No / Archaeological research has been influenced by feminist thought and critique for decades. In the early 1990s, new narratives began to be written about the past. Starting with a search for women and gendered identities in our prehistories, these have developed into a new way of understanding the relationships between people, objects and animals, both in the past and in the present. Archaeological research has been concerned with the relationships between the ‘human’ and the ‘other’ for a number of decades, whether they involve nonhuman animals, objects we use and create, or attitudes to the landscape and environment. The nonhuman, in other words, is central to our work. We hope in this piece to demonstrate the contribution archaeological insights could make to feminist theorising about the nonhuman.

In recent years critical projects spanning philosophy, the social sciences, science studies, and nearly everywhere that has employed the term ecology have engaged in thinking humans and non-humans together as collectively producing outcomes, where objects do work beyond how humans perceive or make use of them. Taking Zelda Fitzgerald’s Save Me the Waltz as its focus, this thesis explores how this reorientation might contribute to literary studies and to literary criticism more specifically. The thesis considers a notion that novels constitute objects with biographies running “against” the biographic material of their authors, mobilizes actor network theory as a manner of mapping that biographic assemblage, and tentatively develops a biographic network approach as one alternative to traditional literary interpretative practices. Attending to the novel as an actor shifts critical focus away from its interior – the “text” or content – and expands traditional literary criticism’s default practice – interpretation – and logic – mimetic representation – in hopes of facilitating a discussion of Zelda’s novel in a manner which destabilizes the overdetermined themes that continue to scaffold her imaginary. Ultimately, this work argues that a biographic network approach can prove instructive as a “method” for dealing with other texts which remain relatively obscured at the margins of literary consciousness.

In this project, I speculate about a parallel world where a parliament chair for more-than-humans to ‘speak up’ exists within a human fabricated democratic construct. Along the narrative, we are to notice the grammar of other beings and to relearn the ethic of respect and interdependency by ‘deep listening’ to our often ‘quiet’ neighbors on this planet. The intention is to take a closer look at the actant nature of other-than-human beings, at the political of them through exploring the tension between power and empathy. The project adopts voting cards as a probing tool for humans’ involvement in the scenario. It explores the balance between chairs’ power connotation and the materiality of paper as well as the emotional character of sounds. It is an invitation of entering an alternative reality where imagination and affection towards a more inclusive and attentive relation with other-than-humans could be envisioned and questioned.

Submitted by Jordan (jordanbiblio@gmail.com) on 2016-10-11T16:01:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2015_Eveline dos Santos Teixeira Baptistella.pdf: 3463250 bytes, checksum: ba0727f6b085ef96eea4d1c1b7a46ad6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jordan (jordanbiblio@gmail.com) on 2016-10-11T16:03:10Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2015_Eveline dos Santos Teixeira Baptistella.pdf: 3463250 bytes, checksum: ba0727f6b085ef96eea4d1c1b7a46ad6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-11T16:03:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2015_Eveline dos Santos Teixeira Baptistella.pdf: 3463250 bytes, checksum: ba0727f6b085ef96eea4d1c1b7a46ad6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-11-10 / O relacionamento entre animais humanos e não-humanos é tão antigo quanto se pode rastrear pelos registros históricos, mas este é um envolvimento que vai se transformando conforme a própria sociedade se modifica. Do papel de presa na préhistória ao de “pai” de pets nos dias atuais, o ser humano se envolve e convive com os bichos de diversas maneiras e em instâncias variadas. A partir da inserção dos animais não-humanos nas esferas ética, moral e afetiva humanas no panorama derivado da crise ecológica da segunda metade do século XX, o objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar as relações entre pessoas e animais na sociedade contemporânea. Para tal, são enfocados dois aspectos. De um lado, os paradigmas científicos e suas variáveis na construção/destruição de fronteiras entre espécies são estudadas a partir da pesquisa bibliográfica e do relato de caso. De outro, os laços/barreiras desenvolvidos e vividos no cotidiano com base em entrevistas e etnografia realizadas da cidade de Cuiabá, capital de Mato Grosso. / Human and non-humans animals’ relationship is far too old, as remarked in the historical records, but this engagement transforms itself as society changes. From prehistory prey’s role to actual dad’s pet, human beings relate to and live with animals on different ways and moments. From the inclusion of non-human animals in human ethical, moral and affective spheres, due a panorama derived from ecological crisis in the second half of the twentieth century, this research aims at analyzing human and animals’ relationship in contemporary society. To do so, it focuses on two mainly aspects: on one hand, a bibliographical research and a case report investigates the scientific paradigms and their variables in the construction / destruction of boundaries between species; on another hand, the bonds/barriers daily created and experienced, based on interviews and ethnography, held in the Cuiaba city, capital of Mato Grosso.

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1 Abstract This doctoral thesis focuses on the analogies between Virginia Woolf's "personal philosophy" and Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy, or in his own words "philosophy of organism." The thesis does not claim that Whitehead's thought directly influenced Woolf's fiction, rather, it makes use of a zeitgeist model. The two contemporaries shared the rejection of long-established dualisms, particularly the Cartesian mind-body dualism, the binaries of subject and object, animate and inanimate matter, the human and the nonhuman, and last but not least the individual and the community. Interested in the philosophical enquiry into the problem of reality and the visible world, Woolf redefines the notion of "things" in her fiction and adopts the processist view that objects may be defined as clusters of events, which are not separate from the perceiving subject but interrelated with it. Moreover, Woolf illustrates her interest in the natural world in most of her works and often suggests that what we normally think to be inert and lifeless matter, may, in fact, also have some proto-conscious, or proto- experiential, qualities like Whitehead's "actual occasions." The second part of the thesis focuses on Woolf's attempt to overcome one's individual identity in favour of adopting a more inclusive and...