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GOVERN-ANIMALITY · History of Animal Governmentality: Models of Animal Exploitation and Resistance in Europe (mid-17th-19th Centuries)

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Период: 2023-01-01 → 2024-12-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 195 915 €
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Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Накратко на български

Историята на експлоатацията на животните между XVII и XIX век анализира връзката между философските идеи и техниките за отглеждане. Това помага да се разбере дали механистичният поглед към живите същества е единствената причина за интензивното им използване.

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History of Animal Governmentality: Models of Animal Exploitation and Resistance in Europe (mid-17th-19th Centuries)

GOVERN-ANIMALITY is a project dedicated to the study of the history of animal exploitation between the 17th and 19th centuries. Its aim was to intertwine the history of animal husbandry techniques with the history of philosophical and scientific conceptions of the living. In this sense, the project falls within the scope of Animal Studies and, more specifically, within the emerging field of Animal History, to which it seeks to contribute in an original way by reflecting on the relationship between modes of representation and forms of animal exploitation. One of the key historiographical stakes of the project is the problematization of a common assumption in Animal Studies, particularly in Animal Ethics, which links the intensification of animal exploitation to a mechanistic conception of living beings. According to this view, there would be a continuous line from 17th-century philosophical mechanism to the mechanization of livestock farming in the late 19th century, ultimately reducing animals to thermodynamic machines. In this reconstruction, typical of the history of moral philosophy, the numerous critiques of Cartesian mechanism are acknowledged but treated as a parallel and opposing current. This anti-mechanistic thought is considered not as part of the history of animal exploitation but rather as the prehistory of animal ethics and animal rights. The GOVERN-ANIMALITY project aimed to challenge this dualistic and ultimately Manichean narrative. This primary philosophical objective was achieved through historical research that sought to reveal the multiplicity of the forms of government of living beings that shaped the modern era. For this reason, I focused in particular on the differences among the animal husbandry sciences developed between the 18th and 19th centuries—specifically agronomy, veterinary science, applied zoology, and zootechnics—which proposed different models of animal exploitation based on distinct epistemological premises. A significant part of the project was also devoted to theories of acclimatization and domestication in the first half of the 19th century, as they represent a salient case of a biological resource exploitation program in the colonies, based on a radically anti-reductionist conception of animals. The project demonstrates that—consistent with what was simultaneously occurring in human governmental technologies, which Foucault described in terms of biopolitics—animal exploitation dispositifs appropriated the emerging life sciences and even new knowledge of animal behavior to update techniques of breeding and managing living beings.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

"History of Animal Governmentality: Models of Animal Exploitation and Resistance in Europe (mid-17th-19th Centuries)"" (GOVERN-ANIMALITY) investigates the different forms of animal exploitation taking place in Europe between the mid-17th and the 19th century. By linking together concepts and practices of human relationships to other animals, my aim is to write an epistemological and political history of animal government. To this end, I use different kinds of historical sources, ranging from philosophical, naturalistic, and economic texts to technical manuals (equestrian, veterinary, and zootechnical works). My central question is: what are the actual logics of power over animals, and how did they change over the course of the modern period? By adopting an interdisciplinary approach, GOVERN-ANIMALITY intertwines the epistemological problem of the status of living beings in the history of philosophy and science, with the material history of animal husbandry. This project uses methodological tools that have not been previously employed in the analysis of animal exploitation: namely, historical epistemology and Foucaults genealogy. By including the voice of the technicians of animal exploitation who provide abundant testimony of animals' needs and resistance , this project also aims to restore, at least in part, the agency of animals. Moreover, it looks at the connections between animal inferiorization and mechanisms of animalisation deployed against a variety of human categories. Within the context of a growing academic and social interest in the relationship between human societies and nature, intensified by recent ecological and pandemic crises, GOVERN-ANIMALITY thus provides a critical reflection on the shaping of modern forms of knowledge-power over living beings, characterising Western societies.""

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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