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Becoming Animal People: Empathy Pedagogies and the Contested Politics of Care in Jordanian Animal Welfare Work
Anthropological Quarterly ( IF 0.8 ) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 , DOI: 10.1353/anq.2019.0043
Kate McClellan

ABSTRACT:A common refrain among animal welfare and protection workers in Jordan is that Jordanians are not "animal people." This article explores the implications of this statement, and argues that such claims are closely connected to neoliberal practices of care increasingly found in the world today. I examine the educational methods of three transnational animal welfare groups in Jordan as they work to transform Jordanians into animal people, focusing in particular on the cultivation of empathy for animals. I follow this pedagogical approach as it entangles with other discourses of care central to neoliberal humanitarianism, and as it challenges different models of human-animal relationality and humanity in Jordan. I suggest that the criticisms some Jordanians make of animal NGOs reveal the slippage points that accompany global animal welfare work as it inculcates particular versions of humanity and animality. Amidst these conflicting discourses and practices—what I refer to throughout the article as the economies and politics of care—empathy is used as a common language that is both an arguing point and proof of humanity for different discourses of animal and human care. What on the surface are clashing models of care are in fact mutually constitutive discourses that bolster one another by providing evidence of opposing claims. With empathy as a common language, animal welfare and human welfare as global, moral projects are deeply entwined, even as they conflict on local scales.

中文翻译:

成为动物人:移情教学法和约旦动物福利工作中存在争议的关怀政治

摘要:约旦动物福利和保护工作者普遍认为约旦人不是“动物人”。本文探讨了这一陈述的含义,并认为此类主张与当今世界越来越多的新自由主义护理实践密切相关。我考察了约旦三个跨国动物福利组织的教育方法,他们致力于将约旦人转变为动物人,特别关注培养对动物的同情心。我遵循这种教学方法,因为它与新自由主义人道主义核心的其他关怀话语纠缠在一起,因为它挑战了约旦人与动物关系和人性的不同模型。我认为一些约旦人对动物非政府组织的批评揭示了伴随全球动物福利工作的滑点,因为它灌输了特定版本的人性和动物性。在这些相互矛盾的话语和实践中——我在整篇文章中都将其称为护理的经济和政治——移情被用作一种共同语言,它既是争论点,也是对动物和人类护理的不同话语的人性证明。表面上相互冲突的护理模式实际上是相互构成的话语,通过提供反对主张的证据来相互支持。同理心是一种共同语言,动物福利和人类福利是全球性的,道德项目深深地交织在一起,即使它们在局部范围内发生冲突。在这些相互矛盾的话语和实践中——我在整篇文章中都将其称为护理的经济和政治——移情被用作一种共同语言,它既是争论点,也是对动物和人类护理的不同话语的人性证明。表面上相互冲突的护理模式实际上是相互构成的话语,通过提供反对主张的证据来相互支持。同理心是一种共同语言,动物福利和人类福利是全球性的,道德项目深深地交织在一起,即使它们在局部范围内发生冲突。在这些相互矛盾的话语和实践中——我在整篇文章中都将其称为护理的经济和政治——移情被用作一种共同语言,它既是争论点,也是对动物和人类护理的不同话语的人性证明。表面上相互冲突的护理模式实际上是相互构成的话语,通过提供反对主张的证据来相互支持。同理心是一种共同语言,动物福利和人类福利是全球性的,道德项目深深地交织在一起,即使它们在局部范围内发生冲突。表面上相互冲突的护理模式实际上是相互构成的话语,通过提供反对主张的证据来相互支持。同理心是一种共同语言,动物福利和人类福利是全球性的,道德项目深深地交织在一起,即使它们在局部范围内发生冲突。表面上相互冲突的护理模式实际上是相互构成的话语,通过提供对立主张的证据来相互支持。同理心是一种共同语言,动物福利和人类福利是全球性的,道德项目深深地交织在一起,即使它们在局部范围内发生冲突。
更新日期:2019-01-01
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