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A Right To Roam? A Trans-species Approach To Understanding Cathuman Relations And Social Discourses Associated With Freeroaming Urban Cats (Felis Catus).

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Title/Author:	A Right To Roam? A Trans-species Approach To Understanding Cathuman Relations And Social Discourses Associated With Freeroaming Urban Cats (Felis Catus)./
Author:	Hill, K.
Description:	1 online resource (446 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-05A.
Subject:	Biopolitics. -
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ISBN:	9798380738293

A Right To Roam? A Trans-species Approach To Understanding Cathuman Relations And Social Discourses Associated With Freeroaming Urban Cats (Felis Catus).
Hill, K.

A Right To Roam? A Trans-species Approach To Understanding Cathuman Relations And Social Discourses Associated With Freeroaming Urban Cats (Felis Catus). - 1 online resource (446 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Exeter (United Kingdom), 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

This thesis employs thematic discourse analysis to elucidate prominent themes and points of contention associated with roaming cats (Felis catus). The data comprised 2476 online user comments responding to content related to roaming cats, 75 qualitative survey responses, 771 Facebook responses, and biographies reconstructed from eight case studies of cat-human relationships. These reflect broader social discourses surrounding more-than-human animals and human governance over other animals. Notions of guardian (owner) responsibilities are underpinned by different perceptions of companion cats (pets), ranging from childlike dependents who need to be protected and 'parented' to wild-like animals whose confinement would be morally wrong. Comments reveal how discourses from scientists, cat and wildlife advocacy groups, and the media are filtered through a local lens and often applied out of context. The data supports the notion that media reporting is instigating a moral panic over roaming cats by evoking emotive responses to predation by cats. These invariably become entangled within discourses related to cat safety, welfare, and complaints of 'nuisance' behaviours. Discourses surrounding cats in the community are further examined within a morethan-human biopolitical framework that describes how cohesive social mechanisms exert control over feline bodies through normalisation of practices such as desexing and confinement. Language was found to play a key role in biopolitical control by dominating the narrative of 'responsible' cat guardianship. Language is also central to moral panic theory, and the term 'feral' was shown to reinforce a 'folk devil' trope of free-living cats as transgressive and inherently different from companion cats. 'Feral' also invoked pity among those adamant cats need human love and care. However, cats are not without agency and can co-create meaning within a multispecies home or community. Case studies demonstrated cat-human intersubjectivity (joint meaning-making) and the various relationships formed between cats and non-feline animals (including human), both inside and outside of their homes.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798380738293Subjects--Topical Terms:

836189
Biopolitics.
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A Right To Roam? A Trans-species Approach To Understanding Cathuman Relations And Social Discourses Associated With Freeroaming Urban Cats (Felis Catus).
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