Regarding Animals
Second Edition

PB: $34.95
EAN: 978-1-4399-2310-8
Publication: Jul 22
HC: $110.50
EAN: 978-1-4399-2309-2
Publication: Jul 22
Ebook: $34.95
EAN: 978-1-4399-2311-5
Publication: Jul 22
296 pages
6 x 9
A new edition of an award-winning book that examines how people live with contradictory attitudes toward animals
Read the IntroductionDescription
The first edition of Regarding Animals provided insight into the history and practice of how human beings construct animals, and how we construct ourselves and others in relation to them. Considerable progress in how society regards animals has occurred since that time. However, shelters continue to euthanize companion animals, extinction rates climb, and wildlife “management” pits human interests against those of animals.
This second edition of Regarding Animals includes four new chapters, examining how relationships with pets help homeless people to construct positive personal identities; how adolescents who engage in or witness animal abuse understand their acts; how veterinary technicians experience both satisfaction and contamination in their jobs; and how animals are represented in mass media—both traditional editorial media and social media platforms.
The authors illustrate how modern society makes it possible for people to shower animals with affection and yet also to abuse or kill them. Although no culture or subculture provides solutions for resolving all moral contradictions, Regarding Animals illuminates how people find ways to live with inconsistent behavior.
Reviews
“If the contemporary literature on human-animal relations has something like amodern ‘classic’ it is Arluke and Sanders’s Regarding Animals. ”—Sociological Forum
“It is clearly not the authors’ objective to preach or judge, but rather to observe the socially constructed view of animals that ultimately sheds brilliant light on the humans who are doing the constructing.”—Publishers Weekly
Table of Contents
Preface: What’s New in This Edition?
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Bringing Animals to the Center
Part I: The Human-Animal Tribe
2. Learning from Animals
Part II: Living with Contradiction
4. Pet Ownership on the Street
5. Animal Abuse and Adolescents
6. The Organizational Self of Shelter Workers
7. Dirty Work and Good Intentions
8. Systems of Meaning in Primate Labs
9. Making News about Animals
10. Boundary Work in Nazi Germany
Part III: Paradox and Change
Conclusion: The Uses, Abuses, and Limits of Culture
References
Index
About the Author(s)
Subjects
In the Series
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Animals, Culture, and Society edited by Arnold Arluke and Clinton R. Sanders
Animals, Culture, and Society, edited by Arnold Arluke and Clinton R. Sanders, is concerned with probing the complex and contradictory human-animal relationship through the publication of accessible books that consider the place of animals in our culture, our literature, our society, and our homes.