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Our Children and Other animals For Elaine and Patricia Our Children and Other Animals The Cultural Construction of Human–Animal Relations in Childhood matthew COle Open University, UK Kate stewart University of Nottingham, UK © matthew Cole and Kate stewart 2014 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. matthew Cole and Kate stewart have asserted their right under the Copyright, designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the authors of this work. Published by ashgate Publishing limited ashgate Publishing Company wey Court east 110 Cherry street union road suite 3-1 Farnham Burlington, Vt 05401-3818 surrey, Gu9 7Pt usa england www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Cole, matthew, 1970- Our children and other animals : the cultural construction of human–animal relations in childhood / by matthew Cole and Kate stewart. pages cm includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4094-6460-0 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-4094-6461-7 (ebook) -- ISBN 978-1-4094- 6462-4 (epub) 1. Children and animals. 2. Human–animal relationships. 3. Animal welfare-- moral and ethical aspects. i. title. BF723.a45C65 2015 179′.3--dc23 2014023418 ISBN 9781409464600 (hbk) ISBN 9781409464617 (ebk – PDF) ISBN 9781409464624 (ebk – ePUB) V Contents List of Figures vii Acknowledgements ix PART I CONCEPTUALIZING WESTERN HUMAN–NONHUMAN ANIMAL RELATIONS 1 introduction 3 2 the use of names: socially Constructing animals as ‘Others’ 13 3 the historical separation of Children from Other animals 37 4 the Construction and study of Children and Childhood 57 PART II THE CONTEMPORARY SOCIALIZATION OF HUMAN–NONHUMAN RELATIONS IN CHILDHOOD 5 Family Practices and the shaping of human–nonhuman identities 75 6 Cute style: mass media representations of Other animals 89 7 education: making anthroparchal domination reasonable 111 8 Playing with Power: Virtual relations with Other animals in digital media 129 PART III RECONSTRUCTING CHILDREN’S RELATIONS WITH OTHER ANIMALS: VEGAN PRACTICES AND REPRESENTATIONS 9 we’ve Got to Get Out of this Place: the utopian Vehicularity of Vegan Children’s Culture 151 Our Children and Other animals 10 Conclusion: Resisting the Zooicidal Imperative 169 Bibliography 175 Index 191 vi List of Figures 2.1 a conceptual map of the social construction of ‘other’ animals 22 5.1 Girls, boys, ‘pets’, toys 87 6.1 Cutification as protection and denial 109 7.1 Exploitation as destiny: Educating children in the ‘proper’ positions of other animals 127 8.1 Powerplay: Representing ‘pets’, ‘farmed animals’ and ‘animal products’ in digital media 147 This page has been left blank intentionally Acknowledgements we are very grateful to vegan illustrator extraordinaire hayley wells for the front cover and the images that grace the figures in this volume. To learn more about hayley’s work, please visit: theillustratedvegan.blogspot.co.uk hayleywellsillustration.blogspot.co.uk We are obliged to the Journal for Critical Animal Studies for the kind permission to reproduce, with some modifications, our review of Puss in Boots in Chapter 6, which first appeared as: Cole, M. and Stewart, K. 2012. Puss in Boots. Journal for Critical Animal Studies, 10(1), 200–210. We are indebted to the support of many colleagues in innumerable discussions and especially through the opportunity to present portions of this volume at various conferences and other events over the last few years. In particular we would like to thank Marcel Sebastian and Julia Gutjahr for the invitations to speak in Hamburg and Bochum and to the Childhood Research Group at Cardiff University, who gave us our first chance to present the ideas that ended up in this book, way back in 2008. Thank you also to Karen Morgan and Claire Molloy for your advice and encouragement with the completion of the book, and to Neil Jordan at Ashgate for your interest and faith in the project. Coping with the stresses and strains of completing this volume was made much easier by being able to draw on the inspirational writings and work of the pioneers of the early Vegan Society in the 1940s and beyond, especially Donald Watson, Leslie J. Cross, G. Allen Henderson and Faye K. Henderson. Thanks are due to Joshua and Dylan, who have on occasion felt as if their own joyful childhood memories have been under scrutiny, and also to our animal companion Barney who shared that life and ours since as a much loved part of our family. Finally, it is customary to acknowledge the bottomless, fortifying and inspiring love and support of one’s partner. Clearly, we couldn’t have written this book without each other, but our co-authorship is only a fraction of the reason why.

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Focusing on the socialization of the human use of other animals as resources in contemporary Western society, this book explores the cultural reproduction of human-nonhuman animal relations in childhood. With close attention to the dominant practices through which children encounter animals and main
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