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Becoming with a police dog: Training technologies for bonding
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers ( IF 3.3 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-16 , DOI: 10.1111/tran.12429
Harriet Smith 1 , Mara Miele 1 , Nickie Charles 2 , Rebekah Fox 2
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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.

中文翻译:

与警犬相处:建立联系的训练技术

为了开发和说明视觉方法在进行多物种人种学方面的潜力,我们介绍了英国通用警犬训练的案例研究。我们的论点有两个方面:首先,我们利用 STS 方法和见解将培训活动视为物质和社会文化设备,我们认为,这些设备构成了培训技术。在这里,我们受到了 Cussins 工作的影响,并采用了她的“本体编排”概念来解决警犬与警察之间的纽带和沟通能力的发展问题。其次,我们认为视觉数据捕获为“不以人为中心”和更对称的方法来处理非人类/比人类研究主题更多的方法提供了宝贵的机会。我们展示了照片日记和视频剪辑如何使我们能够保持对狗训练的物质和具体实践的关注,将狗的行为、工具和设备置于首位,从而使训练活动的物质文化编排更加生动。总之,我们阐明了这种本体认识论方法如何使我们能够调查通用 (GP) 警犬的物质和物质结构。
更新日期:2021-01-16
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