Cosmopolitan Animals [recurso electrónico

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xxi Introduction....Pages 1-6 Front Matter....Pages 7-13 A Time after Copernicus....Pages 14-28 The Cynic as Cosmopolitan Animal....Pages 29-42 ‘Only a Spectacle’: Frogs, Cosmopolitics and the Ecological Crisis....Pages 43-57 Animal Religion and Cosmonautical Allegories....Pages 58-71 Front Matter....Pages 73-78 Deathtraps in the Flyways: Electricity, Glass and Bird Collisions in Urban North America, 1887–2014....Pages 79-92 The Bullfight in Twenty-First-Century Spain: Polemics of Culture, Art and Ethics....Pages 93-106 Hospitable Animals....Pages 107-119 Gandhi’s Animal Experiments....Pages 120-132 Front Matter....Pages 133-137 Becoming Wormy, Becoming Worldly: Parasitic Nematodes as Companion Species....Pages 138-151 Baboon Cosmopolitanism: More-Than-Human Moralities in a Multispecies Community....Pages 152-166 From the Field to the Frontier: Hounds, Hunting and the Canine-Human Alliance....Pages 167-180 Horse-Human Companionship: Creaturely Cosmopolitanism across Eurasia....Pages 181-193 Front Matter....Pages 195-200 Iguanas and Enemy Combatants: Reconsidering Cosmopolitanism through Guantánamo’s Creaturely Lives....Pages 201-215 Violent Encounters: ‘Stray’ Dogs in Indian Cities....Pages 216-232 The Beast in the Chinese Boxes: The Jungle Books as an Imperial Beast-Fable....Pages 233-245 Back Matter....Pages 247-253 In what ways can we conceptualise cosmopolitanisms which are not solely human? What does it take to embrace other animals as fellow creatures; where and how are such relationships made possible? With a preface by Donna Haraway, Cosmopolitan Animals is the first edited collection to place the question of animals at the centre of cosmopolitical inquiry. Drawing upon recent scholarship on cosmopolitanism and animal studies, the volume asks what new possibilities and permutations of cosmopolitanism can emerge by taking seriously our sharing, co-existing and 'becoming-with' animals. Edited by a team of six, and featuring chapters by leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this collective effort examines knots of human-animal relationships from different angles. It is argued that animals are important players in cosmopolitics, and that worldliness is far from being a human monopoly