Genealogy of Obedience

Justyna Włodarczyk, PhD (2009) is Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw. She has published on the human-animal bond in the US and in Poland and has recently co-edited Free Market Dogs: The Human-Canine Bond in Post-Communist Poland (Purdue, 2016).

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: Canine- Human Intensifications, Periodizing Dog Training in the US Since the 1850s 1 Periodizing Dog Training with Foucault2 1850–1910: Shaping the Dog’s Soul3 1910–1970s: The Emergence and Strengthening of the Disciplinary Regime4 1980s–2000s: From Governmentality to Self-Governmentality: Biopower, Behaviorism and Care of Self5 2000–2015: Beyond Behaviorism: Affirmative Biopolitics1 The Gentle Way in Punishment: Transcending Animality/ Performing Animality in Early US Pet Dog Training Manuals, 1850–19001 Dog Training in the Nineteenth Century2 Canine Sagacity3 The Gentle Way in Punishment4 Canine Minstrelsy5 Conclusion2 Hunting Dog Manuals: The Pointer as a Work of Art in the Age of Biopolitical Reproduction, 1845–19091 Sports Hunting2 The Notion of Breed and Hunting Dogs3 Polishing Instinct: The Pointer as a Work of Art4 S.T. Hammond’s Training or Breaking?5 Hunting in Black and White3 Culture of Instinct: Emergence of the Disciplinary Regime, 1910–19461 Was Most Modern?2 Police Dogs3 Most’s Masculine Methods4 Nietzsche Goes to the Dogs5 Should American Dogs Bite?6 Conclusion4 The Rise and Fall of Obedience: From Helen Whitehouse Walker to the Dawn of Positive Training, 1933–19841 Leading Others: Tools of Discipline2 Governmentality3 Training You to Train Your Dog: Layers of Human-Canine Discipline4 The Soul of a Trainer: Crossover Trainers, 1980s–2000s5 Off the Leash6 Feeling Power and Positive Dog Training5 Power without Coercion: From Governmentality to Self-Governmentality, from Discipline to Self-Control, 1984–2000s1 Had Foucault Read Skinner?2 Training as a Practice of Freedom3 Doggie Zen: Dog Training and Technologies of the Self4 From Discipline to Control5 Accounting for Affect/Accounting for Gender6 Countermodernity: Resistance to the Positive Training Revolution, 1980s–2000s1 Disciplining Affects: The Dog Whisperer2 Vicki Hearne: On the Nature of Freedom3 David McCaig: Pastoral Dissent7 Be More Dog: Towards an Affirmative Biopolitics1 Do More with Your Dog2 Are We Having Fun Yet?3 Affirmative Biopolitics4 Garrett, Foucault and Radical Behaviorism5 Beyond Behaviorism6 Beyond Agility7 Back to Ethology, Back to the Body8 ConclusionConclusion: The Death of ObedienceReferencesIndex