More-than-human families: Pets, people, and practices in multispecies households
More-than-human families: Pets, people, and practices in multispecies households
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DOI：
10.1111/soc4.12455
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发表时间：
2017-02-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Cilia, Laurent
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作者：
Irvine, Leslie;Cilia, Laurent
尽管人类与狗和猫共存了数千年，但随着时间的推移，这种共存有了不同的含义。直到最近，人们才公开地把他们的宠物作为家庭成员。然而，由于文化对动物的矛盾心理，宠物“成为”家庭成员意味着什么仍未解决。根据对家庭实践的研究，包括亲属关系、家庭惯例、儿童社会化和家庭暴力，本文考虑了宠物如何参与“做”家庭，以及它们的存在对这种长期被认为是典型的人类社会安排意味着什么。今天超越人类的家庭代表了人类与动物、社会与自然关系的混合体，而不是一种全新的家庭。成为一个家庭总是取决于一系列非人类的特征，而对“超越人类”的认识不仅可以增强对家庭的社会学理解，还可以增强对社会生活其他方面的理解。
Although humans have coexisted with dogs and cats for thousands of years, that coexistence has taken on various meanings over time. Only recently have people openly included their pets as members of the family. Yet, because of the cultural ambivalence toward animals, what it means for a pet to "be" a family member remains unsettled. Drawing from research on family practices including kinship, household routines, childhood socialization, and domestic violence, this paper considers how pets participate in "doing" family and what their presence means for this social arrangement long considered quintessentially human. Today's more-than-human families represent a hybrid of relations, human and animal and social and natural, rather than an entirely new kind of family. Becoming family has always been contingent on a cast of nonhuman characters, and recognition of the "more-than-human" can enhance sociological understanding, not only of the family but also of other aspects of social life.