Non-humans in Social Science - Animals, Spaces, Things
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Vydavatel: | Pavel Mervart |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Publikováno: | 16.10.2012 |
Formát: | 1x kniha (brožovaná) 316 stran |
Anotace
Ideas of dead, inert space, non-living, machinelike, reflexively
controlled bodies and passive, meaningless things are very modern.
At the very heart of the program of modernity, resource
exploitation and consumption is the idea that non-humans have no
agency - they are simply resources to be manipulated and exploited
at out will. Mostly leaving aside the more and more evident ethical
concerns of this worldview and this particular setting of the
human-nonhuman boundary, this volume attempts to explore what
social sciences have to say about the relationship between the
human and non-human. The intention of this book is to offer a
non-human perspective. We realize that it is sometimes difficult to
say whether the outcome of such a perspective would be just a
shallow tendency to anthropomorphize, or whether we could reach
some of the previously unseen properties of non-humans. Being aware
of the dangers, this volume puts together different case studies
that are more or less inspired by the non-human perspective. The
aim is to explore what has been for a long time put aside and to
provide new insight, new revelations that con lead social sciences
to undiscovered or hidden realms. The outcome of this thrilling
adventure can in the end be a discovery that the role of natural
and social sciences, or even more, the character of the
nature-culture dichotomy would have to be re-evaluated.
Kategorie
- Beletrie
- Odborná literatura / Příroda a přírodní vědy
- Odborná literatura / Společenské vědy / Sociologie
Knihovnické kódy
- ISBN: 9788074650109
- EAN: 9788074650109