Kinship with Piglets
Inter-species Intra-actions and Corporeal Yearnings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21828958 |
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| Authors | Megan Tucker (0009-0000-6302-0322, Simon Fraser University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Phenomenology & Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1913-4711 • E-ISSN: 1913-4711 |
| Publisher | University of Alberta Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.29173/pandpr29534 |
| OpenAlex | W4389031910 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Our own animately e/motional bodies are yearning for relationships with other bodies of the more-than-human kind. To support this opinion, I describe an intra-action caring for three rescued piglets that led to an awareness of human animal and animal-other relationships. The following questions are addressed: 1) What is involved corporeally, e/motionally, and sensorily in interspecies intra-actions? 2) What are the affects and telling effects of these intra-actions? I describe how my intra-action with the piglets manifested an awareness of the liveliness of other animals, and an understanding of interspecies kinship. To further understand interspecies kinship, I explore the role of the body, and the e/motional and sensory affordances of the intra-actions involving me and the piglets. The concepts of corporeality, inter-corporeality, and trans-corporeality are considered. In the second part of the paper, I describe tensions of human exceptionalism that were revealed in caring for the piglets
Aesthetics · Affordance · Biology · Cognitive psychology · Domestication · Epistemology · Exceptionalism · Human animal · Kinship · Political science · Sociology · Animal and Plant Science Education · Anthropology · Communication · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Ecology
| Highly cited | No |
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