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“It takes two to tango” -en intervjustudie om människors uppfattningar om och attityder till domesticerade djur i Sverige

Ström, Elisabet LU (2017) HEKK02 20162
Human Ecology
Abstract
The relation between humans and animals has been through the course of history a controversial matter. The understandings regarding this issue are today various, however, this essay analyses only a few of them and primarily six types of understandings by using a post-humanist theoretical framework.
The purpose of this essay is, therefore, to achieve a broader understanding of how animals’ subjectivity is related to human subjectivity, by analyzing six different points of view concerning the relationship between human beings and animals. The central question of the essay examines how these points of views differ from the Cartesian dualism, and how the relation to an animal can be understood as a “becoming-with,” i.e., a form of... (More)
The relation between humans and animals has been through the course of history a controversial matter. The understandings regarding this issue are today various, however, this essay analyses only a few of them and primarily six types of understandings by using a post-humanist theoretical framework.
The purpose of this essay is, therefore, to achieve a broader understanding of how animals’ subjectivity is related to human subjectivity, by analyzing six different points of view concerning the relationship between human beings and animals. The central question of the essay examines how these points of views differ from the Cartesian dualism, and how the relation to an animal can be understood as a “becoming-with,” i.e., a form of co-existence between animals and humankind.
By further analyzing these different understandings a pattern is shown. The more an individual sees the relationship to animals as expoitative the more he feels the need to distance himself from the animals. (Less)
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author
Ström, Elisabet LU
supervisor
organization
course
HEKK02 20162
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
posthumanism, samtillblivelse, distans, cartesiansk dualism, djur och människa, relation, sällskapsarter, subjekt-objekt
language
Swedish
id
8899101
date added to LUP
2017-09-07 12:49:29
date last changed
2017-09-07 12:49:29
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  abstract     = {{The relation between humans and animals has been through the course of history a controversial matter. The understandings regarding this issue are today various, however, this essay analyses only a few of them and primarily six types of understandings by using a post-humanist theoretical framework.
The purpose of this essay is, therefore, to achieve a broader understanding of how animals’ subjectivity is related to human subjectivity, by analyzing six different points of view concerning the relationship between human beings and animals. The central question of the essay examines how these points of views differ from the Cartesian dualism, and how the relation to an animal can be understood as a “becoming-with,” i.e., a form of co-existence between animals and humankind.
By further analyzing these different understandings a pattern is shown. The more an individual sees the relationship to animals as expoitative the more he feels the need to distance himself from the animals.}},
  author       = {{Ström, Elisabet}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{“It takes two to tango” -en intervjustudie om människors uppfattningar om och attityder till domesticerade djur i Sverige}},
  year         = {{2017}},
}