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Childhoodnature animal relations: Section overview
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Childhoodnature animal relations: Section overview

Tracy Young and Pauliina Rautio
Research Handbook on Childhoodnature: Assemblages of Childhood and Nature Research, pp.981-994
Springer International Handbooks of Education (SIHE), Springer Nature, 1st
2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67286-1_62

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Abstract

The “animal turn” in academia has been described by researchers like Weil (J Fem Cult Stud 21(2):1–23, 2010) as an increasing scholarly interest in the status of animals beyond that of the utilitarian or agricultural scientific study of animals and the larger-than-human degraded ecological times we are living in. The human condition has always been defined and studied in relation to the animal, from ancient to contemporary posthuman thinkers, where the study of animal relations forms a large component of this ontological turn, with shifting aspirations to decenter anthropocentric interactions and challenge human assumptions of more-than-human lives. Human-animal studies, while still firmly planted within disciplinary margins, “have been edging towards the mainstream” (Ritvo, Environ Hist 9(2):204–220, 2004, p. 205), becoming increasingly popular, respected topics of inquiry (Ritvo, Daedalus 136(4):118–122, 2007). Creative opportunities for experimentation therefore exist where new terms, becomings, and conceptualizations are underway.

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