Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies

Lynn Turner is a Reader in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Poetics of Deconstruction: on the threshold of differences (Bloomsbury, 2020), co-editor, with Undine Sellbach and Ron Broglio, of The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies (EUP, 2018), editor of The Animal Question in Deconstruction (EUP, 2013) and co-author, with Astrid Schmetterling, of Visual Cultures As… Recollection (Sternberg, 2013). Undine Sellbach is recently appointed Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee, UK, and previously Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Australia. Her research explores the edges of sentience through ethology, psychoanalysis, feminist philosophy of science, art and performance. She is currently completing a co-authored book about the speculative ethologies of Jacob von Uexküll. Ron Broglio is Associate Professor of Literature and Culture and Sustainability Scholar at Arizona State University Global Institute of Sustainability. He is the author of Beast of Burden: Biopolitics, Labor and Animal Life in British Romanticism (State University of New York Press, 2017), Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) and Technologies of the Picturesque (Bucknell University Press, 2008).

• Introducing The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies - The EditorsAbjection – Ruth LipschitzAffection – Dominic PettmanAnimation –Timothy MortonThe Anthropocene – Kathryn Yusoff and Mary ThomasArt – Amanda BoetzkesBiopolitics – Rick ElmoreCapitalism – Nicole ShukinDeath – Dawne McCanceEmpathy – Kari WeilEthics – Nicole AndersonEvolution – Thom Van Dooren and Vinciane DespretExtinction – Matthew Chrulew & Rick De VosFarming – Henry BullerFilm – Laura McMahonFood – Lindsay KelleyFragility – Claire ColebrookFriendship – Johnny GoldingGenealogies – Matthew CalarcoHomo Sapiens – David WoodLaw – Yoriko OtomoLiterature – Derek RyanMeaning – Wendy WheelerMicrobes – Stefan HerbrechterNonhuman Philosophy – John Ó MaoilearcaPerformance – Undine SellbachPoetics – Aaron MoePosthumanism – Franklin GinnQueer Theory – Carla FrecceroRaces – Christopher PetersonReligion – Danielle SandsRevolution – Ron BroglioScience Fiction – Sheryl VintTechnology – Richard IvesonVoice – Lynn TurnerAfterword: Who Are These Animals I Am Following? – Cary Wolfe

What the various contributions to the Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies demonstrate most, perhaps, is that far more important than the issue of what animal studies may study is the question of what forms of knowing and engagement it may yet produce in the course of continuing to engage – through its diversification and transformation of – the question of the animal.