Thesis (M.A.)--Villanova University, 2009. / Political Science Dept. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2008. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 384-398). Also available online in Scholars' Bank; and in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1997. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [266]-278).

L'histoire de l'humanité témoigne de l'importance séculaire du cheval et la thèse a pour objet d'en vérifier l'expression en droit par la détermination du statut juridique du cheval. Conformément aux classifications juridiques traditionnelles, le cheval est d'abord chose et bien meuble. Mais l'analyse du régime juridique du cheval révèle que sa nature est admise par le droit et cette évolution est déterminée par la consécration de son autonomie de mouvement et de sa sensibilité. De chose, le cheval devient alors chose vivante. Cependant, sitôt admise, la nature vivante du cheval est récusée par le droit afin de limiter les effets juridiques qui y sont attachés, notamment en droit de la responsabilité. D'apparence contradictoire, cette construction juridique est pourtant justifiée par l'intérêt supérieur de l'homme. Cette considération de l'homme et du cheval en droit affirme l'irréductibilité de leur qualification, d'être juridique pour l'un, de chose vivante pour l'autre. Leur assimilation ne saurait être juridiquement envisagé quel que soit l'autonomie de mouvement et la sensibilité du second. Distinct des êtres juridiques mais non réduit à une simple chose, le cheval s'affirme en droit comme une chose vivante. / Human history reveals the centennial importance of the horse and the thesis has for object to verify the expression in law, by determination of the legal status of the horse. In accordance with the traditional legal classifications, the horse is first thing and movable. But the analysis of the legal regime of the horse reveals that its nature is admitted by the law and this evolution is determined by the consecration of its movement autonomy and his sensitivity. First a thing, the horse becomes a living thing. However, admitted as soon as, the living nature of the horse is challenged by the law in order to limit the linked legal effects, notably in the responsibility law. In contradictory appearance, this legal construction is yet justified by the man's superior interest. This man and horse consideration in law affirms the irreducibility of their qualification, to be legal for one, and a living thing for the other. Their assimilation would not be juridically considered whatever are the autonomy of movement and the sensitivity of the second. Distinct of the legal beings but not reduced to simple thing, the horse affirms itself in law like a living thing.

Submitted by Aelson Maciera (aelsoncm@terra.com.br) on 2017-06-14T18:45:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DissGAO.pdf: 2694531 bytes, checksum: 5a6ae41e5754d53d9fb2b7a3bc00ea15 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2017-06-26T19:26:58Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissGAO.pdf: 2694531 bytes, checksum: 5a6ae41e5754d53d9fb2b7a3bc00ea15 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2017-06-26T19:27:05Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissGAO.pdf: 2694531 bytes, checksum: 5a6ae41e5754d53d9fb2b7a3bc00ea15 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-26T20:13:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissGAO.pdf: 2694531 bytes, checksum: 5a6ae41e5754d53d9fb2b7a3bc00ea15 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-10-30 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / As an ethnography about interspecific relationships – between humans and animals – in urban contexts, this dissertation aims to reflect about the actions related to the management and protection of animal life within institutional and domestic scopes. From the contact with activist groups in two cities in the state of São Paulo it was possible to observe situations that alternate between containment and propitiation measures and their consequent interferences in a conviviality supported by the principle of animal protection. Government and activism – as well as the perceptions and conceptions of the domestic animal resulting from their respective actions – allow a theoretical and methodological reflection on the binomial established between culture and nature, when they reveal conflicts and possible ambivalences of animal protection, situated between control and hosting measures that, consequently, are linked to affectivities and legal issues. Ethical arguments, contained in laws and public policies, as well as the appeal to the sensitive dimension, eventually triggered by activism, also provide subsidies to understanding other concepts - such as welfare and animal rights – and these interspecific relationships mediated by emotions and reason, both tangents to the moral condition of the animal as part of a predominantly human socius. / Como uma etnografia acerca de relações interespecíficas – entre humanos e animais – em contextos urbanos, este trabalho visa refletir sobre as ações envolvidas na gestão e tutela da vida animal no âmbito institucional e doméstico. A partir do contato com grupos ativistas em dois municípios paulistas, foram observadas situações que se alternam entre medidas de contenção e de propiciação e suas consequentes interferências num convívio amparado pelo princípio da proteção aos animais. Tanto o poder público como o ativismo – bem como as percepções e concepções sobre o animal doméstico resultantes de suas respectivas ações – possibilitam uma reflexão de ordem teórico-metodológica do binômio estabelecido entre cultura e natureza, ao apresentarem os conflitos e as possíveis ambivalências da proteção animal, situados entre medidas de controle e de acolhimento e, por conseguinte, imbricados a afetividades e juridicidades. Argumentos éticos, presentes em legislações e em políticas públicas, e o apelo à dimensão do sensível, eventualmente acionado pelas atividades militantes, também fornecem subsídios à compreensão de outros conceitos – como bem-estar animal e direitos animais – e dessas relações interespecíficas mediadas por emoções e razões, ambas tangentes à condição moral do animal enquanto parte de um socius predominantemente humano.