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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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Marx and Alienated Speciesism
| Contributor(s):: Foster, John Bellamy, Clark, Brett
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Establishing a framework to understand the regulation and control of dogs in urban environments: a case study of Melbourne, Australia
| Contributor(s):: Simon Bruce Carter
Background This study examines the effectiveness of animal management from a critical theory perspective, establishing a framework to describe the animal management activities of local government. In creating sustainable cities, local government must critically engage with the management of...
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METHODS FOR MULTISPECIES ANTHROPOLOGY: Thinking with Salmon Otoliths and Scales
| Contributor(s):: Swanson, Heather Anne
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More-than-toad: Conflicts and Ruminations in Cane Toad Management
| Contributor(s):: Nyquist, Jon Rasmus
This paper takes an event involving the introduced Cane Toad (Rhinella marina) in Australia, a community group, and a contested fence line as point of departure for discussions about different forms of engagement and the importance of being attentive to continuity and enduring forms. Cane Toads...
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Pet Provocateur: Questioning Human/Non-Human Relationships in Visual Representations
| Contributor(s):: Linsen Settembrini
This thesis consists of two parts, one visual and the other textual. For the first section I have created a series of ostentatious paintings concerning the animal subject as a protagonist in our consumer culture. The result was a solo exhibition titled zooccoco by phat glitz, which illustrated...
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Ontological security and connectivity provided by pets: a study in the self-management of the everyday lives of people diagnosed with a long-term mental health condition
| Contributor(s):: Helen Brooks, Kelly Rushton, Sandra Walker, Karina Lovell, Anne Rogers
BackgroundDespite evidence that connecting people to relevant wellbeing-related resources brings therapeutic benefit, there is limited understanding, in the context of mental health recovery, of the potential value and contribution of pet ownership to personal support networks for...
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Extreme Humanism: Heidegger, Buber, and the Threshold of Language
| Contributor(s):: Garrett, Frank
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Multiple acts of birding: the Education, ethics and ontology of bird watching in Ontario
| Contributor(s):: Gavan Peter Longley Watson
While bird watching has captured the attention of those interested in fostering an experiential connection to the more-than-human, research conducted to date often assumes birding to be a heterogeneous act. As an example of free-choice learning, this work positions birding as a kind of...
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An animal in the exact meaning of the word
| Contributor(s):: Wróblewski, Filip
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Canids as persons : Early Neolithic and wolf burials, Cis-Baikal, Siberia
| Contributor(s):: Losey, Robert J., R.J. Losey, V.I. Bazaliiskii, S. Garvie-Lok, M. Germonpre, Jennifer A. Leonard, A.L. Allen, M. Anne Katzenberg, M.V. Sablin
Interpretations of dog burials made by ancient foraging groups have tended to be based upon our own relationships with such animals and modern western cosmological and ontological concepts. Osteological studies of early dogs often focus only on issues of taxonomy, and as a result very little is...
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Do people resemble chickens? Thoughts about the animal /human borderline in Madagascar
| Contributor(s):: Astuti, Rita
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Navigating human-animal divide: marine mammal hunters and rituals of sensory allurement
| Contributor(s):: McNiven, Jan J.
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Pour une approche interactive des savoirs locaux: l'ethno-éthologie
| Contributor(s):: Brunois, Florence
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The animal which I am dying: Heidegger, Derrida, Agamben
| Contributor(s):: Mościcki, Paweł
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The non-existent animal: experimentum de hominis natura
| Contributor(s):: Żychliński, Arkadiusz
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An Athapaskan way of knowing: a Chipewyan ontology
| Contributor(s):: Smith, David M.
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Animals as agents : hunting ritual and relational ontologies in prehistoric Alaska and Chukotka
| Contributor(s):: Hill, Erica
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Being toward meat anthropocentrism, indistinction, and veganism
| Contributor(s):: Calarco, Matthew
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Cuts of meat : disentangling western natures-cultures
| Contributor(s):: Yates-Doerr, Emily
