Humans, animals and biopolitics : the more-than human condition / edited by Kristin Asdal, Tone Druglitrø and Steve Hinchliffe. - x, 197 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Multispecies encounters .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the "more than human" condition : sentient creatures and versions of biopolitics / Kristin Asdal, Tone Druglitrø and Steve Hinchliffe -- The practice of fishy sentience / John Law and Marianne Lien -- Making pig research biographies : names and numbers / Vibeke Pihl -- Modifying the biopolitical collective : the law as a moral technology / Kristin Asdal and Tone Druglitrø -- Pastorale : sheep traffic in modern trauma surgery / Martina Schlünder -- The measure of the disease : the pathological animal experiment in Robert Koch's medical bacteriology / Christoph Gradmann -- Knowing sentient subjects : humane experimental technique and the constitution of care and knowledge in laboratory animal science / Robert G.W. Kirk -- One health, many species : towards a multispecies investigation of bird flu / Natalie Porter -- Sensory biopolitics : knowing birds and a politics of life / Steve Hinchliffe -- Loving camels, sacrificing sheep, slaughtering gazelles : human-animal relations in contemporary desert fiction / Susan McHugh.

9781472448682

2015045517


Human ecology--Political aspects.
Biopolitics.
Human-animal relationships--Political aspects.

GF21 / .H855 2017

179.4 / HUM