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The Human-Animal Relationship as a Subject of Citizenship Education
The aim of this book is to explore the human-animal relationship as a new subject of political education and to make it accessible for critical reflection. A guiding thesis is that society’s relationship with animals is both political and problematic, as it is shaped by power structures and rarely recognized as an issue due to its status as an unexamined norm. To explore this topic, the model of didactic reconstruction is employed. A problem-centered interview study is used to reconstruct students’ everyday conceptions of animals, humans, and their (political) relationship. These conceptions are then compared with academic perspectives—particularly from Human-Animal Studies—in order to uncover contradictions and taken-for-granted assumptions, and to identify exemplary, didactically fruitful approaches to the subject. The author concludes that future engagement with the human-animal relationship in the context of political education should be critically oriented toward power structures. This would enable reflective and multi-perspective political judgment on the human-animal relationship—making the invisible visible.
Violent Child-Animal Encounters in European Literatures
Child-animal encounters are omnipresent in literature, but the fact that these interactions are sometimes marked by violence remains rather underrepresented in literary studies. Thus, this volume examines the complex interplay of childhood, animality and violence in European literatures. The contributors show that animal-child conflicts are often representative of larger issues such as social and intergenerational inequalities, deeply embedded in broader ideological and social frameworks: whether read through the lens of colonialism, capitalism or communism these encounters negotiate fundamental questions about hierarchy, dominance, and agency.
Multispecies Futures
In light of the dramatic growth and rapid institutionalization of human-animal studies in recent years, it is somewhat surprising that only a small number of publications have proposed practical and theoretical approaches to teaching in this inter- and transdisciplinary field. Featuring eleven original pedagogical interventions from the social sciences and the humanities as well as an epilogue from ecofeminist critic Greta Gaard, the present volume addresses this gap and responds to the demand by both educators and students for pedagogies appropriate for dealing with environmental crises. The theoretical and practical contributions collected here describe new ways of teaching human-animal st...
Animals as Experiencing Entities
This volume explores the experiences of those with little or no power—usually, although not exclusively, animals. The theme of animals as experiencing entities is what links the chapters and characterises the volume. Broadly each author in this volume contributes in one of two ways. The first group, in Section 1, theoretically engages animal subjectivity, animal experiences, and ways in which these are to some extent accessible and knowable to humans. The second group of authors, in Section 2, offer narrative accounts about specific animals or groups of animals and explore to some extent their subjective historical experiences. In summary, the first section diversely theorises about animal experiences, while the second section’s authors assume animals’ subjective experiences and construct narratives that take into account how animals might have subjectively experienced historical phenomena.
Tierethik als Gestaltung
Warum beschäftigen Menschen sich mit tierethischen Fragen? Und wie erklärt sich, dass es insbesondere die akademische Tierethik zum Teil so einseitig und undifferenziert tut? Dieses Buch setzt sich kritisch-konstruktiv mit den gedanklichen Voraussetzungen bisheriger Bestimmungen des Mensch-Tier-Verhältnisses auseinander. Es zeigt, dass die Komplexität und Bedeutsamkeit mensch-tier-licher Begegnungen in der wissenschaftlichen Tierethik bislang aufgrund von egozentrischen Vorurteilen oft unterschätzt wurde und plädiert für ein beziehungsorientiertes Umdenken. So wird in Auseinandersetzung mit Martin Heideggers seinsgeschichtlicher Metaphysikkritik und Emmanuel Levinas' phänomenologisch...
Livestock and Literature
This book explores the past and current traces that cows, pigs, chickens, and other animals used by humans have left in Anglophone literary fiction. In times of accelerated global warming, an acute pandemic, and breakthroughs in bioengineering practices, discussions on how to rethink the relationships to these animals have become as heated as perhaps never before. Livestock and Literature examines what literature has to contribute to these debates. In particular, it draws on counter-narratives to so-called livestock animals’ commodification in selected science- and speculative fiction (SF) works from the twenty-first century. These texts imagine ‘what if’ scenarios where “livestockâ€...
Das Seufzen der Kreaturen
Mit einer visionären Verknüpfung von Naturtheologie, Anthropozän-Reflexion und Philosophie des Lebendigen eröffnet das Werk neue Perspektiven auf die Frage, wie der Mensch in Beziehung zu seiner Umwelt, zu anderen Lebewesen und zu Gott steht. Anthropozentrismus und dominierende verengte Konzepte von Subjektivität werden kritisch beleuchtet. Der Autor fordert eine Dezentrierung hin zu nicht-menschlichen Lebewesen und stellt gängige öko-philosophische Ansätze infrage. Anschließend thematisiert er die Vorstellung von "reiner Natur" und verbindet klassische Dogmatik mit kritischer Theorie, um die Erlösungsbedürftigkeit auch der nichtmenschlichen Natur zu erweisen. Schließlich werden die Beziehungen zwischen Mensch, Tier und Gott neu gedacht: Der Autor entwickelt eine "materialistische Pneumatologie", in der die Materie als Träger göttlicher Präsenz und Tiere als Subjekte anerkannt werden.
