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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337707803321

Autore

Taylor Nik

Titolo

Companion Animals and Domestic Violence : Rescuing Me, Rescuing You / / by Nik Taylor, Heather Fraser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9783030041250

3030041255

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 222 p. 8 illus., 1 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Animals and Social Problems, , 2946-4684

Disciplina

305

304.27

Soggetti

Social structure

Equality

Ethnology

Criminal behavior

Animal welfare - Moral and ethical aspects

Social Structure

Sociocultural Anthropology

Criminal Behavior

Animal Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Nik Taylor and Heather Fraser consider how we might better understand human-animal companionship in the context of domestic violence. The authors advocate an intersectional feminist understanding, drawing on a variety of data from numerous projects they have conducted with people, about their companion animals and links between domestic violence and animal abuse, arguing for a new understanding that enables animals to be constituted as victims of domestic violence in their own right. The chapters analyse the mutual, loving connections that can be formed across species, and in households where there is domestic violence. Companion Animals and



Domestic Violence also speaks to the potentially soothing, healing and recovery oriented aspects of human-companion animal relationships before, during and after the violence, and will be of interest to various academic disciplines including social work, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, geography,as well as to professionals working in domestic violence or animal welfare service provision. .