to be a haven for condors, humpback chubs, and humans. Keywords: art; book; chub; condors
• Bee Buzz.......: Review of Lisa Jean Moore & Mary Kosut, Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee by Snæbjörnsdóttir, Bryndís (2015) - In “Being with Bees” individual stories of bee and human encounters are accounted for often by bee keepers and carers. It is the result of three years of research in which the authors immersed themselves in numerous bee-related activities, including attending classes on beekeeping and acquiring first-hand experience through negotiating the keeping of bees in a public space, as well as attending to the hives and the bees within them. Keywords: bees; book; buzz; human

• Animal Nullius: Review of Irus Braverman, Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel (UMN, 2023) by Boast, Hannah (2023) - These cases reveal the false separation between humans and na- ture on which Israeli settler ecologies are premised, and the oscil- lation between ruthless “hyperlegalities” and “arbitrary and even Boast, Review of Braverman | 403 Humanimalia 14.1 (2023) whimsical” (174) applications of law through which Israel enacts dis- possession in the name of nature. Scholars in Animal Studies, Environmental History, Settler Colonial Studies, and Political Ecology will recognize the resonances between Israeli environmental practice and settler colonies elsewhere, which Braverman explicitly invokes. Keywords: boast; braverman; conservation; israel; nature; palestine; palestinian; settler
• Enfolding the BioSocial Collective: Ontological Politics in the Evolution of Social Insects by Nimmo, Richie (2018) - It led to a raft of new research exploring how underlying logics of kin relatedness might be the key to diverse forms of social behavior. It follows that there is no genetic calculus which is the universal underlying basis of social behavior, since genes only act Richie Nimmo-- Keywords: bees; collective; evolution; game; genes; human; insects; nature; politics; selection; self; social; theory
• Structures of Experience and Dispositions of Being: Review of Philippe Descola, Beyond Nature and Culture by Granjou, Céline (2014) - We have to acknowledge that our way of knowing the world is only one century old; and we ought to stop using it as a universal standard to judge other peoples. For the Achuar people, most plants and animals have the same kind of intentionality, feelings, social conventions, and soul as human people, and they are able to communicate. Keywords: beings; descola; human; nature; people
• “Riding up forested mountain sides, in wide open spaces, and with walls”: Developing an Ecology of Horse–Human Relationships by Davis, Dona Lee; Maurstad, Anita; Cowles, Sarah (2013) - In this study we focus our attention on different cultures of horsemanship (Patton 87, Wipper 49, 50) among dressage riders, eventers, endurance riders in the Midwest United States, and Icelandic gaited horse riders in north Norway. Comparative analysis of discourse from dressage riders, eventers, endurance riders, and Icelandic gaited horse riders reveal thematic differences that distinguish the practitioners of each sport. Keywords: culture; dona; dressage; endurance; environment; eventing; gaited; horse; human; midwest; narratives; nature; riders; riding; sport; terrain; trail

• Penguinalia: Review of Stephen Martin, Penguin by Acampora, Ralph (2010) - So close do these birds track our spiritual composition that Martin observes “they began to convey messages, not just of life’s lessons but of other aspects of the human relationship to the world” (89). At other (though often linked) times, penguins take on the aspect of comedians or vaudeville characters—e.g., as “entertainers in zoos” (107). Keywords: martin; penguin; world
• Telling Tales in Troubled Times: Review of Donna J. Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Iveson, Richard (2017) - The story as Haraway sees it is that she “rescues” the Cthulhu from Lovecraft in order to make it available for other stories, and marks this liberation from Lovecraft’s patriarchal mode “with the more common spelling of chthonic ones” (174n4). Only with such a change in kind, suggests Haraway, do we become capable of changing the story — aptly described here as “the prick tale of Humans in History” — that has captivated, Richard Iveson – Telling Tales in Troubled Times 187 and kept us captive, for so long. Keywords: chthulucene; haraway; human; living; prick; staying; stories; sympoiesis; tale; trouble; world

• Animal Assistance in Chronic Illness: Review of Fenella Eason, Human–Canine Collaboration in Care: Doing Diabetes by Arathoon, Jamie (2023) - However, Eason makes an interest- ing challenge to the conceptualization of assistance dogs put forward by her participants and wider literature, as she states, “the likelihood that a proportion of canine and human research participants currently consume products manufactured from other animals, who did not choose martyrdom based on a utilitarian maxim, may seem to un- dermine a non-speciesist ethic supporting the kindly, nonexploitative use of assistance animals” (107). To reconceptualize care, Eason draws on what I call a cautious an- thropomorphism of assistance dogs, one that leans on a dogs’ abil- ity to “be like us”. Keywords: care; diabetes; dogs; eason; human
• Inventing Dog Breeds: Jack Russell Terriers by Worboys, Michael (2021) - The story of JRTs demonstrates how dog breeds have been continually co- produced and co-reproduced culturally and materially. In 1867, Walsh edited the first book to set out conformation dog breed standards — The Dogs of the British Islands. Keywords: breed; british; club; conformation; dog; dogs; fox; jack russell; jrts; kennel; parson; recognition; russell; russell terrier; standard; terrier; type; working
• Of Dogs and Dogmen: A History of Greyhound Racing in the United States: Review of Gwyneth Anne Thayer, Going to the Dogs: Greyhound Racing, Animal Activism, and American Popular Culture by Kendall-Morwick, Karalyn (2014) - Bolstered by the introduction of electrically illuminated night-racing in the early 1920s, the efforts of a core group of “dogmen” — an informal term for those involved in “the hands-on work of racing greyhounds” (200n12) — carved out a niche in the expanding American leisure industry. In one of several striking parallels to the anti-dogfighting movement (which Thayer does not discuss), some animal protectionists espoused misgivings about the dogs themselves, echoing long-established perceptions of racing greyhounds as “vicious” menaces (137). Keywords: dogs; greyhound; industry; racing; sport; thayer

• Guest Editors’ Introduction: Horses and Humans by Guest, Kristen; Mattfeld, Monica (2023) - Lynda Birke and Kirrilly Thompson’s (Un)Stable Relations: Horses, Humans and Social Agency (2017), for example, examines iv | Guest Editors’ Introduction Humanimalia 13.2 (2023) equine agency, culture, and perspectives within horse–human af- fective relationships, as does Katherine Dashper’s study of inter- species communication and collaboration in Human–Animal Rela- tionships in Equestrian Sport and Leisure (2017). Dona Lee Davis and Anita Maurstad’s edited collection, The Meaning of Horses: Biosocial Encounters (2016), utilizes a broad ethnographic approach to think about individual development and break down the nature–culture binary at the heart of horse–human relationships past and present. Keywords: equine; horse; questions; relationships; ways
• The Praxis of Horse Riding: An Autoethnographic Study by Zetterqvist Blokhuis, Mari (2018) - Horses and horse riding have been a lifelong passion for me. In the article Language, Power, and the Training of Horses, Patton, however, argues that riders’ rhetoric about dialogue and partnership between rider and horse is somewhat misleading as far as horse training is concerned (90). Keywords: body; darwin; experience; feel; feeling; horse; human; interaction; knowledge; movements; rider; riding
• The Perfection of Horse-Manship: Review of Monica Mattfeld, Becoming Centaur:Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship by Nash, Richard (2017) - As important as these discussions are, they are also inextricably bound up with an equally significant contribution that this work makes to animal studies: thinking through identity performance beyond the species limit. Monica Mattfield’s Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship will be a welcome addition to any library in early modern studies, and a valuable contribution to the fields of Gender Studies and Animal Studies. Keywords: century; horse; mattfield; newcastle; riding

• Servants of Ganesh: Review of Servants of Ganesh: Inside The Elephant Stable, dir. Mark Dugas & Piers Locke by Rothfels, Nigel (2010) - Still other viewers will see this film as part of the dynamic and evolving discussion about the place and significance of captive elephant management, and the ways that elephants and humans do, in fact, Nigel Rothfels — Servants of Ganesh 101 make lives together. Tharu elephant training practices, it is argued, are not the same as techniques used in other elephant range counties, and focus on building a relationship between the human and the animal based in religious ritual, especially practices of placating and appealing to the gods and in particular the Hindu god Ganesh. Keywords: elephant; film; training

• Extinction in the Postcolony: Review of Juno Salazar Parreñas, Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation by O'Key, Dominic (2022) - O’Key, Review of Parreñas Extinction in the Postcolony Dominic O’Key Review of: Juno Salazar Parreñas, Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation. A work of history, ethnography and theoreti- cal intervention based on seventeen months of fieldwork in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, Decolonizing Extinction explores the complicated, precarious, and caring relationships between humans and endan- gered orangutans at two conservation sites. Keywords: conservation; decolonizing; extinction; parreñas
• “Rambunctious Gardening”: Conservation in the Anthropocene: Review of Jamie Lorimer, Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation after Nature by Sands, Danielle (2016) - L I A 8:1 Reviews Danielle Sands “Rambunctious Gardening”: Conservation in the Anthropocene Jamie Lorimer, Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation after Nature. By focusing primarily on the applied value of the Anthropocene as a “necessary shock to environmental thought” (3) with the potential to raise awareness of inter-species entanglements, Lorimer’s “part critique, part manifesto” approach permits little time for philosophical untangling. Keywords: anthropocene; conservation; lorimer

• New York City’s Beloved Owl: Review of Finding Flaco (2024) by Jacqueline Emery and David Lei by May, Talitha (2025) - Email: talithadmay@gmail.com BOOk RevIew http://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.18481 mailto:talithadmay@gmail.com In their large, stunning photography book Finding Flaco: Our Year with New York City’s Beloved Owl, authors and photographers Jacqueline Emery and David Lei chronicle their first-hand, year- long account of following Flaco, a 4.1-pound (1.8 kg) Eurasian ea- gle-owl with a wingspan of over six feet (1.80 m) who escaped from his small enclosure at the Central Park Zoo. Finding Flaco thus evokes a strong sense of place; its vivid photographs and maps re- veal a city recast through an owl’s eye view. Keywords: emery; flaco; lei; new; zoo

• Alterity and the Non-human by Marchesini, Roberto; Sax, Boria (2010) - This is the cleavage between a posthumanist approach to human identity, which integrates other things or qualities, and a humanistic approach, which purges all that is not human. In the humanistic approach, the realization of human identity is interpreted as a process of purification and of separation, the peeling off of extraneous layers of in order to reach an identity at the depth. Keywords: alterity; human; identity; milano; new; non; torino; trans

• More Than Human Dialoguess: Review of Julian Yates, Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast: A Multispecies Impression by Wallen, Martin (2018) - So, the question Yates asks, compelling as it is, still belongs to the “gamut of questions” that Derrida argues align the interlocutors in a dialogue of mimetic subjectivities, even if “subjectivity” is metabolized through a Humanimalia: a journal of human/animal interface studies Volume 10, Number 1 (Fall 2018) 246 post-humanist effort at non-anthropomorphism into an agency of pure growth.3 Yates must exclude such “irreducible heterogeneity” in order to hear the silent call of those he gives voice to. His claim to form a multispecies community through hearing the voices of innocuous beings depends on their ability to reflect his interest, not on their capacity to perform outside his interest, which remains unheard. Keywords: beings; dialogue; human; orange; yates

• Beastly Tales for the Anthropocene: Review of Nayanika Mathur, Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene by Bhattacharjee, Paloma (2023) - By listening to the explanations provided by those people who live in close proximity with big cats, Mathur argues that indetermina- cies unfold within complex socio-political contexts. Doi: 10.52537/humanimalia.12647 http://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.12647 Bhattacharjee, Review of Mathur | 233 Humanimalia 13.2 (2023) Tales”, told among people who live in close quarters with big cats. Keywords: bhattacharjee; cats; mathur; review

• Telling Multispecies Stories from the Anthropocene: Review of Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, Nils Bubandt, eds. Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene by Otjen, Nathaniel (2018) - In short, examining ghosts and monsters helps us establish new arts of living during the Anthropocene. One half of the book Nathaniel Otjen -- Telling Multispecies Stories From the Anthropocene 239 discusses ghosts and the other monsters. Keywords: anthropocene; arts; ghosts; living; monsters; multispecies

• Avian Poetics: Review of Karoliina Lummaa, Kui trittitii! Finnish Avian Poetics by Lönngren, Ann-Sofie (2018) - Against this background, Lummaa argues that Finnish bird poetry (a subgenre of nature poetry) is not only connected to the cultural signification of birds in this context, but also to the physical birds themselves. The last part, “Environments,” is an investigation of the spatial connections between bird poetry and birds. Keywords: birds; lummaa; poetics; poetry

• When Vegans Are Monstrous: Review of Emelia Quinn, Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present by Elliott, Alba S. (2023) - lo’s monstrous veganism thus becomes something of a model for Quinn’s own approach: by focusing on literary scenes not of vio- lence against animals but in which monstrous vegans speak about violence against animals, Quinn practices a form of literary criticism that refuses the spectacle of industrialized farming. She embraces monstrosity and failure in order to create space for the imperfection of vegan identities. Keywords: camp; quinn; reading; vegan; veganism

• Hogritude: Review of Brett Mizelle, Pig by Miller, Alyce (2012) - The only surprise here is that it took so long for the series to get around to “pig,” an animal that makes my own top ten list, and which Mizelle, a professor of history and American studies, describes as being “good to think with” (26) and “structurally and symbolically significant in the making of human society and culture across the globe” (7). Throughout the fast-paced eight chapters that compose this engaging book he does just that, opening with the challenges even of trying to define a pig, given the variety within the species around the globe, tracing the role of pigs as “associate,” food, and symbol, and ending with a call for appreciation of “hogritude: the practical condition and mythical essence of just being a pig” (181). Keywords: mizelle; pig; pigs

• The Cost of Human Exceptionalism: Review of Pamela Newkirk, Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga by Sax, Boria (2015) - After Benga departed from New York, the gap he left was, within a few months, filled by a popular chimpanzee named Baldy, who was constantly mentioned in the newspapers, and, though he did not cause as much controversy, may well have been as big an attraction as the pygmy who preceded him. Benga returned home briefly after the World’s Fair, but once again left with Verner, this time for New York. Keywords: baldy; benga; human; new; york

• Sugarbag Dreaming: The Significance of Bees to Yolngu in Arnhem Land, Australia by Fijn, Natasha (2014) - In contrast, I could find no accounts of Aboriginal Australians bringing bee nests back into a community or camp to be housed in hollow logs to extract honey at a later date.15 One practical reason may be that, in comparison with the honeybee, it is easier to extract stingless bee nests from their natural habitat since, because they are often close to the ground and in small trees, they are more easily accessed. Keywords: arnhem; australia; bees; complex; dreaming; hollow; honey; human; journal; land; nest; significance; stingless; stingless bees; sugarbag; sugarbag dreaming; tree; yolngu

• Questioning the Colonial Imaginary: Review of Michael D. Wise, Producing Predators: Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies by Wynn, Kerry (2019) - Beginning with the first U.S. efforts to colonize the “whoop-up” country, Wise focuses on whiskey and wolves as flashpoints for portrayals of the region, adding an interesting wrinkle to the focus on commodities many historians, such as William Cronon, have trained on other regions. With the focus mostly on wolves, Wise argues that “wolf eradication served its primary purpose not as an economic fix for industrial agriculture but as part of a broader set of environmental and cultural practices that established new social boundaries between predators and producers” (xvi). Keywords: human; predators; u.s; wise

• Welcome Insight into Buddhist Vegetarianism in Sri Lanka: Review of James Stewart, Vegetarianism and Animal Ethics in Contemporary Buddhism by Barstow, Geoffrey (2016) - Not only is it the first academic discussion of Buddhist vegetarianism, but Stewart also treats the topic well, providing a comprehensive look at the social and religious context of a meat-free diet in contemporary Sri Lanka. The fact that Sri Lankan vegetarianism is predominantly lay is, to the best of my knowledge, unique in the Buddhist world (though I would be very interested to know if similar patterns hold in other Theravada countries). Keywords: sri; stewart; vegetarianism

• “Fear of the Crocodile is the Beginning of Wisdom?”: Review of Dan Wylie, Crocodile by Marovich, Beatrice (2015) - In the Kimberley region Wylie finds an origin myth in which crocodiles — attempting to steal the powerful fires that were meant for humans — are eventually gutted and stabbed as a cosmic revenge (121). This connection between crocodiles and the uncanny seems rather coincidental — tucked away, as it is, in the final chapter of this dense little book. Keywords: crocodile; crocodilian; fear; reverence; wylie

Epilogue

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