東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Animals Left Behind: Multispecies Vu...

Mattes, Seven Marie.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Animals Left Behind: Multispecies Vulnerability in Post-3-11 Japan.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Animals Left Behind: Multispecies Vulnerability in Post-3-11 Japan./
Author:	Mattes, Seven Marie.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	253 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-01, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-01A.
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10830397
ISBN:	9780438129405

Animals Left Behind: Multispecies Vulnerability in Post-3-11 Japan.
Mattes, Seven Marie.

Animals Left Behind: Multispecies Vulnerability in Post-3-11 Japan. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 253 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-01, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 2018.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The disaster that struck Japan on March 11, 2011 was a catastrophic combination of a 9.0-magnitude earthquake, tsunami, and a damaged nuclear power plant, resulting in the death and displacement of thousands. Due to radioactive leakage, residents within a fluctuating zone were ordered to evacuate. Temporary shelters were established for the human residents - often not permitting companion animals. Officials initially told evacuees they would return home in a few days but were not permitted back for weeks. During this time, officials did not provide for the domesticated animals left behind in the no-go zone, resulting in large-scale mortality. Non-profit animal rescue organizations rescued hundreds of domesticated animals during the immediate aftermath, though not without significant long-term financial, institutional, and internal struggles. Non-human animal vulnerability is addressed in literature and policy primarily as an extension of human vulnerability, in that not including animals increases risk for humans. Engaging literature on the political ecology of natural hazards and human-animal studies, this project establishes an understanding of how vulnerabilities for humans and animals are co-produced, exacerbated, and alleviated by our multispecies entanglements. Working as a volunteer, I conducted 12 months of multispecies ethnographic fieldwork from 2014-15 with non-profit animal rescue organizations who participated in the disaster aftermath. This project was carried out with qualitative research methods, specifically participant observation, semi-structured interviews (n=64), and questionnaires (n=75). The findings of this study illuminate how non-human animal vulnerability is thoroughly entwined in the people and institutions associated with their lives. Despite cultural animal infatuation and the rising rate of pet ownership, domesticated animals in Japan are minimally protected legally and politically. The animal rescue non-profit organizations and volunteers present are marginalized due to a variety of intersectional identities, struggling to navigate systems of power in which their associations with foreignness, gender, and species result in compounded challenges. Given the multispecies nature of vulnerability, this study found that building resiliency for domesticated animals strengthens the larger, more-than-human society in which they are a part.

ISBN: 9780438129405Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122764
Cultural anthropology.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Anthrozoology

Animals Left Behind: Multispecies Vulnerability in Post-3-11 Japan.
LDR:03662nmm a2200397 4500 001 2272242
005 20201105110005.5
008 220629s2018 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9780438129405
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI10830397
035 $a (MiAaPQ)grad.msu:16152
035 $a AAI10830397
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a Mattes, Seven Marie. $3 3549673
245 1 0 $a Animals Left Behind: Multispecies Vulnerability in Post-3-11 Japan.
260 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, $c 2018
300 $a 253 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-01, Section: A.
500 $a Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
500 $a Advisor: Louie, Andrea;Kalof, Linda.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 2018.
506 $a This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
520 $a The disaster that struck Japan on March 11, 2011 was a catastrophic combination of a 9.0-magnitude earthquake, tsunami, and a damaged nuclear power plant, resulting in the death and displacement of thousands. Due to radioactive leakage, residents within a fluctuating zone were ordered to evacuate. Temporary shelters were established for the human residents - often not permitting companion animals. Officials initially told evacuees they would return home in a few days but were not permitted back for weeks. During this time, officials did not provide for the domesticated animals left behind in the no-go zone, resulting in large-scale mortality. Non-profit animal rescue organizations rescued hundreds of domesticated animals during the immediate aftermath, though not without significant long-term financial, institutional, and internal struggles. Non-human animal vulnerability is addressed in literature and policy primarily as an extension of human vulnerability, in that not including animals increases risk for humans. Engaging literature on the political ecology of natural hazards and human-animal studies, this project establishes an understanding of how vulnerabilities for humans and animals are co-produced, exacerbated, and alleviated by our multispecies entanglements. Working as a volunteer, I conducted 12 months of multispecies ethnographic fieldwork from 2014-15 with non-profit animal rescue organizations who participated in the disaster aftermath. This project was carried out with qualitative research methods, specifically participant observation, semi-structured interviews (n=64), and questionnaires (n=75). The findings of this study illuminate how non-human animal vulnerability is thoroughly entwined in the people and institutions associated with their lives. Despite cultural animal infatuation and the rising rate of pet ownership, domesticated animals in Japan are minimally protected legally and politically. The animal rescue non-profit organizations and volunteers present are marginalized due to a variety of intersectional identities, struggling to navigate systems of power in which their associations with foreignness, gender, and species result in compounded challenges. Given the multispecies nature of vulnerability, this study found that building resiliency for domesticated animals strengthens the larger, more-than-human society in which they are a part.
590 $a School code: 0128.
650 4 $a Cultural anthropology. $3 2122764
650 4 $a Asian Studies. $3 1669375
650 4 $a Environmental Studies. $3 1669635
653 $a Anthrozoology
653 $a Disaster
653 $a Human-animal studies
653 $a Japan
653 $a Multispecies ethnography
690 $a 0326
690 $a 0342
690 $a 0477
710 2 $a Michigan State University. $b Anthropology - Doctor of Philosophy. $3 3344819
773 0 $t Dissertations Abstracts International $g 80-01A.
790 $a 0128
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2018
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10830397