Animals at Work: Identity, Politics and Culture in Work with Animals

By Lindsay Hamilton and Nik Taylor

Animals at Work is founded upon a broad and unique variety of empirical research settings - animal sanctuaries, farms, slaughter-houses, veterinary practices and behind the scenes of a natural history documentary film-making team. Hamilton and Taylor apply a breadth of post-structural and post-humanist theories to establish what happens when animal-agents are brought into human networks and spaces of representation, and the artful ways in which they become integral in shared human meaning-making. Interrogating the apparent boundaries of meaning between animals and humans by taking a close-up view of those working with animals in a variety of occupational settings, the book enjoys a rare and original range of empirical research contexts from British dairy farms to the jungles of Borneo.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004235825
• ISBN13: 9789004235823
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"