Human-Animal Studies

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Human-Animal Studies (also Animal Studies or Anthrozoology ) are an interdisciplinary field of research that arose in the English-language scientific discourse. The subject is the relationships between humans and animals, with overarching areas of sociology , psychology , history , education , philosophy , anthropology and cultural studiesmerged in research and teaching. The research field is relatively young, its independence in academic discourse and organizationally developed in the 1990s.

Research content

The research contents are varied due to the inter- and transdisciplinary orientation of the research field (sociology, scientific theory of biology, history, general psychology including psychology ( animal-assisted therapy ) etc.), philosophical anthropology, cultural studies and interdisciplinary science, etc. In human-animal studies Among other things, the representation of animals in art, media and literature as well as the question of the cultural-symbolic meaning of animals are explored. The role of animals and animal images in thought systems and the history of ideas of western societies, interactions between humans and animals as well as studies of animal-related practices and the treatment of animals in various social fields such as science, economy, agriculture are other topics that are addressed in the human -Animal Studies to be explored. Dealing with the question of animal rights / animal liberation and the associated social movement are also part of this discipline. Historical changes in behavior and attitudes towards animals are thematized in the historical, sociological and cultural-scientific currents of human-animal studies. Furthermore, the critical analysis of human-animal relationships as relationships of violence and exploitation as well as their connection with forms of interpersonal relationships of domination is a topic from the research field of human-animal studies.

History of the research field

Human-Animal Studies emerged from the 1980s in the Anglo-American language area. Since the year 2000, an increased volume of publications and the first steps towards establishment can also be observed in German-speaking countries. Since 2009, in particular, various groups have been founded that work in terms of content and organization in the field of human-animal studies. These include the “Alliance Human and Animal” in Munich (founded in 2009), the “Group for Society and Animals Studies (GSA)” at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Hamburg (founded in 2010) and the network “Chimaira - Working Group for Human” -Animal Studies ", which is primarily active in Berlin (founded in 2010). At the "Messerli Research Institute" at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, which was also formed in 2010, an interdisciplinary master's degree in human-animal relationships is offered. In 2011 and 2012, other groups emerged, including the “Young Scientists Network Cultural and Literary Animal Studies (CLAS)” at the Chair of Modern German Literature at the University of Würzburg, in which around 70 doctoral candidates and post-docs are now networked, the historical network “Animals and History / Animals and History ”and the country group of the Minding Animals network“ Minding Animals Germany ”. The interdisciplinary research focus "Animals - Humans - Society" has existed at the University of Kassel since January 2014. An increased interest in human-animal studies in German-speaking countries is also in the organization of various conferences, symposia and meetings on HAS topics since 2005 as well as in the organization of a three-year “Summer School” by the young researcher network Cultural and Literary Animal Studies at the University of Würzburg clearly.

Trade journals

literature

  • Chimaira - Working Group for Human-Animal Studies (Ed.) (2011): Human-Animal Studies. On the social nature of human-animal relationships, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.
  • Carola Otterstedt / Michael Rosenberger (eds.) (2009): Companions - Competitors - Relatives. The human-animal relationship in scientific discourse, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
  • Federal Agency for Civic Education (2012): From Politics and Contemporary History: Mensch und Tier (APuZ 8-9 / 2012; PDF; 2.3 MB)
  • Margo De Mello (2012): Animals and Society. An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies, New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Christa Murken : Animal Turn. Looking for a new way of dealing with animals. Verlag Murken-Altrogge, 2015, ISBN 978-3-935791-46-5 ( murken-altrogge-verlag.de [PDF]).
  • Birgit Pfau-Effinger / Sonja Buschka (eds.) (2013): Society and animals. Sociological analysis of an ambivalent relationship, Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  • Renate Brucker, Melanie Bujok, Birgit Mütherich et al. (Ed.) (2015): The human-animal relationship. A social science introduction, Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  • Gabriela Kompatscher , Reingard Spannring, Karin Schachinger: Human-Animal Studies. An introduction for students and teachers . utb., 2017, ISBN 978-3-8252-4759-1 ( utb-shop.de ).
  • Anett Laue: The socialist animal. Effects of the SED policy on social human-animal relationships in the GDR (1949–1989), Boehlau, 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50712-1
  • Paul Münch (Ed. In conjunction with Rainer Walz) (1998): Animals and people: history and actuality of a precarious relationship. Paderborn: F. Schöningh, ISBN 3-506-75805-5
  • Rainer E. Wiedenmann (2009): Animals, Morals and Society. Elements and levels of humanimal sociality, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, ISBN 978-3-8100-2527-2

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the Group for Society and Animals Studies (GSA) at the University of Hamburg ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de
  2. ↑ Chimaira Working Group for Human-Animal Studies-: Human Animal Studies- On the Social Nature of Human-Animal Relationships Transcript, Bielefeld, 2011.
  3. ↑ Margo DeMello: Animals and Society. An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies. New York: Columbia University Press, p. 7.
  4. ↑ Chimaira Working Group: An Introduction to Social Human-Animal Relationships and Human-Animal Studies. In: Chimaira - Working Group for Human-Animal Studies. About the social nature of human-animal relationships. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 21ff.
  5. ^ Alliance humans and animals
  6. ↑ Group for Society and Animals Studies (GSA) ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de
  7. ^ Chimaira - Working Group for Human-Animal Studies
  8. ↑ Messerli Research Institute
  9. ↑ Young Researcher Network Cultural and Literary Animal Studies (CLAS)
  10. ↑ Animals and History / Animals and History ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.univie.ac.at
  11. ↑ Minding Animals Germany ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mindinganimals.de
  12. ↑ Animal - Human - Society. Approaches to interdisciplinary animal research  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.uni-kassel.de  
  13. ↑ Würzburg Summer School for Cultural and Literary Animal Studies ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ndl1.germanistik.uni-wuerzburg.de