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The Social Construction of Narratives and Arguments in Animal Welfare Discourse and Debate
Contributor(s):: Muhammad, Mukhtar, Stokes, Jessica E., Morgans, Lisa, Manning, Louise
Stakeholders can hold conflicting values and viewpoints, on what animal welfare is and how a good life is achieved and can signal different problems, or problematize specific aspects of farm animal welfare, and propose different actions or interventions within food supply chains. The aim of the...
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Prophecies of Palestine: Geology and Intimate Knowledge of the Subterranean
Contributor(s):: Assali, Hadeel
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The experience of animal therapy in residential aged care in New Zealand: a narrative analysis
Contributor(s):: Wong, Gemma, Breheny, Mary
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Animal-Themed Tattoo Narratives: Insights into Ontological Perspectives
Contributor(s):: Hill, Kristine
By examining the narratives associated with animal-themed tattoos, this study explores the various ways in which humans relate to other animals. Participants used animal-likenesses to think about themselves, others, and the world around them. By embodying positive attributes of a species that...
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Village Dogs in Coastal Mexico The Street as a Place to Belong
| Contributor(s):: Ruiz-Izaguirre, E., Hebinck, P., Eilers, K.
Village dogs are important for households in coastal Mexico, yet they are seen as out of place by etic stakeholders (public health and wildlife experts, and animal welfarists). Caregivers of village dogs are considered irresponsible, a view that is reinforced by Mexican policy. We describe two...
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Life as a Reflexive Project: The Logics of Ethical Veganism and Meat-Eating
| Contributor(s):: Presser, L., Schally, J. L., Vossler, C.
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Hiker Narratives of Living among Bears on the Appalachian Trail
| Contributor(s):: Marx, K.
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Citizens' and Farmers' Framing of 'Positive Animal Welfare' and the Implications for Framing Positive Welfare in Communication
| Contributor(s):: Belinda Vigors
Human perception can depend on how an individual frames information in thought and how information is framed in communication. For example, framing something positively, instead of negatively, can change an individual’s response. This is of relevance to ‘positive animal...
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Tattoo Narratives: Insights Into Multispecies Kinship and Griefwork
| Contributor(s):: Hill, Kristine
This paper explores multispecies families and nonhuman kinship through the lens of tattoo narratives, namely those that accompany designs dedicated to a companion animal. Although some tattoos are purely aesthetic, many embody deep personal meanings. Humans use narrative as a tool to endow...
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Hellhounds and Helpful Ghost Dogs: Conflicting Perceptions of "Man's Best Friend" Encoded in Supernatural Narrative
| Contributor(s):: Kiersten Carr
Black dogs are a type of spectral entity that, according to legend, have been haunting the British Isles for centuries. While the legends have many regional variations, the common feature remains a large black dog, often with eyes “large as saucers” or sometimes, flaming, who...
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'He's my mate you see': a critical discourse analysis of the therapeutic role of companion animals in the social networks of people with a diagnosis of severe mental illness
| Contributor(s):: Brooks, H., Rushton, K., Lovell, K., McNaughton, R., Rogers, A.
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Interspecies Parenting: How Pet Parents Construct Their Roles
| Contributor(s):: Owens, Nicole, Grauerholz, Liz
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Written and spoken words: representations of animals and intimacy
| Contributor(s):: Nickie, Charles
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Some Thoughts about Acquiring and Learning to Use a Dog Guide
| Contributor(s):: Lambert, Robert M.
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The power of support from companion animals for people living with mental health problems: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of the evidence
| Contributor(s):: Helen Louise Brooks, Kelly Rushton, Karina Lovell, Penny Bee, Lauren Walker, Laura Grant, Anne Rogers
There is increasing recognition of the therapeutic function pets can play in relation to mental health. However, there has been no systematic review of the evidence related to the comprehensive role of companion animals and how pets might contribute to the work associated with managing a...
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The role of zoos and aquariums in education for a sustainable future
| Contributor(s):: Jan Packer, Roy Ballantyne
This chapter explores visitors' environmental learning in zoos and aquariums, inclusive of narrative accounts that demonstrate the impact of such experiences in the lives of visitors regarding the process and outcomes.
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Burn after Reading: Animal Terrorism in Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One
| Contributor(s):: Christopher Pizzino
At present, the tradition of the animal fable remains strong in popular narrative even as the narrative arts, on the whole, remain marginal to the field of animal studies. Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One, Adam Hines’s 2010 graphic novel, sets a new course for the animal fable and...
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A canine-centric critique of selected dog narratives.
| Contributor(s):: Donelle Gadenne
In this thesis I perform a canine-centric reading, within the theoretical frame of Critical Animal Studies, of nine ‘dog narratives’ from the last three decades – that is, novels in which dogs and human-canine relationships are central to the story. While the novels differ from...
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Its a Dog's Life: Contemplating the Human-Animal Relationship through Dog Adoption Narratives
| Contributor(s):: Nicole Silvestrini
Dog adoption is a popular way for people to find pets in the United States. With dog adoption comes dog adoption narratives, ideologically about the dog, told by humans for humans. Dog adoption narratives, a genre of personal experience narrative, enact a series of formalized conventions that...
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Meeting and merging: painting animal/human encounters with medicine
| Contributor(s):: Jo Voysey
My work focuses on the expressive potential of medicinal remedies as a medium for painting. My exploration is concentrated on aspects of the human relationship to animals in captivity and stems from a relationship I had with a caged bear when I was living in Georgia, Eastern Europe in 2011. The...
