Description
This extract is from an article for the BSA (British Sociological Society) on-line journal, Uncover Society. The ‘confusion’ it highlights invitations social scientific investigation, as a result of social science has traditionally been preoccupied with people, however not different animals. This course explores how that humanocentrism is challenged by the latest social science ‘animal flip’ (Peggs, 2012; Cudworth, 2011). Humanocentrism is the idea that people are extra necessary than different residing issues, together with different animals. From this attitude, the significance given to different animals varies in line with their perceived usefulness to people. The animal flip signifies that the social sciences have begun paying elevated consideration to interconnections between people and different animals. Most pertinently for criminology, this implies an elevated essential deal with how human-nonhuman interconnections are riven with inequalities and might produce harms.
This course explains how the animal flip directs criminological consideration to nonhuman animals as victims. You’ll study social processes and constructions that victimise different animals, and the perpetuation of harms by way of language and imagery. By the top of the course, you’ll have seen – and will discover inspiration in – the increasing scope for criminological inquiry supplied by the animal flip.
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