Ron Broglio
Biographic Data
| ID | 1339896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ron Broglio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ron |
| FAMILY NAME | Broglio |
| SIGNATURE | BROGLIO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Multispecies Futures through Art
Isabella Kirkland paints lush natural history works reminiscent of seventeenth-century Dutch still lifes or British natural history illustrations during the age of colonial conquests. Despite stylistic similarities to early natural history works, Kirkland’s paintings are importantly different from their predecessors. To help us make sense of the interconnectedness to non-human life, animal studies has turned from its early focus in the 2000s on s…
The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies
Provides cross-disciplinary perspectives on the study of animals in humanitiesRead the Introduction for free hereThis volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on Animal Studies. What new questions and modes of research need come into play if we are to seriously acknowledge our entanglements with other animals? World-leading scholars from a range of …
Figuring Our Environments and Living with Critters in the Anthropocene
Figuring Our Environments and Living with Critters in the Anthropocene Ron Broglio (bio) and María L. Cruz-Torres (bio) As any good park ranger will tell you, wildlife management is really about managing the humans. The weight of human dwelling is felt across the globe with no environment or biotope immune from our heft. Indeed, we have terraformed the earth—sometimes intentionally, as with dams and agroindustrial farms, and other times as an unf…
Beasts of Burden
After Animality, Before the Law
This interview discusses Cary Wolfe's book Before the Law with a focus on how animals fit within the framework of biopolitics. Wolfe takes on the distinctions between Foucault's and Agamben's development of biopolitics and finds room within Foucault's conceptualization for rethinking the role of animals within culture and philosophy. Additionally, the interview explores current directions in posthumanism and the Minnesota University Press series …
When Animals and Technology Are Beyond Human Grasping
This essay explores the “wealth of openness” Heidegger leaves open for the animals. This other open provides a possible outside beyond the dialectic of human-animal as figured by Agamben's anthropological machine. Producing ways of thinking this beyond serves as the frame by which essays in this collection are then introduced
Thinking about stuff
Strong Claims, Feeble Evidence
The criticisms of Falk et al. (2010) are addressed, and the question of whether claims made by Falk et al. (2007) are valid is revisited. This rebuttal contends that Falk et al. (2007) misconstrue Popper’s role in philosophy of science and hence do not provide a strong test of their hypothesis. Falk et al. (2010) claim that they never made causal statements about the impact of zoo and aquarium visits in their 2007 study. Yet, this commentary show…
Surface Encounters
What is it like to be an animal? This book aims to find out from the inside, from underneath the fur and feathers. In examining this question, it bypasses the perspectives of biology or natural history to explore how one can construct an animal phenomenology, to think and feel as an animal other—or any other. Until now phenomenology has grappled with how humans are embedded in their world. According to philosophical tradition, animals do not prac…
Do Zoos and Aquariums Promote Attitude Change in Visitors? A Critical Evaluation of the American Zoo and Aquarium Study
Modern-day zoos and aquariums market themselves as places of education and conservation. A recent study conducted by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) (Falk et al., 2007) is being widely heralded as the first direct evidence that visits to zoos and aquariums produce long-term positive effects on people’s attitudes toward other animals. In this paper, we address whether this conclusion is warranted by analyzing the study’s methodolog…
Living Flesh
While historically animal art served cultural ends toward appropriating and domesticating animals, contemporary art considers the possibility of meeting animals outside of human terrains and outside of cultural ideas about human and animal subjectivity. In such art the relationship between canvas as surface and animal body as surface undoes historical appropriation of the animal. The work of artists Olly and Suzi provides a test case for breachin…
Masters of All They Surveyed
In the opening pages of his book, Graham Burnett makes clear what is at stake: "colonial territory came into being as a result of the passage of certain individuals—explorers and surveyors—who made distant land possessable by means of a set of powerful linked texts. Diplomats explored those texts, not jungles, to see who had a right to what" (p. 2). The rest of Masters of All They Surveyed is a detailed study of how European mapmakers transformed…
Do Zoos and Aquariums Promote Attitude Change in Visitors? A Critical Evaluation of the American Zoo and Aquarium Study
Modern-day zoos and aquariums market themselves as places of education and conservation. A recent study conducted by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) (Falk et al., 2007) is being widely heralded as the first direct evidence that visits to zoos and aquariums produce long-term positive effects on people’s attitudes toward other animals. In this paper, we address whether this conclusion is warranted by analyzing the study’s methodolog…
Surface Encounters
What is it like to be an animal? This book aims to find out from the inside, from underneath the fur and feathers. In examining this question, it bypasses the perspectives of biology or natural history to explore how one can construct an animal phenomenology, to think and feel as an animal other—or any other. Until now phenomenology has grappled with how humans are embedded in their world. According to philosophical tradition, animals do not prac…
Beasts of Burden
The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies
Provides cross-disciplinary perspectives on the study of animals in humanitiesRead the Introduction for free hereThis volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on Animal Studies. What new questions and modes of research need come into play if we are to seriously acknowledge our entanglements with other animals? World-leading scholars from a range of …
After Animality, Before the Law
This interview discusses Cary Wolfe's book Before the Law with a focus on how animals fit within the framework of biopolitics. Wolfe takes on the distinctions between Foucault's and Agamben's development of biopolitics and finds room within Foucault's conceptualization for rethinking the role of animals within culture and philosophy. Additionally, the interview explores current directions in posthumanism and the Minnesota University Press series …
Strong Claims, Feeble Evidence
The criticisms of Falk et al. (2010) are addressed, and the question of whether claims made by Falk et al. (2007) are valid is revisited. This rebuttal contends that Falk et al. (2007) misconstrue Popper’s role in philosophy of science and hence do not provide a strong test of their hypothesis. Falk et al. (2010) claim that they never made causal statements about the impact of zoo and aquarium visits in their 2007 study. Yet, this commentary show…
Masters of All They Surveyed
In the opening pages of his book, Graham Burnett makes clear what is at stake: "colonial territory came into being as a result of the passage of certain individuals—explorers and surveyors—who made distant land possessable by means of a set of powerful linked texts. Diplomats explored those texts, not jungles, to see who had a right to what" (p. 2). The rest of Masters of All They Surveyed is a detailed study of how European mapmakers transformed…
Living Flesh
While historically animal art served cultural ends toward appropriating and domesticating animals, contemporary art considers the possibility of meeting animals outside of human terrains and outside of cultural ideas about human and animal subjectivity. In such art the relationship between canvas as surface and animal body as surface undoes historical appropriation of the animal. The work of artists Olly and Suzi provides a test case for breachin…
Do Zoos and Aquariums Promote Attitude Change in Visitors? A Critical Evaluation of the American Zoo and Aquarium Study
Modern-day zoos and aquariums market themselves as places of education and conservation. A recent study conducted by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) (Falk et al., 2007) is being widely heralded as the first direct evidence that visits to zoos and aquariums produce long-term positive effects on people’s attitudes toward other animals. In this paper, we address whether this conclusion is warranted by analyzing the study’s methodolog…
Thinking about stuff
Strong Claims, Feeble Evidence
The criticisms of Falk et al. (2010) are addressed, and the question of whether claims made by Falk et al. (2007) are valid is revisited. This rebuttal contends that Falk et al. (2007) misconstrue Popper’s role in philosophy of science and hence do not provide a strong test of their hypothesis. Falk et al. (2010) claim that they never made causal statements about the impact of zoo and aquarium visits in their 2007 study. Yet, this commentary show…
Surface Encounters
What is it like to be an animal? This book aims to find out from the inside, from underneath the fur and feathers. In examining this question, it bypasses the perspectives of biology or natural history to explore how one can construct an animal phenomenology, to think and feel as an animal other—or any other. Until now phenomenology has grappled with how humans are embedded in their world. According to philosophical tradition, animals do not prac…
After Animality, Before the Law
This interview discusses Cary Wolfe's book Before the Law with a focus on how animals fit within the framework of biopolitics. Wolfe takes on the distinctions between Foucault's and Agamben's development of biopolitics and finds room within Foucault's conceptualization for rethinking the role of animals within culture and philosophy. Additionally, the interview explores current directions in posthumanism and the Minnesota University Press series …
When Animals and Technology Are Beyond Human Grasping
This essay explores the “wealth of openness” Heidegger leaves open for the animals. This other open provides a possible outside beyond the dialectic of human-animal as figured by Agamben's anthropological machine. Producing ways of thinking this beyond serves as the frame by which essays in this collection are then introduced
Beasts of Burden
The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies
Provides cross-disciplinary perspectives on the study of animals in humanitiesRead the Introduction for free hereThis volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on Animal Studies. What new questions and modes of research need come into play if we are to seriously acknowledge our entanglements with other animals? World-leading scholars from a range of …
Figuring Our Environments and Living with Critters in the Anthropocene
Figuring Our Environments and Living with Critters in the Anthropocene Ron Broglio (bio) and María L. Cruz-Torres (bio) As any good park ranger will tell you, wildlife management is really about managing the humans. The weight of human dwelling is felt across the globe with no environment or biotope immune from our heft. Indeed, we have terraformed the earth—sometimes intentionally, as with dams and agroindustrial farms, and other times as an unf…
Multispecies Futures through Art
Isabella Kirkland paints lush natural history works reminiscent of seventeenth-century Dutch still lifes or British natural history illustrations during the age of colonial conquests. Despite stylistic similarities to early natural history works, Kirkland’s paintings are importantly different from their predecessors. To help us make sense of the interconnectedness to non-human life, animal studies has turned from its early focus in the 2000s on s…
Sociology (8 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)