Kay Peggs
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 252789 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kay Peggs |
| PRENOMES | Kay |
| SOBRENOME | Peggs |
| ASSINATURA | PEGGS K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Portsmouth |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 94 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Animal Rights Movement
The origin of the animal rights movement (ARM) is usually traced to nineteenth‐century anti‐vivisectionist campaigns in Britain. After a lull, the ARM re‐emerged in the twentieth century and is now found across the world. Like other social movements, the ARM uses various methods to influence views and mobilize support. This entry explores the complexities of the ARM as a social movement, including origins, membership, and media responses. It cons…
Tester, Keith (1960–2019)
Keith Tester (1960–2019) displayed a persistent critical sociological imagination. He spent his career engaging with the question “What use is sociology?” In order to consider this question he explored the complex interconnections between culture and morality, drawing on the social thought of Zygmunt Bauman. Tester published at least 13 sole‐authored and four coauthored monographs as well as edited collections and numerous essays, journal article…
Veganism
Put simply, veganism refers to the practice of avoiding the consumption of nonhuman animals. Veganism has become more mainstream in recent years and is receiving increasing academic consideration. Although veganism extends beyond diet, much popular – and indeed scholarly – attention centers on it as a dietary practice. As well as being a practice, veganism may also be an important aspect of identity, of identity politics, and can be considered a …
Multi-species sociology of the body
The human body has become a central focus in sociology. Such work has centred largely on the human body and its significance in social contexts. This article draws on sociological understandings of human embodiment, especially the idea of the 'body as a project', to facilitate a multi-species understanding of bodies and their entanglements. Conceptualising the body as a project has provided sociological insights into the scientific and technologi…
“What Have Animals to Do With Social Work?” A Sociological Reflection on Species and Social Work
The contributors to Thomas Ryan’s Animals in Social Work offer a challenge to anthropocentrism in social work theory and practice. Because this challenge resonates with the “zoological connection” that confronts anthropocentric sociology, this review article offers a sociological examination of key points raised. In focusing on conceptualizations of the human animal binary, personhood and selfhood, property, ethics, and welfare, this article conc…
Nonhuman Animal Suffering
Each year millions of nonhuman animals are exposed to suffering in universities as they are routinely (ab)used in teaching and research in the natural sciences. Drawing on the work of Giroux and Derrida, we make the case for a critical pedagogy of nonhuman animal suffering. We discuss critical pedagogy as an underrepresented form of teaching in universities, consider suffering as a concept, and explore the pedagogy of suffering. The discussion fo…
Transgenic Animals, Biomedical Experiments, and "Progress"
By conducting a critical discourse analysis of a scientific research article that claims additional potential for using transgenic marmosets in biomedical experiments, this article critiques instrumental approaches to scientific progress as they are expressed in scientific research that uses nonhuman animal experiments. Following an analysis that focuses on issues associated with access to publication, assertions about scientific breakthrough and…
The 'Animal-Advocacy Agenda
This paper focuses on sociology and the study of human non-human animal relations. Using as a catalyst referees' comments on a previous paper about experiments using non-human animal subjects, in this present paper three problematics are identified and discussed. These problematics centre on the 'acceptable' content of sociological inquiry, the 'permissibility' of advocacy-oriented sociology, and the 'admissibility' of non-human animal-advocacy t…
Animal Experiments and Animal Rights
This chapter explores grass-roots activism as it is associated with other animals in society. Grass-roots activism works at the level of subpolitics (Beck, 1992) rather than at the level of political parties. Grassroots groups, such as Greenpeace, the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), endeavour to generate public support for campaigns against the ill-treatment of animals. Other grass-…
Animals, Leisure and Culture
On the BBC Radio 4 programme A Point of View (first broadcast on Friday 8 July 2011) Alain de Botton claimed that ‘animals, as we know, don’t loom very large in culture’ (de Botton, 2011); he could not have been more wrong. If only, as a schoolchild, Alain had read Bryant’s (1979) newly published paper about the zoological connection he would not have made such an error over 30 years later. Other animals are everywhere in culture; but like Mr de …
Consumption of the Animal
A major way in which humans experience other animals in their everyday lives is through the consumption of food. Many humans eat ‘meat’-based products, drink milk and consume related products such as cheese and butter. Not only are parts, pieces and derivatives of other animals present in many of the foods that humans eat, they are ubiquitous (while often invisible) components of a range of other consumer products such as wool in fabrics and furn…
Town and Country
In Britain we often picture the countryside as a rural idyll; a landscape inhabited by domesticated other animals (such as sheep and cows) in patchwork fields surrounded by wilder areas populated by red squirrels and deer who live in the woods and forests. In the city or town our encounters with other animals are more likely to be found in walking with dogs, sightings of cats sitting in windows and encounters with welcome visitors (such as blackb…
Animals, Social Inequalities and Oppression
In sociology, the examination of inequalities and oppression centres on the power relations, inequalities and disadvantages that are fundamental to most social systems. Apart from being central to relations among humans such inequalities and oppressions are fundamental to relations between humans and other animals. Despite the prevalence of inequalities associated with being 'animal', sociological analysis has largely centred on power relations a…
Animals, Crime and Abuse
One of the most serious charges that can be laid against humans is that they have behaved like ‘animals’ (Midgley, 2004). This insult is often reserved for the most shocking of human behaviour, behaviour associated with crimes such as rape and murder. Consequently, in the popular media as well as in the news media it is not unusual to find humans who have perpetrated the most awful of crimes being called ‘animals’. However, it is not other animal…
Sociology and Animals
In his book The Compleat Observer , Jack Sanger (1996, p. 5) recounts the story of a man who crosses the border between two countries each day, with a donkey pulling a cart full of straw. The border guard notices that the man looks wealthier each time he crosses and so concludes that the man must be smuggling. The next time the man tries to cross the border the guard orders the straw to be searched for smuggled goods, but nothing is found. On sub…
Conclusions
As we have seen, societies are broader than the human. Back in the 1970s, Bryant (1979) argued that other animals play important roles in society and, consequently, are relevant for sociological study. His zoological connection revealed a range of ways in which other animals are central to human societies, and the preceding chapters have shown that this is indeed the case. Other animals are everywhere. Other animals are central to every aspect of…
Animals and Biology as Destiny
Sociology has been regarded traditionally as the study of humans in societies. Sociological theories that centre on action, which stress the role of meaning in social interaction, point us to the social rather than the biological foundations of sociological analysis. Because other animals have been, and continue to be, associated with the biological rather than with the social it has been argued (by Mead (1934) and others) that the appropriate fo…
Animals and Sociology
Animals and Sociology challenges traditional assumptions about the nature of sociology. Sociology often centres on humans; however, other animals are everywhere in society. Kay Peggs explores the sign
Risk, Human Health, and the Oppression of Nonhuman Animals

Nonhuman Animal Experiments in the European Community
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Nonhuman Animal Experiments in the European Community
In 2008, the European Community (EC) adopted a Proposal to revise the EC Directive on nonhuman animal experiments, with the aim of improving the welfare of the nonhuman animals used in experiments. An Impact Assessment, which gauges the likely economic and scientific effects of future changes, as well as the effects on nonhuman animal welfare, informs the Proposal. By using a discourse analytical approach, this paper examines the Directive, the I…
A Hostile World for Nonhuman Animals
In 2006 over three million experiments were performed on nonhuman animals. In making an argument against such experiments I contend that approval of nonhuman animal experimentation is rooted in acceptance of humans as having essential primacy over nonhuman animals and lies in the power relations associated with human primacy identity claims.To challenge essentialist notions of human identity and human primacy I utilize a performative conceptualiz…
Which Pension
This paper investigates women's perceptions of choice and risk in the field of pensions. It extends on a paper published in a recent edition of this journal in which Alan Aldridge applied Pierre Bourdieu's notions of cultural capital and habitus to the field of personal finance. Since the late 1980s the marketisation of pensions has resulted in an expansion of pension options. According to Anthony Giddens the expansion of choice is one of the pos…
Repartnering
Repar tner ing: the r elevance of par enthood and gender to cohabitation and r emar r iage among the for mer ly
Repartnering
Repar tner ing: the r elevance of par enthood and gender to cohabitation and r emar r iage among the for mer ly
Animals and Sociology
Animals and Sociology challenges traditional assumptions about the nature of sociology. Sociology often centres on humans; however, other animals are everywhere in society. Kay Peggs explores the sign
The 'Animal-Advocacy Agenda
This paper focuses on sociology and the study of human non-human animal relations. Using as a catalyst referees' comments on a previous paper about experiments using non-human animal subjects, in this present paper three problematics are identified and discussed. These problematics centre on the 'acceptable' content of sociological inquiry, the 'permissibility' of advocacy-oriented sociology, and the 'admissibility' of non-human animal-advocacy t…
A Hostile World for Nonhuman Animals
In 2006 over three million experiments were performed on nonhuman animals. In making an argument against such experiments I contend that approval of nonhuman animal experimentation is rooted in acceptance of humans as having essential primacy over nonhuman animals and lies in the power relations associated with human primacy identity claims.To challenge essentialist notions of human identity and human primacy I utilize a performative conceptualiz…
Which Pension
This paper investigates women's perceptions of choice and risk in the field of pensions. It extends on a paper published in a recent edition of this journal in which Alan Aldridge applied Pierre Bourdieu's notions of cultural capital and habitus to the field of personal finance. Since the late 1980s the marketisation of pensions has resulted in an expansion of pension options. According to Anthony Giddens the expansion of choice is one of the pos…
Nonhuman Animal Experiments in the European Community
In 2008, the European Community (EC) adopted a Proposal to revise the EC Directive on nonhuman animal experiments, with the aim of improving the welfare of the nonhuman animals used in experiments. An Impact Assessment, which gauges the likely economic and scientific effects of future changes, as well as the effects on nonhuman animal welfare, informs the Proposal. By using a discourse analytical approach, this paper examines the Directive, the I…
Animal Rights Movement
The origin of the animal rights movement (ARM) is usually traced to nineteenth‐century anti‐vivisectionist campaigns in Britain. After a lull, the ARM re‐emerged in the twentieth century and is now found across the world. Like other social movements, the ARM uses various methods to influence views and mobilize support. This entry explores the complexities of the ARM as a social movement, including origins, membership, and media responses. It cons…
Veganism
Put simply, veganism refers to the practice of avoiding the consumption of nonhuman animals. Veganism has become more mainstream in recent years and is receiving increasing academic consideration. Although veganism extends beyond diet, much popular – and indeed scholarly – attention centers on it as a dietary practice. As well as being a practice, veganism may also be an important aspect of identity, of identity politics, and can be considered a …
Multi-species sociology of the body
The human body has become a central focus in sociology. Such work has centred largely on the human body and its significance in social contexts. This article draws on sociological understandings of human embodiment, especially the idea of the 'body as a project', to facilitate a multi-species understanding of bodies and their entanglements. Conceptualising the body as a project has provided sociological insights into the scientific and technologi…
Nonhuman Animal Suffering
Each year millions of nonhuman animals are exposed to suffering in universities as they are routinely (ab)used in teaching and research in the natural sciences. Drawing on the work of Giroux and Derrida, we make the case for a critical pedagogy of nonhuman animal suffering. We discuss critical pedagogy as an underrepresented form of teaching in universities, consider suffering as a concept, and explore the pedagogy of suffering. The discussion fo…
Risk, Human Health, and the Oppression of Nonhuman Animals

Nonhuman Animal Experiments in the European Community
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Repartnering
Repar tner ing: the r elevance of par enthood and gender to cohabitation and r emar r iage among the for mer ly
Which Pension
This paper investigates women's perceptions of choice and risk in the field of pensions. It extends on a paper published in a recent edition of this journal in which Alan Aldridge applied Pierre Bourdieu's notions of cultural capital and habitus to the field of personal finance. Since the late 1980s the marketisation of pensions has resulted in an expansion of pension options. According to Anthony Giddens the expansion of choice is one of the pos…
A Hostile World for Nonhuman Animals
In 2006 over three million experiments were performed on nonhuman animals. In making an argument against such experiments I contend that approval of nonhuman animal experimentation is rooted in acceptance of humans as having essential primacy over nonhuman animals and lies in the power relations associated with human primacy identity claims.To challenge essentialist notions of human identity and human primacy I utilize a performative conceptualiz…
Nonhuman Animal Experiments in the European Community
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Nonhuman Animal Experiments in the European Community
In 2008, the European Community (EC) adopted a Proposal to revise the EC Directive on nonhuman animal experiments, with the aim of improving the welfare of the nonhuman animals used in experiments. An Impact Assessment, which gauges the likely economic and scientific effects of future changes, as well as the effects on nonhuman animal welfare, informs the Proposal. By using a discourse analytical approach, this paper examines the Directive, the I…
Risk, Human Health, and the Oppression of Nonhuman Animals

Animal Experiments and Animal Rights
This chapter explores grass-roots activism as it is associated with other animals in society. Grass-roots activism works at the level of subpolitics (Beck, 1992) rather than at the level of political parties. Grassroots groups, such as Greenpeace, the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), endeavour to generate public support for campaigns against the ill-treatment of animals. Other grass-…
Animals, Leisure and Culture
On the BBC Radio 4 programme A Point of View (first broadcast on Friday 8 July 2011) Alain de Botton claimed that ‘animals, as we know, don’t loom very large in culture’ (de Botton, 2011); he could not have been more wrong. If only, as a schoolchild, Alain had read Bryant’s (1979) newly published paper about the zoological connection he would not have made such an error over 30 years later. Other animals are everywhere in culture; but like Mr de …
Consumption of the Animal
A major way in which humans experience other animals in their everyday lives is through the consumption of food. Many humans eat ‘meat’-based products, drink milk and consume related products such as cheese and butter. Not only are parts, pieces and derivatives of other animals present in many of the foods that humans eat, they are ubiquitous (while often invisible) components of a range of other consumer products such as wool in fabrics and furn…
Town and Country
In Britain we often picture the countryside as a rural idyll; a landscape inhabited by domesticated other animals (such as sheep and cows) in patchwork fields surrounded by wilder areas populated by red squirrels and deer who live in the woods and forests. In the city or town our encounters with other animals are more likely to be found in walking with dogs, sightings of cats sitting in windows and encounters with welcome visitors (such as blackb…
Animals, Social Inequalities and Oppression
In sociology, the examination of inequalities and oppression centres on the power relations, inequalities and disadvantages that are fundamental to most social systems. Apart from being central to relations among humans such inequalities and oppressions are fundamental to relations between humans and other animals. Despite the prevalence of inequalities associated with being 'animal', sociological analysis has largely centred on power relations a…
Animals, Crime and Abuse
One of the most serious charges that can be laid against humans is that they have behaved like ‘animals’ (Midgley, 2004). This insult is often reserved for the most shocking of human behaviour, behaviour associated with crimes such as rape and murder. Consequently, in the popular media as well as in the news media it is not unusual to find humans who have perpetrated the most awful of crimes being called ‘animals’. However, it is not other animal…
Sociology and Animals
In his book The Compleat Observer , Jack Sanger (1996, p. 5) recounts the story of a man who crosses the border between two countries each day, with a donkey pulling a cart full of straw. The border guard notices that the man looks wealthier each time he crosses and so concludes that the man must be smuggling. The next time the man tries to cross the border the guard orders the straw to be searched for smuggled goods, but nothing is found. On sub…
Conclusions
As we have seen, societies are broader than the human. Back in the 1970s, Bryant (1979) argued that other animals play important roles in society and, consequently, are relevant for sociological study. His zoological connection revealed a range of ways in which other animals are central to human societies, and the preceding chapters have shown that this is indeed the case. Other animals are everywhere. Other animals are central to every aspect of…
Animals and Biology as Destiny
Sociology has been regarded traditionally as the study of humans in societies. Sociological theories that centre on action, which stress the role of meaning in social interaction, point us to the social rather than the biological foundations of sociological analysis. Because other animals have been, and continue to be, associated with the biological rather than with the social it has been argued (by Mead (1934) and others) that the appropriate fo…
Animals and Sociology
Animals and Sociology challenges traditional assumptions about the nature of sociology. Sociology often centres on humans; however, other animals are everywhere in society. Kay Peggs explores the sign
Transgenic Animals, Biomedical Experiments, and "Progress"
By conducting a critical discourse analysis of a scientific research article that claims additional potential for using transgenic marmosets in biomedical experiments, this article critiques instrumental approaches to scientific progress as they are expressed in scientific research that uses nonhuman animal experiments. Following an analysis that focuses on issues associated with access to publication, assertions about scientific breakthrough and…
The 'Animal-Advocacy Agenda
This paper focuses on sociology and the study of human non-human animal relations. Using as a catalyst referees' comments on a previous paper about experiments using non-human animal subjects, in this present paper three problematics are identified and discussed. These problematics centre on the 'acceptable' content of sociological inquiry, the 'permissibility' of advocacy-oriented sociology, and the 'admissibility' of non-human animal-advocacy t…
“What Have Animals to Do With Social Work?” A Sociological Reflection on Species and Social Work
The contributors to Thomas Ryan’s Animals in Social Work offer a challenge to anthropocentrism in social work theory and practice. Because this challenge resonates with the “zoological connection” that confronts anthropocentric sociology, this review article offers a sociological examination of key points raised. In focusing on conceptualizations of the human animal binary, personhood and selfhood, property, ethics, and welfare, this article conc…
Nonhuman Animal Suffering
Each year millions of nonhuman animals are exposed to suffering in universities as they are routinely (ab)used in teaching and research in the natural sciences. Drawing on the work of Giroux and Derrida, we make the case for a critical pedagogy of nonhuman animal suffering. We discuss critical pedagogy as an underrepresented form of teaching in universities, consider suffering as a concept, and explore the pedagogy of suffering. The discussion fo…
Multi-species sociology of the body
The human body has become a central focus in sociology. Such work has centred largely on the human body and its significance in social contexts. This article draws on sociological understandings of human embodiment, especially the idea of the 'body as a project', to facilitate a multi-species understanding of bodies and their entanglements. Conceptualising the body as a project has provided sociological insights into the scientific and technologi…
Animal Rights Movement
The origin of the animal rights movement (ARM) is usually traced to nineteenth‐century anti‐vivisectionist campaigns in Britain. After a lull, the ARM re‐emerged in the twentieth century and is now found across the world. Like other social movements, the ARM uses various methods to influence views and mobilize support. This entry explores the complexities of the ARM as a social movement, including origins, membership, and media responses. It cons…
Tester, Keith (1960–2019)
Keith Tester (1960–2019) displayed a persistent critical sociological imagination. He spent his career engaging with the question “What use is sociology?” In order to consider this question he explored the complex interconnections between culture and morality, drawing on the social thought of Zygmunt Bauman. Tester published at least 13 sole‐authored and four coauthored monographs as well as edited collections and numerous essays, journal article…
Veganism
Put simply, veganism refers to the practice of avoiding the consumption of nonhuman animals. Veganism has become more mainstream in recent years and is receiving increasing academic consideration. Although veganism extends beyond diet, much popular – and indeed scholarly – attention centers on it as a dietary practice. As well as being a practice, veganism may also be an important aspect of identity, of identity politics, and can be considered a …
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