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"Only a spectacle”: frogs and the environmental crisis

Sleigh, Charlotte (2015) "Only a spectacle”: frogs and the environmental crisis. In: Jones, Karen R. and Sleigh, Charlotte and Nagai, Kaori and Mattfeld, Monica and Rooney, Caroline R., eds. Cosmopolitan Animals. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 978-1-137-37627-5. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:50915)

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Abstract

In what ways can we conceptualise cosmopolitanisms which are not solely human? What does it take to embrace other animals as fellow creatures; where and how are such relationships made possible? With a preface by Donna Haraway, Cosmopolitan Animals is the first edited collection to place the question of animals at the centre of cosmopolitical inquiry. Drawing upon recent scholarship on cosmopolitanism and animal studies, the volume asks what new possibilities and permutations of cosmopolitanism can emerge by taking seriously our sharing, co-existing and 'becoming-with' animals. Edited by a team of six, and featuring chapters by leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this collective effort examines knots of human-animal relationships from different angles. It is argued that animals are important players in cosmopolitics, and that worldliness is far from being a human monopoly.

Item Type: Book section
Subjects: D History General and Old World
Q Science
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of History
Depositing User: Kate Smith
Date Deposited: 13 Oct 2015 13:25 UTC
Last Modified: 17 Aug 2022 10:59 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/50915 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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