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This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the field of more-than-human studies, bringing together contemporary and essential content from leading authors across the discipline. With attention to the intellectual history of the field, its developments and extensions, its applications and its significance to contemporary society, it presents empirical studies and theoretical work covering long-established disciplines, as well as new writing on art, history, politics, planning, architecture, research methodology and ethics. An elaboration of the various dimensions of more-than-human studies, The Routledge International Handbook of More-than-Human Studies constitutes essential reading for anyone studying or researching in this field

Animals can tell us a lot about ourselves. The way we love them as pets, eat them for dinner, make them symbols of the nation or shun them as invaders and pests illuminates much about our society and culture. Animal Nation traces the complex relationships between animals and humans in Australia. It starts with the colonial period - when unfamiliar native animals were hunted almost to extinction and replaced with preferred species - and brings us full circle to the present when native species are protected above all others

Animals and Modern Culture investigates the dramatic transformation of relationships between humans and animals in the 20th century. The book, focusing on social change and animals, is concerned with how humans relate to animals and how this has changed and why

This paper reviews recent studies of loneliness in order to assess whether it is becoming endemic in Australian society. It develops the idea that loneliness is an embedded social structural feature of contemporary Australian life likely to affect people through the life course, creating psychological stress, ill health and social dysfunction. Zygmunt Bauman's writing on liquid modernity is used to trace a sequence of less binding social bonds from the community the workplace, intimate relationships, friendship and kinship that may account for a more generalised distribution of loneliness. Empirical evidence from recent national surveys in Australia demonstrates how Bauman's gloomy prognosis is particularly applicable in Australia. The paper argues that it has been invisible as a social issue until recently, but that its scope and scale have grown such that robust policy initiatives are now warranted. It argues that Australia's gendered pattern of loneliness indicates that Bauman's broad theory of liquid modernity must be mediated by several factors relating to national cultures, historic patterns of family formation, and the gender role distribution in the creation and maintenance of social bonds.

This paper will start by clarifying what I mean by the tourism ordering. For many years tourism theory was inhibited by narrow structuralist theorizing and the notion of 'places on the margin'. Consequently tourism was considered both socially and spatially marginal to the main business of contemporary life and most often a problem in both senses. As a result, its wider effects were never adequately theorized. Using a mix of ideas from Foucault, Latour, Law, Deleuze and Guattari as well as those who advocate a sociology of orderings, the tourism ordering seeks not only to theorize the place of tourism in contemporary societies but to demonstrate its rather potent impact as an ordering of modernity. While not seeking absolute redemption for tourism this paper will seek to identify some of the more positive and interesting 'ordering effects' this ordering has had. Adapted from the source document.

Against most social constructivist accounts of hunting this paper seeks to identify an embodied account of hunting and angling as a means of understanding its paradoxical popularity in late modernity. It evaluates the significance of two pro-hunting and angling discourses, those of Isaak Walton and Neo-Darwinian writers and argues that the appeal of hunting and angling, as evidenced through their copious literatures, descends from Walton rather than Neo-Darwinian sources. In particular it is the development of a highly sensual relation with the natural world that the Waltonian discourse encourages, in contrast with the visualism of touristic encounters, that may account for its enduring popularity.

This article investigates the paradoxical coexistence in late modernity of both heightened sentiments towards animals and the natural world, and the growing attraction of hunting and angling sports. The significance of this question can be gauged by the increase in parliamentary and electoral debates over the desirability of hunting and angling, by violent social conflict between hunters and anglers and their opponents and by debates over how best to `consume' natural environments. To date, the principal literatures have insisted that the terms of this debate be ethical and political, with no attempt to understand the drive and passion behind these sports. The ethical and moral standing of the hunter/angler is often prejudged while their motives are taken to derive from a need to exercise violence and cruelty. The recent literature dealing with the burgeoning of interest in nature and the environment frequently omits to mention those traditional pursuits that are shrouded in shame and conflict. It is argued here that enthusiasm for these sports is historically complex and relates to deeply embedded discourses on anti-modernism, neo-Darwinism, ecologism and masculinity. Far from being the preserve of traditional, rural groups in society, the new proponents of hunting and angling are drawn from sections of the urban middle class for whom such discourses have particular appeal.

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This paper examines Norbert Elias's thesis on the 'sportisation process' in the light of two hunting sports, fox‐hunting and angling. While this analysis of fox‐hunting is found unconvincing, his approach proves particularly useful in analysing the development of modern angling. The paper argues that Elias's thesis is too broadly applied and requires a more detailed analysis of the social milieu and culture of the players involved in changing and unchanging codes of play. In addition, it argues that the relevant differences between fox‐hunting and angling can only be fully explained through the analysis of changing relations between humans and animals/nature.