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‘Animals just love you as you are’ : experiencing kinship across the species barrier

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Charles, Nickie (2014) ‘Animals just love you as you are’ : experiencing kinship across the species barrier. Sociology, 48 (4). pp. 715-730. doi:10.1177/0038038513515353

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Abstract

This paper explores how affective relationships between humans and animals are understood and experienced. It argues that, although the context of close relationships with pets has changed, affective relationships between humans and animals have a long history. The affinities between people and their pets are experienced as emotionally close, embodied and ethereal and are deeply embedded in family lives. They are understood in terms of kinship, an idiom which indicates significant and enduring connectedness between humans and animals, and are valued because of animals’ differences from, as well as similarities to, humans. Kinship across the species barrier is not something new and strange, but is an everyday experience of those humans who share their domestic space with other animals. Rather than witnessing a new phenomenon of post-human families, multi-species households have been with us for a considerable length of time but have been effectively hidden from sociology by the so-called species barrier.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
S Agriculture > SF Animal culture
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology > Centre for the Study of Women and Gender
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Families, Pets -- Sociological aspects -- History
Journal or Publication Title: Sociology
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.
ISSN: 0038-0385
Official Date: 1 August 2014
Dates:
DateEvent
1 August 2014Published
13 January 2014Available
25 June 2013Accepted
Volume: 48
Number: 4
Page Range: pp. 715-730
DOI: 10.1177/0038038513515353
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder: British Academy (BA)
Grant number: SG100255

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