Infrahumanisms Science, Culture, and the Making of Modern Non/personhood - ANIMA
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In Infrahumanisms Megan H. Glick considers how conversations surrounding nonhuman life have impacted a broad range of attitudes toward forms of human difference such as race, sexuality, and health. She examines the history of human and nonhuman subjectivity as told through twentieth-century scientific and cultural discourses that include pediatrics, primatology, eugenics, exobiology, and obesity research. Outlining how the category of the human is continuously redefined in relation to the infrahuman-a liminal position of speciation existing between the human and the nonhuman-Glick reads a number of phenomena, from early twentieth-century efforts to define children and higher order primates as liminally human and the postwar cultural fascination with extraterrestrial life to anxieties over AIDS, SARS, and other cross-species diseases. In these cases the efforts to define a universal humanity create the means with which to reinforce notions of human difference and maintain human-nonhuman hierarchies. In foregrounding how evolving definitions of the human reflect shifting attitudes about social inequality, Glick shows how the consideration of nonhuman subjectivities demands a rethinking of long-held truths about biological meaning and difference.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781478001515 |
Publisher: | Duke University Press Books |
Imprint: | Duke University Press |
Pub date: | 28 Dec 2018 |
DEWEY: | 128 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | xi, 271 |
Weight: | 406g |
Height: | 152mm |
Width: | 229mm |
Spine width: | 23mm |