Cosmopolitan Animals
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan Limited |
| ISBN-13 | 9781137376282 |
| Open Library | OL22316455W |
| Total publications | 4 |
| Coverage period | 2015 - 2015 |
| Language | EN |
Cosmopolitan Animals asks what new possibilities and permutations of cosmopolitanism can emerge by taking seriously our sharing and 'becoming-with' animals. It calls for a fresh awareness that animals
Cosmopolitan Animals
The Cynic as Cosmopolitan Animal
There is an old story, long a favourite, about the difficulty of saying what a human is. Plato, the account goes, was asked to define the term ‘man’, and he replied that man is a featherless biped. Shortly afterward, Diogenes the Cynic brought him a plucked chicken, saying, ‘I have brought you a man’. We can only imagine Diogenes’ flourish as he displayed his counterexample; he certainly would have taken pleasure in showing an animal to satisfy P…
Horse-Human Companionship
Horses too may be described as a cosmopolitan companion species. To use the term ‘globetrotting’ for world-travelling invokes an equestrian metaphor. Eurasian steppe history, mindful of its contributions to human domestication of the horse (Anthony, 2007), is particularly replete with images of groups of horsemen, massed cavalry, appearing at first as the sound of drumming — hooves on hard ground or hard-packed sand. Then a spectre of dust arises…
Iguanas and Enemy Combatants
Recent scholarship in animal studies has greatly invigorated understandings of human-animal relationships, including especially where the species interrelate or overlap. These accounts have been helpful not only in contesting the binary distinctions set up between human and animal, but also in subjecting to scrutiny the objectification practices that exclude the rights of individual subjects. Yet, where in the past the animalization of humans leg…
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Cosmopolitan Animals
The Cynic as Cosmopolitan Animal
There is an old story, long a favourite, about the difficulty of saying what a human is. Plato, the account goes, was asked to define the term ‘man’, and he replied that man is a featherless biped. Shortly afterward, Diogenes the Cynic brought him a plucked chicken, saying, ‘I have brought you a man’. We can only imagine Diogenes’ flourish as he displayed his counterexample; he certainly would have taken pleasure in showing an animal to satisfy P…
Horse-Human Companionship
Horses too may be described as a cosmopolitan companion species. To use the term ‘globetrotting’ for world-travelling invokes an equestrian metaphor. Eurasian steppe history, mindful of its contributions to human domestication of the horse (Anthony, 2007), is particularly replete with images of groups of horsemen, massed cavalry, appearing at first as the sound of drumming — hooves on hard ground or hard-packed sand. Then a spectre of dust arises…
Iguanas and Enemy Combatants
Recent scholarship in animal studies has greatly invigorated understandings of human-animal relationships, including especially where the species interrelate or overlap. These accounts have been helpful not only in contesting the binary distinctions set up between human and animal, but also in subjecting to scrutiny the objectification practices that exclude the rights of individual subjects. Yet, where in the past the animalization of humans leg…