item: #1 of 150 id: relations-1 author: Andreozzi, Matteo title: Relationships over Entities - Editorial date: 2013-06-26 words: 1617 flesch: 57 summary: These relationships allow life forms to survive and potentially reproduce. Thus, the boundary that separates life and the environment is very blurred: nature is a complex system of life forms, which have co-evolved and co-adapted and we, humans, are all both dependent on and implied by this network of relationships. keywords: life; relationships; story cache: relations-1.pdf plain text: relations-1.txt item: #2 of 150 id: relations-10 author: Bekoff, Marc title: Animal Consciousness and Science Matter: Anthropomorphism Is not Anti-science date: 2013-06-26 words: 3238 flesch: 60 summary: They do not have any agenda other than do the best scientific research they can, and often harm other animals in their efforts to learn more about them. Indeed, in an essay I published in BioScience in 2000 following the pub- lication of The Smile of a Dolphin (Bekoff 2000a) in which numerous dis- tinguished scientists wrote essays about the emotional and conscious lives of the animals they studied I had written about what I called biocentric anthropomorphism, following up on Gordon Burghardt’s notion of criti- cal anthropomorphism, and how we can use science to access the minds of other animals. keywords: animals; anthropomorphism; bekoff; consciousness; dawkins; science cache: relations-10.pdf plain text: relations-10.txt item: #3 of 150 id: relations-1072 author: Marchesini, Roberto title: Dialogo Ergo Sum: from a Reflexive Ontology to a Relational Ontology date: 2016-11-17 words: 6035 flesch: 52 summary: Jakob von Uexküll’s Umwelten (1957) are not separate monads, but worlds with significant areas of overlap. Culture, in hindsight, does not emanate from the Plotinian One, but is the result of our copulative creativity: a mimesis that leads us away from the phylogenetic centre of gravity and produces “attraction of worlds”. keywords: animal; dialogue; http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/relations/issue/view/73; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; life; marchesini; means; new; november; press; reality; relations; world cache: relations-1072.pdf plain text: relations-1072.txt item: #4 of 150 id: relations-1073 author: Ferrando, Francesca title: The Party of the Anthropocene: Post-humanism, Environmentalism and the Post-anthropocentric Paradigm Shift date: 2016-11-17 words: 5657 flesch: 59 summary: Let’s kindly, but firmly, explain to them why we need a post-anthropocentric paradigm shift; let’s practice post-anthropocentric behaviours in our daily practices of existence; let’s celebrate together the Party of the post-Anthropocene … 6. A radical response to such an approach is post-humanism which, as Braidotti remarks, brings to the discourse “the idea of subjectivity as an assemblage that includes non-human agents 11 As cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky recalls in The Society of Mind: “Each of the cells of which we’re made, including those inside the brain, requires some chemical energy in the form of food or oxygen” (1985, 283). keywords: anthropocene; anthropocentric; earth; http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/relations/issue/view/73; human; humanism; life; november; party; post; relations; species cache: relations-1073.pdf plain text: relations-1073.txt item: #5 of 150 id: relations-1074 author: Ferrante, Alessandro; Sartori, Daniele title: From Anthropocentrism to Post-humanism in the Educational Debate date: 2016-11-17 words: 8155 flesch: 49 summary: Keywords: post-human pedagogy, post-human education, philosophy of educa- tion, learning theories, Actor-Network Theory, post-humanism, anthropocen- trism, Bruno Latour, Tara Fenwick, humanism, non-human animals. http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Relations/issue/view/73 From Anthropocentrism to Post-humanism in the Educational Debate 179 Relations – 4.2 - November 2016 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ (Mounier [1949] 1964; Acone, Vitale, and De Maio 2013; Martino 2014), it is based on the belief that non-human animals could not educate or be educated, as they resort to instinct in order to survive. keywords: alessandro; animals; anthropocentric; education; ferrante; human; humanism; knowledge; learning; non; pedagogy; post; relations; sartori; theory cache: relations-1074.pdf plain text: relations-1074.txt item: #6 of 150 id: relations-1075 author: Sisto, Davide title: Senseless Distributions: Posthumanist Antidotes to the Mass Hermit date: 2016-11-17 words: 6465 flesch: 43 summary: http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Relations/issue/view/73 Senseless Distributions 197 Relations – 4.2 - November 2016 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ 2. man aS maSS heRmit: technological degeneRationS of anthRopocentRiSm In 1956, when the first volume of The Outdatedness of Human Beings is published, Günther Anders describes – with his typically disenchanted and sarcastic style – the harmful consequences on the relationships between man and world of the widespread diffusion of radio and television in the homes of Western people. If we want to take the relationship between man and world away from the technologically distorted reality where the mass hermit builds his exist- ence, we need to follow the double process of surpassing humanism and rebuilding the self, starting from which the posthumanist theories of our days have developed. keywords: anders; circuit; dissipative; hermit; human; inside; living; man; mass; outside; relationship; world cache: relations-1075.pdf plain text: relations-1075.txt item: #7 of 150 id: relations-1076 author: Lanfranchi, Alessandro title: The Post-human Sound: an Interview with Michelangelo Frammartino date: 2016-11-17 words: 2319 flesch: 54 summary: The most evident feature of Le quattro volte rests in the fact that you leave man aside, creating space not only for non-human animals, but also for vegetation, rocks, coal, and even for the intangible essence of lachri- mae rerum. His great masterpiece, Le quattro volte (The Four Times, 2010), praised by the critics in many festivals, including Cannes, presents a rela- tional, modal and deeply dialogic notion of human identity. keywords: man; quattro; volte cache: relations-1076.pdf plain text: relations-1076.txt item: #8 of 150 id: relations-1077 author: Biuso, Alberto Giovanni title: Against Animal Rights? A Comment on “Contro i diritti degli animali? Proposta per un antispecismo postumanista (Against Animal Right? A Proposal to a Post-human Antispeciesism)”, by Roberto Marchesini date: 2016-11-17 words: 3029 flesch: 45 summary: The negation of human nature is also articulated by attributing tempo- rality only to homo sapiens as well as describing non-human nature as the realm of the invariable and the same. The inclusion of non-human animals in the human uni- versal is the most speciesist act there can be, even though its discriminative expression is hidden by an obviously and courageously emancipatory inten- tion – the revolutionary implications of these thesis must be acknowledged with frankness” (Marchesini 2014, 101). keywords: animal; animality; human; marchesini; nature; speciesism cache: relations-1077.pdf plain text: relations-1077.txt item: #9 of 150 id: relations-1078 author: Balzano, Angela title: Posthuman Glasses for Nomadic Subjectivities: a Comment on “Il postumanesimo filosofico e le sue alterità (Philosophical Posthumanism and Its Others)”, by Francesca Ferrando date: 2016-11-17 words: 1602 flesch: 42 summary: In feminist practices: we need to say where we came from, including the humanist tradition, and at the same time attempt to understand what we are becoming, including posthuman subjectivities. Posthuman Glasses for Nomadic Subjectivities: a Comment on Il postumanesimo filosofico e le sue alterità (Philosophical Posthumanism and Its Others), by Francesca Ferrando Posthuman Glasses for Nomadic Subjectivities A Comment on Il postumanesimo filosofico e le sue alterità (Philosophical Posthumanism and Its Others), by Francesca Ferrando Angela Balzano Research Fellow, University of Bologna doi: 10.7358/rela-2016-002-balz angela.balzano@unibo.it To read the current development of Posthuman Studies we need new glasses, that is to say a new conceptual framework. keywords: ferrando; posthuman; posthumanism; subjectivities cache: relations-1078.pdf plain text: relations-1078.txt item: #10 of 150 id: relations-1079 author: Gamberi, Valentina title: Zoe in Comic Books: Post-human Poetics in LNRZ date: 2016-11-17 words: 2090 flesch: 58 summary: Though nature can refer to a stable substrate of brute matter, the term has also signaled generativity, fecundity, Isis or Aphrodite, or the “Spring” move- ment of Antonio Vivaldis’ Four Seasons. This new concep- tualisation of the non-human is a direct derivation of the notion of nature as conceived in ancient times. keywords: golem; human; lrnz; matter; nature cache: relations-1079.pdf plain text: relations-1079.txt item: #11 of 150 id: relations-1080 author: Palmieri, Cristina title: Beyond Anthropocentric Humanism. The Potentialities of the Posthuman in Educational Studies date: 2016-11-17 words: 2156 flesch: 34 summary: He radi- cally poses the question of the “order of discourse” required to formulate a thought that is appropriate for contemporary educational experience. The specific materiality that characterizes educational experience radically challenges posthumanism: like any theoretical and paradigmatic perspec- tive, posthumanism cannot be used “as is” to define or resolve the urgent educational themes identified by the author. keywords: education; ferrante; paradigm; posthumanist cache: relations-1080.pdf plain text: relations-1080.txt item: #12 of 150 id: relations-1081 author: Rebuffo, Cristina title: Narrating the Death date: 2016-11-17 words: 2202 flesch: 46 summary: Sisto seems to say, even in the title of the book, that the unique possible structure of a speech about death has a narrative nature. The estrangement of the thought about the death from the contemporary humans’ consciousness has been possible, and it also was considered neces- sary, in a society like ours, thanks to the deep techno-scientific transfor- mations in which that society has its roots; those transformations, in fact, have de-symbolized and de-mythologized both life and death: “[…] the elimination of any symbolic or mythic character from the woven life and death processes – Sisto writes – goes at the same speed with their radical medicalization and professionalization” (138). keywords: death; life; philosophy; sisto cache: relations-1081.pdf plain text: relations-1081.txt item: #13 of 150 id: relations-1082 author: Lanfranchi, Alessandro; Ravanelli, Gianluca title: Anthropology of a Loving Hybridization date: 2016-11-17 words: 1996 flesch: 40 summary: Besides frightening the human protagonists, this ability gets to the point of challenging the very idea of human identity: if we are not the only ones that can experience emotions, and express them through language, how are we different from anthropo- morphic machines? We could define this phenomenon as an apophatic hybridization, that questions the assumptions on which human identity is based: Theodore’s love for Samantha is not a return to an harmonious en kai pan, as we often think that love should be, but it is the beginning of a process of ongoing subtraction that eventually leaves man completely bare, without any prop- erty or characterizing feature. keywords: human; identity; love; theodore cache: relations-1082.pdf plain text: relations-1082.txt item: #14 of 150 id: relations-11 author: Adorni, Eleonora title: Canons of Animal Aesthetics. A Report on the Exhibition Beauté Animale, Grand Palais, Paris, France, March 21st - July 16th, 2012 date: 2013-06-26 words: 1065 flesch: 36 summary: In the third section the central topic was the display of exotic animals which are now specimens, a meeting point of scientific curiosity (animals as species) and voyeuristic gaze (animals as objects). Animals which were taken away from their natural environment to be put in cages and pens, represented ‘models’ for the reification of ‘live nature’ that had the abil- ity to impress and charm both the visitor and the artist with bodies which were very different from ‘normal’ canons of animal beauty that we can see in everyday life. keywords: animals; beauté; exhibition cache: relations-11.pdf plain text: relations-11.txt item: #15 of 150 id: relations-1152 author: Adorni, Eleonora title: Power Feels Before It Thinks. Affect Theory And Critical Animal Studies In Religious Affects by Donovan O. Schaefer date: 2017-06-05 words: 1527 flesch: 45 summary: “Animal religion overturns the sentence of solitary confinement imposed on human bodies by our own anthropocen- tric presuppositions, returning us to other bodies n and in the earth” (211). This is what Derrida defined a “heterogeneous multiplicity of animal bodies”: a jumble of flesh and organs, personalities and emotions, minds, actions and relationships, each with their preroga- tives and priorities. keywords: animals; bodies; human; religion cache: relations-1152.pdf plain text: relations-1152.txt item: #16 of 150 id: relations-1153 author: Mauro, Letterio title: The philosophical origins of vegetarianism. Greek Philosophers and Animal World date: 2017-06-05 words: 6369 flesch: 50 summary: Here Plutarch returns to and clarifies the consid- erations in De esu carnium concerning the unnatural nature of a diet based on animal flesh. This second point, based on the necessity of a religious reformation (because a true god cannot be satisfied with the wholly material cult deriv- ing from animal sacrifice), even if primarily addressing the issue of sacrifice and not of meat-eating, is also clearly linked to a vegetarian stance. keywords: abstinence; animals; eating; flesh; humans; killing; meat; plutarch; porphyry; soul; vegetarianism cache: relations-1153.pdf plain text: relations-1153.txt item: #17 of 150 id: relations-1154 author: Damonte, Marco title: God, the Bible and the Environment. An Historical Excursus on the Relationship between Christian Religion and Ecology date: 2017-06-05 words: 8482 flesch: 58 summary: These two verses in fact include the verbs that characterize the actions prescribed by God to persons in order to regulate their behaviour towards all other creatures. For example, Gregory Nissen (335-395) in On the Creation of Man (18) affirms that in irrational animals we find human features that we have in virtue of our being created in the image and resemblance of God as rage, pleasure, cowardice, arrogance, burning desire to earn, fits of despair for a loss, and so on. keywords: bible; creation; earth; ecology; environment; genesis; god; http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/relations/issue/view/79; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; june; nature; people; power; relations; relationship; white; world cache: relations-1154.pdf plain text: relations-1154.txt item: #18 of 150 id: relations-1155 author: Massaro, Alma title: Respect for intergrity. How Christian animal ethics could inform EU legislation on farm animals date: 2017-06-05 words: 3934 flesch: 50 summary: Overcrowded farms, animals permanently confined, the selection of animal with physical characteristic selected only to answer the market demands are all practices that have det- rimental effects on the health and welfare of animals. Farming is not intended as a relationship between humans – farmers – and animals – farm animals – but is a mere fact of business. keywords: animals; christian; creation; ethics; god; humans; relations; welfare cache: relations-1155.pdf plain text: relations-1155.txt item: #19 of 150 id: relations-1157 author: Baldi, Antonella; Gottardo, Davide title: Livestock production to feed the planet. Animal Protein: A Forecast of Global Demand Over the Next Years date: 2017-06-05 words: 2409 flesch: 41 summary: The demand for animal products will follow the population growth and increase between 50 and 70%, although with differences between all regions. Keywords: population growth, protein requirements, animal products, bioactive components, nutritional safety, welfare, livestock nutrition, environmental im- pact, food waste, insects. keywords: animal; food; growth; increase; livestock; products; protein; welfare cache: relations-1157.pdf plain text: relations-1157.txt item: #20 of 150 id: relations-1158 author: Giannetto, Enrico R. A. Calogero title: Philosophy of Nutrition. A Historical, Existential, Phenomenological Perspective date: 2017-06-05 words: 3285 flesch: 48 summary: Impulse to death ceases to be only related to the end of self-sufferance and can be extroverted to the end of other living animals, it can become an impulse to death of other animals. There are fitting and non-fitting animal life environments: struggle for life and natural selection happen only within environments which are non-fitting for animal life and therefore induce some animals to preying other animals. keywords: animals; beings; life; living; nutrition; preying; violence cache: relations-1158.pdf plain text: relations-1158.txt item: #21 of 150 id: relations-1160 author: Fossati, Paola title: Editorial date: 2017-06-05 words: 1361 flesch: 40 summary: Animal source foods have always been a constituent of human diets. Furthermore, two historical excursus on the relationship between christian religion and animal ethics on one side and ecology on the other side, open a large window on non-human animals as an important element of an integral reading of Christian Scripture. keywords: animal; ethics; food; school; summer cache: relations-1160.pdf plain text: relations-1160.txt item: #22 of 150 id: relations-1164 author: Jayne, Kimberley title: Laboratory and Farm Animal Law. Opportunities for Ending Animal Use date: 2017-11-28 words: 2830 flesch: 37 summary: This includes recognition of concerns about the predictivity of animal testing; acknowledgement of the scepticism of some researchers to move away from animal research; and the potential to improve safety and efficacy testing of chemicals and pharmaceuticals (Innovate UK 2015). One of the main differences between the laboratory and farm animal directives is how they perceive animal use. keywords: animals; directive; european; research; review; use cache: relations-1164.pdf plain text: relations-1164.txt item: #23 of 150 id: relations-12 author: Tiengo, Adele title: Theory, Activism, and the Other Ways: an Interview with Carol J. Adams date: 2013-06-26 words: 4802 flesch: 60 summary: What masculine sports need is a regressive reincorporation of manliness and masculinity through harming other animals, so I think that there is a connection. Veganism started as a political movement and, before we could truly articulate our connections with the food justice movement, locavorism erupted as a safer way of thinking about the world because you don’t have to disturb your relationship with other animals and you can still believe that you are being kind. keywords: activism; animals; meat; people; politics; theory; women cache: relations-12.pdf plain text: relations-12.txt item: #24 of 150 id: relations-1253 author: Bertolesi, Lorenzo title: Victims and responsibility. Restorative justice: a new path for justice towards non-human animals? date: 2017-11-28 words: 5878 flesch: 46 summary: Restorative Justice: a New Path for Justice towards Non-human Animals? 111 Relations – 5.2 - November 2017 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ Victims and Responsibility Restorative Justice: a New Path for Justice towards Non-human Animals? Lorenzo Bertolesi Master Student, University of Milan doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/rela-2017-002-bert lorenzo.bertolesi@studenti.unimi.it AbstrAct In this paper I argue that restorative justice is a prolific and innovative way for reformulating the problem of justice towards non-human animals. Keywords: non-human animals, animal ethics, political theory, justice, Martha Nussbaum, responsibility, restorative justice, domestication, contractarianism, utilitarianism. keywords: animals; contract; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; justice; nussbaum; responsibility; restorative; zagrebelsky cache: relations-1253.pdf plain text: relations-1253.txt item: #25 of 150 id: relations-1254 author: Bertuzzi, Niccolò title: Veganism: Lifestyle or Political Movement? Looking for Relations Beyond Antispeciesism date: 2017-11-28 words: 6738 flesch: 51 summary: Keywords: veganism, social movements, political sociology, antispeciesism, ani- mal rights, animal welfare, animal advocacy, lifestyle, non-human animals, mixed methods. We will refer here to a broader piece of research about Italian animal advocacy that explored, by means of a quali-quantitative approach (Klandermans and Staggenborg 2002; Ayoub, Wallace, and Zepeda-Millán 2014), vari- ous individual and collective characteristics of the subjects of our study. keywords: advocacy; advocates; animal; bertuzzi; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; lifestyle; movement; non; november; research; respondents; rights; social; society; veganism cache: relations-1254.pdf plain text: relations-1254.txt item: #26 of 150 id: relations-1255 author: L’Astorina, Alba; Di Fiore, Monica title: A New Bet for Scientists? Implementing the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) approach in the practices of research institutions date: 2017-11-28 words: 7425 flesch: 38 summary: RRI approach in the making could also question the automatism whereby goals of innovation process are mainly “growth and jobs” (Euro- pean Commission 2013), and innovation and technology innovation coin- cide. RRI: opportunities and challenges The role of EC in the diffusion of RRI concept in the scientific domain has been crucial. keywords: approach; european; framework; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; innovation; july; knowledge; new; november; policy; process; public; research; rri; science; scientists; society cache: relations-1255.pdf plain text: relations-1255.txt item: #27 of 150 id: relations-1256 author: Massaro, Alma title: Wrenn, Corey Lee. 2015. A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 239 pp. € 98,85. ISBN 978-1137434647. date: 2017-11-28 words: 872 flesch: 36 summary: Advocates should be accountable to other animals, not to funding agent. In her book, Wrenn sets up a critic of the current Nonhuman Animal rights movement that she denounces to be: on the one side, compliant with “the state, industry, and elite power and influence founds”; on the other side, based on a series of irrational tactics that prevent, rather than promote, the achievement of animal liberation. keywords: animal; approach cache: relations-1256.pdf plain text: relations-1256.txt item: #28 of 150 id: relations-1257 author: Fürst, Maurizio title: Care and Nutrition: Ethical Issues. Exploring the Moral Nexus between Caring and Eating through Natural History, Anthropology and the Ethics of Care date: 2017-11-28 words: 3137 flesch: 56 summary: The fact that ethologists judge such activities explicative of how animals show altruistic behaviours suggests that the capacities that enable moral care could have emerged in that kind of interactions. The cliché of women as self- less nurturers tends to reinforce the exclusive assignment of care tasks to women. keywords: beings; care; caring; ethics; food; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; nutrition cache: relations-1257.pdf plain text: relations-1257.txt item: #29 of 150 id: relations-1258 author: Chiari, Nicholas title: Food Security. The Challenge of Nutrition in the New Century date: 2017-11-28 words: 5045 flesch: 47 summary: Meat consumption is linearly related to the average income per inhabitant (Speedy 2003): from the examination of the trend of the individual average consumption since 1980, it can be expected, for the next 20 years, a considerable increase in demand for such food in emerging countries, China and India in particular, with annual quantities for individual that will go up to 37 kg of meat and 66 kilograms of dairy products already by 2030, in contrast to what will happen in developed countries where the individual consumption of such products will remain substantially constant (FAO 2002). Individuals in parts of Africa and Asia may not meet their caloric needs if their jobs require manual labor, if they have special health needs, if the food does not reach them, or if the food they receive is less nutritious than other food. keywords: animal; countries; food; health; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; livestock; nutrition; people; population; production; security; world cache: relations-1258.pdf plain text: relations-1258.txt item: #30 of 150 id: relations-13 author: Adorni, Eleonora title: Les Animaux Amoureux. 2007. Directed by Laurent Charbonnier. Edited by Jean-Pierre Bailly. DVD, 81 min. date: 2013-06-26 words: 1353 flesch: 46 summary: The great variety of animal species considered – from the rare New Guineas parotia and the Australian fiddler crab to the European brown frog – shot in their natural environments, constitutes an encyclopedic effort to group together different declinations of being animals and of ‘falling in love’. The film represents an interesting overview of a topic not often tackled by scientists, that is, as the title suggests, the emo- tional sphere of nonhuman animals. keywords: animals; documentary; love; nonhuman cache: relations-13.pdf plain text: relations-13.txt item: #31 of 150 id: relations-1340 author: Rossert, Bertrand Andre title: Ethical Risk and Energy date: 2018-11-27 words: 7962 flesch: 49 summary: There would be benefits therefore, in developing a family of concepts that would all relate to the overall notion of ethical risk, i.e. in building a taxonomy of ethical risks. Ethical deterioration The notion of ethical violation is insufficient to define ethical risk. keywords: choices; component; decision; deterioration; energy; ethics; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; individuals; instance; new; november; risk; situations; violation cache: relations-1340.pdf plain text: relations-1340.txt item: #32 of 150 id: relations-1341 author: Bethem, Jacob title: Life Within Energy Policy date: 2018-07-26 words: 7697 flesch: 50 summary: Life has moral significance which obligates us to avoid unnecessarily taking lives, and this obligation along with a secondary corollary to help life to flourish gives a sense of purpose http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ Life within Energy Policy 75 Relations – 6.1 - June 2018 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ important to creating more sustainable societies. It is also recognized by some philosophers that well-being is often only assessing the individual in a vacuum, neglecting the moral compo- nent of impact to other lives (both human and nonhuman). keywords: case; energy; ethics; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; june; life; lives; navajo; philosophy; plant; policy; public; sustainability; value; way cache: relations-1341.pdf plain text: relations-1341.txt item: #33 of 150 id: relations-1343 author: Ibanga, Diana-Abasi title: Renewable Energy Issues in Africa Contexts date: 2018-07-26 words: 7435 flesch: 52 summary: Renewable Energy Issues in Africa Contexts 117 Relations – 6.1 - June 2018 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ Renewable Energy Issues in Africa Contexts 1 Diana-Abasi Ibanga Centre for Environmental Governance and Resource Management - Nigeria Department of Philosophy, University of Calabar, Cross River State - Nigeria doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/rela-2018-001-iban Ibanga.letters@gmail.com AbstrAct The relationship between energy and ethics is gaining attention in policy rooms around the world. Keywords: energy ethics; braai; environmental ethics; renewable energy; African philosophy; land ethic; diep gesprek; future people; diep ondervraging; energy humanities. keywords: african; braai; energy; ethics; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; issues; june; land; life; nature; people; philosophy; place; principles; space cache: relations-1343.pdf plain text: relations-1343.txt item: #34 of 150 id: relations-1344 author: Dal Gobbo, Alice title: Desiring Ethics: Reflections on Veganism from an Observational Study of Transitions in Everyday Energy Use date: 2018-11-27 words: 8213 flesch: 52 summary: In this article I draw on empirical material from an observational study of everyday energy transitions in order to reflect psychosocially on the potentialities of veganism as an energy ethics of sustainability “beyond anthropocentrism”. Desiring Ethics: Reflections on Veganism from an Observational Study of Transitions in Everyday Energy Use 173 Relations – 6.2 - November 2018 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ Is sn 2 2 8 0 -9 9 5 3 beyond anthropocentrism 1 • January 2013 Inside the Emotional Lives of Non-human Animals A Minding Animals International Utrecht 2012 Pre-conference Event Special Issue (Genoa, Italy, 12-13 May, 2012) Edited by M. Andreozzi, R. Bennison, A. Massaro, S. Tonutti Capabilities Approach and Animal Bioethics • Michele Panzera Animals and our Emotions. keywords: animals; change; desiring; eleonore; energy; ethics; everyday; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; life; mark; november; social; transitions; veganism cache: relations-1344.pdf plain text: relations-1344.txt item: #35 of 150 id: relations-1345 author: Delorme, Damien title: Contesting the Radical Monopoly: a Critical View on the Motorized Culture from a Cyclonaut Perspective date: 2018-11-27 words: 7173 flesch: 51 summary: It also promotes positive transformations of value system that enables an example of a rich experience. As an interlocking network of alternative value systems, these eco-movements broaden the social imagi- nation for how human beings live in and with their environments. keywords: culture; cyclonaut; energy; environment; ethics; experience; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; monopoly; new; november; road; self; space; system; value; way cache: relations-1345.pdf plain text: relations-1345.txt item: #36 of 150 id: relations-1348 author: Vadén, Tere; Salminen, Antti title: Ethics, Nafthism, and the Fossil Subject date: 2018-07-26 words: 6990 flesch: 50 summary: So even Heidegger’s deep ontology of modern understanding of Being is nafthist in that it forgets the role of fossil fuel energy in giving calculative reason its semblance of inevitabil- ity and technology its frightening capacity to function, to work, without failure. And one should not overlook what could be called spiritual or cultural preconditions: not all human groups think that economic growth, modern lifestyles or the use of fossil energy are desirable or even acceptable as parts of human existence. keywords: conditions; energy; ethics; fossil; fuels; growth; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; modernity; nafthism; oil; subject; work cache: relations-1348.pdf plain text: relations-1348.txt item: #37 of 150 id: relations-1367 author: Geerts, Robert Jan title: Beyond Scarcity: Perspectives on Energy Transition date: 2018-07-26 words: 8801 flesch: 53 summary: This is no trivial task, as energy consumption is not usually on our minds. Eco-frugalism is a conscious reduction of energy consumption: http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ Beyond Scarcity 53 Relations – 6.1 - June 2018 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ we need to be aware of what we are doing in order to change our routines, and (the abstention from) energy consumption must be on our minds at all times. keywords: abundance; boundless; consumerism; consumption; eco; energy; good; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; june; life; scarcity; simplicity; transition cache: relations-1367.pdf plain text: relations-1367.txt item: #38 of 150 id: relations-1373 author: Burke, Matthew J title: Mutually-Beneficial Renewable Energy Systems date: 2018-07-26 words: 11479 flesch: 34 summary: Increasing the development of renewable energy systems at the scale and pace envisioned while simultaneously reversing the present crisis of biodi- versity compels a careful appraisal of how these global imperatives can be successfully integrated. Moving beyond common measures to mitigate biological loss, this paper takes a relational view of energy futures, emphasizing and shifting attention toward the role of nonhuman elements of renewable energy systems, to explore opportunities for rethinking renewable energy systems as processes for restoration and healing of human-nature relationships. keywords: approach; areas; benefit; biodiversity; birdlife; conservation; development; ecosystems; energy; energy systems; et al; europe; gasparatos; hernandez; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; june; marine; matthew; nature; new; nonhuman; opportunities; planning; practices; restoration; science; solar; systems; technologies; ucs; use; waste; wind cache: relations-1373.pdf plain text: relations-1373.txt item: #39 of 150 id: relations-1398 author: Aloi, M. Joseph title: Coal Feeds My Family: Subsistence, Energy, and Industry in Central Appalachia date: 2018-11-27 words: 8169 flesch: 54 summary: A contrast is drawn between homesteading’s cul- tivation of life and coal’s energy economy of the dead. In the particular case of Middlesborough, most of these people “were attracted from the farms and ‘hollows’ of the rural region”, so that the change in energy economies was also, for many Appalachians, a change in occupation and in lifestyle (Gaventa 1980, 57). keywords: appalachian; berry; coal; coal economy; coal energy; company; economy; energy; energy economy; family; farm; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; land; life; november; people; work cache: relations-1398.pdf plain text: relations-1398.txt item: #40 of 150 id: relations-1402 author: Ward, Nora title: Environmental Destruction and Modern Forced Labor Practices: A Review of Kevin Bales “Blood and Earth” date: 2018-07-26 words: 2496 flesch: 46 summary: Rather, it is slave hands and slave bodies, forced to destroy their own environments under threat of violence that is respon- sible for much current ecocide. Brick kilns, mines, deforestation from shrimp farming, and charcoal camps add pollutants to the air at an alarming rate, and often, in situations involving slave labor are operated illegally and inefficiently with no or little adherence to environmental standards or regulations. keywords: bales; destruction; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; labor; slavery cache: relations-1402.pdf plain text: relations-1402.txt item: #41 of 150 id: relations-1420 author: Chatti, Deepti title: Cows, Cookstoves, and Climate Change: A Non-Anthropocentric View of Household Energy Use in the Rural Indian Himalayas date: 2018-07-26 words: 2284 flesch: 54 summary: But why is household energy use important to study? Energy studies researchers have attempted to understand the development failures in household energy, and have proposed factors such as expenses, inability of the cooktove to meet local cooking needs, and gender dynamics (Mobarak et al. 2012). keywords: cookstoves; energy; human; use cache: relations-1420.pdf plain text: relations-1420.txt item: #42 of 150 id: relations-1427 author: Biviano, Erin Lothes title: Catholic Energy Ethics: Commitments and Criteria date: 2018-07-26 words: 3736 flesch: 44 summary: The mas- sive impact of human energy use indeed demands moral reflection on the scope of human power. 2. energy deCisions As ethiCAl deCisions Increasingly, discussions of energy decisions in both faith-based and secu- lar settings attend to the ethical dimensions that overlay the economic or technical aspects of energy (Rasmussen 1996, 2011; Sovacool 2013, 2014; CIDCE 2017; Lenferna et al. 2017; AAAS 2018; C2G2 2018). keywords: biviano; catholic; creation; earth; energy; ethics; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; lothes; sacramental cache: relations-1427.pdf plain text: relations-1427.txt item: #43 of 150 id: relations-15 author: Tonutti, Sabrina title: On Others’ Emotions, and Ours. A Reflection on Narratives, Categories, and Heuristic Devices date: 2013-11-13 words: 5545 flesch: 38 summary: Lan- guage, then, is not always a facilitator in the understanding of phenomena among humans, and this fact should remind us of the variety and strange- ness of the languages spoken by other animal species. In his books he presents a series of case studies, repertories and contexts related to the emotional life of some animal species, introduc- ing us to the presence of joy, play, laughter, sense of humor, wonder at the sight of natural phenomena, grief and sadness, maternal love, falling in love, embarrassment, anger, aggression and revenge, empathy, equity, and fair game in other animals (see Bekoff and Goodall 2007; Bekoff and Pierce 2009). keywords: animals; anthropology; culture; emotions; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; humans; individuals; knowledge; phenomena; relations; species cache: relations-15.pdf plain text: relations-15.txt item: #44 of 150 id: relations-1501 author: Frigo, Giovanni title: Energy Ethics: Emerging Perspectives in a Time of Transition date: 2018-07-26 words: 9768 flesch: 48 summary: Advocating for an energy ethics that begins with a risk approach, Rossert affirms that “when energy ethics is as developed as bio- ethics is today, then energy companies will be able to take it into account”, thus leading to a significant improvement of energy ethics in practice. Expanding her pioneering work on energy ethics from a Christian standpoint (2016), Erin Lothes Biviano contributes to this volume with her comment “Catholic Energy Ethics: Commitments and Criteria”. keywords: beings; doi; energy; energy ethics; ethics; frigo; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; issue; june; nature; new; non; paradigm; perspectives; philosophy; press; time; transition; understanding; world; york cache: relations-1501.pdf plain text: relations-1501.txt item: #45 of 150 id: relations-1513 author: VV., AA. title: Table of Contents date: 2018-07-26 words: 336 flesch: 24 summary: B E Y O N D A N T H R O P O C E N T R IS M 1 • 2 0 1 3 R Editorial Energy Ethics: Emerging Perspectives in a Time of Transition 7 Giovanni Frigo StudiES and rESEarch contributionS Ethics, Nafthism, and the Fossil Subject 33 Tere Vadén - Antti Salminen Beyond Scarcity: Perspectives on Energy Transition 49 Robert-Jan Geerts Life within Energy Policy 69 Jacob Bethem Mutually-Beneficial Renewable Energy Systems 87 Matthew J. Burke Renewable Energy Issues in Africa Contexts 117 Diana-Abasi Ibanga commEntS, dEbatES, rEportS and intErviEwS Cows, Cookstoves, and Climate Change: a Non-Anthropocentric 137 View of Household Energy Use in the Rural Indian Himalayas Deepti Chatti http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism, 6.1 - June 2018 5 Relations – 6.1 - June 2018 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ 6.1 June 2018 Energy Ethics: Emerging Perspectives in a Time of Transition Special Issue Edited by Giovanni Frigo Part I Is sn 2 2 8 0 -9 9 5 3 beyond anthropocentrism 1 • January 2013 Inside the Emotional Lives of Non-human Animals A Minding Animals International Utrecht 2012 Pre-conference Event Special Issue (Genoa, Italy, 12-13 May, 2012) Edited by M. Andreozzi, R. Bennison, A. Massaro, S. Tonutti Capabilities Approach and Animal Bioethics • Michele Panzera Animals and our Emotions. keywords: animals; energy; ethics cache: relations-1513.pdf plain text: relations-1513.txt item: #46 of 150 id: relations-16 author: Andreozzi, Matteo title: Humans’ Best Friend? The Ethical Dilemma of Pets date: 2013-11-13 words: 5562 flesch: 51 summary: Because human-centered duties toward companion animals are indi- rectly aimed at other humans, these duties have no resemblance to a moral obligation toward animals. 4. exploRing the animal ethicS dilemma Keith Burgess-Jackson claims that some of the most active defenders of the moral status of animals are afraid to handle the full extent to which humans are responsible to companion animals mainly because these individuals are impartialists (Burgess-Jackson 1998, 171-3). keywords: 1998; animals; companion; dogs; ethics; humans; keeping; pets; status cache: relations-16.pdf plain text: relations-16.txt item: #47 of 150 id: relations-1611 author: Briggle, Adam title: Cherry Picking Coal date: 2018-11-27 words: 2135 flesch: 58 summary: “Ultimately”, he writes, “the http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ Alex Epstein, “A Review of the Moral Case for Fossil Fuels” 333 Relations – 6.2 - November 2018 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ moral case for fossil fuels is not about fossil fuels” (34). His 2014 book, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels (MCFF), is treated like a holy text among the idea makers who both shape and sell the Trump administration’s full-throated embrace of fossil fuels via its agenda of “energy dominance”. keywords: case; energy; epstein; fossil; fuels; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; simon cache: relations-1611.pdf plain text: relations-1611.txt item: #48 of 150 id: relations-1612 author: Battistutta, Federico title: The Energy of Ethics / The Ethics of Energy. A Dialog with Irigaray, Varela and Jullien date: 2018-11-27 words: 3046 flesch: 50 summary: Looking more closely, what we call culture is nothing but the expres- sion of human nature, the result of specific biological and especially cog- nitive capacities that have enabled human animals to gather food, build shelters, orient themselves, socialize, ask questions and give life meaning. Energy Ethics: Emerging Perspectives in a Time of Transition Special Issue Edited by Giovanni Frigo Part II StudieS and ReSeaRch contRibutionS Energy Ethics: a Literature Review 177 Giovanni Frigo Contesting the Radical Monopoly: a Critical View on the Motorized 215 Culture from a Cyclonaut Perspective Damien Delorme keywords: energy; ethics; freud; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; irigaray; jullien; nature; varela cache: relations-1612.pdf plain text: relations-1612.txt item: #49 of 150 id: relations-1613 author: Feltrin, Andrea Natan title: Energy Equality and the Challenges of Population Growth date: 2018-11-27 words: 2904 flesch: 46 summary: Even if contemporary policies, both domestically and internationally, had the duty to deal with an asymmetrical allocation of energy resources worldwide, it wouldn’t be easy to piece together human energy needs for a good standard of living while maintaining fundamental ecological bal- ances. But thinking about biodiversity becomes almost impossible where people have no access to energy resources: no energy means no food, and no food means short-term responsibility. keywords: earth; energy; growth; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; november; population; resources; world cache: relations-1613.pdf plain text: relations-1613.txt item: #50 of 150 id: relations-1615 author: Meinhold, Roman title: Human Energy: Philosophical-Anthropological Presuppositions of Anthropogenic Energy, Movement, and Activity and their Implications for Well-being date: 2018-11-27 words: 5126 flesch: 43 summary: Beyond Anthropocentrism 174 Relations – 6.2 - November 2018 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ commentS, debateS, RepoRtS and inteRviewS Energy Ethics Outside the Box: Carl Mitcham in Conversation 301 with Giovanni Frigo Carl Mitcham - Giovanni Frigo Energy Equality and the Challenges of Population Growth 313 Andrea Natan Feltrin The Energy of Ethics / The Ethics of Energy: a Dialog with Irigaray, 321 Varela and Jullien Federico Battistutta ReviewS Alex Epstein, A Review of the Moral Case for Fossil Fuels (2014) 331 Adam Briggle Author Guidelines 335 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ 287 Relations – 6.2 - November 2018 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ Human Energy Philosophical-Anthropological Presuppositions of Anthropogenic Energy, Movement, and Activity and Their Implication for Well-being Roman Meinhold Mahidol University International College (MUIC), Mahidol University, Bangkok - Thailand doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/rela-2018-002-mein roman.mei@mahidol.edu AbstrAct In this paper I focus on rather neglected considerations regarding human energy, move- ment, and activity, instead of joining the well-developed discourse on sustainable elec- tricity production and moderate energy consumption. http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ mailto:roman.mei@mahidol.edu Roman Meinhold 288 Relations – 6.2 - November 2018 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ 1. introduction In this paper, I focus on philosophic-anthropological considerations of human energy, movement and activity broadly construed. keywords: activities; activity; animals; aristotle; electricity; energy; ethics; health; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; movement; november; paper; plato cache: relations-1615.pdf plain text: relations-1615.txt item: #51 of 150 id: relations-1616 author: Mitcham, Carl; Frigo, Giovanni title: Energy Ethics Outside the Box: Carl Mitcham in Conversation with Giovanni Frigo date: 2018-11-27 words: 5780 flesch: 57 summary: From previous discussions, I know you have been critical of what you see as an often too narrow scope in energy ethics. Let’s begin with your basic claim about the narrowness of energy ethics. keywords: 2018; carl; civilization; energy; ethics; frigo; giovanni; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; mitcham; new; november; philosophy; smil; use cache: relations-1616.pdf plain text: relations-1616.txt item: #52 of 150 id: relations-1617 author: Frigo, Giovanni title: Energy Ethics: a Literature Review date: 2018-11-27 words: 16079 flesch: 48 summary: Beyond Anthropocentrism 174 Relations – 6.2 - November 2018 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ commentS, debateS, RepoRtS and inteRviewS Energy Ethics Outside the Box: Carl Mitcham in Conversation 301 with Giovanni Frigo Carl Mitcham - Giovanni Frigo Energy Equality and the Challenges of Population Growth 313 Andrea Natan Feltrin The Energy of Ethics / The Ethics of Energy: a Dialog with Irigaray, 321 Varela and Jullien Federico Battistutta ReviewS Alex Epstein, A Review of the Moral Case for Fossil Fuels (2014) 331 Adam Briggle Author Guidelines 335 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ 177 Relations – 6.2 - November 2018 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ Energy Ethics A Literature Review Giovanni Frigo Department of Philosophy, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI - USA * doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7358/rela-2018-002-frig giovanni.frigo@nmu.edu AbstrAct This article is intended as a broad review of contributions from the humanities and social sciences to the theme of energy ethics. In their introduction to a recent special issue entitled Exploring the Anthropology of Energy: Ethnography, Energy and Ethics Jessica Smith and Mette High write that Given this conceptual orientation of anthropology, our calling for attention to energy ethics does not involve the scholar making a priori assumptions about what constitutes a good life, a good community, a moral person and the like. keywords: 2017; anthropology; energy; energy ethics; energy justice; energy research; ethics; frigo; giovanni; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; humanities; issues; justice; life; literature; nature; new; november; philosophy; press; research; review; science; smil; social; studies; technology; university; use; work cache: relations-1617.pdf plain text: relations-1617.txt item: #53 of 150 id: relations-17 author: Nicora, Gianfranco; Massaro, Alma title: Human Relationship With Animals Reading the Book of Tobit in the Light of Christian Tradition date: 2013-11-13 words: 4991 flesch: 62 summary: For this reason in the sixth chapter of the Book of Genesis all living beings are killed among with human beings, except those in the care of Noah, the only man who has found favour in 2 Interestingly, they are not surprised at snake’s words, because at the beginning interspecies communication was an ordinary event: even God descends to the Garden in order to talk and walk with human beings. Animals, which did not claim to be like God as other creatures did – some angels and human beings – started a path of suffering, which is yet to end. keywords: animals; beings; book; creation; earth; god; human; relationship; tobit cache: relations-17.pdf plain text: relations-17.txt item: #54 of 150 id: relations-18 author: Penco, Susanna; Ciliberti, Rosagemma title: Ethics for the Living World Alternative Methods and New Strategies for The Protection of Nonhuman Animals date: 2013-11-13 words: 6704 flesch: 44 summary: The authors conducted a series of systematic reviews of animal research relevant to studies in humans in six research areas: corticosteroids for head injury; antifibrinolytics to reduce bleeding; tissue plasminogen activator to reduce death and disability after a stroke; tirilazad for ischaemic stroke; antenatal corticosteroids to reduce lung mor- bidity and death in preterm newborns; and bisphosphonates to increase bone mineral density. Ethics for the Living World: Alternative Methods and New Strategies for the Protection of Nonhuman Animals Ethics for the Living World Alternative Methods and New Strategies for the Protection of Nonhuman Animals Susanna Penco 1 - Rosagemma Ciliberti 2 1 Department of Experimental Medicine (DIMES), University of Genoa, Italy 2 Associate Professor of Bioethics at the Science of Health Department (DISSAL), University of Genoa, Italy doi: 10.7358/rela-2013-002-penc susanna.penco@unige.it rosellaciliberti@yahoo.it abStRact The use of animals in laboratories is a controversial issue involving much dispute between the researchers who support animal experimentation and those who are in favor of its abolishment. keywords: alternative; animals; beings; body; document; doi; donation; ethics; experimentation; experiments; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; living; methods; new; november; research; world cache: relations-18.pdf plain text: relations-18.txt item: #55 of 150 id: relations-20 author: Marchesini, Roberto title: A Re-examination of Epistemological Paradigms Describing Animal Behavior in 8 Points. ‘Animal Consciousness and Science Matter’: a Reply date: 2013-11-13 words: 3370 flesch: 38 summary: paRadigmS adopted to deScRibe animal behavioR Secondly, it is paradoxical that interpretations of animal behavior adopt two paradigms, which have been largely falsified by observatory-experi- mental praxis, that is to say the psycho-energetic approach of classic eth- nology, and the associative approach of behaviorism. Psycho-energetics attempts to explain innate nature via three phases of impulse, starting from an energetic-appetite phase, via behavioral expres- sion to a resting or resolution phase during which it is difficult to elicit the animal’s response. the ‘mechano-moRphic’ model As a first point I wish to emphasise that the choice of the macchinomorpho model to describe and explain nonhuman animal behavior does not comply with any logic of scientific rigor, as we would be encouraged to think, but rather to a philosophical preconception, i.e.: the urge to create a distinc- tion between human beings and other animals. keywords: animal; behavior; consciousness; paradigms; point; species; use cache: relations-20.pdf plain text: relations-20.txt item: #56 of 150 id: relations-2043 author: Zuolo, Federico title: Almost Like Waging War. Tom Regan and the Conditions for Using Violence for the Sake of Animals date: 2020-11-11 words: 6900 flesch: 56 summary: Keywords: absolute pacifism; animal ethics; animal politics; animal rights; animal rights activism; animal rights advocacy; Gandhi; jus ad bellum; Tom Regan; violence. Intervista con Luigi Lombardi Vallauri 95 Francesco Allegri Author Guidelines 99 Relations – 7.1-2 - November 2019 https://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ - Online ISSN 2280-9643 - Print ISSN 2283-3196 https://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ 77 Almost Like Waging War Tom Regan and the Conditions for Using Violence for the Sake of Animals Federico Zuolo Università degli Studi di Genova doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.7358/rela-2019-0102-zuol federico.zuolo@unige.it AbstrAct This paper investigates Tom Regan’s attitude towards violence as a litmus test to under- stand the justifiability of the use of violence in animal rights activists (ARAs). keywords: animals; aras; case; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; issn; november; regan; rights; sake; violence; war cache: relations-2043.pdf plain text: relations-2043.txt item: #57 of 150 id: relations-21 author: Fossati, Paola; Massaro, Alma title: Between Advocacy and Academy. A Report on the MAI2 Conference, Ethics Institute and Faculty of Veterinary Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands - July 3rd – 6th 2012 date: 2013-11-13 words: 2368 flesch: 46 summary: It was quite a challenge to keep up with all the meetings but not an impossible one. Between Advocacy and Academy 81 Relations – 1.2 - November 2013 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ Looking more closely at the parallel sessions again, though all remark- able, it is not possible to comment on them all, however it is worth men- tioning the Animals and Law and the Political Philosophy and the Repre- sentation of Animals in Politics panels where one of the most significant points at issue was the way of representing animal interests in political systems. The risks arising from the omission of animal interests from fundamen- tal policy instruments such as Impact Assessments. keywords: animals; conference; human; interests; utrecht; welfare cache: relations-21.pdf plain text: relations-21.txt item: #58 of 150 id: relations-2115 author: Allegri, Francesco title: Ricordo di Tom Regan. Intervista con Luigi Lombardi Vallauri date: 2020-11-11 words: 1507 flesch: 55 summary: Allora Luigi, parliamo di Tom Regan, a cui è dedicato questo fascicolo speciale di Relations. L’incidenza della lezione gandhiana 61 sul pensiero di Tom Regan Luisella Battaglia keywords: animali; che; con; del; della; diritti; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; issn; non; regan; tom cache: relations-2115.pdf plain text: relations-2115.txt item: #59 of 150 id: relations-2119 author: Morreale, Paola title: Distributive Justice and Animal Welfare date: 2022-02-02 words: 7328 flesch: 51 summary: Keywords: animal ethics; animal welfare; distributive justice; egalitarianism; laboratory animals; prioritarianism; problematic conclusion; utilitarianism; value theory; welfare ethics. Before dealing with the relation between animal welfare and distribu- tive justice, it may be worth to briefly introduce a further clarification. keywords: animal; approach; distributive; ethics; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; issn; justice; life; november; press; species; value; welfare cache: relations-2119.pdf plain text: relations-2119.txt item: #60 of 150 id: relations-2133 author: Allegri, Francesco title: Exploring Non-Anthropocentric Paradigms date: 2020-11-11 words: 2586 flesch: 48 summary: The option of rationalism asserts that moral community is composed only by rational beings or persons. Historically the problem of who possesses moral status, i.e. of the entities that have moral importance as such 1, has been effectively visual- ized with the metaphor of the expanding circle 2. keywords: beings; community; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; issn; non; status cache: relations-2133.pdf plain text: relations-2133.txt item: #61 of 150 id: relations-2173 author: Baricalla, Vilma title: Verso i diritti degli animali. Riflessioni e dibattiti nella storia del pensiero date: 2020-11-11 words: 8949 flesch: 59 summary: L’idea dei diritti degli animali e il riconoscimento di un loro valore intrin- seco ha un retroscena storico-filosofico che – seppur non di rado misco- nosciuto – è tuttavia di grande spessore, in quanto ricco di una pluralità di prospettive. Attraverso l’interpretazione meccanicistica dell’uomo, questa corrente approda così a una visione sostanzialmente paritaria di uomini e animali, soluzione che Cartesio aveva inteso invece scongiurare 4. keywords: agli; alla; anche; animali; animali e; antropocentrica; baricalla; che; ciò; come; con; contro; così; cui; cura; degli; degli animali; dei; della; dell’uomo; dibattito; diritti; e la; essere; essi; hanno; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; ibid; infatti; issn; leibniz; leopardi; loro; l’uomo; milano; mondo; morale; natura; nel; non; november; ogni; online issn; pensiero; più; print; print issn; può; qualità; quanto; questa; ragione; solo; sono; specie; stato; stessa; sua; sulla; suo; tra; tutto; una; uomini; verso; vilma; visione cache: relations-2173.pdf plain text: relations-2173.txt item: #62 of 150 id: relations-2178 author: Allegri, Francesco title: Respect, Inherent Value, Subjects-of-a-Life. Some Reflections on the Key Concepts of Tom Regan’s Animal Ethics date: 2020-11-11 words: 9724 flesch: 52 summary: Its author, Tom Regan, an American philosopher from North Carolina State University, while reaching practical conclusions not dissimilar to those of Singer, justi- fies them on the basis of a different theoretical approach, deontological and of Kantian inspiration, which gives rise to a theory of moral rights (Regan 1975). In order to avoid the defects of perfectionism and utilitarianism, the normative interpretation of formal justice developed by Regan starts from the thesis that a certain type of individual has value in herself, a value that Regan calls inherent to radically differentiate it from the value in itself of states of consciousness, for which the expression “intrinsic value” is more widespread. keywords: animal; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; individuals; issn; life; principle; regan; respect; rights; singer; subjects; theory; value cache: relations-2178.pdf plain text: relations-2178.txt item: #63 of 150 id: relations-22 author: Caffo, Leonardo title: We are Made of Meat. An Interview with Matthew Calarco date: 2013-11-13 words: 2410 flesch: 46 summary: Veganism of the sort I am talking about here needs to go well beyond a change in eating habits and must extend to a reflection on and radical transformation of everything from transportation (think of the massive death, suffering, and habitat fragmentation associated with roadkill, railkill, and airkill), to energy usage (every step of the process of extrac- tion, processing, and end use of fossil fuels and even ‘renewables’ is fraught with harm to animal lives and habitats, not to mention the innumerable harms caused to animals through climate change), to architecture (our cities, towns, and general infrastructures for living are built with very little to no consideration of animal well being) to waste, to our collective use of and impact on water, soil, air, and other aspects of the material world that compose animals’ environments. But what we know – we fellow meaty, embodied beings who practice this sort of veganism – what we know is that animal bodies can be much more than ‘mere’ meat. keywords: animals; human; meat; veganism cache: relations-22.pdf plain text: relations-22.txt item: #64 of 150 id: relations-2212 author: Giannetto, Enrico R. A. Calogero title: Max Scheler e la possibilità di una nuova forma di antispecismo date: 2022-02-02 words: 7204 flesch: 55 summary: E, liberati i fenomeni da queste connotazioni soggettive, è l’amore che ci permette positivamente di cogliere le prospettive di tutti gli altri e, al di là della relatività e della parzialità di tutte le connotazioni soggettive e umane, di aprirci così alle cose stesse nella loro intrinsecità, di partecipare al loro essere nell’unione amorosa con esse: l’amore ci permette di cogliere anche gli altri nella loro totalità (al di là delle differenze di etnia, di genere, di cultura e di specie), al di là delle loro pulsioni e delle loro azioni egocentriche e antropocen- triche o biocentriche negative, come possibili soggetti etici d’amore. Max Scheler e la possibilità di una nuova forma di antispecismo 5 Is sn 2 2 8 0 -9 9 5 3 beyond anthropocentrism 1 • January 2013 Inside the Emotional Lives of Non-human Animals A Minding Animals International Utrecht 2012 Pre-conference Event Special Issue (Genoa, Italy, 12-13 May, 2012) keywords: agostino; alla; altri; amore; anche; come; con; cose; cui; cuore; cura; dei; del; della; di una; dio; e la; essere; etica; fenomenologia; filosofia; forma; gli; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; issn; loro; l’amore; max; milano; mondo; nel; non; november; nuova; più; print; prospettiva; può; questa; scheler; solo; sono; sua; trad; tutto; una; valore; vita cache: relations-2212.pdf plain text: relations-2212.txt item: #65 of 150 id: relations-2244 author: Allegri, Francesco title: The Importance of Tom Regan for Animal Ethics date: 2020-11-11 words: 1460 flesch: 38 summary: As Cochrane writes, The theories of Peter Singer and Tom Regan has been the most influential contributions to animal ethics: Animal Liberation and The Case for Animal Rights have provided a reference point for all subsequent scholarly works on debates about our obligations to nonhuman animals. Then a presentation and an evaluation of the theoretical framework with which Regan believes he can justify his innovative positions in terms of animal ethics. keywords: animal; ethics; issn; regan; tom cache: relations-2244.pdf plain text: relations-2244.txt item: #66 of 150 id: relations-2245 author: Battaglia, Luisella title: Animalismo e non violenza. L’incidenza della lezione gandhiana sul pensiero di Tom Regan date: 2020-11-11 words: 6943 flesch: 47 summary: Ecco il tema fondamentale su cui Regan insi- ste più volte nella sua intervista: Ho speso gran parte della mia vita a difendere i diritti umani, specie dei soggetti più deboli, come i bambini, e di coloro che non hanno potere. Viene evidenziato quello che è forse il massimo problema nel nostro rapporto col mondo non umano: la considerazione dell’alterità animale, la difficoltà per noi di riconoscerla e di rispettarla evitando due attitu- dini perennemente in agguato: la reificazione e l’antropomorfizzazione. keywords: alla; anche; animali; animalismo; battaglia; che; ciò; come; con; cui; degli; dei; della; diritti; essere; etica; gandhi; giustizia; gli; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; issn; loro; luisella; nel; non; nonviolenza; november; ogni; online issn; più; print; print issn; quello; regan; rispetto; senso; sia; solo; sono; specie; sperimentazione; sua; tale; tom; tra; tutti; umani; una; valore; violenza; visione; vita cache: relations-2245.pdf plain text: relations-2245.txt item: #67 of 150 id: relations-23 author: Massaro, Alma; Sobbrio, Paola title: Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, And Wear Cows. Melanie Joy, 2011, San Francisco: Conari Press. 216 pp. $ 16.95. ISBN 978-1-57324-505-0 date: 2013-11-13 words: 1131 flesch: 45 summary: In her study Melanie Joy also deals with the breaking down of the same mythology of meat into its constituent elements: that array of more or less rational explanations generally used by those who eat meat in order to validate their choice. Socio-psychological assumptions underpinning the eating of meat are common to the entire Western world and the meat industry in Europe is not unrelated to the M. Joy, “Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows” 95 Relations – 1.2 - November 2013 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ violent practices of its American ‘cousin’. keywords: joy; meat; pigs cache: relations-23.pdf plain text: relations-23.txt item: #68 of 150 id: relations-2371 author: Flower, Alexis title: The Chincoteague Ponies and What It Means To Be Free date: 2022-02-02 words: 6458 flesch: 55 summary: Keywords: breed; Chincoteague ponies; colonialism; culture; ethics; modern myth; slavery; taxidermy; tourism; wild. To offset their high salt intake, Chincoteague ponies drink about twice as much water as horses living in mainland areas, at about 20 gallons per day, making their stomachs swell and appear pregnant (ibid.). keywords: 2019; animals; camagna; chincoteague; chincoteague ponies; cording; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; island; issn; november; ponies; pony; swim; wild cache: relations-2371.pdf plain text: relations-2371.txt item: #69 of 150 id: relations-2419 author: Lankauskaitė, Viktorija title: Beyond the Fairy Tale of The Shape of Water. Reimagining the Creature date: 2022-02-02 words: 7904 flesch: 58 summary: Keywords: acceptance; creature cinema; Guillermo del Toro; image; language; monster films; otherness; Shape of Water; sound; zoomorphism. Stymeist (2009) explores the oppositions present in monster films, Relations – 9.1-2 - November 2021 https://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ - Online ISSN 2280-9643 - Print ISSN 2283-3196 https://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ Beyond the Fairy Tale of “The Shape of Water” 45 where a monster breaking cultural boundaries and being out of place, usually represents “various threats to the integrity of modern life”. keywords: creature; del; del toro; film; guillermo; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; issn; man; monster; november; print; shape; toro; water cache: relations-2419.pdf plain text: relations-2419.txt item: #70 of 150 id: relations-2461 author: Aronsson, Anne; Holm, Fynn; Kaul, Melissa title: Finding Agency in Nonhumans date: 2021-06-07 words: 3701 flesch: 43 summary: Beyond Anthropocentrism, two types of agency are discussed, namely human agency in human-animal relations Relations – 8.1-2 - November 2020 https://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ - Online ISSN 2280-9643 - Print ISSN 2283-3196 https://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ Finding Agency in Nonhumans 9 and nonhuman animal agency. In the final paper, animal agency is evaluated with a focus on liter- ary animals through Thalia Field’s Experimental Animals: A Reality Fic- tion (2016) by Shannon Lambert in an examination of the allocation of agency in terms of literature. keywords: agency; animals; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; issn; multispecies; nonhumans; november; print; war cache: relations-2461.pdf plain text: relations-2461.txt item: #71 of 150 id: relations-2462 author: Aronsson, Anne; Holm, Fynn title: Conceptualizing Robotic Agency. Social Robots in Elder Care in Contemporary Japan date: 2021-06-07 words: 8324 flesch: 52 summary: Therefore, authorities have adopted an agenda of intro- ducing social robots. By exploring human engagement with social robots in the care context, this paper argues that rapid technological advances in the twenty-first century will see robots achieve some level of agency, contributing to human society by carving out unique roles for themselves and by bonding with humans. keywords: agency; aronsson; care; eriko; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; issn; japan; november; online issn; pepper; press; print; print issn; robots; social cache: relations-2462.pdf plain text: relations-2462.txt item: #72 of 150 id: relations-2465 author: Soncco, Ritti title: “Its Hand around My Throat”. The Social Rendering of Borrelia date: 2021-06-07 words: 9048 flesch: 53 summary: Bleakey et al. 2014; Brives 2020; Walker 2020), attributing acting to Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria responsible for Lyme disease, is so deeply ingrained in Lyme disease discourse that it becomes difficult to speak about the illness without engaging with agency. When Lyme disease patients relate their narratives to clinicians, they are routinely told that they are “attention-seeking”, “making it up in their heads”, “addicted to antibiotics”, or will be “sent to a psychologist”. keywords: 2020; agency; bacteria; body; borrelia; disease; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; illness; issn; lyme; lyme disease; medical; morven; november; online issn; patients; print cache: relations-2465.pdf plain text: relations-2465.txt item: #73 of 150 id: relations-2466 author: Schwere, Raphael title: Distributed Skills in Camel Herding. Cooperation in a Human-Animal Relationship in Somaliland date: 2021-06-07 words: 8639 flesch: 54 summary: Therefore, camel herders “do not tend to ‘talk’ to the herd animals, as people converse with pets in Western society”, they do not speak to them “like small children”, thus, they “do not tend to anthropomorphise” (cf. They knew the way, there was no fence hindering them and the herder was out of reach looking for other camels. keywords: agency; animal; camel; cooperation; driving; herder; herding; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; interspecies; issn; november; online issn; press; print; print issn; skills; somaliland; work; xero cache: relations-2466.pdf plain text: relations-2466.txt item: #74 of 150 id: relations-2467 author: Palz, Marius title: A Sea Cow Goes to Court. Extinction and Animal Agency in a Struggle Against Militarism date: 2021-06-07 words: 8104 flesch: 53 summary: According to experts, these sounds are most likely dugong calls (Okinawa bōeikyoku 2020, 11). Based on Eduardo Kohn’s anthropology beyond the human and his thoughts on life as a semiotic process the article explores the entanglements between dugongs and people. keywords: construction; court; cultural; dugong; extinction; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; issn; japan; life; november; okinawa; online issn; print issn; process; sea; signs; species cache: relations-2467.pdf plain text: relations-2467.txt item: #75 of 150 id: relations-2468 author: Papacharalampous, Nafsika title: Is Skrei a Historical Norwegian Figure? The Nomadic Symbiosis of Fish and Humans in the Lofoten Islands date: 2021-06-07 words: 8293 flesch: 57 summary: In present-day Lofoten, the lives of the islanders are still entangled with skrei, as communities of fishermen congregate in the area. Reflecting on the inclusion of skrei in the local world, it becomes clear that skrei has always been part of the Lofoten society; it was a society of humans, and skrei. keywords: agency; animals; fish; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; identity; islanders; islands; issn; lofoten; new; norway; norwegian; november; print; skrei cache: relations-2468.pdf plain text: relations-2468.txt item: #76 of 150 id: relations-2469 author: Lambert, Shannon title: “Agents of Description”. Animals, Affect, and Care in Thalia Field’s Experimental Animals: A Reality Fiction (2016) date: 2021-06-07 words: 8786 flesch: 48 summary: Through their affective power, her descriptions attune readers to animal bodies, encouraging them to see glimmers of animals’ affec- tive power even in scientific excerpts like Claude’s above. In part two, I explored the ways in which detached observation is troubled by haptic descriptions of animal bodies. keywords: affect; animals; body; care; claude; description; empathy; ethics; fanny; fiction; field; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; issn; nonhuman; november; print; readers cache: relations-2469.pdf plain text: relations-2469.txt item: #77 of 150 id: relations-2470 author: Allegri, Francesco title: On Midgley and Scruton. Some Limits of a Too Moderate Animal Ethics date: 2021-06-07 words: 3384 flesch: 60 summary: On Midgley and Scruton: Some Limits of a Too Moderate Animal Ethics 5 Is sn 2 2 8 0 -9 9 5 3 beyond anthropocentrism 1 • January 2013 Inside the Emotional Lives of Non-human Animals A Minding Animals International Utrecht 2012 Pre-conference Event Special Issue (Genoa, Italy, 12-13 May, 2012) He believes that we have obliga- tions towards non-human animals, because there are sources of morality, such as virtue (which, however, seems to bring into play only indirect reasons), sympathy and respect, that require them. keywords: animals; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; issn; midgley; scruton; singer; species cache: relations-2470.pdf plain text: relations-2470.txt item: #78 of 150 id: relations-2607 author: Jalagania, Beka title: Pigs vs. Boars. The Ethics of Assisting Domesticated and Wild Animals date: 2022-02-02 words: 8150 flesch: 52 summary: Keywords: animal ethics; domesticated animals; domestication; duties of assis- tance; laissez-faire intuition; partiality; special relationships; vulnerability and dependence; wild animals; wild animal suffering. The Unfinished Journey 111 Paola Fossati Author Guidelines 123 Relations – 9.1-2 - November 2021 https://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ - Online ISSN 2280-9643 - Print ISSN 2283-3196 https://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ 9 Pigs vs. Boars The Ethics of Assisting Domesticated and Wild Animals 1 Beka Jalagania Universität Mannheim doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.7358/rela-2021-0102-jala beka.jalagania@gmail.com AbstrAct Among animal ethicists who accept that we have positive duties toward wild animals, there are some who maintain that these duties are considerably weaker than the duties we have toward domesticated animals, other things being equal. keywords: animals; duties; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; individuals; issn; november; relationships; view; wild cache: relations-2607.pdf plain text: relations-2607.txt item: #79 of 150 id: relations-27 author: Wrenn, Corey Lee title: Fifty Shades of Oppression: Unexamined Sexualized Violence against Women and Other Animals date: 2014-06-16 words: 1739 flesch: 68 summary: The body parts of chicken (breast, leg, thigh) are often applied to that of human women, and human women are often called “birds”, “chicks”, “chickens”, or “hens” (Dunayer 1995). Recipe titles continue this theme with labels like “Popped-Cherry Pullet”, “Extra-Virgin Chicken”, “Please Don’t Stop Chicken”, “Jerked around Chicken”, “Mustard Spanked Chicken”, “Cream-Slicked Chick”, “Chile-Lashed Fricassee”, “Skewered Chicken”, “Steamy White Meat”, “Bacon Bound Wings”, “Dripping Thighs”, “Thighs Spread Wide”, “Chicken Thighs Stirred Up and Fried Hard”, “Red Cheeks”, “Pound Me Tender”, and “Hog-Tied Porked Chicken”. keywords: animals; chicken; fowler; shades; women cache: relations-27.pdf plain text: relations-27.txt item: #80 of 150 id: relations-2753 author: Pulkki, Jani; Keto, Sami title: Ecosocial Autonomy as an Educational Ideal date: 2023-01-23 words: 7067 flesch: 49 summary: Our formulation of ecosocial autonomy is an extension of relational autonomy – based mainly on ecological, ecosocial, and ecofeminist ideas. Whereas the individualist idea of autonomy suggests a human being owes nothing to society, ecosocial autonomy acknowledges the need to cultivate aspects of self-sufficiency that combine reason, emotional maturity, and will. keywords: autonomy; beings; december; doi; ecosocial; education; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; individual; issn; jani; nature; print; pulkki; self; society; thinking cache: relations-2753.pdf plain text: relations-2753.txt item: #81 of 150 id: relations-2786 author: Allegri, Francesco title: Unitarianism or Hierarchical Approach for Moral Status? A Very Subtle Difference date: 2022-02-02 words: 8303 flesch: 53 summary: Unitarians prefer to speak of equal moral status. Does giving equal consideration to the equal interests of all sentient beings mean giving them equal moral status? keywords: animals; beings; consideration; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; interests; issn; life; status cache: relations-2786.pdf plain text: relations-2786.txt item: #82 of 150 id: relations-2787 author: Fossati, Paola title: Animals and Justice. The Unfinished Journey date: 2022-02-02 words: 5088 flesch: 51 summary: Relations – 9.1-2 - November 2021 https://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ - Online ISSN 2280-9643 - Print ISSN 2283-3196 https://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ Animals and Justice 119 The path of inclusion of animal protection in the Constitution must also be seen in conjunction with the step taken by the European Union with the inclusion of the concept of animal as a sentient being in Arti- cle 13 of the TFEU, which, albeit with many limitations, legally binds Member States to pay full regard to animals’ welfare requirements, as sentient beings. For example, what about animal rights? keywords: animals; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; issn; justice; law; new; non; november; print; protection; rights cache: relations-2787.pdf plain text: relations-2787.txt item: #83 of 150 id: relations-28 author: De Giorgio, Francesco; Schoorl, Jose title: The spontaneous horse date: 2014-06-16 words: 976 flesch: 42 summary: In our society horses live too often in social isolation, so they can’t express themselves through social behaviour and this is something that by now we all know (even if most horses continue to live that way). Social behaviours are subtle, small gestures and often not much visible behaviours that have an important cohesive function for a herd. keywords: behaviour; horse cache: relations-28.pdf plain text: relations-28.txt item: #84 of 150 id: relations-2846 author: Celentano, Marco; Martinelli, Dario title: Ethology of the Freed Animal. Concept, Paradigm and Implementations to the Moral Status of Non-Human Animals date: 2022-07-13 words: 7920 flesch: 37 summary: Since human behavior and cognition share significant roots with the behavior and cognition of other species, any argumentation on sharp behavioral or cogni- tive boundaries between humans and other animals is controversial at least, and any attempt to define human uniqueness by identifying given capacities is at least misleading when it comes to establishing a moral status of NH animals. Rather, EFA consists of a comparative study of NH animals that are removed from a condition of captivity, from the status of “living tool” of human beings and from any form of exploitation – instead relocated in an environment fairly appropriate to their species- specific and individual characteristics. keywords: animal; anthropization; condition; efa; ethology; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; issn; june; life; online issn; print; print issn; study cache: relations-2846.pdf plain text: relations-2846.txt item: #85 of 150 id: relations-2852 author: Mueller, Nico Dario title: Korsgaard’s Duties towards Animals: Two Difficulties date: 2022-07-13 words: 7856 flesch: 58 summary: What is more, arguing that animals are autonomous implies that animals have moral duties, not just moral claims. It is a version of the view that Kantian duties regarding animals take us further than Kant stated – moderate conservatism wrapped in progressive vocabulary. keywords: animals; beings; claims; duties; ethics; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; issn; kant; kantian; korsgaard; view cache: relations-2852.pdf plain text: relations-2852.txt item: #86 of 150 id: relations-2879 author: Andreozzi, Matteo title: Immanuel Kant e l’etica ambientale. Tre proposte per rivisitare (e una per riattualizzare) la morale kantiana date: 2023-01-23 words: 8679 flesch: 50 summary: dubbio una forma di vita estremamente complessa, dotata di linguaggio e di un alto livello di coscienza, ma queste caratteristiche rappresentano soltanto il suo “specifico” modo di accoppiarsi all’ambiente: le altre forme di vita, semplicemente, non ne hanno avuto bisogno o non hanno avuto necessità di una simile complessità per adattarsi al proprio ambiente. Ciò non significa, però, che l’uomo possa piegare legittima- mente al proprio incondizionato volere gli animali e gli enti di natura: keywords: alla; altri; ambientale; anche; andreozzi; animali; animali non; che; ciò; come; con; cose; cui; dal; december; degli; dei; della; doveri; enti; essere; filosofo; fini; gli; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; immanuel; issn; kant; kantiana; korsgaard; loro; l’etica; morale; natura; nei; non; non umani; non è; online issn; persone; più; print; print issn; propria; quanto; questo; ragione; sia; solo; soltanto; sono; tra; umani; una; verso; vita cache: relations-2879.pdf plain text: relations-2879.txt item: #87 of 150 id: relations-2881 author: Andreozzi, Matteo title: Il dilemma etico dei pet. Tra bestie, animali e persone date: 2022-07-13 words: 5192 flesch: 48 summary: Sebbene lo status di pet implichi che il proprietario dell’animale pro- vi affetto verso di esso, non è infatti per nulla scontato che il pet provi o debba provare affetto verso il suo proprietario. In riferimento agli animali, quest’ultimo genere di doveri positivi si fonda su tre differenti speciali tipologie di responsabilità relazionali: quella che le comunità umane hanno nei confronti degli ani- mali con cui si sono co-evolute, all’interno di un’unica grande “comunità mista” (Midgley 1983); quella che le società umane hanno nei confronti degli animali che, a causa della stessa attività umana, vivono in particolari condizioni “non naturali” di vulnerabilità e dipendenza (Palmer 2010); e quella che i possessori di animali hanno nei confronti degli “animali che accolgono volontariamente nelle proprie vite – precisamente perché essi decidono di accoglierli nelle proprie vite” (Burgess-Jackson 1998, 161). keywords: altri; anche; animali; animalista; cani; che; come; compagnia; con; cui; degli; dei; della; dilemma; essere; ethics; etico; gatti; gli; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; infatti; issn; june; loro; morale; non; pet; più; print; quella; questi; sia; sono; status; tra; umani; una cache: relations-2881.pdf plain text: relations-2881.txt item: #88 of 150 id: relations-2930 author: Allegri, Francesco title: Vegetarianism and Veganism from a Moral Point of View date: 2022-07-13 words: 3266 flesch: 57 summary: Korsgaard’s Duties towards Animals: Two Difficulties 9 Nico Müller Ethology of the Freed Animal: Concept, Paradigm 27 and Implementations to the Moral Status of Non-Human Animals Marco Celentano - Dario Martinelli Il dilemma etico dei pet: tra bestie, animali e persone 47 Matteo Andreozzi Being There: If the Pairing of the Birdwatchers Affects the Pairing 59 of the Birds Evangelina W. Uskoković - Theo W. Uskoković - Vuk Uskoković commentS, debateS, RepoRtS and inteRviewS Vegetarianism and Veganism from a Moral Point of View 85 Francesco Allegri Author Guidelines 93 Relations – 10.1 - June 2022 https://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ - Online ISSN 2280-9643 - Print ISSN 2283-3196 https://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ https://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ Relations – 10.1 - June 2022 https://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ - Online ISSN 2280-9643 - Print ISSN 2283-3196 https://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ 85 Vegetarianism and Veganism from a Moral Point of View Francesco Allegri Università degli Studi di Siena doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.7358/rela-2022-01-alle allegri2@unisi.it The topic of the morality of a vegetarian or vegan diet continues to be at the center of the debate in food ethics and animal ethics. Kim Stallwood The Emotional Lives of Animals: a Christian Perspective • Alma Massaro – Gianfranco Nicora Animalia: Ontology and Ethics in Weak Antispeciesism • Leonardo Caffo The Contemporary Debate on Experimentation • Susanna Penco – Rosagemma Ciliberti Non-human Animals and Genetic Engineering • Arianna Ferrari The Relationship between Humans and Other Animals in European Animal Welfare Legislation • Paola Sobbrio Human’s Best Friends? keywords: animals; ethics; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; issn; life; singer; vegetarianism cache: relations-2930.pdf plain text: relations-2930.txt item: #89 of 150 id: relations-3183 author: Almassi, Ben title: What We Owe Owls. Nonideal Relationality among Fellow Creatures in the Old Growth Forest date: 2023-01-23 words: 5596 flesch: 52 summary: Furthermore, if there are other viable ways to fulfill our duties of assis- tance to spotted owls without killing barred owls, this approach will unequivocally reject the latter as an unforced and indefensible rights violation. 2.2. With trained wildlife biologists as shooters, adult barred owls with younglings are avoided and spotted owls are not mistakenly, needlessly shot and killed (Diller et al. 2014, 3), yet the total number of barred owls killed far exceeds the number of spotted owls saved. keywords: animal; december; fish; habitat; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; issn; owls; print; rights; wildlife cache: relations-3183.pdf plain text: relations-3183.txt item: #90 of 150 id: relations-3201 author: Murray, Jessica title: The “Cruel Absurdity” of Human Violence and Its Consequences. A Vegan Studies Analysis of a Pandemic Novel date: 2023-01-23 words: 7316 flesch: 46 summary: In a useful overview of the origins of Vegan Studies as a unique disciplinary stance, Laura Wright (2021, 7) explains that is it necessary “to situate it as at once informed by and divergent from the field of animal studies, which is in itself multi- faceted, consisting of critical animal studies, human-animal studies, and posthumanism”. Kim Stallwood The Emotional Lives of Animals: a Christian Perspective • Alma Massaro – Gianfranco Nicora Animalia: Ontology and Ethics in Weak Antispeciesism • Leonardo Caffo The Contemporary Debate on Experimentation • Susanna Penco – Rosagemma Ciliberti Non-human Animals and Genetic Engineering • Arianna Ferrari The Relationship between Humans and Other Animals in European Animal Welfare Legislation • Paola Sobbrio Human’s Best Friends? keywords: animals; december; food; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; issn; kate; online issn; print issn; studies; vegan; vegan studies; veganism; violence cache: relations-3201.pdf plain text: relations-3201.txt item: #91 of 150 id: relations-3232 author: Bala, Moumita; Singh, Smriti title: Duality of Abuse and Care. Empathy in Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants date: 2023-01-23 words: 7091 flesch: 48 summary: Animals are valued by feminist care approach of animal ethics in all of their heteroge- neity, including the unequal power dynamics in human-animal relation- ships where animals are primarily employed as resources (Donovan and Adams 2007; Gruen 2015). Kim Stallwood The Emotional Lives of Animals: a Christian Perspective • Alma Massaro – Gianfranco Nicora Animalia: Ontology and Ethics in Weak Antispeciesism • Leonardo Caffo The Contemporary Debate on Experimentation • Susanna Penco – Rosagemma Ciliberti Non-human Animals and Genetic Engineering • Arianna Ferrari The Relationship between Humans and Other Animals in European Animal Welfare Legislation • Paola Sobbrio Human’s Best Friends? keywords: abuse; animals; august; care; circus; elephant; empathy; gruen; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; issn; jacob; novel; print; rosie cache: relations-3232.pdf plain text: relations-3232.txt item: #92 of 150 id: relations-4 author: Bennison, Rod title: Commendation of the Special Edition of Relations Dedicated to The Emotional Lives of Animals - Foreword date: 2013-06-26 words: 655 flesch: 39 summary: Minding Animals Patron, Professor Emeritus, Marc Bekoff, headlined The Emotional Lives of Animals, and I hear that, as usual, provided both a thought-provoking and controversial set of arguments as to why humans must consider other animals when they think about the greater environ- ment. It struck me how little of the content of the confer- ence was dedicated to a consideration of nonhuman animals. keywords: animals; conference cache: relations-4.pdf plain text: relations-4.txt item: #93 of 150 id: relations-402 author: Sonzogni, Valentina title: A Pig Doesn't Make the Revolution date: 2014-11-11 words: 1965 flesch: 49 summary: The care- fully planned and organized killing of billions of non-human animals for food industry, fashion and science (among other purposes) is enough of a reason to set animal liberation at the top of the agenda. From a theoretical point of view, Caffo restates the priority of the non-human animal: “[…] accepting that ours is a struggle not for people and not even also for people, but only for non-human animals, and that the face of a weeping pig alone matters more than all the dreams of man- kind” (Caffo 2013, 75). keywords: animal; antispeciesism; caffo; non; pig cache: relations-402.pdf plain text: relations-402.txt item: #94 of 150 id: relations-4052 author: Allegri, Francesco title: Is There a Moral Problem in Predation? date: 2023-01-23 words: 4052 flesch: 52 summary: Reflection on the problem of animal suffering has for some decades now led to the questioning of human practices and habits such as inten- sive farming, experimentation using animals, the circus, the zoo, etc. Francesco Allegri Università degli Studi di Siena doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.7358/rela-2022-02-allf allegri2@unisi.it One of the topics that is receiving increasing attention in the field of animal ethics is the question of the suffering of animals in nature due to predation. keywords: animals; ethics; https://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; intervention; issn; predation; problem; suffering cache: relations-4052.pdf plain text: relations-4052.txt item: #95 of 150 id: relations-5 author: Stallwood, Kim title: Animals Are Our Relations - Preface date: 2013-06-26 words: 1049 flesch: 44 summary: As someone who has been personally committed to animal rights since 1974 and worked professionally in the animal rights movement in the UK and USA since 1976, I was taken aback by his comment. Only then we will be able to see how animal rights is not in competition with human rights as they are essentially one and the same. keywords: animals; human; relations cache: relations-5.pdf plain text: relations-5.txt item: #96 of 150 id: relations-565 author: Wrenn, Corey Lee title: Skeptics and ‘The White Stuff’: Promotion of Cows’ Milk and Other Nonhuman Animal Products in the Skeptic Community as Normative Whiteness date: 2017-06-05 words: 3315 flesch: 52 summary: Dairy (and other nonhuman animal products for that matter) has been linked to obesity, atherosclerosis, cancer, diabetes (Robbins 1998; Marsh et al. 2012) resistance to antibiotics (Oliver, Murinda, and Jayarao 2011), and even osteoporosis and bone fractures (Cumming and Klineberg 1994; Feskanich et al. 1997). Promoting nonhuman animal breast milk and casting doubt on the health- fulness or utility of veganism positions anthropocentric European white 2 keywords: animal; brown; cows; dairy; health; journal; milk; study; stuff; white cache: relations-565.pdf plain text: relations-565.txt item: #97 of 150 id: relations-6 author: Massaro, Alma; Tonutti, Sabrina title: The Emotional Lives of Animals: a Comparison between Researchers and Disciplines - Introduction date: 2013-06-26 words: 1482 flesch: 38 summary: The essays offer examples of the intersection of scientific attitudes and ethical concerns toward nonhuman animals. In fact, as they show, animal experimentation is still controversial since it is not clear if nonhuman animals are good models for humans. keywords: animals; bekoff; lives; relations cache: relations-6.pdf plain text: relations-6.txt item: #98 of 150 id: relations-658 author: Creed, Barbara title: Animal Deaths on Screen: Film & Ethics date: 2014-06-16 words: 7649 flesch: 64 summary: It will argue that while some individual filmmakers have attempted to represent animal death ethically, this topic remains largely unexamined in theoretical writings on the cinema. This paper will suggest that the spectator frequently seeks ways to displace fears about the death process onto the animal and images of animal death. keywords: animal; animal death; balthazar; cinema; creaturely; death; film; franju; gaze; human; moment; relations; representation; screen; topsy cache: relations-658.pdf plain text: relations-658.txt item: #99 of 150 id: relations-659 author: Garlick, Steve; Austen, Rosemary title: Learning about the emotional lives of kangaroos, cognitive justice and environmental sustainability date: 2014-06-16 words: 6539 flesch: 44 summary: It was also suggested that such contextual under- standings about wild animal knowledge could be generalised through the learning concept of the ecoversity. This is a different, more effective and more ethical way of gathering information about wild animal emotion than the usual laboratory reward- stimulation tests carried out on animals. keywords: animal; care; ecoversity; emotion; environment; garlick; human; kangaroos; knowledge; learning; relations; sustainability; wildlife cache: relations-659.pdf plain text: relations-659.txt item: #100 of 150 id: relations-660 author: Schwalm, Tanja title: Captivating Creatures: Zoos, Marketing, and the Commercial Success of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi date: 2014-06-16 words: 4416 flesch: 58 summary: As Randy Malamud comments: “The zoo’s forte is its construction of zoogoers as paramount, masters of all they survey, and zoo animals as subalterns” (Malamud 1998, 58). At the same time, despite the best efforts of zoo landscapers and architects to render the confining structures of the zoo invisible, to replace bars and cages – sometimes  – with moats and hedges or immersion exhibits, people are increasingly aware that zoo animals are deprived of freedom, space and the stimuli a natural habitat would provide. keywords: animals; good; life; martel; novel; studies; yann; zoos cache: relations-660.pdf plain text: relations-660.txt item: #101 of 150 id: relations-661 author: Heiter, Susanne title: Mind the gap! Musicians challenging limits of birdsong knowledge date: 2014-06-16 words: 4376 flesch: 61 summary: An additional level of commentary can be identified within the book’s aim to summarise research results concerning bird song from scientific publications as well as personal communication with various researchers. Such limitations are acknowledged even by academically legitimated experts, like Donald Kroodsma, who is introduced as “recently retired from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, […] one of the world experts on the complex- ity of bird song” (Rothenberg 2005b, 105): “Kroodsma admits that after forty years of serious work on birdsongs, we know very little about why some of them are so enigmatic and complex. keywords: bird; clarinet; george; june; kurt; lyrebird; music; müller; rothenberg; schwitters; song; ursonate cache: relations-661.pdf plain text: relations-661.txt item: #102 of 150 id: relations-662 author: Le Bot, Jean-Michel title: A clinical perspective on ‘theory of mind’, empathy and altruism: the hypothesis of somasia date: 2014-06-16 words: 7400 flesch: 60 summary: We shall also attempt to suggest other possible observations based on clinical observations of human beings. When seen in the light of other observations, this experiment clearly makes it possible to con- clude that “chimpanzees understand knowledge-ignorance, but not false belief” (Call and Tomasello 2008, 191). keywords: ability; chimpanzees; empathy; food; jean; mind; relations; situation; theory cache: relations-662.pdf plain text: relations-662.txt item: #103 of 150 id: relations-663 author: Massaro, Alma title: Antispeciesisms date: 2014-06-16 words: 903 flesch: 35 summary: Caffo urged, therefore, for people to recognize the moral impli- cations of animal exploitation, without considering the usefulness of these misuses – a point, as we will see, also stressed by Sobbrio in her session. Despite the specific nature of the issues and personal views in question it is evident that the entire workshop provided the opportunity to reconsider antispeciesism as a unique move- ment which strives for the liberation of animals from contemporary human exploitation. keywords: animal; antispeciesism; italy cache: relations-663.pdf plain text: relations-663.txt item: #104 of 150 id: relations-664 author: Sebastian, Marcel title: The Challenges of Technoscience for Critical animal studies date: 2014-06-16 words: 944 flesch: 31 summary: The Challenges of Technoscience for Critical Animal Studies The Challenges of Technoscience for Critical Animal Studies A Report on the 3rd European Conference for Critical Animal Studies, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, November 28th-30th, 2013 Marcel Sebastian PhD Student, University of Hamburg doi: 10.7358/rela-2014-001-seba marcel.sebastian@posteo.de From the 28th to 30th of November, the 3rd European Conference for Criti- cal Animal Studies was held at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis. The contents of the different streams stand quite representative of the wide range of topics that are covered by the field of Critical Animal The Challenges of Technoscience for Critical Animal Studies 121 Relations – 2.1 - June 2014 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ Studies. keywords: animal; discussion; studies cache: relations-664.pdf plain text: relations-664.txt item: #105 of 150 id: relations-665 author: Ullrich, Jessica title: On dolphin personhood date: 2014-06-16 words: 3824 flesch: 68 summary: Since then we have learned a lot: for example, the signature whistle is developed in the first months of life and is originally based on the signature whistle of the mother; dolphins uses the signature whistles to introduce themselves if they are approaching another groups in the wild; dolphins call to each other, and recent research has shown that they remember the signature whistle from other dolphins even decades later. I was inter- ested in the self-motivated behavior of dolphins towards human swim- mers. keywords: animals; dolphins; human; rights cache: relations-665.pdf plain text: relations-665.txt item: #106 of 150 id: relations-666 author: Adorni, Eleonora title: The Inspiring Journey of SIUA through Animal Lives date: 2014-11-11 words: 1095 flesch: 35 summary: As a matter of fact, Marchesini proposes to throw aside the three traditional explanatory paradigms still in use to interpret animal behavior – behaviorism, classical ethology and cognitivism – in favor of a single model which combines the mentalistic and cognitive-relational approaches able to explain any behav- ior, from the simplest to the most complex one. First of all, to look at animal behavior through this interpretative lens means that the subject needs a goal in order to learn. keywords: animal; behavior; marchesini cache: relations-666.pdf plain text: relations-666.txt item: #107 of 150 id: relations-667 author: Nicora, Gianfranco; Massaro, Alma title: Animal Theology date: 2014-11-11 words: 1551 flesch: 64 summary: In fact we must not forget that the human-animal relationship is twofold: on one hand there are the animals of affection, companion ani- mals, and poetry animals; on the other hand there are animals of use, to put it plainly, exploited animals. GN-AM: On several occasions in the Bible we are given evidence of the direct relationship existing between God and animals. keywords: animals; creation; god cache: relations-667.pdf plain text: relations-667.txt item: #108 of 150 id: relations-669 author: Kaarlenkaski, Taija title: Of Cows and Women: Gendered Human-Animal Relationships in Finnish Agriculture date: 2014-11-11 words: 7835 flesch: 61 summary: Of Cows and Women 17 Relations – 2.2 - November 2014 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ Although children could transgress the gendered boundaries of work, and boys could also help their mothers in cattle tending, it was girls who were instructed to milk cows: the skill was passed on from mothers to daughters (see also Thorsen 1986, 139-40). As historian Janken Myrdal has justly pointed out: “There is no biological determination to say that women are more suited than men to milking cows and processing dairy products” (Myrdal 2008, 64). keywords: 2008; animal; cattle; competition; cows; division; gender; material; milking; narratives; relations; tending; women; work; writing cache: relations-669.pdf plain text: relations-669.txt item: #109 of 150 id: relations-670 author: Ullrich, Jessica title: Animal Music date: 2014-11-11 words: 5826 flesch: 63 summary: My main interest is in exploring the cultural history of animal music: how has animal music influenced human music, and vice versa? How did you come to animal music? DM: For me, it was the result of an attempt to combine two major inter- ests of mine: music and nonhuman animals. keywords: animal; david; human; music; research; work cache: relations-670.pdf plain text: relations-670.txt item: #110 of 150 id: relations-671 author: MacDonald, Juliet title: Alpha: the Figure in the Cage date: 2014-11-11 words: 7346 flesch: 50 summary: In this article, drawings by nonhuman animals, particularly primates, are discussed as evidence that the activity is not essentially or exclusively human. During this time she has never been directly rewarded for drawing, and it is quite evident that the activity does not involve social rewards. keywords: alpha; animal; cage; chimpanzee; drawing; experiment; figure; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; marks; morris; relations; report; schiller; yerkes cache: relations-671.pdf plain text: relations-671.txt item: #111 of 150 id: relations-672 author: Massaro, Alma title: The Living in Lucretius’ De rerum natura. Animals’ ataraxia and Humans’ Distress date: 2014-11-11 words: 6349 flesch: 55 summary: In telling the history of human life, Lucretius explains that human beings, in their primitive state, led a lonely and wild life, bound to the law of survival of the fittest (V 988-1010). In the first part of my paper I will briefly focus on the poet’s own Epicureanism while, in the second part, I will address two notable passages of Lucretius’ poem – those of Iphigenia’s sacrifice and of the bereaved cow – where it emerges both the guilt of human beings, who are compromised by an impious religion (“religio”), and the correct devotion (the true “pietas”) of animals to the laws of nature. keywords: animals; beings; human; life; living; lucretius; nature; pacts; poet cache: relations-672.pdf plain text: relations-672.txt item: #112 of 150 id: relations-673 author: O’Sullivan, Siobhan; Creed, Barbara; Gray, Jenny title: “Low down Dirty Rat”: Popular and Moral Responses to Possums and Rats in Melbourne date: 2014-11-11 words: 8526 flesch: 62 summary: Killing rats may be promoted as necessary to stop plague proportions of a potentially dangerous animal. While it may be nec- essary to reduce rat numbers, the methods of killing rats seems to be unnec- essarily brutal and rats enjoy little protection from significant suffering. keywords: animals; australian; culture; disease; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; killing; melbourne; november; o’sullivan; pain; people; possums; rats; relations; species; suffering cache: relations-673.pdf plain text: relations-673.txt item: #113 of 150 id: relations-674 author: Ratamäki, Outi title: Animal Perceptions in Animal Transport Regulations in the EU and in Finland date: 2014-11-11 words: 7306 flesch: 52 summary: If reflected against the multidisciplinary character of the discussion sur- rounding animal welfare and sentience described at the beginning of this article, the regulation on animal transport offers a very narrow under- standing of science. The Council regulation provides a reason for the regulation: “For reasons of animal welfare”. keywords: analysis; animal; animal transport; animal welfare; council; european; press; regulation; relations; science; suffering; transport; transportation; welfare cache: relations-674.pdf plain text: relations-674.txt item: #114 of 150 id: relations-675 author: Tsitas, Evelyn title: Boundary Transgressions: the Human-Animal Chimera in Science Fiction date: 2014-11-11 words: 6827 flesch: 54 summary: Biotechnology is now advanced to the point where ethical concerns about the personhood of human animal chimeras are being seriously debated. Prendick is preoccupied with understanding what distinguishes human life from animal life. keywords: animal; boundary; chimera; fiction; haraway; heart; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; november; relations; science; scientist; species; trope cache: relations-675.pdf plain text: relations-675.txt item: #115 of 150 id: relations-676 author: Bennison, Rod; Massaro, Alma; Ullrich, Jessica title: Minding Animals date: 2014-06-16 words: 1904 flesch: 38 summary: Minding Animals Minding Animals Editorial Rod Bennison 1 - Alma Massaro 2 - Jessica Ullrich 3 1 Independent Scholar, Founder and CEO of Minding Animals International 2 PhD, University of Genoa 3 PhD, University of Lueneburg mindinganimals@gmail.com almamassaro@gmail.com JesMarUllrich@t-online.de In this and subsequent issue of Relations you will find twelve papers first presented at the second Minding Animals Conference held in July, 2012, in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Minding Animals 9 Relations – 2.1 - June 2014 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ The deep bond connecting animal care to human care is well presented by Stephen Blakeway. keywords: animal; conference; human; issue; papers; relations cache: relations-676.pdf plain text: relations-676.txt item: #116 of 150 id: relations-7 author: Panzera, Michele title: Sickness and Abnormal Behaviors as Indicators of Animal Suffering date: 2013-06-26 words: 3368 flesch: 47 summary: Keywords: Bioethics, animal welfare, sentient, feelings, behavior, allostasis, stress, depression, cytokines, sickness behavior. 2. thE adaPtivE rESPonSE oF StrESS Scientific analysis of animal welfare have used a wide range of indicators as proxy measures of an animal’s wellbeing (Broom and Johnson 1993; Squires 2003; Webster 2005). keywords: animal; behavior; brain; cytokines; doi; indicators; stress; system; welfare cache: relations-7.pdf plain text: relations-7.txt item: #117 of 150 id: relations-742 author: McCorry, Seán title: A Bestiary in Five Fingers date: 2014-11-11 words: 1561 flesch: 44 summary: The recognition of the plurality of animal lives and animal perspectives militates against the blinkered mono-perspectivism of humanist philosophy which seeks to “isolate just one of the infinitely many understandings of the world and accord it transcendental status” (p. 105). This disappearing animal trick erases the specificity of animal lives, and relegates animals to philosophical beasts of burden. keywords: animal; human; tyler cache: relations-742.pdf plain text: relations-742.txt item: #118 of 150 id: relations-8 author: Sobbrio, Paola title: The Relationship between Humans and Other Animals in European Animal Welfare Legislation date: 2013-06-26 words: 5605 flesch: 39 summary: The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) adopted this definition of animal welfare: Animal welfare means how an animal is coping with the conditions in which it lives. This recognition spurred the creation of regulations that provide for the protection and promotion of animal welfare. keywords: animal welfare; animals; council; council directive; directive; european; legislation; protection; union; welfare cache: relations-8.pdf plain text: relations-8.txt item: #119 of 150 id: relations-816 author: Faria, Catia; Paez, Eze title: Animals in Need: the Problem of Wild Animal Suffering and Intervention in Nature date: 2015-05-11 words: 3063 flesch: 49 summary: Such is the case of wild animal suffering and inter- vention in nature. The second issue of the volume opens with a paper from Brian Tomasik about the importance of wild animal suffering. keywords: animals; intervention; nature; suffering; wild cache: relations-816.pdf plain text: relations-816.txt item: #120 of 150 id: relations-817 author: Paez, Eze title: Intuitions Gone Astray: between Implausibility and Speciesism. ‘The Predation and Procreation Problems’: a Reply date: 2015-05-11 words: 2887 flesch: 57 summary: Sometimes, the interests of sentient beings will outweigh the value of biodiversity. Thus, even on Bruers’ account, it is possible to prevent the overwhelming majority of sentient beings from living lives of net negative well-being by paying the price of the loss in biodiversity produced by reprogramming predators. keywords: biodiversity; bruers; predation cache: relations-817.pdf plain text: relations-817.txt item: #121 of 150 id: relations-818 author: Bruers, Stijn title: The Predation and Procreation Problems: Persistent Intuitions Gone Wild date: 2015-05-11 words: 2878 flesch: 50 summary: What if scientists discover that insects are sentient beings? In other words, if (a) a suf- ficiently large group of sentient beings became by (b) an evolutionary pro- cess (c) dependent for their survival on harmful behavior, they are allowed to perform that behavior for survival. keywords: biodiversity; predation; principle; procreation; value cache: relations-818.pdf plain text: relations-818.txt item: #122 of 150 id: relations-819 author: Faria, Catia title: Making a Difference on Behalf of Animals Living in the Wild: Interview with Jeff McMahan date: 2015-05-11 words: 1655 flesch: 59 summary: http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Relations/issue/view/56 Making a Difference on Behalf of Animals Living in the Wild 83 Relations – 3.1 - June 2015 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ CF: While in your work on wild animal suffering you have focused on the question of predation, these animals suffer also from many other causes, such as disease, starvation, weather conditions, parasitism, etc. But, if animal suffering matters and that is the basis of our reason not to cause animal suffering, then it seems that animal suffering that is caused not by us but by other conditions is also bad and there must, therefore, also be a reason why it should be prevented if at all possible. keywords: animals; people; suffering cache: relations-819.pdf plain text: relations-819.txt item: #123 of 150 id: relations-820 author: McKelvie, Leah title: Seeking to Increase Awareness of Speciesism and Its Impact on All Animals: a Report on ‘Animal Ethics’ date: 2015-05-11 words: 1459 flesch: 45 summary: Wild animals who survive for any length of time face many threats. For example, vaccination programs for wild animals under threat of disease have been carried out for decades, providing wild populations with immunity to diseases such as polio, measles, and rabies. keywords: animals; ethics; speciesism cache: relations-820.pdf plain text: relations-820.txt item: #124 of 150 id: relations-821 author: Mannino, Adriano title: Humanitarian Intervention in Nature: Crucial Questions and Probable Answers date: 2015-05-11 words: 5005 flesch: 44 summary: It is not clear when the blurred line between the two is being crossed (if we http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Relations/issue/view/56 Adriano Mannino 114 Relations – 3.1 - June 2015 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ have a prima facie obligation to protect one “prey animal”, then the same obligation presumably applies to the next, and so on); nor is it at all clear that systematic human intervention cannot empirically be the much lesser evil for wilderness animals in terms of their degree of autonomy. When we think of wilderness animals, we tend to imagine cases of ani- mals that may have decently autonomous, long and happy lives. keywords: animals; donaldson; help; intervention; kymlicka; nature; question; wilderness cache: relations-821.pdf plain text: relations-821.txt item: #125 of 150 id: relations-822 author: Mosquera, Julia title: The Harm They Inflict When Values Conflict: Why Diversity Does not Matter date: 2015-05-11 words: 5648 flesch: 50 summary: As it does not seem pos- sible to guarantee this hypothesis at the moment, diversity policies such as the ones discussed in this paper should be abandoned. The killing of massive numbers of individuals – normally members of an invasive spe- cies – is justified by referring to the modification of the previous state of natural diversity that they have disturbed. keywords: animals; diversity; individuals; nature; species; suffering; value cache: relations-822.pdf plain text: relations-822.txt item: #126 of 150 id: relations-823 author: Cunha, Luciano Carlos title: If Natural Entities Have Intrinsic Value, Should We Then Abstain from Helping Animals Who Are Victims of Natural Processes? date: 2015-05-11 words: 5478 flesch: 51 summary: Here, I will respond to a possible objection to this conclusion: that if non-sentient natural entities have intrinsic value, then our axiological evaluation of the situation of animals in nature must imply either that helping animals in nature is prohibited or that our reasons for helping them are considerably weak. What this means is that that outcome is the best in a certain respect, that is, the one concerning the value of non-sentient natural entities. keywords: animals; beings; entities; sentient; value cache: relations-823.pdf plain text: relations-823.txt item: #127 of 150 id: relations-824 author: Torres, Mikel title: The Case for Intervention in Nature on Behalf of Animals: a Critical Review of the Main Arguments against Intervention date: 2015-05-11 words: 7591 flesch: 50 summary: This way, while human hunt would be immoral (because humans are normally moral agents), animal predation would not pose any moral problem (because animals are not moral agents). However, we may have good reasons to see them as morally important, especially if we do not exclusively tie moral value to the subjective psychological experi- ences of individuals. keywords: agents; animals; argument; consideration; ethics; intervention; nature; predation cache: relations-824.pdf plain text: relations-824.txt item: #128 of 150 id: relations-825 author: Horta, Oscar title: The Problem of Evil in Nature: Evolutionary Bases of the Prevalence of Disvalue date: 2015-05-11 words: 7315 flesch: 62 summary: Sections 5 and 6 will argue that we should reject the views which claim that animal suffering is not something worthy of moral attention. According to this view, if the total amount of animal suffering existing in nature were less than the total amount of positive wellbeing present in it, the balance would be positive overall. keywords: animals; beings; death; disvalue; nature; oxford; problem; relations; suffering; wellbeing cache: relations-825.pdf plain text: relations-825.txt item: #129 of 150 id: relations-880 author: Tomasik, Brian title: The Importance of Wild-Animal Suffering date: 2015-11-02 words: 8046 flesch: 51 summary: Keywords: wild animal suffering, natural harms, population dynamics, predation, death, intervention in nature, sentience, ecology, terraforming, unforeseen con- sequences. We should also promote concern for wild animals and challenge environmentalist assumptions among activists, academics, and other sympathetic groups. keywords: animal suffering; animals; death; http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/relations/issue/view/57; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; humans; life; lives; nature; november; pain; section; species; suffering; time; tomasik; welfare; wild cache: relations-880.pdf plain text: relations-880.txt item: #130 of 150 id: relations-881 author: Pearce, David title: A Welfare State for Elephants? A Case Study of Compassionate Stewardship date: 2015-11-02 words: 4616 flesch: 51 summary: In the long run, humans will have to choose the overall level and demographic profile of elephant populations in our wildlife parks, or otherwise let Nature (i.e. famine and malnutrition-related deaths) take its course. A Welfare State for Elephants? keywords: african; calf; elephants; http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/relations/issue/view/57; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; human; living; november; relations; species; state; stewardship; welfare cache: relations-881.pdf plain text: relations-881.txt item: #131 of 150 id: relations-882 author: Paez, Eze title: Refusing Help and Inflicting Harm. A Critique of the Environmentalist View date: 2015-11-02 words: 6048 flesch: 48 summary: Certainly, other sentient beings (be they human or not) are proper objects of feelings such as sympathy or benevolence because they have a well-being of their own. The majority of wild animals are, like most humans, sentient beings. keywords: animals; individuals; nature; reasons; species; value cache: relations-882.pdf plain text: relations-882.txt item: #132 of 150 id: relations-883 author: Sözmen, Beril title: Relations and Moral Obligations towards Other Animals date: 2015-11-02 words: 7118 flesch: 46 summary: Relations and Moral Obligations towards Other Animals Relations and Moral Obligations towards Other Animals Beril Sözmen Faculty Member, Istanbul Technical University doi: 10.7358/rela-2015-002-sozm beril.sozmen@googlemail.com abStRact Relational accounts acknowledge and emphasise the intersubjective nature of selfhood and argue that focusing solely on the capacities of animals cannot account for all moral obligations towards them. I argue that the debate about the nature and scope of our relational duties towards other animals can profit from the relational ethics of Martin Buber and Emmanuel Levinas. keywords: animals; buber; duties; ethics; levinas; life; obligations; relations cache: relations-883.pdf plain text: relations-883.txt item: #133 of 150 id: relations-884 author: Carpendale, Max title: Welfare Biology as an Extension of Biology. Interview with Yew-Kwang Ng date: 2015-11-02 words: 2548 flesch: 57 summary: True, there are biologists, phi- losophers and others who are interested in animal welfare. Moreover, this was an important gap not only academically, but more importantly, practically and morally, since it is obviously related to animal welfare. keywords: animals; biology; suffering; welfare cache: relations-884.pdf plain text: relations-884.txt item: #134 of 150 id: relations-885 author: Palmer, Clare title: Against the View That We Are Normally Required to Assist Wild Animals date: 2015-11-02 words: 3283 flesch: 44 summary: It defends, instead, a non-interventionist view in the sense that intervention in wild nature to relieve wild animal suffering, or otherwise to assist wild animals, is not required, although it may be permissible. It is possible, however, that some kind of rule-consequentialism, or Harean two-level utilitarianism (see Varner 2011) could propose a set of rules on which at least some interventions to relieve wild animal suffering would be impermissible, on the grounds that there is at least a good chance that their expected consequences would increase animal suffering. keywords: animals; human; suffering; view; wild cache: relations-885.pdf plain text: relations-885.txt item: #135 of 150 id: relations-886 author: Faria, Catia title: Disentangling Obligations of Assistance. A Reply to Clare Palmer’s “Against the View That We Are Usually Required to Assist Wild Animals” date: 2015-11-02 words: 3219 flesch: 53 summary: This thesis relies on two premises: (i) we are morally required to assist others in need if, and only if, we have a prior morally-relevant entanglement with them; (ii) usually, there are no such morally-relevant entanglements between human beings and wild animals. Since human beings and wild animals usually do not maintain these morally relevant relationships, helping them is merely permitted, as opposed to morally required. keywords: animals; human; obligations; wild cache: relations-886.pdf plain text: relations-886.txt item: #136 of 150 id: relations-887 author: Dorado, Daniel title: Ethical Interventions in the Wild. An Annotated Bibliography date: 2015-11-02 words: 7387 flesch: 39 summary: He concludes that we must aspire to understand more about animal suffering, so that we are able to alleviate the suffering of wild animals in the future. He addresses three objections to the view that we have positive duties to free-roaming nonhuman animals, and responds to the predation objection to animal rights. keywords: animals; doi; ethics; http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/relations/issue/view/57; http://www.ledonline.it/relations/; moral; nature; nonhuman; november; paper; predation; relations; rights; suffering; welfare; wild cache: relations-887.pdf plain text: relations-887.txt item: #137 of 150 id: relations-9 author: Stallwood, Kim title: The Politics of Animal Rights Advocacy date: 2013-06-26 words: 4310 flesch: 50 summary: Pres- ently, animal rights is primarily framed as an optional lifestyle choice. Keywords: Advocacy, animal rights, industrial complex, lifestyle, moral crusade, otherness, policy, social movement, strategy, vegan. keywords: animal; animal rights; complex; movement; politics; press; public; rights; rights movement; social cache: relations-9.pdf plain text: relations-9.txt item: #138 of 150 id: relations-916 author: Zagaria, Danilo title: Animal: Narrator but Never Main Character date: 2016-11-17 words: 1510 flesch: 64 summary: The focus of the story are the terrible actions that men sometimes do to other men, especially during wars, like the Sabra and http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Relations/issue/view/73 Wajdi Mouawad, “Anima” 251 Relations – 4.2 - November 2016 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ Shatila massacre – the killing of thousands of civilians, mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shiites, during the Lebanese Civil War in 1982 – an histori- cal event which plays an important part in the book’s plot. Authors should avoid the use of animals to tell stories about men, they should add some distance between their new way of seeing things and the old methods, like the ending lines of Animal Farm: “The creatures outside looked from http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Relations/issue/view/73 Danilo Zagaria 252 Relations – 4.2 - November 2016 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to men again; but already it was impossible to say which was which” (Orwell 1945, 118). keywords: animals; men; mouawad; plato cache: relations-916.pdf plain text: relations-916.txt item: #139 of 150 id: relations-988 author: Iovino, Serenella; Marchesini, Roberto; Adorni, Eleonora title: Past the Human: Narrative Ontologies and Ontological Stories date: 2016-06-27 words: 758 flesch: 31 summary: The editors (Serenella mailto:serenella.iovino@unito.it mailto:estero@siua.it mailto:eleonora.adorni@gmail.com http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Relations/issue/view/72 Serenella Iovino - Roberto Marchesini - Eleonora Adorni 8 Relations – 4.1 - June 2016 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ Io vi no, Roberto Marchesini and Eleonora Adorni) chose it because it highlights how there are no rigid dimensions, autonomous fields of knowledge or reassuring horizons in the “posthuman house”. The editors, Roberto Marchesini and Eleonora Adorni (respectively director and researcher of the Study Centre of Posthuman Philosophy, Bologna, Italy), have collected contributions written by young and promis- ing scholars who, from different perspectives, use the “posthuman labora- tory” in order to explore new research fields of knowledge such as ecol- ogy, philosophy and pedagogy. keywords: marchesini; past; posthuman cache: relations-988.pdf plain text: relations-988.txt item: #140 of 150 id: relations-989 author: Iovino, Serenella title: Posthumanism in Literature and Ecocriticism date: 2016-06-27 words: 4173 flesch: 44 summary: As Jeffrey Cohen writes, “the project of posthuman ecocriticism is to attend to animal, water, stone, forest, and world – and not to deny force, thought, agency, emergence or thriving to any of these entities, all of which act, all of which are story-producing” (Cohen forthcoming, n.p.). Combining the perspectives of the new mate- rialisms and posthumanism, her essay proposes posthuman ecocriticism as an engaged and “diffractive” mode of reading the co-evolution of organ- isms and inorganic matter in their hybrid configurations. keywords: ecocriticism; iovino; literature; material; new; oppermann; posthuman; posthumanism; relations; serenella; world cache: relations-989.pdf plain text: relations-989.txt item: #141 of 150 id: relations-990 author: Oppermann, Serpil title: From Posthumanism to Posthuman Ecocriticim date: 2016-06-27 words: 6297 flesch: 43 summary: In doing so, posthuman ecocriticism expands and enhances material ecocritical visions and includes such material agencies as biophotons, nanoelements, and intelligent machines that are expressively agentic, story-filled, efficacious, and co-emergent with homo sapiens. Such questions are pertinent for the apprehen- sion of posthuman ecocriticism that offers immersion in previously uncharted territories as a post-human structure within which to think about human/nonhuman/inhuman natures. keywords: ecocriticism; forms; http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/relations/issue/view/72; humans; life; material; matter; new; oppermann; posthuman; posthumanism; press; relations; university cache: relations-990.pdf plain text: relations-990.txt item: #142 of 150 id: relations-991 author: Sullivan, Heather I. title: Threatening Animals? date: 2016-06-27 words: 6484 flesch: 57 summary: Threatening Animals? Threatening Animals? Heather I. Sullivan Professor of German, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas doi: 10.7358/rela-2016-001-sull hsulliva@trinity.edu abStract Threatening predators and pernicious beasts continue to play significant roles in the human imaginary even as human threats to other species increase exponentially in the age of Anthro- pocene. Furthermore, acknowledging both our bodily materiality and our inevitable cohabitation with urban animals might bringer greater attention to our joint occupation with other species of all places. keywords: animal; anthropocene; berlin; boars; goethe; http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/relations/issue/view/72; human; kafka; lion; relations; species; stifter; threat; wolves cache: relations-991.pdf plain text: relations-991.txt item: #143 of 150 id: relations-992 author: Carretero González, Margarita title: The Posthuman that Could Have Been: Mary Shelley’s Creature date: 2016-06-27 words: 5397 flesch: 55 summary: Victor Frankenstein is barely alive when he is rescued – in fact, he does not make it to the end of the novel – but the Creature had been seen effortlessly guiding the dogs that drew his sledge, all of them seemingly http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Relations/issue/view/72 The Posthuman that Could Have Been 57 Relations – 4.1 - June 2016 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ in good health, while Frankenstein’s had all but one perished. 1. frankEnStEin’S drEam of thE poSthuman Popular culture has simplified the ethical issues explored in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) to such an extent that the story has often been reduced to “a mixture of gothic melodrama and black farce” (Holmes 2008, 335), with Victor Frankenstein as the archetypical mad, evil scientist, and the Creature as the robotic, zombie-like being whose strength and fury have to be kept under control, if not destroyed. keywords: creature; face; frankenstein; human; mary; novel; posthuman; shelley; species; victor cache: relations-992.pdf plain text: relations-992.txt item: #144 of 150 id: relations-993 author: Amberson, Deborah; Past, Elena title: Gadda’s Pasticciaccio and the Knotted Posthuman Household date: 2016-06-27 words: 6878 flesch: 51 summary: Yet, Gadda does not overlook the pain occasioned by the temporal limits and the vulnerability of human life. Instead, the Crocchiapani residence helps uncover a “dirty” nonhuman universe, where alongside the tragedy http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Relations/issue/view/72 Deborah Amberson - Elena Past 76 Relations – 4.1 - June 2016 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ of individual human death, we find a form of decomposition that actively recomposes the landscape (as it nourishes literary composition). keywords: assunta; death; gadda; house; household; http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/relations/issue/view/72; human; june; material; pasticciaccio; posthuman; relations; stone; subject; time cache: relations-993.pdf plain text: relations-993.txt item: #145 of 150 id: relations-994 author: Villanueva Romero, Diana title: Posthuman Spaces of Relation: Literary Responses to the Species Boundary in Primate Literature date: 2016-06-27 words: 6216 flesch: 54 summary: This is why in this article it will be argued that animal literature is a necessary step in the evolution of the humanities into a new paradigm that can be described as the posthuman humanities promoted by a movement from language to matter, from words to bodies. All this theoretical baggage kindles a necessary curiosity about the liter- ary implications of the posthuman turn for the analysis of animal literature. keywords: animal; ape; apes; boundary; century; human; literature; new; nonhuman; posthuman; primate; relations; species; studies; york cache: relations-994.pdf plain text: relations-994.txt item: #146 of 150 id: relations-995 author: Veronese, Cosetta title: Can the Humanities Become Post-human? Interview with Rosi Braidotti date: 2016-06-27 words: 2066 flesch: 45 summary: She is an established scholar in the field of continental philosophy and epistemology, feminist and gender theories and post-structuralist thought. Among the tenets of posthuman theory you mention “trans-disci- plinarity”. keywords: human; humanities; posthuman; studies; subject cache: relations-995.pdf plain text: relations-995.txt item: #147 of 150 id: relations-996 author: Dönmez, Başak Ağın title: Recent Approaches in the Posthuman Turn: Braidotti, Herbrechter, and Nayar date: 2016-06-27 words: 4806 flesch: 39 summary: He finds this approach apt for the moral requirements in posthumanism and ethics of care, specifically underlining the emergence of new life forms and matter without a species border (2014, 149). Dönmez 106 Relations – 4.1 - June 2016 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ If my nightmare is a culture inhabited by posthumans who regard their bodies as fashion accessories rather than the ground of being, my dream is a version of the posthuman that embraces the possibilities of information technologies without being seduced by fantasies of unlimited power and dis- embodied immortality, that recognizes and celebrates finitude as a condition of human being, and that understands human life is embedded in a material world of great complexity, one on which we depend for our continued sur- vival. keywords: body; braidotti; chapter; herbrechter; information; life; nayar; posthumanism; self cache: relations-996.pdf plain text: relations-996.txt item: #148 of 150 id: relations-997 author: Schliephake, Christopher title: More-than-green Ecologies date: 2016-06-27 words: 1287 flesch: 43 summary: On the bright side, this means that there remains a lot of ground to cover and that our prismatic lenses are open to ever new colors in our examination of our more-than-green ecologies. As its title indicates, Prismatic Ecology adjusts the focus of environmen- tal philosophy, ecocriticism, and the new materialisms toward a more com- prehensive take on colors and concerns, trading in an exclusive focus on “green” matters for a wider spectrum of hues and environments. keywords: color; ecology; green; human cache: relations-997.pdf plain text: relations-997.txt item: #149 of 150 id: relations-998 author: Guaraldo, Emiliano title: Posthuman Narratives, Italian Style date: 2016-06-27 words: 1730 flesch: 31 summary: The essays of Thinking Italian Animals share several points of contact. This is an idea that the readers of Thinking Italian Animals will find in many of the essays that comprise the volume, as in several of the authors’ works examined seems to emerge some sort of embryonic anti-speciesist self-consciousness. keywords: animals; essays; human; past; posthuman cache: relations-998.pdf plain text: relations-998.txt item: #150 of 150 id: relations-999 author: Macilenti, Alessandro title: Deep Breathing Ecocriticism: Stories, Matter, and Spiritual Dimensions date: 2016-06-27 words: 1867 flesch: 37 summary: According to the new materialisms, it is possible to read in animal, plant, fungal, bacterial and inanimate matter stories that are as valuable and as worth narrating as humans narratives are. Humanity certainly has much to learn from non-human narratives, and academia badly needs to relearn the lessons in observation that come from traditional societies and practices http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Relations/issue/view/72 Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann, eds., “Material Ecocriticism” 127 Relations – 4.1 - June 2016 http://www.ledonline.it/Relations/ that have from time immemorial taken for granted what the authors of the essays included in Material Ecocriticism assert. keywords: ecocriticism; iovino; material; matter; oppermann cache: relations-999.pdf plain text: relations-999.txt