To make pets live, and to let them die: The biopolitics of pet keeping
2019 (engelsk)Inngår i: Death Matters: Cultural Sociology of Mortal Life / [ed] Tora Holmberg, Annika Jonsson, Fredrik Palm, London: Palgrave Macmillan , 2019, 1, s. 241-263Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Fagfellevurdert)
Abstract [en]
Pets are often considered to be friends or part of the nuclear family, and many pets are grieved when they die. But pets are also routinely bred in abundance, bought, sold, and euthanized when they are unwanted. The aim of this chapter is to suggest a way of understanding pet keeping in the light of pets’ paradoxical status between “grievable” and “killable.” It argues that the ambiguous conceptualization of the pet as an irreplaceable individual and as a consumable resource corresponds to a biopolitical rationale for breeding, buying, selling and killing pets. The chapter suggests that pet keeping can be regarded as a demarcated zone where biopolitical norms surrounding life and death can be played with, managed and reproduced.
sted, utgiver, år, opplag, sider
London: Palgrave Macmillan , 2019, 1. s. 241-263
Emneord [en]
Giorgio Agamben, animal studies, bereavement, biopolitics, biopower, Judith Butler, cats, companion animals, consumption, disciplinary power, dogs, Michel Foucault, grief, human-animal studies, pets, posthumanism, subject position, subjectification, subjectivity
HSV kategori
Forskningsprogram
Sociologi; Filosofi
Identifikatorer
URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-388321DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-11485-5_12ISBN: 978-3-030-11484-8 (tryckt)ISBN: 978-3-030-11485-5 (digital)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-388321DiVA, id: diva2:1332299
Prosjekter
Intimitetens sociala former
Forskningsfinansiär
Swedish Research Council, 2014-14652019-06-282019-06-282020-08-20bibliografisk kontrollert