CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (2): Humanimalia invites submissions for a special issue of the journal on the theme of Animals and Technoculture. Submissions are due by May 1, 2014 and the issue will appear in Spring 2015. Animals are implicated in technoculture in a variety of ways, from the widespread use of animals in experiments during the scientific revolution, through the shifts between animal and machine power over the course of the industrial revolutions, to our present in which animals are widely viewed on technological media such as film and television at the same time as they are absent from many people’s daily, material experience. We invite contributions that rethink issues of cultural change, industrial development, and scientific discovery from the point of view of human-animal studies, with a focus on the way this history has influenced the lives of animals We encourage papers from a variety of disciplines and covering a broad range of historical contexts. Topics can include, but are not limited to, the following: · Animals in medical and other experimentation: questions addressed might include challenges to Descartes’s notion of the animal as automaton by his contemporaries such as Montesquieu; the connections among Victorian anti-vivisectionist debates, the contemporary women’s movement, and working-class activism; the relationship between animal experimentation and veterinary science, including changing cultures of agriculture and pet keeping. · Genomic modification and animals: the use of animal hybrids in pharming; chimera species; the centrality of charismatic animal images such as Dolly in public debates about cloning; commercial cloning ventures and their intersection with practices of pet keeping; activist interventions such as de-domestication proposals or tissue cultures to produce artificial meat; bio-art uses of animal products and images. · Industrialization and animals: analyses of animal labor and its relationship to the changing conditions of agriculture and industry in historical context; the rise of CAFOs and other ways the animal body has been technologically remade by agriculture; the use of animal imagery and advertising for machinery; changes in technologies of animal husbandry · Representations of animals in mass media: analyses of animal imagery and characters in film, television, and digital game texts; the tradition of documentary “critter-cams” and how they construct animal experience; the use of live-casting and other media as tools to critique practices of animal exploitation; the emergence of animal-centered media such as Animal Planet or National Geographic channels; animals in advertising for communications media. · Animals and environmental change: questions relating to the consequences for animals of herbicides and pesticides; the relationship between urban development and loss of habitat, including wild animals living in city spaces. · Digital culture and animals: analysis of digitally rendered animals in entertainment and other media; animal imagery in digital art; the presence or absence of animal history and experience on internet sites such as Wikipedia; uses of social media to document animal lives. Humanimalia is a refereed and selective online international, interdisciplinary journal on human-animal relations and interactions, with a wide range of perspectives that include the study of material animals and their discursive representations. We seek papers that combine approaches, or at the very least draw upon research in other disciplines to contextualize their arguments. Our title aims to signify the many ways that humans and animals are connected: as the experience of animals is shaped by human constructions of them, so is our experience of humanity shaped by non-human animals’ constructions of us. As well, we hope to inspire approaches that recognize that our reflection about animals depends not only on discursive practices, but on observation, co-operation, openness, and compassion with actual beings For guidelines on submissions and editorial protocols, please consult Humanimalia’s Statement of Procedures at depauw.edu/humanimalia/masthead.html. Proposals (minimum 500 words) should be sent to Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Managing Editor, at [email protected]. Please include the following information on the proposal itself: Your full name, your preferred mailing address, your email address, your preferred telephone number. Deadline for submission May 1, 2014.
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