Animal Enthusiasms
Animal Enthusiasms

Author: Muhammad A. Kavesh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-29

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1000329968

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Animal Enthusiasms explores how human–animal relationships are conceived, developed, and carried out in rural Pakistani Muslim society through an examination of practices such as pigeon flying, cockfighting, and dogfighting. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork carried between 2008 and 2018 in rural South Punjab, the book examines the crucial cultural concept of shauq (enthusiasm) and provides critical insight into changing ways of life in contemporary Pakistan. It tracks the relationships between men mediated by non-human animals and discusses how such relationships in rural areas are coded in complex ways. The chapters draw on debates around transformations of animal activities over time, the changing forms of human–animal intimacy and their impact on familial relationships, and rural Punjabi values attached to the performance of masculine honour. The book will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, multi-species ethnography, gender and masculinity studies, and South Asian studies.

Why We Love and Exploit Animals
Why We Love and Exploit Animals

Author: Kristof Dhont

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-11-08

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 1351181424

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This unique book brings together research and theorizing on human-animal relations, animal advocacy, and the factors underlying exploitative attitudes and behaviors towards animals. Why do we both love and exploit animals? Assembling some of the world’s leading academics and with insights and experiences gleaned from those on the front lines of animal advocacy, this pioneering collection breaks new ground, synthesizing scientific perspectives and empirical findings. The authors show the complexities and paradoxes in human-animal relations and reveal the factors shaping compassionate versus exploitative attitudes and behaviors towards animals. Exploring topical issues such as meat consumption, intensive farming, speciesism, and effective animal advocacy, this book demonstrates how we both value and devalue animals, how we can address animal suffering, and how our thinking about animals is connected to our thinking about human intergroup relations and the dehumanization of human groups. This is essential reading for students, scholars, and professionals in the social and behavioral sciences interested in human-animal relations, and will also strongly appeal to members of animal rights organizations, animal rights advocates, policy makers, and charity workers.

Roxy
Roxy

Author: Edward Eggleston

Publisher: Ardent Media

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13:

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Roxy is a tale of secrets and lies, sex and death. Sent to Greece on a mission of mercy to meet her estranged grandfather, Roxy uncovers the truth about her family--and must unravel the longtime consequences of a tragic love story. At the same time she has a secret of her own, and must deal with her strong feelings for the far-too-good-looking Giorgio. This is a riveting mystery with a tough yet vulnerable narrator.

Blurb Your Enthusiasm
Blurb Your Enthusiasm

Author: Louise Willder

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-09-01

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 0861542495

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‘The bookiest book about books you’ll ever read – I loved it’ Lucy Mangan ‘Truly delightful...I couldn’t have had more fun’ Benjamin Dreyer ‘Very funny, erudite and profound. A delight!’ Nina Stibbe This is the outside story of books. From blurbs to titles, quotes to (checks jacket) cute animal designs – via author feuds, writing tricks, classic literature, bonkbusters, plot spoilers and publishing secrets – discover why it’s good to judge a book by its cover. Maybe even this one…

Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm

Author: Jean-François Lyotard

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 0804738971

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Enthusiasm is Lyotard's most elaborate and provocative statement on the politics of the sublime.

Critical Enthusiasm
Critical Enthusiasm

Author: Jordana Rosenberg

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-04-20

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0199877378

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Critical Enthusiasm tracks the intertwined histories of religious radicalism and economic transformation in the long eighteenth century. Rosenberg situates the rhetoric of enthusiastic rapture in the context of the major institutional transformations of early modernity: the dispossession and plunder of the globe, the rise of finance, legal reform, and the administration of racialized labor.