{"id":1504,"date":"2023-03-28T09:24:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T14:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2023-03-28T09:25:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T14:25:31","slug":"1504","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/2023\/03\/1504\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal relationality- property vs. subject"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the introduction of his work &#8220;Saving Animals,&#8221; Elan Abrell discusses how animal consumption regimes are built on the foundational perspective of animals as property. In studying sanctuaries, Abrell displays an alternative view where animals are viewed as subjects in relationship with humans. In moving away from the &#8220;treatment of animals as\u00a0<em>bestia sacer<\/em>&#8221; (p. 20), it is clear that some animals are more fully or more easily given relational subjectivity. For example, a domesticated dog is more likely to be valued in a relational capacity by a human than the coyote living in the woods of their backyard.<\/p>\n<p>How should society at large move forward in response to these ideas presented in this ethnography? How do societies effectively redesign food systems around the idea of animals as subjects rather than property? Which animals will be prioritized in promotion of their subjectivity- and will that be universal, or determined by the discretion of individual cultures?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the introduction of his work &#8220;Saving Animals,&#8221; Elan Abrell discusses how animal consumption regimes are built on the foundational perspective of animals as property. In studying sanctuaries, Abrell displays an alternative view where animals are viewed as subjects in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/2023\/03\/1504\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9708,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}