Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur djurrättstankar skildras i de två välkända barnböckerna Black Beauty och Charlotte’s Web. Uppsatsen utgår ifrån frågeställningar som fokuserar på hur relationen mellan djur och människa ser ut,hur djurrättstankar kommuniceras i böckerna och vilka likheter/skillnader det finns i behandlingen av djuren i de båda böckerna. Tidigare forskning på djurrättsfrågor i barn- och ungdomslitteratur har haft ett brett perspektiv och fokuserat på hur olika djurrättsfrågor tagits upp i olika skönlitterära exempel. Tidigare forskning av Black Beauty har fokuserat på relationen mellan människa och djur. Den fokuserar på hur den påverkas av speciesism och av att människan dominerar. Tidigare analys av Charlotte’s Web har fokuserat på grisens subjektivitet och hur det är människornas påminnelse av denna som räddar Wilburs liv.I uppsatsen görs en kvalitativ analys där mening försöker hittas i texterna för att få en förståelse av hur djurrätt framställs i böckerna- Uppsatsen gör även en analys av relationen mellan text och bild i Charlotte’s web, samt en komparativ analys mellan de båda verken. Uppsatsen utgår ifrån ett ekokritiskt perspektiv där bland annat begreppet antropomorfisering är relevant. Critical Animal Studies är också en relevant teori för uppsatsen och framförallt begreppet speciesism. Analysen visar på hur djurrättstankarna förmedlas genom hur djuren i böckerna uttrycker sina känslor och att slakt och djurmisshandel problematiseras. Budskapen i verken är att djur vill leva och må bra och att det lönar sig att vara vänlig mot djuren då djuren i böckerna belönar vänlighet med vänskap. Båda böckerna förmedlar också djurens subjektivitet och att djuren har ett eget värde och inte bara ett värde i vad de kan göra för människan.

Animals and social work is an emerging field, and there is a troubling lack of research that has been conducted that attempts to document or explore the experiences of the animals involved in these practices. This dissertation explores the experiences of dogs working alongside social workers, using a mixed methods approach focussing on qualitative data. Data was gathered using critical ethnographic methodology involving interviews with social workers, dog owners and service users. Extensive observational field notes were taken during the use of an emerging research-creation digital method with the dogs and sensor data technologies. This research addresses three questions: (1), How can the experiences of dogs in social work be documented? (2), Why is it important to document these experiences? (3), How are dogs experiencing their involvement in social work practice? (4), What knowledge do the social workers who work with dogs have about involving these animals in social work? The data in this study isanalyzed through a critical post-humanist lens informed by decolonial Indigenous knowledges. Important themes that emerged were interspecies relationships, dog personalities and behaviourswhile working, workplaces and responsibilities, needs and benefits, training, and use of technology in research with OTH animals. Based on the innovative findings of this study, it can be determined that partial experiences of OTH animals involved in social work practice can and should be documented and explored to understand the high levels of responsibility, professionalism, and expectations that working dogs in the field are subject to. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / This dissertation uses a mixed-methods approach to explore the experiences of dogs involved in social work practice. The research addresses four questions: (1), How can the experiences of dogs in social work be documented? (2), Why is it important to document these experiences? (3), How are dogs experiencing their involvement in social work practice? (4), What knowledge do the social workers who work with dogs have about involving these animals in social work? Based on the findings, it can be determined that partial experiences of dogs involved in social work practice can and should be documented and explored to understandthe responsibility, professionalism, and expectations that working dogs are subject to.

Through non-human animals, humans have come to understand ways of living in this world and simultaneously animals have provided the resources for humans to claim this living. But through this progression and time humans have become detached from the origin of the resources. By this separation it becomes possible for humans to turn a blind eye to cruelty and the environmental impact that the claim to non-human animals convey. With the aim is to evoke reflection on the human ruling of the non-human animals, this project aims to design objects and furniture that are uncanny, familiar and ordinary but at the same time off-putting and maybe strange. By examining phycology and consumer culture theory, seek to find habits in the Swedish everyday life which are intimate and recognizable such as fredagsmys, a placeholder for consumption and hierarchies. Then through the analyse of critical animal studies, design objects and furniture that challenge these habits and positions of consumption and hierarchy.

The dissertation connects areas of critical-animal studies and feminist studies over the question of picturing bodies of animals and women including visual violence. In particular it addresses the use of mentioned picturing methods by an animal rights movement. I understand women and animals to be marginalised groups in patriarchal society on which is represented the power of hegemonic masculinity by denigrating, violent and sexual representation, even though each group has its specifics. The method of representation serves as means of confirmation and embedding of hegemonic masculinity, anthropocentric system built on binary oppositions man/woman, human/animal, and with them related discourse of difference. The aim of the dissertation is to point out common characteristics of denigrating representation including violence (with sexual meaning) on animals and women who are reduced to objects, on which visualisation of violence is socially accepted. The initial point comes from feminist theories of Carol J. Adams and her concept of absent referent. Further it works with concept of intersectionality and fluid identity according to Rosi Braidotti, which enables consideration of assigning a claim of personal identity also to animals. From the methodological position, the dissertation is based on...

The question of animals and performance defines the crossroads of the academic fields of Critical Animals Studies and Performance Studies, giving rise to the proposition of inter-species performance. But are all performances that integrate animals into the production inter-species? Or are there different manners of collaboration? In 2008 and my horse, Katrina, and I rode across Canada. Though this event was not undertaken as a performance endeavour, the production that emerged can be understood as a uniquely collaborative human/equine performance – The Ride. The Ride presented a meeting through the middle of an inter-species partnership that was performance in its foundation of physical communication and learned cooperation between a human and a horse. The Ride was an event that “became” a performance due to its active, reciprocal human/equine exchange, and the experiential interaction of a host of audience/participators throughout the course of the journey. Through embracing the positive, expansive qualities of equine alterity, and recognizing both the human and equine perspectives at play within the event, The Ride presented a performance that was fundamentally inter-species.

Thus far, the novel Naked Lunch has not been discussed from the aspect of critical animal studies, nor has it been connected to the theories of Michel Foucault. This essay however, argues that these diverse fields could be connected through the use of the simians that are frequently employed in Naked Lunch. By analyzing the metaphorical role of the simian, the structure of the normalization process can be revealed. Therefore the simian’s metaphorical role becomes to reveal the different stages character goes through in that process and ultimately revealing its negative effects. They also prove to employ the role of abnormality which normalization wants to subtract from the human in order to render her docile. By applying the power mechanisms such as signals, the concept of panopticism and the theory of the docile body to specific passages where simians are highly prominent, the claim of this paper can be demonstrated. Besides Foucault, the theories of Robin Lydenberg are also used consistently throughout the essay due to her valuable observations such as the struggle between body and mind.

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[pt] Esta tese busca analisar, definir e delimitar os contornos da categoria da animalização e as experiências que elas são vinculadas. Identificando a insuficiência de algumas teorizações que desenvolvem suas análises sob o prisma do sexismo, do racismo ou apenas do capitalismo, esta tese o faz a partir da leitura biopolítica das espécies, o que permite compreender como a animalização se funciona como uma operação do biopoder através da constante e ambígua divisão entre humano e animal. Ocorre que, diante de diversas experiências pré-modernas, não é possível equalizar a emergência da animalização, entendida nos termos desta tese, ao contexto da modernidade colonial. Assim, na segunda parte desta tese, são rastreadas algumas experiências que permitirão compreender por que a animalidade, enquanto uma técnica do poder, é condição para a operação da animalização. Nesse sentido, a animalidade se revela como uma técnica do poder a partir da qual o biopoder e a governamentalidade se desenvolvem e se articulam. / [en] This thesis seeks to analyse, define, and delimit the contours of the category of animalization and the experiences that it can be linked to. Identifying the insufficiency of some theorizations that develop their analyses under the prism of sexism, racism, or only capitalism, this thesis does so from the species biopolitics reading, which allows us to understand how animalization functions as an operation of biopower through the constant and ambiguous division between human and animal. It happens that, in the face of several pre-modern experiences, it is not possible to equalize the emergence of animalization, understood in the terms of this thesis, to the context of colonial modernity. Thus, in the second part of this thesis, some experiences are traced that will allow us to understand why animality, as a technique of power, is a condition for the operation of animalization. In this sense, animality reveals itself as a technique of power from which biopower and governmentality develop and articulate.

My work explores aspects of the hierarchy between animal and human. I aim to find out how we as humans act, and how we treat animals in a not very humanised way. How would it look like if we would change place with the animals? To explain the different aspects of humanity, the work includes a symbolic language. I use different human coded objects, that works as an index that I’m creating during the master education. Among these objects are for example a hotdog, pommes frites and a bowl with cereals. During the process, another aspect has been added to the specified objects; the children perspective. Since children are more open minded and haven’t learned the structure of society yet, they are a great inspiration for me to learn how to look beyond the hierarchies in society. How do we as humans think before we learn how we should be thinking?  One of the symbols I use is the cow, that works as a symbol for the animal. I have chosen to work with the cow since it is an animal that we use as humans to get milk and meat from, yet the cow is assisting and accepting us no matter what we do to them. I feel sorry for the cow, being a calm animal with no intention to do harm, at the very same time as we as humans kill them with no mercy. As a symbol for the human, I use Leif GW Persson. He is a Swedish TV personality taking and getting a lot of space in everyday society, for example in Swedish television. This project has an ambition to find out more about the hierarchies between different species (including the human). In order to tell the story through children, I have had workshops with them and gotten influenced by their ideas in the making of the installation and embodiment. This is a way for me to get “dehumanised” since children has less time living as human beings and haven’t yet learned how they should behave.  The workshops works as one method in my project, while another method that I’m using is the sloppy craft. Through this method I aim to both show a more childish and naive way of working with textiles, to make it be looking more as if a child would have made it. It’s also a way for me to question the traditions within textile craft, and to challenge the hierarchic system between fine art and the craft field. Furthermore, it’s of importance to me challenging traditions of personal reasons, since I have always been very law-abiding in general and a so called “good girl”, wanting to be accepted by everyone. Through my artwork I am breaking these rules and that is also a big reason why I’m doing what I’m doing. The most important message in my work is still to highlight the hierarchy between animal and human, and I aim to do it with the help of sloppy craft and children.

This thesis starts from the proposition that the ethical meat discourse that is, the discourse recognizing that factory farming is unacceptable while maintaining that it is possible to produce meat in an acceptable way — has not been thoroughly analyzed. Indeed, both the partisans of this idea and the animal rights literature provide oversimplified analyses of this relatively new phenomenon. Considering its explosion in popularity since Michael Pollan published the essay “An Animal's Place” in The New York Times Magazine in 2002, this lack of research is particularly problematic for the animal rights movement as this new discourse directly counters its objectives. As such, this thesis uses Gramsci’s concept of passive revolution to develop a richer analysis of the apparent marginalizing effect that this discourse has on the animal rights movement. More precisely, the thesis addresses the question: “If the emergence of the ethical meat discourse is understood as part of a passive revolution, what can the specific process of passive revolution tell us about the impacts of the ethical meat discourse on the animal rights movement?” It argues that the passive revolution operates on two levels: (1) it depoliticizes the issue of meat consumption by presenting it as irrelevant and reducing it to technical details and (2) it absorbs the moderate elements of the animal rights movement by proposing an attractive alternative. Both of these processes lead to the marginalization of the few animal advocacy organizations still criticizing ethical meat. The analysis is divided in three parts. The first and second analyze respectively the content of the discourse and internal dynamics of the coalition formed around it using Maarten Hajer’s concept of discourse-coalition. Building on this comprehensive understanding of the ethical meat discourse, the actual process of passive revolution is analyzed by looking at the way the meat industry, environmental organizations and animal advocacy organizations engage with it.