The Resource Infrahumanisms : science,culture, and the making of modern non/personhood, Megan H. Glick
Infrahumanisms : science,culture, and the making of modern non/personhood, Megan H. Glick
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- Summary
- 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 - the author 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, the author shows how the consideration of nonhuman subjectivities demands a rethinking of long-held truths about biological meaning and difference
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 271 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: toward a theory of infrahumanity
- Part I.Bioexpansionism, 1900s-1930s: 1. Brief histories of time: nature, culture, and the making of modern childhood ; 2. Ocular anthropomorphisms: eugenics and primatology at the threshold of the "almost human"
- Part II. Extraterrestriality, 1940s-1970s: 3. On alien ground: extraterrestrial sightings, atomic warfare, and the undoing of the human body ; 4. Inner and outer spaces: exobiology, human genetics, and the disembodiment of corporeal difference
- Part III. Interiority, 1980s-2010s: 5. Of sodomy and cannibalism: disgust, dehumanization, and the rhetorics of same-sex and cross-species contagion ; 6. Everything except the squeal: porcine hybridity in the obesity epidemic and xenotransplantation research
- Conclusion. the plurality is near: techniques of symbiotic re-speciation
- Isbn
- 9781478001515
- Label
- Infrahumanisms : science,culture, and the making of modern non/personhood
- Title
- Infrahumanisms
- Title remainder
- science,culture, and the making of modern non/personhood
- Statement of responsibility
- Megan H. Glick
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 - the author 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, the author shows how the consideration of nonhuman subjectivities demands a rethinking of long-held truths about biological meaning and difference
- Cataloging source
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- 1980-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Glick, Megan H.
- Dewey number
- 128
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BD450
- LC item number
- .G538 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- ANIMA: critical race studies otherwise
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- Persons
- Human beings
- Human-animal relationships
- Extraterrestrial beings
- Human rights
- Extraterrestrial beings
- Human-animal relationships
- Human beings
- Human rights
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- Infrahumanisms : science,culture, and the making of modern non/personhood, Megan H. Glick
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- volume
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- Contents
- Introduction: toward a theory of infrahumanity -- Part I.Bioexpansionism, 1900s-1930s: 1. Brief histories of time: nature, culture, and the making of modern childhood ; 2. Ocular anthropomorphisms: eugenics and primatology at the threshold of the "almost human" -- Part II. Extraterrestriality, 1940s-1970s: 3. On alien ground: extraterrestrial sightings, atomic warfare, and the undoing of the human body ; 4. Inner and outer spaces: exobiology, human genetics, and the disembodiment of corporeal difference -- Part III. Interiority, 1980s-2010s: 5. Of sodomy and cannibalism: disgust, dehumanization, and the rhetorics of same-sex and cross-species contagion ; 6. Everything except the squeal: porcine hybridity in the obesity epidemic and xenotransplantation research -- Conclusion. the plurality is near: techniques of symbiotic re-speciation
- Control code
- 1033551872
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 271 pages
- Isbn
- 9781478001515
- Lccn
- 2018015848
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- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1033551872
- Label
- Infrahumanisms : science,culture, and the making of modern non/personhood, Megan H. Glick
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- Contents
- Introduction: toward a theory of infrahumanity -- Part I.Bioexpansionism, 1900s-1930s: 1. Brief histories of time: nature, culture, and the making of modern childhood ; 2. Ocular anthropomorphisms: eugenics and primatology at the threshold of the "almost human" -- Part II. Extraterrestriality, 1940s-1970s: 3. On alien ground: extraterrestrial sightings, atomic warfare, and the undoing of the human body ; 4. Inner and outer spaces: exobiology, human genetics, and the disembodiment of corporeal difference -- Part III. Interiority, 1980s-2010s: 5. Of sodomy and cannibalism: disgust, dehumanization, and the rhetorics of same-sex and cross-species contagion ; 6. Everything except the squeal: porcine hybridity in the obesity epidemic and xenotransplantation research -- Conclusion. the plurality is near: techniques of symbiotic re-speciation
- Control code
- 1033551872
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 271 pages
- Isbn
- 9781478001515
- Lccn
- 2018015848
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1033551872
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