Animals Matter: Resistance and Transformation in Animal Commodification

Julien Dugnoille received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford (2015). Now a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Exeter, he is the author of Dogs and cats in South Korea: Itinerant commodities, published with Purdue University Press (2021). Elizabeth Vander Meer received a Ph.D. from Lancaster University (2008). She has published many papers and articles on a wide range of anthrozoological issues, and has recently been focusing on circus animals.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionJulien Dugnoille1 “If They Could Talk It Would Be Perfect” Visibility of Individual Wild Animals in French Circus SpectacleElizabeth Vander Meer2 The Silence and the Fury Addressing Animal Resistance and Agency through the History of Human-Animal RelationshipsViolette Pouillard3 The Mejiro Bird Between Commodity, Conservation, and CompanionCharlotte Linton4 Grounding Intimacies Human-Bovid Coexistence and Community Development in Hong KongDaisy Bisenieks5 Growing Profitable Deer Livestock and the Individual in Deer FarmingChristopher Ward6 Speaking about Farming Embodied Deliberation and Resistance of Cows and Farmers in the NetherlandsEva Meijer7 Pièce de Resistance Sartrean Existentialism in Small-Scale FarmingJulien DugnoilleConclusion Reclaiming ResistanceElizabeth Vander MeerIndex