When Species Meet (Posthumanities)

Paperback, 360 pages

English language

Published Nov. 26, 2007 by Univ Of Minnesota Press.

ISBN:
9780816650460

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Whom do we touch when we touch a dog? How does this touch shape our multispecies world?

In 2006, about 69 million U.S. households had pets, giving homes to around 73.9 million dogs, 90.5 million cats, and 16.6 million birds, and spending more than 38 billion dollars on companion animals. As never before in history, our pets are truly members of the family. But the notion of “companion species”—knotted from human beings, animals and other organisms, landscapes, and technologies—includes much more than “companion animals.” In When Species Meet, Donna J. Haraway digs into this larger phenomenon to contemplate the interactions of humans with many kinds of critters, especially with those called domestic. At the heart of the book are her experiences in agility training with her dogs Cayenne and Roland, but Haraway’s vision here also encompasses wolves, chickens, cats, baboons, sheep, microorganisms, and whales wearing video cameras. From designer pets …

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Subjects

  • Animals & society
  • Philosophy
  • Animals
  • Sociology
  • Animal Rights
  • Essays
  • Movements - Humanism
  • Social Science / Sociology / General
  • General
  • Sociology - General
  • Human-animal relationships