Search for dissertations about: "speciesism"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the word speciesism.

  2. 1. Imagining Multispecies Worlds

    Author : Michelle Westerlaken; Simon Niedenthal; Per-Anders Hillgren; Andrew Morrison; Malmö universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; multispecies; design; speciesism; worlding; animal computer interaction; Interaktionsdesign; Interaktionsdesign;

    Abstract : It can be considered the most systemic, deadly, and all-encompassing form of institutional violence that currently exists: speciesism, the oppression and exploitation of other animals. For most people on our planet, speciesism is something completely normalized, justified, and encouraged through many facets of dominant cultures. READ MORE

  4. 2. A Genre of Animal Hanky Panky? : Animal representations, anthropomorphism and interspecies relations in The Little Golden Books

    Author : Kelly Hübben; Boel Westin; Susan McHugh; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Picture book theory; literary animal studies; anthropomorphism; anthropocentrism; Little Golden Books; speciesism; Human Animal Studies; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates the visual and verbal representations of animals in a selection of commercial picture books for a young readership of preschool children. The picture books selected are part of the Little Golden Book series. READ MORE

  5. 3. An Autocracy of Empathy : Human-Animal Relations and the Emotional Architecture of Speciesism

    Author : Kurtis Boyer; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; human-animal relations; empathy; political agency; political theory;

    Abstract : With a commitment to a relational ontology, scholars from within the feminist care tradition of animal ethics have been able to theorize how our moral significance - as well as our moral obligations to others - arise from the metaphysical and empathetic 'entanglements. Independent of species, gender and the like, we exist as embodied beings. READ MORE