The emotional exchange between so-called "humans" and more-than-human creatures is an overlooked phenomenon in societies characterized by the ubiquitous deaths of animals. This text offers examples of people across diverse disciplines and perspectives—from biomedical research to black theology to art—learning and performing emotions, expanding their desires, discovering new ways to behave, and altering their sense of self, purpose, and community because of passionate, but not romanticized, attachments to animals. By articulating the emotional ties that bind them to specific animals' lives and deaths, these authors play host to creaturely ghosts who reorient their world vision and work in the world, offering examples of affect and feeling needed to enliven multi-species ethics.
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This text offers examples of people across diverse disciplines and perspectives—from biomedical research to black theology to art—learning and performing emotions, expanding their desires, discovering new ways to behave, and altering their sense of self, purpose, and community because of passionate, but not romanticized, attachments to animals.
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Acknowledgements
List of Images
Introduction—Transformed by Ghosts: Toward Futures of Less Loss
Brianne Donaldson
I: Overcoming Institutional Numbness
1 Visual Feeling One
Jo-Anne McArthur
2 The Gift of the Monkey Who Danced into Oblivion and the One Dressed in a Cage
John P. Gluck
3 Mourning Tiger Mascots in Baton Rouge
Nathan P. Kalmoe and Kathryn K. Will
4 Ghostly Greyhounds: Running the Race, Living through Memory
Bradley Rowe and Suzanne Rice
5 Encountering Loss: A Search for Minnesota's Moose in a Changing Climate
Elizabeth Singleton
6 Claimed by Roadkill
Matthew Calarco
7 Prophetic Labrador: Expanding (Black) Theology by Overcoming the Invisibility of
Animal Life and Death
Christopher Carter
II: The Public Power of Intimate Sorrow
8 Visual Feeling Two
Julia Schlosser
9 “Every Love Story is a Ghost Story”: The Transformative Power of Dog Dedication
Jessica Ullrich
10 Hos-Pet-Ality: Handmade Selves and Transspeciated Femininity
Ashley King
11 Macey's Ashes: After-Death Care of Companion Animals as Interspecies Family
Amy Defibaugh
12 The Transformer: Approaching the Assisted Death of Animals and Humans with
Epistemic Humility and Uncertainty
L. Syd M Johnson
13 “How Do you Know His Name is Gabriel?”: Finding Communion with the Singular Lives of Creatures
Anne Mamary
14 Nikki: The Passing of a Herd's Matriarch
Susie Coston
III: Experiments in Feeling and Ritual
15 Visual Feeling Three
Adam Wolpa
16 Logos, Pathos, and the Absent Presence of the Persons We Eat
Brian G. Henning and Hope Philea Henning
17 Ghosts at a Glance: Four Animal Fragments
Anat Pick, with illustrations by Shira Avivi-Weisz
18 Goats of My Childhood: Rethinking Islamic Sacrifice without Animals
Saadullah Bashir
19 Living in Awareness of the Dead: Buddhist Experiments in Ethical Sensibility
Justin Fifield
20 Francisco y Chica: Feeling Memory Across Borders
Juan Fernando Villagómez
21 Salvaging Shame, Saving Ourselves: The Productive Role of Shame for Animals and
Marginalized Life
Brianne Donaldson and Isaac Willis
22 Ghost Stories: An Epilogue
Ashley King
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This is an ambitious collection that brings an intimate voice to the discussion of ethical issues that are usually developed in more distanced rights-based discussions.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781786611147
Publisert
2019-06-20
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield International
Vekt
721 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
161 mm
Dybde
34 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
364