Power, knowledge, animals [Book] / Lisa Johnson.

By:

Johnson, Lisa, 1967-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Publication details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.Description: xiii, 172 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780230282575

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DDC classification:

304.2

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304.2

Contents:

The Essential Political Problem -- Contemporary Discourses about Animals -- Insurrection -- On Blindness to Being -- Parallelisms (Or, the Changeable Nature of Knowledge).

Summary: This work contributes to the development of a theoretical context of the politics of truth about animals. By applying and extending Foucault's theory of power, this work uncovers dominant and subjugated discourses about animals and describes power-knowledge associated with statements about animals that are understood to convey true things.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-169) and index.

The Essential Political Problem -- Contemporary Discourses about Animals -- Insurrection -- On Blindness to Being -- Parallelisms (Or, the Changeable Nature of Knowledge).

This work contributes to the development of a theoretical context of the politics of truth about animals. By applying and extending Foucault's theory of power, this work uncovers dominant and subjugated discourses about animals and describes power-knowledge associated with statements about animals that are understood to convey true things.

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