1st Edition

Affect, Space and Animals

Edited By Jopi Nyman, Nora Schuurman Copyright 2016
216 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In recent years, animals have entered the focus of the social and cultural sciences, resulting in the emergence of the new field of human–animal studies. This book investigates the relationships between humans and animals, paying particular attention to the role of affect, space, and animal subjectivity in diverse human–animal encounters. Written by a team of international scholars, contributions... Read more

1 Introduction Jopi Nyman and Nora Schuurman  PART I Being with Animals: Affect  2. Never-ending Stories, Ending Narratives: Polar Bears, Climate Change Populism, and the Recent History of British Nature Documentary Film Graham Huggan  3. Cattle Tending in the "Good Old Times": Human–Cow Relationships in Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Finland Taija Kaarlenkaski  4. In Pursuit of Meaningful Human–Horse Relations: Responsible Horse Ownership in a Leisure Context Nora Schuurman and Alex Franklin  5. "... and Horses": The Affectionate Bond between Horses and Humans/Gods in Homer’s Iliad Tua Korhonen  PART II Mapping Human–Animal Spaces: Relationality  6. Re-reading Sentimentalism in Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty: Affect, Performativity, and Hybrid Spaces Jopi Nyman  7. Seeing the Animal Otherwise: An Uexküllian Reading of Kerstin Ekman’s The Dog Maria Olaussen  8. Transcultural Affect: Human–Horse Relations in Joe Johnston’s Hidalgo, Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, and Belá Tarr’s The Turin Horse Sissy Helff   9. What’s Underfoot: Emplacing Identity in Practice among Horse–Human Pairs Anita Maurstad, Dona Lee Davis, and Sarah Dean Part III From Objects to Subjects: Exploring Animal Subjectivity  10. Moving (with)in Affect: Horses, People, and Tolerance  Lynda Birke and Jo Hockenhull  11. Companionable Human–Animal Relationality: A Reading of a Buddhist Jātaka (Rebirth) Tale Teuvo Laitila  12. Passing the Cattle Car: Anthropomorphism, Animal Suffering, and James Agee’s "A Mother’s Tale" Jouni Teittinen  13. An Avian–Human art? Affective and Effective Relations between Birdsong and Poetry Karoliina Lummaa Part IV Methodological Afterword  14. Ethnographic Research in a Changing Cultural Landscape Karen Dalke and Harry Wels

Biography

Jopi Nyman is Head of English at the School of Humanities at the University of Eastern Finland.

Nora Schuurman is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Eastern Finland.