Animals, Mess, Method

Post-humanism, Sociology and Animal Studies

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20047594
AutoresN Taylor (0000-0003-3736-1443, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Páginas37-50
Data de publicação2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoCHAPTER
EditoraBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004233041_004
OpenAlexW2278739827
ISBN9789004233041
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas29

This chapter presents an argument that extends from the epistemological realm into the methodological as post-humanists point out that methods are not only implicated in this but are the main way in which this 'purification' is achieved. It focuses to trace and identify these political methods and analyse their purpose and their consequences. One of the major reasons animals are excluded, or written out of the social sciences, is through a process of 'purification' whereby abstract categories are created along with the attendant justifications that the social sciences need only study humans, or 'the social'. The humanities have been slow to catch up with many other disciplines such as ethology in seeing animals differently and arguably the social sciences-particularly sociology-are even further behind. Pure categories are abandoned and we are able to study the glorious mess that is human-animal relatings. Keywords:epistemological foundations; human-animal relatings; mess; sociology

Epistemology · Humanism · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy