Animal behaviours, post-human lives: everyday negotiations of the animal-human divide in pet-keeping
Animal behaviours, post-human lives: everyday negotiations of the animal-human divide in pet-keeping
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DOI：
10.1080/14649360600825679
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发表时间：
2006-08-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Fox, Rebekah
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作者：
Fox, Rebekah
本文探讨了当代英国的宠物主人在试图了解他们的宠物时如何运用“动物”和“人类”的类别。饲养宠物是现代西方社会中人与动物互动最密切的形式之一，因此提供了一个理想的机会来研究人们在日常生活中如何理解人类和非人类之间的异同。通过宠物与人类关系的密切性质，人们开始以多种方式来理解这些动物，超越本能行为的观念，认识到它们的个体主观性和“人格”，但也尊重它们的“动物性”和差异，而不是仅仅根据它们与人类的相似性来评价它们。这些二元范畴的破坏为理解日常生活现实中的“后人文主义”概念提供了一个模型。
This paper explores the ways in which pet-owners in contemporary Britain mobilize the categories of 'animal' and 'human' in their attempts to understand their pets. Pet-keeping forms one of the closest forms of human-animal interaction in modern western society and as such provides an ideal opportunity to examine the ways in which people understand the similarities and differences between humans and non-humans in the course of their daily lives. Through the close-lived nature of pet-human relationships, people come to understand these animals in a variety of ways which go beyond ideas of instinctual behaviour to recognize their individual subjectivity and 'personhood', but also respect their 'animalness' and difference, rather than valuing them simply on the basis of their similarity to humans. These disruptions of binary categories provide a model for understanding notions of 'post-humanism' in the lived reality of everyday life.