Essays about: "human-animal boundary"

Found 2 essays containing the words human-animal boundary.

1. 1. Making Sense of Cattle: A story from farm to food

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Antikens kultur och samhällsliv

   Author : Nicole Gosling; [2018]
   Keywords : Cattle; ethnography; mobile slaughter; hermeneutic phenomenology; liminality; boundary labour; beef; animal welfare;

   Abstract : This thesis explores how those involved in a mobile-slaughtering mode of beef production engage with, and experience cattle bodies throughout the beef producing process. These experiences are examined in relation to historical accounts of how people have experienced cattle bodies in both pre-industrialized and post industrialized modes of beef production. READ MORE

3. 2. The Animal/Man That Therefore I Am

   University essay from Engelska institutionen

   Author : Stephen Ervin; [2013]
   Keywords : animal; human; Animal Man; animal rights; comics; Derrida; Heidegger; Agamben; human-animal boundary; hybridity; intelligence; language; work; rich-in-world; poor-in-world; tools; powers.;

   Abstract : Grant Morrison’s Animal Man could be argued to worry the man/animal boundary. Using closereadings of the comics against the backdrop of Jacques Derrida’s and Martin Heidegger’stheories on the boundary between man and animal, I explore the following ideas which seemcommon in the discourses on that which separates humans from animals: intelligence vs. READ MORE