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Provides cross-disciplinary perspectives on the study of animals in humanities This volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on Animal Studies. What new questions and modes of research need come into play if we are to seriously acknowledge our entanglements with other animals? World-leading scholars from a range of disciplines, including Literature, Philosophy, Art, Biosemiotics, and Geography, set the agenda for Animal Studies today. Rather than a narrow specialism, the 35 newly commissioned essays in this book show how we think of other animals to be intrinsic to fields as major as ethics, economies as widespread as capitalism and relations as common as friendship.The volume contains original, cutting-edge research and opens up new methods, alignments, directions as well as challenges for the future of Animal Studies. Uniquely, the chapters each focus on a single topic, from 'Abjection' to 'Voice' and from 'Affection' to 'Technology', thus embedding the animal question as central to contemporary concerns across a wide range of disciplines. Key Features Provides in one work prominent scholars in animal studies and their reflections on the trajectory of the fieldEmbeds the 'animal question' as central to contemporary concerns across a wide range of disciplinesBrings discourses from the sciences into dialogue with the arts and humanitiesOpens up new methods, alignments, directions and challenges for the future of animal studiesAfterword from Cary Wolfe (Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English, Rice University)

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"From A-Z, this book is full of astute companion writers and scholars entangled in rich webs with the lives and deaths of animals, in story, evolution, politics, science fiction, religion, ethics, queer theory, performance, ordinary living, and more. Here is a book that takes seriously the unanswerable but necessary question that gives the Afterword its title, ""Who are these animals I am following?"" Follow, read, and emerge in the compost that is always more than human. -- ""Donna Haraway, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of California Santa Cruz"" What the various contributions to the Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies demonstrate most, perhaps, is that far more important than the issue of what animal studies may study is the question of what forms of knowing and engagement it may yet produce in the course of continuing to engage - through its diversification and transformation of - the question of the animal. --Robert Briggs, Curtin University ""Derrida Today"""

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Lynn Turner is a Reader in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Poetics of Deconstruction: on the threshold of differences (Bloomsbury, 2020), co-editor, with Undine Sellbach and Ron Broglio, of The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies (EUP, 2018), editor of The Animal Question in Deconstruction (EUP, 2013) and co-author, with Astrid Schmetterling, of Visual Cultures As... Recollection (Sternberg, 2013). Undine Sellbach is recently appointed Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee, UK, and previously Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Australia. Her research explores the edges of sentience through ethology, psychoanalysis, feminist philosophy of science, art and performance. She is currently completing a co-authored book about the speculative ethologies of Jacob von Uexküll. Ron Broglio is Associate Professor of Literature and Culture and Sustainability Scholar at Arizona State University Global Institute of Sustainability. He is the author of Beast of Burden: Biopolitics, Labor and Animal Life in British Romanticism (State University of New York Press, 2017), Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) and Technologies of the Picturesque (Bucknell University Press, 2008).

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