I chose the chapter on “difference” with the hope that it would touch on semiotics and the definition of the human. I was not disappointed. The first half of the chapter was deceptively simple, parsing ethical concerns in animal studies…

Jaïra Placide ENGL 80600. Children’s Literature and Animal Studies: A Dialogue. Carrie Hintz. CUNY Graduate Center Feb. 15, 2022 Pain and trauma are things always associated with blackness/Black people. It’s something we are always dealing with, reeling from, healing from, praying to…

How did the entry/ article draw on interdisciplinary research?The entry draws from animal studies scholarship, feminist scholarship via postcolonial scholarship to maintain that even semingly liberatory discourses fail to question the very values that they think are redemptive in their…

Keyword: Captivity I chose to work on the keyword captivity in part because the term was immediately evocative to me; it generated vibrant, distressing images from memory, cultural objects, and imagination as to what it meant and continues to mean…

What do you have in mind if I ask you to picture a life with other beings, other lives? The anthropologist Eduardo Kohn invites us to envision a harmonious life within nature, not just with humans but with other forms…

When I looked at the table of contents, I was surprised to see the word “empathy”. This is a word, or an idea, that I think about a lot, and I suppose I did not previously consider it in relation…

Agustin Fuentes and Natalie Porter, the authors of the Kinship keyword, lay out two definitions of kinship that have a scholarly split. The first is the idea of “biological” kinship, relationships we are born into that rely on the ideas…

“The CCBC’s Diversity Statistics”Horning brings up the issue of Asian authors not writing Asian characters and how most of the books about Asians are written by non-Asians. This makes me think of some general questions: Should writers feel obligated to…

Rose: kinship Ying:  life Alexandra: captivity Lacy: empathy  Sophia and Ruwanthi: postcolonial Jaïra: pain Nicole: difference Karl’s section Sandra and Chris: matter Amy: sanctuary

I must say that I really enjoyed the Bow essay. The following line in particular struck me and I think provides excellent food for thought for our class discussion: “Anthropomorphic abstraction enables the fantasy of neoliberal futurity—it enables adults to…