Animals in Our Midst

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910473453203321
• Autore: Bovenkerk Bernice
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Springer Nature, 2021; Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2021; ©2021
• ISBN: 3-030-63523-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (574 pages)
• Collana: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics ; ; v.33
• Classificazione: MED089000PHI005000PHI021000SCI026000SCI070000
• Altri autori (Persone): KeulartzJozef
• Soggetti: Veterinary medicine; Philosophy; Ethics & moral philosophy; The environment; Zoology & animal sciences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Animals in Our Midst: An Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Animal Ethics in the Anthropocene -- 1.3 The Netherlands as Mirror of Biodiversity Problems -- 1.3.1 The Recovery of Wildlife -- 1.3.2 Exotic Species and Climate Refugees -- 1.3.3 The Sixth Mass Extinction -- 1.3.4 Rewilding and De-extinction -- 1.3.5 Intensive Livestock Farming -- 1.3.6 The Ecological Impact of Large-Scale Hunting -- 1.3.7 Companion Animals -- 1.3.8 The 'Liminalisation' of Wildlife -- 1.3.9 The Struggle for Nature Between People -- 1.4 Overview of the Volume -- 1.4.1 Part 1: Animal Agents -- 1.4.2 Part 2: Domesticated Animals -- 1.4.3 Part 3: Urban Animals -- 1.4.4 Part 4: Wild Animals -- 1.4.5 Part 5: Animal Artefacts -- References -- 2 Animal Conservation in the Twenty-First Century -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Viable Populations -- 2.3 Sufficiently Large Numbers and the Amount of Area They Require -- 2.4 Challenges -- 2.5 Trophic Downgrading: "When the Cat Is Away, the Mice Will Play" -- 2.6 Conservation in Twenty-First Century: 'Cores, Corridors and Carnivores' ; Meets 'Nature Needs Half' -- 2.7 Viable Ecosystems with Red Deer and Wolf in the Netherlands -- 2.7.1 Current Population of Red Deer in the Netherlands -- 2.7.2 Current Population of Wolf in the Netherlands -- 2.7.3 Predator-Prey Relation Between Wolf and Red Deer -- 2.8 The Netherlands in 2120 -- 2.9 Change -- 2.10 Further Reading -- References -- Part I Animal Agents -- 3 Taking Animal Perspectives into Account in Animal Ethics -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Conceptualizing Animal Agency: Two Models -- 3.2.1 Propositional Agency -- 3.2.2 Materialist Agency -- 3.2.3 A Working Definition of Agency -- 3.3 Taking into Account Relational Agency in Animal Ethics on the Micro- and Macro Level -- 3.3.1 Relational Agency and Animal Ethics.; 3.3.2 Taking into Account Macro-Relations in Thinking About Agency and Ethics -- 3.4 Risks for Relational Approaches to Ethics -- 3.5 Further Directions -- 3.5.1 Research -- 3.5.2 Animal Cultures -- 3.5.3 Animal Workers -- 3.5.4 Further Directions -- References -- 4 Turning to Animal Agency in the Anthropocene -- 4.1 The Centrality of Agency -- 4.2 On Animal Agency and Self-Judging Obligations -- 4.3 Standpoint Acknowledgement and How to Ask the Right Questions -- 4.4 Calling for an "Animal Agency Turn" -- References -- 5 Animal Difference in the Age of the Selfsame -- 5.1 Progressivist Anti-naturalism -- 5.2 Sameness and Anthropocentrism -- 5.3 Violence Against Otherness -- 5.4 A Proposal for an Ethic of Animal Difference -- 5.5 Sameness and the Anthropocene -- 5.6 Conclusion -- References -- 6 Should the Lion Eat Straw Like the Ox? Animal Ethics and the Predation Problem -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Utilitarianism -- 6.2.1 Piecemeal Engineering -- 6.2.2 The Balance of Nature and the Argument from Ignorance -- 6.2.3 Paradise Engineering -- 6.3 Rights Theories -- 6.3.1 Lack of Moral Agency -- 6.3.2 Non-human Victims -- 6.4 The Capabilities Approach -- 6.4.1 The Other Species Capability -- 6.4.2 Broadening the Capabilities Approach -- 6.5 Political Theory of Animal Rights -- 6.5.1 Similarities and Dissimilarities with the Capabilities Approach -- 6.5.2 Competence and Risk -- 6.5.3 Positive and Negative Duties -- 6.5.4 The Limits of a Place-Based Approach -- 6.5.5 Blurring Boundaries -- 6.5.6 Learning to Hunt and to Avoid Predators -- 6.6 Concluding Remarks -- References -- 7 Justified Species Partiality -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Species-Membership Views of Moral Status -- 7.3 Strategy One: Moral Status Equality and Moral Considerability Diversity -- 7.4 Strategy Two: Equal Moral Status Without Equal Political Status.; 7.5 Strategy Three: Differential Epistemic Position -- 7.6 Conclusion -- References -- 8 Humanity in the Living, the Living in Humans -- 8.1 Introduction: Animals, Plants and Humans -- 8.2 Food Makes the World Go Around -- 8.3 Values in Animal Plant Interactions -- 8.4 Do They Communicate with Each Other? -- 8.5 Collaboration as a Mechanism of Co-evolution -- 8.6 Tree of Life or Network? -- 8.7 Symbiosis, Symbionts, Holobionts and Place -- 8.8 Different Types of Relations Inter- and Intra-species -- 8.9 Matter and Meaning -- Philosophical Questions -- 8.10 Barriers: Classifications, Anthropocentrism and Hubris -- 8.11 Philosophical Challenges: Pandora's Box Versus New Skills -- 8.12 Conclusion -- References -- 9 Comment: The Current State of Nonhuman Animal Agency -- 9.1 Changing Perspectives Within Animal Ethics -- 9.2 The Problem of Predation -- 9.3 Human and Nonhuman Animals -- 9.4 The Future of Agency -- References -- Part II Domesticated Animals -- 10 An Introduction to Ecomodernism -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The Optimal Role of Animals in Our Food System -- 10.3 The Case for Intensification -- 10.4 How History Shapes the Way We Think About Animal Farming -- ; 10.5 The Future of Animal Farming -- 10.6 The Future of Animal Eating -- 10.7 Conclusion -- References -- 11 Place-Making by Cows in an Intensive Dairy Farm: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Nonhuman Animal Agency -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Language and the Politics of Human Exceptionalism -- 11.3 Cows as Social and Linguistic Beings -- 11.4 Linguistic Place-Making in an Intensive Dairy Farm -- 11.4.1 The Fieldwork Site -- 11.4.2 Place-Making Through Practices of Sociality and Multilingualism -- 11.5 Conclusion -- References -- 12 The Vanishing Ethics of Husbandry -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Industrial Animal Production -- 12.3 Reforming Husbandry in Industrial Animal Production.; 12.4 Philosophers and Animal Husbandry -- 12.5 Animal Husbandry and Animal Activism -- 12.6 The Eclipse of Husbandry and the Rise of Narcissism -- 12.7 Conclusion -- References -- 13 Reimagining Human Responsibility Towards Animals for Disaster Management in the Anthropocene -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Animal Disaster Ethics: Developing Disaster Frameworks -- 13.3 Animal Disaster Ethics: Revealing Animal Vulnerabilities -- 13.4 Animal Disaster Management: A Reimagining -- 13.5 Animal Disaster Management: Humanitarian Impulse and Animal Welfare Science -- 13.6 Animal Disaster Management: Aims and Recommendations for Ethically Responsible Caretaking -- 13.7 Recommendations -- References -- 14 The Decisions of Wannabe Dog Keepers in the Netherlands -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Animal Ethicists' Views on Dog Ownership -- 14.3 Pedigree Pups -- 14.4 Pups Without Pedigree -- 14.5 Shelter Dogs -- 14.6 Discussion -- References -- 15 Comment: Animals in 'Non-Ideal Ethics' and 'No-Deal Ethics' -- 15.1 Non-ideal Animal Ethics and the Meat Industry -- 15.2 Non-ideal Animal Ethics and Disaster Management -- 15.3 Non-ideal Ethics and Ethnographic Animal Studies -- 15.4 Towards a No-Deal Animal Ethics -- References -- Part III Urban Animals -- 16 Stray Agency and Interspecies Care: The Amsterdam Stray Cats and Their Humans -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 The Amsterdam Stray Cat Foundation -- 16.3 Degrees of Agency -- 16.4 Networks of Care -- 16.5 Cat Politics -- 16.5.1 Stray Cat Rights -- 16.5.2 Democratic Agency -- 16.6 Cat-Human Relations at the SAZ as a Model for Future Interactions -- 16.6.1 Ecologies of Care -- 16.6.2 Sharing the City -- 16.6.3 Interspecies Resistance as the Foundation for New Relations -- References -- 17 "Eek! A Rat!" -- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 From the Lab to the Liminal -- 17.3 How Fear and Disgust Impair Moral Judgment.; 17.4 Rat Politics -- 17.5 Failure of Imagination -- 17.6 Sympathy for the Rat -- 17.7 Compassion: A Stepping Stone? -- 17.8 Compassion: Cornerstone of Interspecies Morality -- 17.9 From Anthropocentric to Multispecies Epistemologies -- 17.10 From Philosophical Deliberation to Compassionate Engagement -- 17.11 Conclusion -- References -- 18 Interpreting the YouTube Zoo: Ethical Potential of Captive Encounters -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 Interpreting the YouTube Zoo -- 18.3 YouTube Orangutans Unsettling Binary Concepts -- 18.4 The YouTube Zoo: Increasing Encounter Value or Enabling a Moral Gaze? -- 18.5 Conclusion -- References -- 19 Wild Animals in the City: Considering and Connecting with Animals in Zoos and Aquariums -- 19.1 Introduction -- 19.2 Animal Welfare -- 19.3 Human-Animal Interactions -- 19.4 Wildness in Zoos -- 19.5 Compassionate Education Programs -- 19.6 Real Connections with Artificial Means -- 19.7 Conclusion -- References -- 20 Comment: Encountering Urban Animals: Towards the Zoöpolis -- 20.1 The Urban, the Animal -- 20.2 Urban Animal Encounters and the Politics of Spatial Access -- 20.2.1 The Home -- 20.2.2 The ; Zoo -- 20.2.3 The Streets/Parks/Margins -- 20.3 Towards the Zoöpolis -- 20.3.1 'Articulating With' Animals -- 20.3.2 Making Visible Relationalities -- 20.3.3 Re-Storying the City to Imagine Otherwise -- 20.4 Conclusion -- References -- Part IV Wild Animals -- 21 Should We Provide the Bear Necessities? Climate Change, Polar Bears and the Ethics of Supplemental Feeding -- 21.1 Introduction -- 21.2 Some Basic Premises of This Paper -- 21.3 The Situation of Polar Bears -- 21.4 Possible Responses to Abrupt Polar Bear Starvation -- 21.5 Ethical Reasons for Supplemental Feeding of Starving Bears -- 21.6 Ethical Reservations About Feeding Bears -- 21.6.1 Would Feeding Bears Harm the Bears Themselves?.; 21.6.2 Would Feeding Bears Harm Other Sentient Animals?.
• Sommario/riassunto: This Open Access book brings together authoritative voices in animal and environmental ethics, who address the many different facets of changing human-animal relationships in the Anthropocene. As we are living in complex times, the issue of how to establish meaningful relationships with other animals under Anthropocene conditions needs to be approached from a multitude of angles. This book offers the reader insight into the different discussions that exist around the topics of how we should understand animal agency, how we could take animal agency seriously in farms, urban areas and the wild, and what technologies are appropriate and morally desirable to use regarding animals. This book is of interest to both animal studies scholars and environmental ethics scholars, as well as to practitioners working with animals, such as wildlife managers, zookeepers, and conservation biologists.

Indigenous African Language Media : Practices and Processes / / edited by Phillip Mpofu, Israel Ayinla Fadipe, Thulani Tshabangu

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910720095603321
• Autore: Mpofu Phillip
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023
• ISBN: 9789819903054; 9789819903047
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2023.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (464 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): FadipeIsrael Ayinla; TshabanguThulani
• Disciplina: 302.230890096
• Soggetti: Ethnology - Africa; Culture; Motion pictures - Africa; African languages; Mass media and history; Communication; African Culture; African Film and TV; African Languages; Media and Communication History; Media Reception and Media Effects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: SECTION I: AUDIENCE PERCEPTION, PARTICIPATION, ETHNIC, IDENTITY FORMATION AND INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE MEDIA -- 1. Appreciating indigenous African language media’ practices and processes- a transdisciplinary approach, Philip Mpofu, Israel A. Fadipe and Thulani Tsabangu -- 2. Kulfi is like a Tanzanian: The reception of an Indian Television Drama dubbed in Kiswahili, by Daines Nicodem Sanga, Mona Mwakalinga and Issau Athumani Mbura submitted Tanzania -- 3. Language Politics, Development and Sustainability of Books in the Nigerian Languages, by Osarobu Emmanuel Igudia -- 4. Time to be ; Represented: The Imperative for Investment in Igbo Language Radio, by Malachy O. Udejinta -- 5. Slang and the Semantic Sense of Sameness: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Shona Back Slang, by Enock Nyambo -- 6. Mass Communication and African Indigenous Societies: The Meeting Point, by Charles Oguntoye -- 7. Mission Statements, Role of Political Actors in Community Radio Stations-The Ghanaian Experience, by Mavis Essandoh -- 8. Expanding Language? Struggles that characterise the development of new words and meanings on Eswatini’s national radio, by Maxwell Vusumuzi Mthembu and Nqobile Ndzinisa -- 9. African Languages and the Rhetoric of Gender Identity in Marginal Films Made Outside the Mainstream Film Industry in South Africa, by Gilbert Motsaathebe -- SECTION II: MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS, TEXT, CONTEXT AND INDIGENOUS INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE MEDIA -- 10. Re-tooling the Nigerian Society to combat Crime and Criminality: The Strategic importance of Proverbs in Child and Personality Development, by Mustapha Olalekan Rufai -- 11. Evaluation of an African indigenous Language Programme on Poly Ilaro 92.1 FM, Ogun State Nigeria, by Odu, Adejare Samuel & Alabi Oluwole Folaranmi -- 12. Examining the place of female musicians in Zimbabwe’s music industry, by Edith Katiji and Richard Muranda -- 13. Ivbie edo nuzomo, wa ghima kweko kugbe:Themes in Edo (Bini) language Nollywood movies as development communication, Francis Amenaghawon -- 14. Use of non-verbal cues as Alternative to Verbal Communication before Tyrants in Selected Yoruba Films, Matthew Kolawole Oni -- 15. Multilingual online responses on the ‘Hollywood-style’ arrest of a defence lawyer in a high-profile case, Gilbert Motsaathebe -- SECTION III: HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS AND INDIGENOUS INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE MEDIA -- 16. Impact of Covid-19 on an indigenous newspaper, Kwayedza, by Takunda Maodza -- 17. Imole Yoruba Coverage of COVID-19 Pandemic in South West Nigeria, by Hassan Biodun Suleiman -- 18. Exploring Music Videos in Indigenous Languages and Behavioural Change towards Waste Management in Lagos State, Nigeria, by Babatunde Adeyeye, Evaristus Adesina, Darlynton Yartey and Emeka Uwam -- SECTION VI: BEAT ANALYSIS, PEACE JOURNALISM AND INDIGENOUS INDIGENOUSE LANGUAGE MEDIA -- 19. Indigenous Language as a Factor for Sustainable Development, by Akinwalere Ifedayo Nigeria -- 20. A Study of the Yoruba Language Newspapers in the Colonial Era,by Akangbe Adeniyi Clement.-21. Coverage of Development Issues, And Identity Formation in Alaroye Newspapers, by Stephen Odebiyi -- 22. Livelihood Improvement Through Participatory Mass Communications; A Study on Community Radio and the Lives of Women in Northern Ghana by Manfred Kofi Antwi Asuman and Subeshini Moodley -- 23. Building a Culture of Peace and Conflict Resolution through Indigenous Language Media (ILM), by Toyosi Olugbenga Samson OWOLABI & Hassan Adeniyi OLALEKAN -- 24. Indigenous Language Use in Advertising Campaigns: A Study of Airtel Nigeria’s Users, by Adeniji O.C. and Akinbode S.A. .
• Sommario/riassunto: The book contributes to the sparse academic literature on African and minority language media research. It serves as a compendium of experiences, activities and case studies on the use of native language media. Chapters in this book make theoretical, methodical and empirical contributions about indigenous African language media that are affected by structural factors of politics, technology, culture and economy and how they are creatively produced and appropriated by their audiences across African cultures and contexts. This book explores indigenous African language media about media representations, media texts and contents, practice-based activities, audience reception and participation, television, popular culture and ; cinema, peace and conflict resolution, health and environmental crisis communication, citizen journalism, ethnic and identity formation, beat analysis and investigative journalism, and corporate communication. There are hardly any similar worksthat focus on the various issues relating to this body of knowledge. The book provides a valuable companion for scholars in various fields like communication, media studies, African studies, African languages, popular culture, journalism, health and environmental communication. Phillip Mpofu, DLitt et Phil, is an Extraordinary Researcher at North West University, Mafikeng Campus, South Africa, in the Indigenous Language Media in Africa (ILMA) research entity. He is also a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Languages, Literature & Cultural Studies at Midlands State University, Zimbabwe. His research combines sociolinguistics, language politics, language policy, virtual communities and African language media. Israel Ayinla Fadipe is postdoctoral fellow in Indigenous Language Media in Africa research entity, Faculty of Humanities, North-West University, South Africa. He specialises in communication, cultural and gender studies, and has published articles and chapters in both local and international journals. He graduated from the Department of Communication and Language Arts, University of Ibadan, with BA in Creative Writing, MA in Popular Music and PhD in Applied and Gender Communication. Thulani Tshabangu is an emerging academic who holds a PhD in Journalism from Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow at North West University research institute of Indigenous Languages Media in Africa where he researches about democracy and development communication in Africa; the management and political economy of African media. .