HumanimaliaPub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.52537/humanimalia.17737
Anushka Sen
{"title":"Rewiring Humanism","authors":"Anushka Sen","doi":"10.52537/humanimalia.17737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.17737","url":null,"abstract":"Review of:Saskia McCracken and Alex Goody, eds., Beastly Modernisms: The Figure of the Animal in Modernist Literature and Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. x + 306 pp. 11 illus. (7 in colour). £110.00 (hb)","PeriodicalId":492016,"journal":{"name":"Humanimalia","volume":"20 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134909334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HumanimaliaPub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.52537/humanimalia.13265
Ariane D'Hoop
{"title":"Crossing Worlds in Buildings","authors":"Ariane D'Hoop","doi":"10.52537/humanimalia.13265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.13265","url":null,"abstract":"Holes in the houses of Brussels, as in other buildings across Europe, have long been the preferred nesting sites of the common swift (Apus apus), a bird famous for its fast flight and for spending most of its life on the wing. For several decades, however, urban construction and renovation has led to the destruction of swifts’ breeding sites, contributing significantly to their disappearance, and have prompted amateur naturalists to spatial interventions in ways that they hope the birds will accept. This essay explores this form of care that is forging a new path through the more-than-human city. It starts with an account of how swifts “story” the cavities they inhabit, and then describes the engagement of a devoted swift caretaker with the birds’ astute knowledge of buildings and their meaningful worlds. Moving across sites in Brussels, the essay articulates how an attentiveness takes shape between swifts, their storied-places, and the human caretakers who learn about them, as well as the tensions and contradictions that arise. Such a care practice involves noticing and experiential learning, it requires conveying importance to unfamiliar interlocutors, and leads both to the reactivation of architectural heritages and pleasure at aesthetic encounters with the birds. In some cases, the employment of nest boxes and other technologies may also risk greenwashing ecologically harmful operations. Caring for swifts, the essay concludes, involves a reciprocal co-becoming at specific architectural interfaces, through attentive and imaginative practices. These modes of attention and of imagination enable material interventions in buildings with a fuller appreciation of swifts’ storied worlds.","PeriodicalId":492016,"journal":{"name":"Humanimalia","volume":"PC-30 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134909138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HumanimaliaPub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.52537/humanimalia.11727
Jesse Arseneault, Rosemary-Claire Collard
{"title":"Crimes against Reproduction","authors":"Jesse Arseneault, Rosemary-Claire Collard","doi":"10.52537/humanimalia.11727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.11727","url":null,"abstract":"Secular animal trials were coincident with witch trials across Europe from the 1200s–1700s, peaking between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. The trials’ similarity extends beyond simultaneity. Both forms of trials were preoccupied with what we call reproductive crimes: criminalized perceived deviance from reproductive norms that codified into an order facilitating the rise of capitalist modernity. In this paper we discuss secondary sources concerning the animal trials alongside feminist theories of reproduction, domestication, and anthropocentrism to suggest that animal trials, like witch trials, are sites of struggle over the domestication of reproduction. The animal trials are specifically a site of negotiation concerning the nonhuman world’s position within an ascendant domesticated reproductive order. In the trials, the domestication of reproduction thus entangles with the anthropocentric domestication of the nonhuman world. The empirical base of our analysis focuses on three arenas in which animals were incorporated into juridical structures as criminal subjects: bestiality, infanticide, and witch trials. The first two involved animals being tried directly in French courts, while the latter involved animals being implicated in British trials as witches’ familiars. Together, these appearances of animals provide an introductory window into how human–animal relations were 1) shaped by the reproductive anxieties and politics of the late Middle Ages and early modern period in these countries, and 2) marshalled towards the assembly of domesticated reproductive norms whose legacies persist into current frameworks of gendered and interspecies relationality. This imposition of a gendered order onto animality evidences the extent to which gendered systems of reproduction govern not only humans but also a wider terrain of life.","PeriodicalId":492016,"journal":{"name":"Humanimalia","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134908457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HumanimaliaPub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.52537/humanimalia.17834
Laura Kuen
{"title":"Who Are the Eaters?","authors":"Laura Kuen","doi":"10.52537/humanimalia.17834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.17834","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Heather Paxson, ed. Eating beside Ourselves: Thresholds of Foods and Bodies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. xii + 233 pp. $25.95 (pb); $99.95 (hb); Open Acess (ebook)","PeriodicalId":492016,"journal":{"name":"Humanimalia","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134909121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HumanimaliaPub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.52537/humanimalia.17913
Kenneth Fish
{"title":"Living Capital and the Quantum Ethnography of Spider Goats","authors":"Kenneth Fish","doi":"10.52537/humanimalia.17913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.17913","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Lisa Jean Moore. Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature. New York: New York University Press, 2022. xviii + 214 pp. 23 b/w illus. $89.00 (hb), $30.00 (pb).","PeriodicalId":492016,"journal":{"name":"Humanimalia","volume":"23 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134908534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HumanimaliaPub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.52537/humanimalia.13562
Laura Gelfand
{"title":"A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing","authors":"Laura Gelfand","doi":"10.52537/humanimalia.13562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.13562","url":null,"abstract":"James McNeill Whistler’s painting, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl, has been the focus of much art historical analysis, but the animal rug beneath the feet of his model has received little attention. In this essay I suggest that Whistler represented a mounted wolf’s head sitting on top of a large sheepskin rug, i.e., a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Exploring the diverse meanings of this symbol within the context of the painting complicates how we understand the work and reinforces its importance as a reflection of the artist’s life and ambitions at the time he created it.","PeriodicalId":492016,"journal":{"name":"Humanimalia","volume":"4 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134908564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HumanimaliaPub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.52537/humanimalia.14314
Emelia Quinn
{"title":"Can Literature Save Lives?","authors":"Emelia Quinn","doi":"10.52537/humanimalia.14314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.14314","url":null,"abstract":"Review of:Maren Tova Linett. Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability and the Human. Crip: New Directions on Disability Studies. New York: New York University Press, 2020. 224 pp. $28.00 (pb) ISBN: 9781479801251.","PeriodicalId":492016,"journal":{"name":"Humanimalia","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136381100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HumanimaliaPub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.52537/humanimalia.12919
Charlotte Kroløkke, Mervi Honkatukia
{"title":"Parallel Lives","authors":"Charlotte Kroløkke, Mervi Honkatukia","doi":"10.52537/humanimalia.12919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.12919","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates cow caretaking practices in a Finnish prison and living gene bank. Building upon work in Feminist Science and Technology Studies, Critical Animal Studies, and Critical Heritage Studies, we seek to understand how human and nonhuman animal lives are partially folded together, while also discussing the worlds cultivated in a space of conservation and incarceration. Empirically, the article draws upon multispecies ethnography undertaken during two separate visits to Pelso Prison in central Finland. We conclude that cows emerge as not simply working animals. They are viewed as valuable genetic material vital to the Finnish nation state as well as given names and granted personalities. Meanwhile, in the company of an endangered cattle breed, inmates gain new value as care-workers and conservationists “saving” the breed. In this space of exception, precarious interspecies lives are interwoven.","PeriodicalId":492016,"journal":{"name":"Humanimalia","volume":"44 Suppl 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134908700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HumanimaliaPub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.52537/humanimalia.14311
Jennifer L Britton, Abigail Del Grosso, Cassidy Ellis, Christian Hunold
{"title":"Wild Horse Roundups and Removals","authors":"Jennifer L Britton, Abigail Del Grosso, Cassidy Ellis, Christian Hunold","doi":"10.52537/humanimalia.14311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.14311","url":null,"abstract":"Epistemological contestation about what – and whose – knowledge counts is central to the struggle about the future of wild horses on US public lands. In the politics of wild horse management, the construction of knowledge claims about wild horses as well as the formation of beliefs about their credibility is shaped by interspecies affective relations; relations that, we contend, are strikingly gendered. We seek to understand how these affective relations – the intermingling of facts and values – shape knowledge claims concerning wild horse roundups and removals carried out on federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Using data collected from 28 roundups and removals conducted between 2020 and 2022, in 7 states, we show that BLM’s disavowal of emotion in wild horse management places both wild horses and wild horse advocates in the same subaltern category of being destructive, disruptive, and out of place – in short, “feral.” The wild horse advocacy practices of witnessing roundups and removals of free-roaming horses from a position of “entangled empathy” discussed in this article reject this double-feralization of wild horses and the humans who care for them by establishing that wild horses are grievable, have ecological value, and are capable of participating in relations of interspecies kinship. We elaborate on these claims in terms of four major themes found in our data: protecting ecological integrity, regulating horses’ numbers, listening to nonhuman others, and debating advocacy strategies. Improved understanding of the political function of emotion helps identify a path toward managing wild horses more compassionately.","PeriodicalId":492016,"journal":{"name":"Humanimalia","volume":"7 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134909431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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