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Cosmopolitan Animals asks what new possibilities and permutations of cosmopolitanism can emerge by taking seriously our sharing and 'becoming-with' animals. It calls for a fresh awareness that animals are important players in cosmopolitics, and that worldliness is far from being a human monopoly.

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Author:   Kaori Nagai ,  Caroline Rooney ,  Donna Landry ,  Monica Mattfeld
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2015
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.483kg
ISBN:  

9781137376275

ISBN 10:   1137376279
Pages:   253
Publication Date:   27 August 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Kaori Nagai PART I: COSMOPOLITICS Introduction; Donna Landry 1. A Time After Copernicus; Simon Glendinning 2. The Cynic As Cosmopolitan Animal; Andrea Haslanger 3. 'Only A Spectacle': Frogs, Cosmopolitics And The Ecological Crisis; Charlotte Sleigh 4. Animal Religion And Cosmonautical Allegories; Caroline Rooney PART II: HOSPITALITY Introduction; Charlotte Sleigh 5. Death-Traps In The Flyways: Electricity, Glass, And Bird Collisions In Urban North America, 1887-2014; Nadia Berenstein 6. The Bullfight In 21st Century Spain: Polemics Of Culture, Art And Ethics 7. Sun-Chieh Liang, Hospitable Animals; Mª Verónica De Haro De San Mateo And Garry Marvin 8. Gandhi's Animal Experiments; Julietta Singh PART III: COMPANIONSHIP Introduction; Karen Jones 9. Becoming Wormy, Becoming Worldly: Parasitic Nematodes As Companion Species; David Andrew Griffiths 10. Baboon Cosmopolitanism: More-Than-Human Moralities In A Multi-Species Community; Samantha Hurn 11. Hounds, Hunting And The Canine-Human Alliance; Karen Jones 12. Horse-Human Companionship: Creaturely Cosmopolitanism Across Eurasia; Donna Landry PART IV: THE POSTCOLONIAL Introduction; Kaori Nagai And Caroline Rooney 13. Iguanas And Enemy Combatants: Reconsidering Cosmopolitanism Through Guantanamo's Creaturely Lives; Terri Tomsky 14. Violent Encounters: 'Stray' Dogs In Indian Cities; Anuradha Ramanujan 15. The Beast In The Chinese Boxes: The Jungle Books As An Imperial Beast-Fable; Kaori Nagai

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Nadia Berenstein, University of Pennsylvania, UK Simon Glendinning, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK David Andrew Griffiths, University of Surrey, UK Donna Haraway, University of California, US Mª Verónica De Haro De San Mateo, Universidad de Murcia, Spain Andrea Haslanger, University of Sussex, UK Samantha Hurn, University of Exeter, UK Karen Jones, University of Kent, UK Donna Landry, University of Kent, UK Sun-chieh Liang, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan Garry Marvin, University of Roehampton, UK Monica Mattfeld, University of British Columbia, Canada Kaori Nagai, University of Kent, UK Julietta Singh, University of Richmond, US Charlotte Sleigh, University of Kent, UK Anuradha Ramanujan, National University of Singapore Caroline Rooney, University of Kent, UK Terri Tomsky, University of Alberta, Canada

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