Department of Sociology 2012-13 Animals, Society and Culture SO334

Penguin Books Birke, L 1994 Feminism, animals and science, Open University Press Carter, B and Charles, N 2011 Human and other animals: critical perspectives, Palgrave Cudworth, E 2011 S

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Animals, Society and Culture SO334

This module will:

(1) explore the significance of animals to society and culture - both historically and contemporaneously - and how changing relations between society and nature, human and animal have been conceptualised sociologically;

(2) explore the philosophical and moral underpinnings of social and cultural attitudes and practices towards animals and their implications for animal welfare and animal rights;

(3) investigate how social movements concerned with animals have affected both the way we 'see' animals and the way they are treated by humans;

(4) explore the ways in which society, social action, agency and notions of the self have been understood and ask whether they can be mobilised to analyse the place(s)

of animals in society and culture;

(5) investigate the implications for sociology of post-humanist critiques of

anthropocentric understandings of the world

This module explores the place of animals in society and culture and how this varies cross-culturally and over time It will address the importance of animals to the

organisation and development of society, exploring notions of 'co-evolution',

'domestication' and 'human exceptionalism' and the philosophical and moral

underpinnings of human-animal relations Animal studies, as a newly-emerging interdisciplinary area of study, draws on different theoretical traditions to make sense

of its subject matter Sociology has been particularly slow to take up the challenge of studying animals and the module will investigate why this should be so and whether studying animals poses a particular problem for sociology as a discipline It will consider different aspects of human-animal relations and how taking animals into consideration might challenge our understandings of society

Learning outcomes

By the end of the module you should be able to:

• Explain how relations between humans and animals have changed over time

• Evaluate different ways of theorising human-animal relations

• Critically assess the material and cultural significance of animals in different types of society

• Review the portrayal of animals in art, literature and film

• Research, using a range of methods, the key social, political and ethical issuesinfluencing the position of animals in contemporary societies

Method of Assessment: the module may be assessed by 100% essay, or 100% examination, or 50% assessed / 50% examined

Key Readings

Key readings are identified for each week and need to be read before the relevant seminar You will not be expected to read all the key readings for every topic; advice

on this will be provided in seminars All the key readings are available electronically

as well as in hard copy in the Library There are three types of electronic resources that are accessed via the Library: scanned in extracts; e-journal articles and e-books Other resources can be accessed directly from the internet using the link provided.You will need Adobe Reader to access resources electronically, and you can download

it free if you don’t already have it on your machine:

You will need to ensure that you are registered for the module via eMR in order to have access, and you must also sign-in to the intranet site (see top menu bar, right-hand-side) Then you simply look for the reference you require (they are arranged alphabetically by author’s surname) It will open as a pdf and the chapter follows on from the Copyright Notice You can read it on screen but you will also need to print acopy to bring to the class and you might also want to save a copy (for your own personal use only)

a meaningful name) You can then open the saved document, print it, search it etc

E-books

The link provided after the reference in the reading list will take you to the Library Catalogue site for that e-book If you are on campus you click for access If you are off-campus click ‘Log In’ (top left of the page), then ‘Athens Users, log in here’ (bottom of screen at the left) and you should be prompted for your normal Warwick login Once you have opened the book you need to search for the relevant chapter You can read this on-screen but if possible you must also print a copy to bring to the class To print a Netbook make sure you have searched for the chapter using the box

at the left-hand side, expanding sections as necessary to find it Then select Print from the top banner and choose the option ‘Pages starting with the current page’, inserting the number of pages in the box and clicking OK (where possible, the number

of pages is provided in square brackets as part of the reference in this reading list) This will prompt the creation of an Adobe document so click to Run and the chapter will then come up on your screen with an option to print You can also save a copy

using File, Save a Copy You will notice that under the terms of University Access to Netbooks only a limited number of pages can be printed each hour, so you may need

to access the e-book again later if other library users have used the quota If you are unable to print the reference you must ensure that you have extra detailed notes to bring to the seminar

Additional Readings

All the additional readings listed below for each topic are available in the library and should be used when you are doing more in-depth work, eg for a seminar

presentation, class essay, assessed essay or revision for exams

Note: The nature of this course means that students will have different opinions,

sometimes quite passionate, about the subject matter While you are encouraged to speak your mind freely in class discussions, you will also be expected to express yourself courteously, showing respect for the opinions and sensibilities of others In addition, some of the material that we will discuss and read about may be challenging

or hard to hear and watch

Animals, Society and Culture

SO334 TERM 1

Lecture outline

(1) Introduction to animal studies and to the module

(2) What is an animal?

(3) The philosopher's dog and Schrodinger's cat – philosophy, science and religion

Animals and social change

(4) Co-evolution and social change - domestication

(5) Animals in industrial society – from beasts of burden to fashion accessories

(6) Reading week

Animals and culture

(7) Kinship with animals

(8) Cultures of meat eating and farm animals

(9) Cultures of masculinity

(10) Animals and cultural identity

TERM 2

Representing animals

(11 The call of the wild - zoos and safaris

(12) Animals as spectacle – circuses, wildlife programmes

(13) Anthropomorphism and animal tales

(14) Representing animals - art, film and media

Challenging speciesism

(15) Social movements, animal welfare and animal rights

(16) Reading week

(17) Species, social construction and power – animal ethics

(18) Embodiment - the elephant and the ant – science studies – current research on animal intelligence and emotions

(19) Post-humanism and the animal challenge to sociology – animals and agency, selfhood, personhood

(20) Understanding the social and cultural positioning of animals - systems or

networks? – drawing the course together

TERM 3

(21) Revision session

(22) Revision session

Indicative reading

The following will give you a good overview of the key topics covered on this course

Berger, J (2009) Why look at animals? Penguin Books

Birke, L (1994) Feminism, animals and science, Open University Press

Carter, B and Charles, N (2011) Human and other animals: critical perspectives,

Palgrave

Cudworth, E (2011) Social Lives with Other Animals, Palgrave

Ellis, S (2010) Wolf within, London: Harper

Franklin, A (1999) Animals and Modern Cultures: A Sociology of Human-Animal

Relations in Modernity, London: Sage Publications

Haraway, D (2008) When Species Meet, University of Minnesota

Peggs, K (2012) Animals and sociology, Palgrave Macmillan

Rowlands, M (2008) The Philosopher and the Wolf, London: Granta

There are two journals which contain useful articles:

Society and Animals

Anthrozoos

Course texts

Many of the key readings on this module come from the following readers and

textbooks which you are strongly advised to purchase:

• Arluke, A and Sanders, C (eds) (2009) Between the species: a reader in

Human-Animal relationships, Boston, Mass: Pearson Education

• Cudworth, E (2011) Social Lives with Other Animals, Basingstoke: Palgrave

Macmillan

• Flynn, C P (ed) (2008) Social creatures: a human and animal studies reader,

New York Lantern Books

• Gross, A and Vallely (eds) (2012) Animals and the human imagination: a

companion to animal studies, Colombia University Press

• Hurn, S (2012) Humans and other animals, London: Pluto Press

• Kalof, L and Fitzgerald, A (eds) (2007) The animals reader: the essential

classic and contemporary writings, Oxford: Berg

• Peggs, K (2012) Animals and sociology, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

There is also a series of books which contains many pieces which are useful for the module and which you should familiarise yourself with These books are available from the library:

Kalof, L and Resl, B (eds) (2007) A cultural history of animals: volumes 1-6, Oxford:

Berg

Week 1

Introduction to animal studies and to the module

This lecture introduces the interdisciplinary field o animal studies and the module It raises the question of why there is an increasing interest in exploring human-other animal relations within sociology

Key reading

Ellis, S (2010) Wolf within, London: Harper

Rowlands, M (2008) The Philosopher and the Wolf, London: Granta

Week 2

What is an animal?

This lecture asks what is an animal? It begins to explore such questions as: How do

we define animals, how do such definitions relate to defining what is human, and the way definitions of human and animal, society and nature differ cross culturally

Key reading

Ingold, T (2012) ‘Hunting and gathering as ways of perceiving the environment’ in A

Gross and A Vallely (eds) Animals and the human imagination, New York:

Columbia University Press, pp.31-54

Midgley, M (1988) ‘Beasts, brutes and monsters’ in T Ingold (ed.) (1988) What is an

Animal? London: Unwin Hyman, pp.35-46

Berger, J (2009) Why look at animals, London: Penguin Books, pp 12-37 and in L Kalof and A Fitzgerald (eds) (2007) The animals reader, Oxford: Berg, Section 5, 26

Seminar questions

1 What is an animal?

2 How does Ingold distinguish between hunter-gatherer and Western ontologies?

3 What does Midgley mean by the species barrier?

4 How do definitions of human and animal relate to each other? How can it be arguedthat animals make us human?

Additional reading

Arluke, A and Sanders, C R (1996) Regarding Animals, Philadelphia: Temple

University Press (chapter 1)

Bekoff, M (2007) Encyclopedia of human-animal relationships: a global exploration

of our connections with animals, London: Greenwood Press

Blake, C, Molloy, C and Shakespeare, S (eds) (2012) Beyond human: from animality

to transhumanism, London: Continuum

Caras, R A (1996) A perfect harmony: the intertwining lives of animals and humans

throughout history, New York: Simon and Schuster

Corbey, R (2005) The metaphysics of apes: negotiating the animal-human boundary,

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Creager, A N H and Jordan, W C (eds) (2002) The animal/human boundary:

historical perspectives, Rochester: University of Rochester Press

Descola, P and Palsson, G (eds) (1996) Nature and Society: anthropological

perspectives, London: Routledge

Ellis, S (2010) Wolf within, London: Harper

Fudge, E (2002) Animals, London: Reaktion

Freeman, C, Leane, E and Watt, Y (2011) Considering animals: contemporary studies

in human-animal relations, London: Ashgate

Haraway, D (2003) The Companion Species Manifesto, Prickily Paradigm Press Haraway, D (2008) When species meet, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press Hearne, V (2007) Adam’s task, New York: Skyhorse Publishing

Herzog, H (2010) Some we love, some we hate, some we eat, Harper-Collins

Hobson-West, P (2007) Beasts and Boundaries: An introduction to animals in

sociology, science and society Qualitative Sociology Review, 3, 2-41

Ingold, T (1986) The appropriation of nature: essays on human ecology and social

relations, Manchester: Manchester University Press

Ingold, T (ed) (1988) What is an animal? London: Unwin Hyman

Ingold, T (1983) The Architect and the Bee: Reflections on the Work of Animals and

Men Author(s): Man, New Series, Vol 18, No 1, pp 1-20

Lynch, M and Collins, H.M (1998) ‘Introduction: humans, animals, machines’,

Science, Technology and Human Values, 23, 371-383

Midgley, M (1989) Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature London: Methuen Midgley, M (1983) Animals and why they matter, Athens: University of Georgia Press Mack, A (ed) (1999) Humans and other animals, Columbus: Ohio State University

Press

Manning, A and Serpell, J (1994) Animals and Human Society London:Routledge Noske, B (1989) Humans and Other animals: beyond the boundaries of anthropology,

London: Pluto Press

Pluskowski, A (ed) (2007) Breaking and shaping beastly bodies: animals as material

culture in the middle ages, Oxford: Oxbow Books

Preece, R (2005) Brute Souls, Happy Beasts and Evolution: The Historical Status of

Animals, UBC Press: Vancouver

Rowlands, M (2008) The Philosopher and the Wolf, London: Granta

Shapiro, K (2002) ‘Editor’s introduction: the state of human-animal studies: solid at

the margin!’ Society and Animals, 10 (4): 331-337

Sheehan, J.J and Sosna, M (eds) (1991) The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans,

Animals, Machines, Berkeley: University of California Press

Shepard, P (1997) The Others: how animals made us human, Island Press

Sorenson, J (2006) Ape, Reaktion

Thomas, K (1984) Man and the natural world, Harmondsworth: Penguin

Williams, E and DeMello, M (2007) Why animals matter, Amherst, N Y: Prometheus

Books

Week 3

The philosopher's dog and Schrodinger's cat

In this lecture we shall begin to explore how definitions of animals and the relation between humans and other animals have developed and changed in philosophy, science and religion Questions such as whether animals have souls, language,

intelligence, emotions and how human exceptionalism has been legitimated will be investigated Moral questions of how animals should be treated, do they feel pain, do they suffer will be approached here but followed up in more detail later in the course

Key reading

Herzog, H (2009) ‘Human morality and animal research’ in A Arluke and C Sanders

(eds) Between the Species, Unit 2, Part 5, 15

Nussbaum, M (2007) ‘The moral status of animals’ in Kalof, L and Fitzgerald, A (eds)

(2007) The animals reader, Oxford: Berg, Section 1, 6

Serpell, J (1986) In the company of animals, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, Chapter 9

2 What moral dilemmas does Herzog identify in the social treatment of animals?

3 What is human exceptionalism? Where does it originate? Is it a universal belief? What legitimates it? How does it relate to the way animals are treated in

contemporary Western societies?

Bat-Ami, B O and Ferguson, A (eds) (1998) Daring to be good: essays in feminist

ethico-politics, New York: Routledge

Carruthers, P (1992) The animals issue: moral theory in practice, Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press

Calarco, M and Atterton, P (eds) (2004) Animal philosophy: ethics and identity,

London: Continuum

Calarco, M (2007) Zoogeographies: the question of the animal from Heidegger to

Derrida, NYC: Columbia University Press

Coetzee, J M (2001) The Lives of Animals, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press Fudge, Erica, Brutal Reasoning: Animals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern

England (Cornell, 2006) (animal/human distinctions historically prior to

Descartes, relevant to how humans/animals are distinguished)

Gaita, R (2002) The philosopher’s dog, London: Routledge

Hearne, V (2007) Adam’s task, New York: Skyhorse Publishing

Midgley, M (1983) Animals and why they matter, Athens: University of Georgia Press Midgley, M (1979) Man and Beast, Hassocks: Harvester

Noske, B (1989) Humans and Other Animals, London: Pluto Press

Rowlands, M (2002) Animals like us, London: Verso

Rowlands, M (2008) The philosopher and the wolf, London: Granta

Sorabji, R (1993) Animal minds and human morals, London: Duckworth

Science

Birke, L (1994) Feminism, Animals, and Science the naming of the shrew,

Buckingham: Open University Press

Fox-Keller, E and and Longino, H (eds) (1996) Feminism and Science, New York:

Oxford University Press

Franklin, S (2007) Dolly mixtures: the remaking of genealogy, Durham, NC: Duke

University Press

Gowaty, P A (ed) (1997) Feminism and evolutionary biology: boundaries,

intersections, and frontiers, New York: Chapman and Hall

Haraway, D (1989) Primate Visions: gender, race and nature in the world of modern

science, New York: Routledge

Harré, R (2009) Pavlov’s Dog and Schrödinger’s Cat, OUP

Hicks, E.K (ed.) (1992) Science and the human-animal relationship, Amsterdam:

SISWO

Langley, G (ed) (1989) Animal experimentation: the consensus changes, London:

Macmillan

Regan, T (ed) (1986) Animal sacrifices: religious perspectives on the use of animals

in science, Philadelphia: Temple University Press

Waldau, P and Patton, K (2006) A communion of subjects: animals in religion,

science and ethics, New York: Columbia University Press

Westcoat, J L Jnr (1998) ‘The “right of thirst” for animals in Islamic law: a

comparative approach’ in J Wolch and J Emel (eds) Animal Geographies,

London: Verso, pp 259-279

Religion

Bataille, G (1992) Theory of religion, New York: Zone Books

Brown, J E (1997) Animals of the soul: sacred animals of the Oglala Sioux,

Rockposrt, Mass: Element

Folz, R (2006) Animals in Islamic Tradition and Muslim Cultures, Oxford: Oneworld Hobgood-Oster, L (2008) Holy dogs and asses: animals in the Christian tradition,

Urbana: University of Illinois Press

Kalechofsky, R (ed) (1992) Judaism and Animal rights: classical and contemporary

responses, Marblehead, Mass: Micah Publications

Linzey, A (1995) Animal theology, Urbana: University of Illinois Press

Morris, B (2000) Animals and ancestors: an ethnography, New York: Berg

Regan, T (ed) (1986) Animal sacrifices: religious perspectives on the use of animals

in science, Philadelphia: Temple University Press

Regenstein, L (1991) Replenish the earth: a history of organised religion’s treatment

of animals, London SCM Press

Waldau, P (2002) Spectres of speciesism: Bhuddist and Christian views of animals,

New York: Oxford Univeristy Press

Webb, S H (1997) On God and Dogs: a Christian theology of compassion for

animals, New York: Oxford University Press

Animals in different types of society

Week 4

Co-evolution or domestication?

Here the focus is on processes of domestication, how they are understood, and how animals have co-shaped human societies We begin to investigate how human-animal relations have changed along with changes in the social organisation of production

We also reflect on whether domestication is an ongoing process

Key reading

Clutton-Brock, J (2007) ‘How domestic animals have shaped the development of

human societies’ in L Kalof (ed) A cultural history of animals in antiquity,

Oxford: Berg, Chapter 3, pp.71-96

Haraway, D (2007) ‘Cyborgs to companion species: reconfiguring kinship in

technoscience’ (up to page 367 only) in Kalof, L and Fitzgerald, A (eds)

(2007) The animals reader, Oxford: Berg, Section 6, 35

Hurn, S (2012) Humans and other animals, Chapter 5

Ingold, T (1994) ‘From trust to domination’: an alternative history of human-animal

relations’ in A Manning and J Serpell (eds) Animals and human society:

changing perspective, London: Routledge, pp.1-22

Seminar questions

1 What is meant by domestication? What are the different ways in which

‘domestication’ is theorised? What evidence is used to support these different

theories?

2 How have animals shaped the societies of which they are part?

3 What changes in forms of social organisation are associated with domestication?

4 How does Ingold theorise the shift from hunter-gatherer to pastoral societies?

Additional reading

Brown, K (2010) Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the

Globalization of Veterinary Medicine, Ohio University Press

Budiansky, S (2002) The truth about dogs, London: Phoenix

Budiansky, S (1992) The covenant of the wild: why animals chose domestication,

New Haven: Yale University Press

Bulliet, R W (2005) Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of

Human-Animal Relationships, New York: Columbia University Press

Carlson, L W (2001) Cattle: an informal social history, Chicago: Ivan R Dee

Cassidy, R and Mullin, M (eds) (2007) Where the wild things are now: domestication

reconsidered, New York: Berg

Clutton-Brocke, J (ed) (1989) The walking larder: patterns of domestication,

pastoralism and predation, London: Unwin Hyman

Clutton-Brocke, J (2012) Animals as domesticates, Michigan State Press

Clutton-Brocke, J (1981) Domesticated animals from early times, Austin: University

of Texas Press

Ellen, R and Fukui, K (eds) (1996) Redefining nature: ecology, culture and

domestication, London: Berg

Ingold, T (1988) Hunters, pastoralists, and ranchers: reindeer economies and their

transformations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Kalof, L (2007) Looking at Animals in Human History, London: Reaktion Books,

(chapters 1, 2 and 3)

Manning, A and Serpell, J (eds) (1994) Animals and human society: changing

perpectives, London: Routledge

Rowley-Conwy, P (ed) (2000) Animal bones, human societies, Oxford: Oxbow Books Russell, E (2011) Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand

Life on Earth, Cambridge University Press (co-evolution, humans shaping

evolution, domestication)

Schwartz, Marion, A History of Dogs in the Early Americas (New Haven and London:

Yale University Press, 1997

Serpell, J (ed) (1995) The domestic dog: its evolution, behaviour, and interactions

with people, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Serpell, J (1986) In the company of animals, Oxford: Basil Blackwell

Tester, K (1991) Animals and Society, London: Routledge

Vigne, J D et al (eds) (2005) New methods and the first steps of animal domestication,

London: Oxbow Press

Willis, R (ed) (1994) Signifying animals: human meaning in the natural world, New

York: Routledge (anthropology, totemism, symbolism of animals)

Week 5

Industrial society – from beasts of burden to fashion accessories

In this lecture we look at how human-animal relations have changed with the

development of industrial societies We look at the work done by animals prior to the industrial revolution and how animal power (particularly horse power) was rendered redundant by mechanisation Urbanisation is associated with a reduction in human contact with domesticated animals and a rise in pet keeping Is it helpful to

conceptualise this as a shift from domestic to post-domestic societies?

Key reading

Benton, T (1993) Natural relations: ecology, animal rights and social justice,

London: Verso, pp 60-69

Franklin, A (1999) Animals and modern cultures: a sociology of human-animal

relations in modernity, London: Sage, Chapter 3, pp 34-61

Hurn, S (2012) Humans and other animals, Pluto Press, Chapter 8

Norton Greene, A (2008) Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America,

Harvard University Press, Chapter 5

Seminar questions

1 How does Franklin theorise changes in human-animal relations in post-modernity? What concepts are central to this theorisation and how does he use them?

2 Is Fordism a useful concept for understanding changes in human-animal relations?

2 Is Benton’s categorisation of the different relations between animals and humans useful? How do his categories relate to Franklin’s analysis?

3 What are the effects of consumerism on pet animals identified by Hurn? How does this square with the increasing emotional importance of animals identified by

Franklin?

Additional reading

Allen, B (2004) Pigeon Reaktion

Boddice, R (2009) A History of Attitudes and Behaviours toward Animals in

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain Anthropocentrism and the

Emergence of Animals, Edwin Mellen Press

Bough, J (2011) Donkey Reaktion

Bulliet, R W (2005) Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of

Human-Animal Relationships, New York: Columbia University Press

Brantz, D (ed) (2010) Beastly Natures: Animals, Humans, and the Study of History,

Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press

Burt, J (2005) Rat Reaktion

Clutton-Brocke, J (1992) Horse Power: A history of the horse and the donkey in

human societes, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press

Cooper, J, (2006) Animals in War, Rearsby

De Stefano, S (2010) Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in Suburbia

(Harvard, 2010)

Franklin, A (1999) Animals and modern cultures: a sociology of human-animal

relations in modernity, London: Sage

Franklin, A and White, R (2001) Animals and modernity: changing human–animal

relations, 1949–98 Journal of Sociology, 37: 219-238

Gardiner, J (2006) The Animals’ War: Animals in Wartime from the First World War to

the Present Day, London

Manning, A and Serpell, J (eds) (1994) Animals and human society: changing

perpectives, London: Routledge

McShane, C and Tarr, J A (2007) The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the

Nineteenth Century, Baltimore

Norton Greene, A (2008) Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America,

Harvard University Press

O’Sullivan, S (2011) Animals, equality and democracy, Palgrave Macmillan

Philo, G and Wilbert, C (eds) (2000) Animal spaces, beastly places: geographies of

human-animal relations, London Routledge

Ritvo, H (1987) The animal estate, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press Sabloff, A (2001) Reordering the natural world: humans and animals in the city,

Toronto: University of Toronto Press

Thomas, K (1984) Man and the Natural World, Harmondsworth: Penguin

Twine, R (2010) Animals as Biotechnology – Ethics, Sustainability and Critical

Animal Studies Earthscan

Van Emden, R, (2010) Tommy’s Ark: Soldiers and their Animals in the Great War

London

Walker, B (2005) The lost wolves of Japan, Seattle: University of Washington Press

Week 6: Reading week

Animals and culture

Week 7

Kinship with animals

It is often said that pets are part of the family In this lecture we shall focus on the pastand present of pet keeping, looking at the emotional bonds that exist between pets andpeople and the implications for animals of being family members We shall also explore the effects of consumer capitalism on how pet animals are treated

Key reading

Cudworth, E (2011) Social Lives with Other Animals, Palgrave, Chapter 6

Fox, R (2008) ‘Animal behaviours, post-human lives: everyday negotiations of the

animal-human divide in pet-keeping’ in Social & Cultural Geography, 7 (4):

525-537

Ritvo, H (2008) ‘The emergence of modern pet keeping’ in Flynn, C P (ed) Social

Creatures, New York: Lantern Books, pp 96-106

Tuan, Y (2007) ‘Animal pets: cruelty and affection’ in Kalof, L and Fitzgerald, A (eds)

The animals reader, Oxford: Berg, Section 3, 16

Seminar questions

1 What are the functional roles of pets identified by Hurn? How are they reflected in the pieces by Cudworth and Fox?

2 How does Cudworth use the notions of dominance and affection outlined by Tuan

to understand human-dog relationships?

3 What are the class dimensions to pet keeping identified by Ritvo?

4 How are pets both and neither animal and human? What is it that makes a family post-human?

Additional reading

Alger, J and Alger, S (2003) Cat culture: the social world of a cat shelter,

Philadelphia: Temple University Press

Animal Studies Group (2006) Killing Animals, Urbana: University of Illinois Press Arluke, A and Sanders, C R (1996) Regarding animals, Philadelphia: Temple

University Press

Arluke, A (2006) Just a dog: understanding animal cruelty and ourselves,

Philadelphia: Temple University Press

Ascione, F R., Weber, C W And Wood, D S (1997) ‘The abuse of animals and

domestic violence: A national survey of shelters for women who are battered’

Society and Animals 5(3): 205-218

http://www.animalsandsociety.org/assets/library/359_s534.pdf

Ascione, F and Arkow, P (eds) (1999) Child abuse, domestic violence and animal

abuse: linking the circles of compassion for prevention and intervention, West

Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press

Beck, A and Katcher, A H (1996) Between pets and people, West Lafayette, Ind:

Purdue University Press

Budiansky, S (2002) The truth about dogs, London: Phoenix

Charles N and Davies CA (2008) ‘My family and other animals: pets as kin’,

Sociological Research Online, 13 (5),

http://www.socresonline.org.uk/13/5/4.html and in B Carter and N Charles

(eds) Human and other animals: critical perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan Davis, S and DeMello, M (2003) Stories rabbits tell: a natural and cultural history of

a misunderstood creature, New York: Lantern Books

Dekkers, M (1994) Dearest Pet: On bestiality, London: Virago

Francione, G L (1995) Animals, Property, and the Law, Philadelphia: Temple

University Press

Fudge, E (2008) Pets, Acumen

Grier, K C (2005) Pets in America, Harvest Books

Irvine, L (2004) If you tame me: understanding our connections with animals,

Philadelphia: Temple University Press

Kete, K (1995) The beast in the boudoir: petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris,

Berkeley: University of California Press

Lawrence, E (1985) Hoofbeats and society, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University

Press

Lockwood, R and Ascione, F (1998) Cruelty to animals and interpersonal violence,

West Lafayette, Ind: Purdue University Press

MacGregor, A ( 2012) Animal Encounters: Human and Animal Interaction in Britain

from the Norman Conquest to World War I (Reaktion)

Manning, A and Serpell, J (1994) Animals and Human Society London:Routledge McHugh, S (2004) Dog Reaktion

Podberscek, A L et al (eds) (2005) Companion animals and us: exploring the

relationships between people and pets, Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press

Rogers, K M (2006) Cat Reaktion

Sanders, C R (1999) Understanding dogs: living and working with canine

companions, Philadelphia: Temple University Press

Shaffner, J E (2010) An introduction to animals and the law, Palgrave Macmillan Serpell, J (1986) In the company of animals, Oxford: Basil Blackwell

Serpell, J (2005) People in disguise: Anthropomorphism and the human-pet

relationship’ in L Daston and G Mitman (eds) Thinking with animals: new

perspective on anthropomorphism, New York: Columbia University Press

Tipper, B (2011) ‘Pets and personal life’ in V May (ed) Sociology of personal life,

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 85-97

Tipper, B (2011) ‘“A dog who I know quite well”: everyday relationships between

children and animals’ in Children’s Geographies, 9 (2): 145-165

Tuan, Yi-Fu (1984) Dominance and affection: the making of pets, New Haven: Yale

University Press

Taylor, N and Signal, T (2008) ‘Throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater: Towards

a Sociology of the Human-Animal Abuse 'Link'?’ in Sociological Research

Online 13(1)2 <http://www.socresonline.org.uk/13/1/2.html >

Week 8

Cultures of meat eating and farm animals

In this lecture we look at cultures of meat eating, the variation in which animals are used for food cross culturally, and how cultures of meat eating are gendered We also look at the ways in which the meat that most of us eat is produced and the

implications of factory farming for animal welfare Should we all become vegetarian

in order to reduce the pressure on finite resources like water and land?

Key reading

Adams, C (2008) ‘The sexual politics of meat’ in Flynn, C P (ed) Social Creatures,

New York: Lantern Books, pp.245-258 AND in Kalof, L and Fitzgerald, A

(eds) The animals reader, Oxford: Berg, Section, 3, 19

Hurn, S (2012) Humans and other animals, Pluto Press, Chapter 7

Novek, J (2012) Discipline and distancing: confining pigs in the factory farm Gulag’

in Gross, A and Vallely (eds) (2012) Animals and the human imagination,

Colombia University Press, pp 121-151

Mason, J and Finelli, M (2007) ‘Brave new farm?’ in Kalof, L and Fitzgerald, A (eds)

The animals reader, Oxford: Berg, Section, 3, 18

Nibert, D (2007) The promotion of “meat” and its consequences’ in Kalof, L and

Fitzgerald, A (eds) The animals reader, Oxford: Berg, Section, 3, 20

This is a useful website: The Vegetarian Society http://www.vegsoc.org/

It would be worth looking for others

Seminar questions

1 How are cultures of meat eating gendered?

2 How does Novek use Foucault’s notion of bio-power to throw light on factory

farming? What parallels does he draw between the treatment of humans and animals in capitalist systems of production?

3 Why is personhood relevant to who or what we eat?

4 What are industrialized systems of meat production? What are the welfare issues

they raise?

5 Is there a moral argument for vegetarianism? What, in Nibert’s view, are the social,

political and environmental consequences of industrial scale production of meat?

Additional reading

Adams, C J (2003) The pornography of meat, London: Continuum

Adams, C J (2009) The sexual politics of meat: a feminist-vegetarian critical theory,

New York: Continuum

Akhtar, A (2012) Animals and public health, Palgrave Macmillan

Animal Studies Group (2006) Killing Animals, Urbana: Universit of Illinois Press

Buller, H and Morris, C (2003) “Farm animal welfare: a new repertoire of

nature-society relations or modernism re-embedded?” Sociologia Ruralis Vol.43,

No.3, pp.216-237

Bulliet, R W (2005) Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of

Human-Animal Relationships, New York: Columbia University Press

Brown, K (2010) Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the

Globalization of Veterinary Medicine, Ohio University Press

Carlson, L W (2001) Cattle: an informal social history, Chicago: Ivan R Dee

Coe, S (1995) Dead meat, New York: Four Walls Eight Windows

Cudworth, E (2011) Social Lives with Other Animals, Palgrave,

Davis, K (1996) Prisoned chilckens, poisoned eggs: an inside look at the modern

poultry industry, Summertown, Tenn: Book Publishing Company

Davis, S and DeMello, M (2003) Stories rabbits tell: a natural and cultural history of

a misunderstood creature, New York: Lantern Books

Dawkins, M (1980) Animal suffering: the science of animal welfare, London:

Chapman and Hall

Dolins, F L (ed) (1999) Attitudes to animals: views in animal welfare, Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press

Douglas, M (1966) Purity and Danger, London: Ark

Eisnitz, G (2007) Slaughterhouse: the shocking story of greed, neglect, and inhumane

treatment inside the US meat industry, Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books

Fiddes, N (1991) Meat: a natural symbol, London: Routledge

Grandin, T and Johnson, C (2006) Animals in translation, Bloomsbury

Harrison, R (1964) Animal machines: an expose of “factory farming” and its dangers

to the public, London: Vincent Stuart, Ltd

Iacobbo, M and Moussaieff Masson, J (2006) Vegetarians and vegans in America

today, Praeger Publishers

Lee, P (ed) (2008) Meat, Modernity and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse, University of

New Hampshire Press

Maurer, D (2002) Vegetarianism: Movement or Moment? Temple University Press

McDonald, B (2000) Once you know something you can’t not know it: An empirical

look at becoming vegan Society and Animals, 8(1): 1-23

Miele, M (2011) ‘A good kill’ in B Carter and N Charles (eds) Human and other

animals: critical perspectives, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Mizelle, B (2011) Pig Reaktion

Pachirat, T (2012) Every twelve seconds: industrialized slaughter and the politics of

sight, Yale University Press