Infrahumanisms : Science, Culture, and the Making of Modern Non/personhood Paperback / softback
by Megan H. Glick
Part of the ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise series
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In Infrahumanisms Megan H. Glick considers how conversations surrounding nonhuman life have impacted a broad range of attitudes toward forms of human difference such as race, sexuality, and health.
She examines the history of human and nonhuman subjectivity as told through twentieth-century scientific and cultural discourses that include pediatrics, primatology, eugenics, exobiology, and obesity research.
Outlining how the category of the human is continuously redefined in relation to the infrahuman-a liminal position of speciation existing between the human and the nonhuman-Glick reads a number of phenomena, from early twentieth-century efforts to define children and higher order primates as liminally human and the postwar cultural fascination with extraterrestrial life to anxieties over AIDS, SARS, and other cross-species diseases.
In these cases the efforts to define a universal humanity create the means with which to reinforce notions of human difference and maintain human-nonhuman hierarchies.
In foregrounding how evolving definitions of the human reflect shifting attitudes about social inequality, Glick shows how the consideration of nonhuman subjectivities demands a rethinking of long-held truths about biological meaning and difference.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 35 illustrations
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:28/12/2018
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- ISBN:9781478001515
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 35 illustrations
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:28/12/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781478001515