Non-Humans and after in Social Science

Petr Gibas, Marco Stella, Karolína Pauknerová

nakladatel	Pavel Mervart
rok vydání	2017
vydání	1.
jazyk	anglicky
stran	266
rozměry	20 cm
ISBN	978-80-7465-199-1 (brož.)

This book is the third in a series exploring the potential of non-humans to illustrate and inspire an approach in which the pre-established boundaries of scholarly thought and practice blur so that new directions in theory and research can emerge. Humans and non-humans are co-present in the world. For long, they have seemed and been thought of as an ontological binary opposition with humans elevated above the rest. As this book series testifies, recently, there has been a move in social sciences towards non-humans as they provide new prisms to look at issues that have for long been of interest to social sciences.This growing interest in non-humans shatters the ontological assumptions about the difference between humans and the rest of life forms as well as reappraises the relationship ...