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Multispecies Families: Pets, Community, and Social Action
Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, 2022In this essay, I reflect on what I learned about human–animal relationships, families, and community through volunteering at an animal shelter, and how I translated these insights into founding a nonprofit community organization, Animal Advocates of Greater Lafayette (AAGL).
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Journal of Family Issues
Animals are an integral part of the multispecies family, a new way of “doing family.” Understanding the intergenerational transmission of human–animal relationship practices is essential as animals become embedded in family life. Despite growing research on companion animals’ roles in child development, less is known about how parents’ approaches to ...
Yana Kuchirko
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Animals are an integral part of the multispecies family, a new way of “doing family.” Understanding the intergenerational transmission of human–animal relationship practices is essential as animals become embedded in family life. Despite growing research on companion animals’ roles in child development, less is known about how parents’ approaches to ...
Yana Kuchirko
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Victims/Survivors of family and domestic violence in diverse, multispecies households
2020Domestic and family violence (DFV), including but not limited to intimate partner violence (IPV), is a major and devastating problem in Australia (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2019). This is especially true for cisgender women (Fraser, 2008), people who are gender and/or sexuality diverse (Riggs, Taylor, Fraser, et al., 2018), and ...
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More‐than‐human families: Pets, people, and practices in multispecies households
Sociology Compass, 2017Abstract Although humans have coexisted with dogs and cats for thousands of years, that coexistence has taken on various meanings over time. Only recently have people openly included their pets as members of the family. Yet, because of the cultural ambivalence toward animals, what it means for a pet to “be” a family member remains ...
Leslie Irvine, Laurent Cilia
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family TherapyABSTRACTThe roots of rebellion and social justice that have lived in the margins of systemic practice are needed now more than ever to steady our profession for a changing climate. For decades, justice‐oriented family therapy scholars and practitioners have supported communities, by taking a stand against oppressive systems, furthering systemic change.
Paul Rhodes, James Dunk
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Multispecies Comparison of the Casein Gene Loci and Evolution of Casein Gene Family
Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia, 2002Caseins, the major milk proteins, are present in a genomic cluster spanning 250-350 kb. The divergence at the coding level between human, rodent, and cattle sequences is rather extensive for most of the genes in this region. Nevertheless, comparative analysis of genomic sequences harboring the casein gene cluster region of these species (with equal ...
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Multispecies Families, Capitalism, and the Law
2015Consumer values ascribing worth to novelty result in the importation of several million animals each year to the United States (Herrel and van der Meijden 2014, 106). The spirit of capital and the popular desire for the exotic have together generated laissez-faire policies in Florida, a state that has become home to over 500 species of “introduced”
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Good Boundaries? Growing Multispecies Cultures on the Family Farm
HypatiaAbstractThis paper considers the practical application of the metaphor of “good boundaries” for working towards better interspecies relationships and multispecies cultures. Engaged philosophical methods are employed in the context of the author’s family farm with attentiveness towards both multispecies and colonial politics.
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Society & Animals
Abstract This paper is an autoethnographic study of the author’s companionship with a retired farm dog in regional Australia. The study has a qualitative approach and was informed by a conceptual model of information experiences of multispecies households borrowed from the information science discipline as its theoretical framework ...
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Abstract This paper is an autoethnographic study of the author’s companionship with a retired farm dog in regional Australia. The study has a qualitative approach and was informed by a conceptual model of information experiences of multispecies households borrowed from the information science discipline as its theoretical framework ...
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Multispecies Families in Italy. A Cartography of the New Practices of Intimacy
In 2023, 65 million pets will live in Italian homes, compared to 59million people (Istat 2023). 4 out of 10 households have at least one animal companion, and the pet-food market is growing at an impressive rate (+13.4% in 2023 alone) (Assalco 2024).Peruzzi, Gaia, Di Benedetto, Giacomo
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