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This book defines and argues for a Critical Pet Studies that challenges conventional narratives about human-pet relationships. Bringing together critical theoretical understandings of human-pet relationships and empirical research on them, this book investigates three sites of inquiry: the construction of animals-as-pet-commodities, multispecies cohabitation, and multispecies resistance. This sociological analysis of human-pet entanglements firmly situates them in a broader structural context that enables the categorisation of animals as ‘Pet’.
Drawing on over 60 qualitative interviews with 'owners' and stakeholders involved in housing and supporting pet-owning humans, and species-inclusive observation, the author demonstrates that unequal power relations become evident when nonhuman animals are centred in research that concerns them. Committed to the activist-scholarship agenda, this book offers a fruitful contribution to multispecies scholarship and human animal studies more broadly. It moves beyond previously depoliticised and human-centric explorations of human-pet relations, and challenges the reader to re-imagine companionship with other animals.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9789819217533
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-981-9217-53-3
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Erscheinungstermin: 28.10.2026
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2026
- Serie: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Social Problems
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Seiten: 215
- Format (B x H): 148 x 210 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt