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Becoming with a police dog : training technologies for bonding

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Smith, Harriet, Miele, Mara, Charles, Nickie and Fox, Rebekah (2021) Becoming with a police dog : training technologies for bonding. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 46 (2). pp. 478-494. doi:10.1111/tran.12429 ISSN 0020-2754.

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Abstract

To develop and illustrate the potential for visual methodologies in conducting multispecies ethnography, we present a case study of general‐purpose police dog training in the UK. Our argument is two‐fold: first, we draw on STS approaches and insights for looking at training activities as material and socio‐cultural devices that, we argue, constitute a training technology. Here we have been influenced by the work of Cussins and adopted her concept of “ontological choreographies” for addressing the development of the police dog–police officer bond and ability to communicate for working together. Second, we argue that visual data capture presents valuable opportunities for “less human‐centred” and more symmetrical methods to approach non‐human/more than human research subjects. We illustrate how photo diaries and video clips enabled us to remain attentive to the material and embodied practices of dog training, bringing to the fore the dogs’ actions, tools, and devices and thus enlivening the material–cultural choreographies of the training activities. In conclusion, we elucidate how this onto‐epistemological approach enabled us to investigate the material and corporeal construction of the general purpose (GP) police dog.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
Q Science > QL Zoology
S Agriculture > SF Animal culture
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
SWORD Depositor: Library Publications Router
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Dog trainers, Police dogs , Police dogs -- Training -- Great Britain, Human-animal relationships -- Great Britain
Journal or Publication Title: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
ISSN: 0020-2754
Official Date: 31 May 2021
Dates:
DateEvent
31 May 2021Published
7 February 2021Available
4 January 2021Accepted
Volume: 46
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 478-494
DOI: 10.1111/tran.12429
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit: 13 July 2021
Date of first compliant Open Access: 14 July 2021
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
UNSPECIFIEDLeverhulme Trusthttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000275
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