MA HS. Semantiken und Gegennarrative kulturanthropologischer Forschung: Human-Animal Relations in the Everyday
Dozent:innen: N.N.Kurzname: HS Semantiken
Kurs-Nr.: 05.174.610
Kurstyp: Hauptseminar
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
The course will be held in English and in block lectures since the teacher is an ERASMUS guest lecturer at JGU in the winter term.Empfohlene Literatur
• Adams, Carol. 1999. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. London: Bloomsbury.• Candea, Matei. 2010 “I Fell in Love with Carlos the Meerkat”: Engagement and Detachment in Human-Animal Relations”. American Ethnologist 37(2):241-258.
• Crist, Eileen. 1999. Images of Animals. Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Selected chapters.
• Ingold, Timothy. 1988. What Is an Animal? London: Routledge. Selected chapters
• Kirksey, Edward, and Steven Helmreich. 2010 The Emergence of Multispecies Ethnography. Cultural Anthropology 25(4): 545–576.
• Kohn, Eduardo. 2007 How Dogs Dream: Amazonian Natures and the Politics of Transspecies Engagement. American Ethnologist 34(1), 3–24
• Mullin, Molly H. 1999 Mirrors and Windows: Sociocultural Studies of Human-Animal Relationships. Annual Review of Anthropology 28:201-224.
• Noreen Giffney and Myra Hird. 2008. Queering the Non/Human. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited. Selected chapters
Inhalt
The question of what makes a human “a human” and an animal “an animal” is one that has been of interest to scholars for millennia. However, in recent times it is one that has become all the more urgent. As humans we rely on our relationship with animals for many things, ranging from our material needs to helping us negotiate our social relations with other humans. Due to climate change, and the apparent depletion of the “natural world”, there are calls for a radical re-think of this relation to make it less of an exploitative one. But the huge challenge currently facing scholars is how might we do this?The aim of this course is to introduce students to the problem by offering a broad overview of human-animal relations in the everyday, both in the present and also how they appear to have changed over time. By looking at these relations in different places, such as how animals are given their form in children’s literature, questions about animal welfare and animal rights, as well as where we locate animals (animal geographies), we consider how humans negotiate their relations with animals and treat them as “entanglements” and/or “detachments”. As well, we will think about how animals negotiate their relations with humans, where we ask how animals inform human practices? How can we (as humans) “read” or “listen” to animals? Particularly in the social sciences and humanities, where we rely heavily on speech to engage with our interlocuters in our research, the apparent absence of speech in these relations is a methodological challenge that of particular interest. Thus, whilst the course takes a predominantly anthropological perspective on this relation, it will also consider the interests of other disciplines.
Zusätzliche Informationen
Sarah Czerny is an Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the Department of Cultural Studies, University of Rijeka. She has written on human-animal relations in milk production, and teaches courses on ecology, human-animal relations as well as cultural geography.Termine
| Datum (Wochentag) | Zeit | Ort |
|---|---|---|
| 10.11.2023 (Freitag) | 14:00 - 18:00 | 01 415 P102 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 11.11.2023 (Samstag) | 10:00 - 14:00 | 01 423 P103 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 17.11.2023 (Freitag) | 14:00 - 18:00 | 01 415 P102 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 18.11.2023 (Samstag) | 10:00 - 14:00 | 01 423 P103 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |