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_bJOH-P
100 1 _aJohnson, Lisa,
_d1967-
245 1 0 _aPower, knowledge, animals
_h[Book] /
_cLisa Johnson.
260 _aBasingstoke, Hampshire :
_bPalgrave Macmillan,
_c2012.
300 _axiii, 172 p. ;
_c22 cm.
490 1 _aThe Palgrave Macmillan animal ethics series.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 159-169) and index.
505 0 _aThe Essential Political Problem -- Contemporary Discourses about Animals -- Insurrection -- On Blindness to Being -- Parallelisms (Or, the Changeable Nature of Knowledge).
520 _aThis 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.
650 0 _aAnimals (Philosophy).
650 0 _aHuman-animal relationships.
650 0 _aPower (Social sciences).
852 _p47868
_911705.00
_vBooks Ocean Islamabad
_dBooks
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_d15585