Against Value in the Arts and Education
- Submitting institution
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The University of Sheffield
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 7354
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- ISBN
- 9781783484904
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- McKay’s contribution to this volume is as co-editor, co-author of the introduction, and as author of the chapter “Invaluable Elephants, or The Against-Value of Critique (for Animals)”. In developing the publication, McKay played a significant role in the development of the “Against Value” project at the University of Sheffield (TUoS) between 2012-2015, in collaboration with Sam Ladkin, who had the primary idea for its critique of value in higher education. Through a series of workshops, co-hosted by Ladkin and McKay and involving both visiting speakers and staff and students at TUoS, the central idea was developed and its intellectual rationale broadened and enriched, with McKay taking a lead on some of the education practice-led aspects of the research. Equally with the other two editors, he shared the work of chapter organisation; provided detailed editorial/critical engagement with all contributions; collaboratively wrote the introduction (taking the lead on approximately one-third of the writing and critically revising the remainder); equally shared the copy-editing and indexing. McKay’s own essay contributes to the volume by articulating how the core logics of the “against value” thesis that is established across its essays can be seen to play a key role in critical thinking about humanism and animal ethics, therefore expanding the reach of the volume’s analysis into new theoretical fields (animal studies, new materialism). The essay explores this theoretical argument in offering a discussion of a novel (little-discussed in English) The Roots of Heaven (1955 trans 1958) by the twice Goncourt Prize-winning novelist and former Secretary of the French UN delegation, Romain Gary. It is one of very few examples of scholarship in English on this text.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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