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Humans, Animals and Biopolitics: The more-than-human condition book cover

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Humans, Animals and Biopolitics The more-than-human condition

Edited By Kristin Asdal, Tone Druglitro, Steve Hinchliffe Copyright 2017
210 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Human-animal co-existence is central to a politics of life, how we order societies, and to debates about who ’we’ humans think ’we’ are. In other words, our ways of understanding and ordering human-animal relations have economic and political implications and affect peoples’ everyday lives. By bringing together historically-oriented approaches and contemporary ethnographies which engage with... Read more

1. Introduction: The ‘More Than Human’ Condition: Sentient Creatures and Versions of Biopolitics

Kristin Asdal, Tone Druglitrø and Steve Hinchliffe

2. The Practice of Fishy Sentience

John Law and Marianne Lien

3. Making Pig Research Biographies: Names and Numbers

Vibeke Pihl

4. Modifying the Biopolitical Collective: The Law as a Moral Technology

Kristin Asdal and Tone Druglitrø

5. Pastorale: Sheep Traffic in Modern Trauma Surgery

Martina Schlünder

6. The Measure of the Disease: The Pathological Animal Experiment in Robert Koch’s Medical Bacteriology

Christoph Gradmann

7. Knowing Sentient Subjects: Humane Experimental Technique and the Constitution of Care and Knowledge in Laboratory Animal Science

Robert G. W. Kirk

8. One Health, Many Species: Towards a Multispecies Investigation of Bird Flu

Natalie Porter

9. Sensory Biopolitics: Knowing Birds and a Politics of Life

Steve Hinchliffe

10. Loving Camels, Sacrificing Sheep, Slaughtering Gazelles: Human-Animal Relations in Contemporary Desert Fiction

Susan McHugh

Biography

Kristin Asdal is Professor of Science, Technology and Culture at TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Norway.

Tone Druglitrø is Postdoctoral Fellow at TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Norway.

Steve Hinchliffe is Professor of Geography at the Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK.

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