Our Children and Other Animals: The Cultural Construction of Human-Animal Relations in Childhood
- Submitting institution
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The Open University
- Unit of assessment
- 20 - Social Work and Social Policy
- Output identifier
- 1458600
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781315599205
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is the first sociological monograph to theorise and empirically research the socialisation of human-animal relations. Based on extensive discourse analysis across the socialisation domains of the family, education, mass media and digital media, it develops a novel conceptual framework for understanding how human dominance over nonhuman animals is culturally reproduced. It contributed significantly to establishing Vegan Sociology, with the authors introduced as "pioneers of vegan sociology" in their keynote address to the inaugural 2020 conference of the International Association of Vegan Sociology. It is a major sociological contribution to the rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field of Critical Animal Studies.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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