Foucault and Animals

About this book

Foucault and Animals is the first collection of its kind to explore the relevance of Michel Foucault's thought for the question of the animal. Chrulew and Wadiwel bring together essays from emerging and established scholars that illuminate the place of animals and animality within Foucault's texts, and open up his highly influential range of concepts and methods to different domains of human-animal relations including experimentation, training, zoological gardens, pet-keeping, agriculture, and consumption. Touching on themes such as madness and discourse, power and biopolitics, government and ethics, and sexuality and friendship, Foucault and Animals takes the fields of Foucault studies and human-animal studies into promising new directions.

Contents

Foreword
List of Contributors
Editor's Introduction: Foucault and Animals, Matthew Chrulew and Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel

Part One: Discourse and Madness
1. Terminal Truths: Foucault's Animals and the Mask of the Beast, Joseph Pugliese
2. Chinese Dogs and French Scapegoats: An Essay in Zoonomastics, Claire Huot
3. Violence and Animality: An Investigation of Absolute Freedom in Foucault's History of Madness, Leonard Lawlor
4. The Order of Things: The Human Sciences are the Event of Animality, Said Chebili. (Translated by Matthew Chrulew and Jeffrey Bussolini)

Part Two: Power and Discipline
5. "Taming the wild profusion of existing things": A Study of Foucault, Power, and Human/Animal Relationships, Clare Palmer
6. Dressage: Training the Equine Body , Natalie Corinne Hansen
7. Foucault's Menagerie: Cock Fighting, Bear Baiting, and the Genealogy of Human-Animal Power, Alex Mackintosh

Part Three: Science and Biopolitics
8. The Birth of the Laboratory Animal: Biopolitics, Animal Experimentation, and Animal Wellbeing, Robert G. W. Kirk
9. Animals as Biopolitical Subjects, Matthew Chrulew
10. Biopower, Heterogeneous Biosocial Collectivities and Domestic Livestock Breeding, Lewis Holloway and Carol Morris

Part Four: Government and Ethics
11. Apum Ordines: Of Bees and Government, Craig McFarlane
12. Animal Friendship as a Way of Life: Sexuality, Petting and Interspecies Companionship, Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel
13. Foucault and the Ethics of Eating, Chloe Taylor Afterword, Paul Patton

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Biography

Matthew Chrulew, Ph.D. (2011) is a research fellow in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts and the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University. His essays have appeared in Angelaki, SubStance, New Formations, Foucault Studies and elsewhere. Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel, Ph.D. (2006) is a Lecturer in Human rights and Socio-Legal Studies at The University of Sydney. He is author of the monograph The War against Animals (Brill, 2015).