Feminist Animal Studies. Theories, Practices, Politics Edited by Erika Cudworth, Ruth E. McKie and Di Turgoose, 2023
In Chapter 6, Federica Timeto considers how people living with companion
animals perceived and r... more In Chapter 6, Federica Timeto considers how people living with companion
animals perceived and represented their interspecies relationships during lockdown due to the COVID- 19 pandemic. She draws on semi-structured interviews undertaken online during the full Italian lockdown (March–
May 2020) in order to examine whether emergency risks and new spatiotemporal constraints change our representation and social relations with nonhuman animals. Focused on household respondents and the ways their families deal with different daily routines, Timeto then enlarges the picture to discuss how respondents link non-human animals to the current pandemic, their knowledges, affects and (mediated)
imaginaries, and finally, the ways post-pandemic expectations include non-human animals. The author intends to carry out an engaged sociological analysis for the animals (Peggs, 2012; Wilkie, 2015; Cudworth, 2016; Taylor and Sutton, 2018). Timeto argues for ‘the cultivation of viral response- abilities’ (Haraway, 2016) capable of contrasting the dominant speciesist, deadly narratives of the
virus. We require a different understanding of contagion which accounts for a multispecies society, which foregrounds our vital connections with companion species (Haraway, 2003), and relocates contagion in the care and cultivation of multispecies worlds.
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Con l’aumento della pressione umana sul pianeta e la diffusione di una maggiore coscienza ecologica, è con rinnovato interesse che scienze, economia e politica formulano vecchi e nuovi interrogativi inerenti famiglie e parentele.
Dai programmi governativi progettati per contrastare il calo dei tassi di natalità in Europa e Asia orientale, passando per le controverse politiche di contenimento della popolazione nei paesi in cui i tassi di natalità rimangono elevati, fino all’aumento delle disuguaglianze di reddito a livello transnazionale, le questioni relative alla riproduzione sono foriere di nuovi e complessi dilemmi etici e politici.
Making Kin. Fare parentele, non popolazioni prende parola sul tema con saggi di eminenti studiose femministe antirazziste ed ecologiste. Da prospettive molteplici, questi contributi indagano con coraggio materie complesse quali nuove pratiche di intimità e parentela, giustizia riproduttiva, giustizia ambientale e multispecie.
Con saggi di: Adele E. Clarke, Ruha Benjamin, Donna Haraway, Michelle Murphy, Yu-Ling Huang, Chia-Ling Wu, Kim TallBear
Articulating a non-representational perspective on knowledge production and artistic practices, combined with an analysis of space, this book offers a new performative and relational re-turn to representation in contemporary technospaces. The radically materialist, posthumanist and performative position from which this situated aesthetics of technospaces is elaborated, aligns this book not only with non-representational theory, but also with the theories of material feminism, feminist geography, situated epistemologies, science and technology studies, actor-network theory, performance studies and new media studies.
Il filo rosso che collega questi testi è la riflessione sulle rappresentazioni del femminile nell’attuale scenario postcoloniale e transculturale.
Il genere rappresentato dal linguaggio e dalle immagini della cultura postmoderna e postcoloniale non è una categoria astratta e universalmente valida, stabile nel tempo e nello spazio, ma una realtà materiale localizzabile e in divenire, che disegna cartografie mobili le quali richiedono una nuova attitudine interpretativa profondamente politica.
Attraverso il percorso proposto da Federica Timeto, si indaga così il legame fra visualità e alterità, ovvero la funzione che le immagini rivestono nella produzione delle differenze: differenze non solo sessuali, ma legate alle diverse coordinate socio-culturali riguardanti anche l’etnia, il colore della pelle, l’appartenenza sociale, le divisioni territoriali ed economiche dei soggetti coinvolti.
animals perceived and represented their interspecies relationships during lockdown due to the COVID- 19 pandemic. She draws on semi-structured interviews undertaken online during the full Italian lockdown (March–
May 2020) in order to examine whether emergency risks and new spatiotemporal constraints change our representation and social relations with nonhuman animals. Focused on household respondents and the ways their families deal with different daily routines, Timeto then enlarges the picture to discuss how respondents link non-human animals to the current pandemic, their knowledges, affects and (mediated)
imaginaries, and finally, the ways post-pandemic expectations include non-human animals. The author intends to carry out an engaged sociological analysis for the animals (Peggs, 2012; Wilkie, 2015; Cudworth, 2016; Taylor and Sutton, 2018). Timeto argues for ‘the cultivation of viral response- abilities’ (Haraway, 2016) capable of contrasting the dominant speciesist, deadly narratives of the
virus. We require a different understanding of contagion which accounts for a multispecies society, which foregrounds our vital connections with companion species (Haraway, 2003), and relocates contagion in the care and cultivation of multispecies worlds.
a box of knots rather than tools. The cat’s cradle game becomes the figuration of a tangle of knowledges and practices that Haraway proposes to make difference differently, an epistemological detour but also a political and transformative intervention in the world-
ing of the world.
from dance to fashion, from film to television, investigating the contradictions of the performance of femininity in the media landscape and the limits and possibilities of the different forms of identification for female and feminist subjects. Since the mid-1990s, she has focused on postfeminism in neoliberal culture, at a time when feminism found itself
simultaneously assimilated into common sense and emptied of its political efficacy. In her latest book, Feminism and the Politics of Resilience (2020), McRobbie deepens her analysis of contemporary representations of the feminine by showing their continuities
and ruptures with postfeminism, and the polarization of meritocracy cult and poverty-shaming regulated by the governmentality of visual media.
In this text I focus on the artivist corpographies of feminist artists who use bodies in a constitutive, that is, performative way, to undermine the presuppositions of traditional representation starting from a critique of the notion of species. Their actions interfere with the fetishism of representation, based on the distance of the beholder from the object of observation, and inaugurate a space of implication in which none of the subjects involved, including nonhuman animals, occupy a given position before the performative event. These artists move on both an aesthetic and social level, deliberately appealing to indeterminacy as a political resource, so that every emerging subjectivity in per-formative actions exercises its own capacity for action and response.
women/sexualized animals, and in the very acts of meat-eating as well, through which animal metaphors, representations, and «processed» bodies forbid both an extensive understanding of the ideology of speciation and an intersectional analysis of the actual experiences of oppressed animals, human and not. Adams also recontextualizes
ecofeminism and considers, among other issues, how the heteronormative ideologies of meat inscribe onto bodies by means of the «texts of meat»; what «a vegetarian body» actually means; the politics and ethics of veganism; animal resistance and the current US anti-immigrant politics.
Keywords: Carol J. Adams, Ecofeminism, Intersectional Feminism, Antispeciesism, Criti-
cal Animal Studies.
The paper shows how the progressive abandonment of a posthuman approach in favor of a compostist one brings Haraway nearer to intersectional ecofeminism and to a fuller consideration of nonhuman agency at a material level, as well as to a deeper critique of instrumental relations of domination and issue that had been problematic in critiques of her earlier work.
Con l’aumento della pressione umana sul pianeta e la diffusione di una maggiore coscienza ecologica, è con rinnovato interesse che scienze, economia e politica formulano vecchi e nuovi interrogativi inerenti famiglie e parentele.
Dai programmi governativi progettati per contrastare il calo dei tassi di natalità in Europa e Asia orientale, passando per le controverse politiche di contenimento della popolazione nei paesi in cui i tassi di natalità rimangono elevati, fino all’aumento delle disuguaglianze di reddito a livello transnazionale, le questioni relative alla riproduzione sono foriere di nuovi e complessi dilemmi etici e politici.
Making Kin. Fare parentele, non popolazioni prende parola sul tema con saggi di eminenti studiose femministe antirazziste ed ecologiste. Da prospettive molteplici, questi contributi indagano con coraggio materie complesse quali nuove pratiche di intimità e parentela, giustizia riproduttiva, giustizia ambientale e multispecie.
Con saggi di: Adele E. Clarke, Ruha Benjamin, Donna Haraway, Michelle Murphy, Yu-Ling Huang, Chia-Ling Wu, Kim TallBear
Articulating a non-representational perspective on knowledge production and artistic practices, combined with an analysis of space, this book offers a new performative and relational re-turn to representation in contemporary technospaces. The radically materialist, posthumanist and performative position from which this situated aesthetics of technospaces is elaborated, aligns this book not only with non-representational theory, but also with the theories of material feminism, feminist geography, situated epistemologies, science and technology studies, actor-network theory, performance studies and new media studies.
Il filo rosso che collega questi testi è la riflessione sulle rappresentazioni del femminile nell’attuale scenario postcoloniale e transculturale.
Il genere rappresentato dal linguaggio e dalle immagini della cultura postmoderna e postcoloniale non è una categoria astratta e universalmente valida, stabile nel tempo e nello spazio, ma una realtà materiale localizzabile e in divenire, che disegna cartografie mobili le quali richiedono una nuova attitudine interpretativa profondamente politica.
Attraverso il percorso proposto da Federica Timeto, si indaga così il legame fra visualità e alterità, ovvero la funzione che le immagini rivestono nella produzione delle differenze: differenze non solo sessuali, ma legate alle diverse coordinate socio-culturali riguardanti anche l’etnia, il colore della pelle, l’appartenenza sociale, le divisioni territoriali ed economiche dei soggetti coinvolti.
animals perceived and represented their interspecies relationships during lockdown due to the COVID- 19 pandemic. She draws on semi-structured interviews undertaken online during the full Italian lockdown (March–
May 2020) in order to examine whether emergency risks and new spatiotemporal constraints change our representation and social relations with nonhuman animals. Focused on household respondents and the ways their families deal with different daily routines, Timeto then enlarges the picture to discuss how respondents link non-human animals to the current pandemic, their knowledges, affects and (mediated)
imaginaries, and finally, the ways post-pandemic expectations include non-human animals. The author intends to carry out an engaged sociological analysis for the animals (Peggs, 2012; Wilkie, 2015; Cudworth, 2016; Taylor and Sutton, 2018). Timeto argues for ‘the cultivation of viral response- abilities’ (Haraway, 2016) capable of contrasting the dominant speciesist, deadly narratives of the
virus. We require a different understanding of contagion which accounts for a multispecies society, which foregrounds our vital connections with companion species (Haraway, 2003), and relocates contagion in the care and cultivation of multispecies worlds.
a box of knots rather than tools. The cat’s cradle game becomes the figuration of a tangle of knowledges and practices that Haraway proposes to make difference differently, an epistemological detour but also a political and transformative intervention in the world-
ing of the world.
from dance to fashion, from film to television, investigating the contradictions of the performance of femininity in the media landscape and the limits and possibilities of the different forms of identification for female and feminist subjects. Since the mid-1990s, she has focused on postfeminism in neoliberal culture, at a time when feminism found itself
simultaneously assimilated into common sense and emptied of its political efficacy. In her latest book, Feminism and the Politics of Resilience (2020), McRobbie deepens her analysis of contemporary representations of the feminine by showing their continuities
and ruptures with postfeminism, and the polarization of meritocracy cult and poverty-shaming regulated by the governmentality of visual media.
In this text I focus on the artivist corpographies of feminist artists who use bodies in a constitutive, that is, performative way, to undermine the presuppositions of traditional representation starting from a critique of the notion of species. Their actions interfere with the fetishism of representation, based on the distance of the beholder from the object of observation, and inaugurate a space of implication in which none of the subjects involved, including nonhuman animals, occupy a given position before the performative event. These artists move on both an aesthetic and social level, deliberately appealing to indeterminacy as a political resource, so that every emerging subjectivity in per-formative actions exercises its own capacity for action and response.
women/sexualized animals, and in the very acts of meat-eating as well, through which animal metaphors, representations, and «processed» bodies forbid both an extensive understanding of the ideology of speciation and an intersectional analysis of the actual experiences of oppressed animals, human and not. Adams also recontextualizes
ecofeminism and considers, among other issues, how the heteronormative ideologies of meat inscribe onto bodies by means of the «texts of meat»; what «a vegetarian body» actually means; the politics and ethics of veganism; animal resistance and the current US anti-immigrant politics.
Keywords: Carol J. Adams, Ecofeminism, Intersectional Feminism, Antispeciesism, Criti-
cal Animal Studies.
The paper shows how the progressive abandonment of a posthuman approach in favor of a compostist one brings Haraway nearer to intersectional ecofeminism and to a fuller consideration of nonhuman agency at a material level, as well as to a deeper critique of instrumental relations of domination and issue that had been problematic in critiques of her earlier work.
non dobbiamo temere di affrontare un “giro mostruoso” dentro il ventre del mostro, dimenticando da dove veniamo, attraversando frontiere, deviando dalle strade segnate, accudendo strane creature, ma soprattutto non avendo paura di restare aggrovigliati in mezzo ai nodi che i mostri disseminano ovunque in modi in/appropriati.
umani, si è intrecciato con il loro movimento e le loro azioni in numerosi
nodi, eppure nel tempo questi uccelli si sono trasformati in una versione
aviaria del mostro di Frankenstein, «creature formate dagli umani per i
loro scopi, e che diventano la nostra nemesi quando vi si sottraggono».
I piccioni hanno finito per incarnare quasi emblematicamente molte delle
contraddizioni in cui gli animali sono ingabbiati quando diventano oggetto di discorso, la natura (animale) di cui parla la cultura (umana):
"Valorizzati come simili e disprezzati come invasivi, soggetti da salvare o vituperare, portatori di diritti e parti componenti dell’animale-macchina, cibo e vicini di casa, bersagli da sterminare o allevare e moltiplicare biotecnologicamente, compagni di gioco e lavoro e portatori di malattie, soggetti contestati e oggetti del 'progresso moderno' e della 'vecchia tradizione'" (Donna Haraway)
con Angela Balzano e Antonia Anna Ferrante
Silene Gambino, Marco Reggio, Chiara Stefanoni e Federica Timeto dibattono delle tematiche intersezionali tra femminismo e antispecismo.
rovinano, si prestano, limitano e
mostrano. Agiscono e significano [...]
non sono trasparenti, sono densi»
Donna Haraway,
Primate Visions
October 17th and 18th 2023
THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE) at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & Institute of Philosophy, Kulturwissenschaften Faculty at Leuphana University, Lüneburg
Contributions focusing on empirical case studies as well as methodological and theoretical reflections on (but not limited to) the following topics are welcomed:
Communication, space and mobility (location and mobility, theoretical and practical redefinitions of space and place, mobile methodologies, material and virtual mobilities, net localities, mobile devices);
The creativity and performativity of space (the social sciences after the non-representational turn, embodiment and situated aesthetics, materiality and mediation in space, locative arts);
Sociotechnical formations in mediaspaces (sociotechnical assemblages, hybrid spaces, mobile interfaces, The Internet of Things, smart objects);
The reshaping of the urban sphere (augmented environments, urban games, urban screens, open source urbanism, community and participative practices in digital localities, citizenship and civic engagement, the redefinition of the public and the private);
Mapping practices (geomedia environments, new visualization systems, surveillance, Location Based Social Networks, code/spaces, the aesthetics of mapping, grassroots mapping, emergency mapping, media-flânerie and navigational platforms).
Abstracts of 450-500 words, together with a short bio (100-200 words) describing the author’s background, current affiliation and research interests, should be submitted by e-mail before 30 September 2014 to the symposium editor at the following address: ftimeto@gmail.com
Upon abstract acceptance, papers of no more than 8,000 words (including references and notes) in Word format must be submitted by 31 December 2014. Papers will go through a double blind peer review process. Notification of acceptance will be given to authors, along with the reviewers’ comments, by February 2015. Final papers after revision will be due by March 2015.
sul blog della casa editrice Verso l’8 Settembre 2015, https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2228-
che-gossett-blackness-animality-and-the-unsovereign.