Animals Matter: Resistance and Transformation in Animal Commodification PDF
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Animals Matter Human- Animal Studies Series Editor Kenneth Shapiro Animals & Society Institute, USA Thomas Aiello Animals & Society Institute, USA Ivy Collier Animals & Society Institute, USA Gala Argent Animals & Society Institute, USA Editorial Board Ralph Acampora Hofstra University, USA Clifton Flynn University of South Carolina, USA Hilda Kean Ruskin College, Oxford, UK Randy Malamud Georgia State University, USA Gail Melson Purdue University, USA Leslie Irvine University of Colorado, USA Richie Nimmo University of Manchester, UK volume 26 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/has Animals Matter Resistance and Transformation in Animal Commodification Edited by Julien Dugnoille and Elizabeth Vander Meer LEIDEN | BOSTON Cover illustrations: (1) Lying Cow, painting by Vincent van Gogh (1883). Image in public domain. (2) Study of a Lioness, painting by John Frederick Lewis (c. 1824). Image in public domain. (3) Bird in a Cage, painting by Frederick Carl Frieseke (1937). Image in public domain. The Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available online at https://cata log.loc.gov lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022948885 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/b rill- typeface. issn 1573- 4226 isbn 978- 90- 04- 52843- 7 (hardback) isbn 978- 90- 04- 52844- 4 (e- book) Copyright 2023 by Julien Dugnoille and Elizabeth Vander Meer. Published by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill nv incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Hotei, Brill Schöningh, Brill Fink, Brill mentis, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Böhlau, V&R unipress and Wageningen Academic. Koninklijke Brill nv reserves the right to protect this publication against unauthorized use. Requests for re-use and/ or translations must be addressed to Koninklijke Brill nv via brill.com or copyright.com. This book is printed on acid- free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. To Idem, Mark, JP, SangSang, and Schmoo ∵ Contents L ist of Figures ix N otes on Contributors x Introduction 1 Julien Dugnoille 1 “ If They Could Talk It Would Be Perfect” Visibility of Individual Wild Animals in French Circus Spectacle 10 Elizabeth Vander Meer 2 T he Silence and the Fury Addressing Animal Resistance and Agency through the History of Human- Animal Relationships 32 Violette Pouillard 3 T he Mejiro Bird Between Commodity, Conservation, and Companion 56 Charlotte Linton 4 G rounding Intimacies Human- Bovid Coexistence and Community Development in Hong Kong 85 Daisy Bisenieks 5 G rowing Profitable Deer Livestock and the Individual in Deer Farming 109 Christopher Ward 6 S peaking about Farming Embodied Deliberation and Resistance of Cows and Farmers in the Netherlands 132 Eva Meijer 7 P ièce de Resistance Sartrean Existentialism in Small- Scale Farming 155 Julien Dugnoille viii Contents Conclusion Reclaiming Resistance 172 Elizabeth Vander Meer I ndex 177 Figures Chapter 1 (Vander Meer) 1 P enguins dispersing after performing the slide trick in the Grand Cirque ring. Source: Vander Meer 15 2 A snow leopard cub in the Jardin des Plantes Menagerie. Source: Vander Meer 18 Chapter 3 (Linton) 1 M ejiro- san, suspended from the workshop walls, interacts with an uncaged bird. Source: Linton 57 2 S lide titled “Amami rabbit”. Source: Douglas Haring Papers. Permission granted 62 3 S lide titled “Rurikakesu”. Source: Douglas Haring Papers. Permission granted 62 4 “ Bird meat shop, sparrows, quail eggs.” From left to right, birds are labelled kamo (duck); tsugumi (thrush); suzume (sparrow); quail eggs; duck or chicken eggs. Source: The Oliver L. Austin Photographic Collection. Permission granted 64 5 “ Bird meat shop, ducks.” From left to right: there appears to be duck, thrush, woodcock, mallard, and ring- necked duck. Source: The Oliver L. Austin Photographic Collection. 65 6 A mami black rabbit mascots wearing Oshima Tsumugi. Source: Linton 76 7 A n Oshima Tsumugi photoshoot in the Amamian forest. Source: Linton 77 8 K azu- san, one of the workshop craftsmen, points to Mejiro- san. Source: Linton 80 Chapter 5 (Ward) 1 D ave the tame deer. bds 2016, 25. Source: Ward 125 Notes on Contributors Daisy Bisenieks is an anthropologist and artist based in Hong Kong. Her research interests expand disciplines and geographies but primarily focus on anthroozology, in particular more- than- human geographies, human- wildlife conflict and pol- icy, as well as sensory and multispecies ethnography. Other areas of research interest include experimental research practice, museum studies, migration and diaspora studies, material culture, development and transnational trade, which was further consolidated during her time as artist- researcher in resi- dence at the Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich between 2013–2 016. Working together with her partner artist Royce Ng under the name Zheng Mahler, Bisenieks often works on research intensive, site- specific projects that utilise digital media, performance and installation to explore relationships between art and anthropology, examining the limits as well as methods and strategies of expanding both disciplines while experimenting with new interdisciplinary possibilities. Julien Dugnoille is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Exeter. For nearly a decade, much of his work has been dedicated to examining the place of dogs and cats in South Korean society and culture. His book Dogs and cats in South Korea: Itinerant commodities was published with Purdue University Press (2021). He has recently updated his findings by looking at how urban sustain- ability rhetoric used in South Korea during the current pandemic perpetuates naturalist ideologies of “modern” urban environments, which in turn silence a wide range of other ontologies (publication forthcoming). In collaboration with Elizabeth Vander Meer, he is also currently developing a project which explores how local, community- led approaches to the management of human- animal (especially cats) interactions in the urban space can reveal not only efficient alternatives to the dominant urban sustainability model, but also the social- cultural values and wellbeing benefits that emerge as communities engage with liminal animals in the urban space. Charlotte Linton is an anthropologist, designer and Postdoctoral Affiliate of the University of Oxford whose work is situated at the intersection of visual, material and eco- nomic anthropology, textiles and ethnoecology. She is interested in the relation- ships that craftspeople have with the environments from which they extract
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