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Title [sv]
Vara/djur: Relationer mellan människor och ”produktionsdjur” i kulturens gestaltningar
Title [en]
Meat/animals: Relations between humans and farm animals in cultural representations
Abstract [sv]
Människans förhållande till lantbruksdjur som nötkreatur, grisar, hästar, får och getter är komplext. Många av dessa djur ingår i ett produktionssystem av uppfödning och slakt, andra intar roller som individer snarare än som potentiell charkuterivara i människors liv, och ibland kombineras de två. Litteratur, teater och film har ofta arbetat med denna komplexitet, och med de gränser mellan människa/djur och mellan sörjbart/ätbart kött som vi lagt till grund för vår civilisation. Den humanistiska forskningen har inte lyckats fånga upp detta gräns- och relationsarbete, eftersom humaniora ganska ensidigt sökt kunskap om människors liv. Projektet syftar till att, med inspiration från ett snabbt växande internationellt human-animal studies-fält, bidra med ny kunskap genom att närstudera exempel från vuxenkulturens skönlitteratur, film, scenkonst respektive drag (utklädningsakter), som på olika sätt rör (upp) gränskonstruktionen. Undersökningen riktas mot relevanta problematiker i tre olika sorters konstnärliga händelser 1) händelser i teater och film där verkliga kor/grisar/getter är aktörer 2) händelser där människor i litteratur och drag talar för och talar som ”produktionsdjur” 3) händelser där kontinuiteten mellan människor och lantbruksdjur poängteras, genom artöverskridande litterär identifikation, transformation och hybriditet. Exemplen hämtas från västerländsk (övervägande svensk) efterkrigstid, en kontext i vilken djurrättstänkande såväl som djurindustri vuxit snabbt.
Abstract [en]
The relation between humans and farm animals such as cattle, pigs, horses, sheep and goats is complex. Many of these animals are part of a production system of breeding and slaughter, others play a role as individuals rather than as potential meat visavi humans, and sometimes the two go together. Literature, theatre and film have often worked with this complexity, i.e. with the division between human/animal and grievable/eatable meat that has served as a foundation for our civilisation. The academic humanities have not adequately addressed this boundary-work of the artistic fields, since these disciplins have generally had their focus on the life of humans alone. Inspired by international developments in the interdisciplinary field of human-animal studies, this project aims to contribute with new knowledge by close-reading some examples from literature, film, theatre and drag, that negotiate or permeate the border construction in interesting ways. The invesigation focuses on relevant problematics in a few different kinds of literary and artistic events where 1) real animals function as actors in theatre and film, 2) humans act as representatives of animals via literature or drag 3) continuities are emphasized through literary accounts of transspecies identification, transformation and hybridity. The examples belong to a western, after war sphere – a context in which the awareness of animal welfare has grown, while the animal industry has also rapidly expanded.
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Björck, A. (2019). Discerning the Ghostly Voices of Animals. In: Ingemar Haag; Karin Molander Danielsson; Marie Öhman; Thorsten Päplow (Ed.), Perspectives on Ecocriticism: Local Beginnings, Global Echoes (pp. 133-148). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Discerning the Ghostly Voices of Animals
2019 (English)In: Perspectives on Ecocriticism: Local Beginnings, Global Echoes / [ed] Ingemar Haag; Karin Molander Danielsson; Marie Öhman; Thorsten Päplow, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, p. 133-148Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019
National Category
General Literature Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-49575 (URN)978-1-5275-3200-7 (ISBN)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P13-0505:1
Available from: 2022-07-13 Created: 2022-07-13 Last updated: 2022-07-13Bibliographically approved
Björck, A. (2019). Zooësis: om kulturella gestaltningar av lantbruksdjurens tid och liv. Göteborg: Glänta produktion
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Zooësis: om kulturella gestaltningar av lantbruksdjurens tid och liv
2019 (Swedish)Book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg: Glänta produktion, 2019. p. 332
Keywords
Livestock, Livestock in art, Animals in literature, Boskap, Boskap i konsten, Djur i litteraturen
National Category
General Literature Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-40488 (URN)9789198484960 (ISBN)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P13-0505:1
Available from: 2020-04-07 Created: 2020-04-07 Last updated: 2023-01-24Bibliographically approved
Björck, A. (2016). Linear Time and Revolutionary Time: Humans, Apes, and Temporality in Scientific and Literary Narratives. In: Stefan Herbrechter; Elisabeth Friis (Ed.), Narrating Life: Experiments with Human and Animal Bodies in Literature, Science and Art (pp. 245-266). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Linear Time and Revolutionary Time: Humans, Apes, and Temporality in Scientific and Literary Narratives
2016 (English)In: Narrating Life: Experiments with Human and Animal Bodies in Literature, Science and Art / [ed] Stefan Herbrechter; Elisabeth Friis, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2016, p. 245-266Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2016
National Category
General Literature Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-49578 (URN)10.1163/9789004312074_014 (DOI)978-90-04-31207-4 (ISBN)978-90-04-30259-4 (ISBN)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P13-0505:1
Available from: 2022-07-13 Created: 2022-07-13 Last updated: 2022-07-13Bibliographically approved
Björck, A. (2014). Köttätande som omedvetet trossystem. Svenska Dagbladet (12 augusti), pp. 23
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Köttätande som omedvetet trossystem
2014 (Swedish)In: Svenska Dagbladet, ISSN 1101-2412, no 12 augusti, p. 23-Article in journal, News item (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
National Category
General Literature Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-27704 (URN)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P13-0505:1
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Available from: 2015-06-12 Created: 2015-06-12 Last updated: 2022-07-13Bibliographically approved
Björck, A. (2014). Omläsning: Donna Haraway "Manifesto for cyborgs: science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the 1980s". Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap, 44(1), 70-72
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Omläsning: Donna Haraway "Manifesto for cyborgs: science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the 1980s"
2014 (Swedish)In: Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap, ISSN 1104-0556, E-ISSN 2001-094X, Vol. 44, no 1, p. 70-72Article in journal (Other academic) Published
National Category
General Literature Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-27703 (URN)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P13-0505:1
Available from: 2015-06-12 Created: 2015-06-12 Last updated: 2022-07-13Bibliographically approved
Björck, A. (2014). Telling stories of humans, animals, and modernization. In: Erika Andersson Cederholm; Amelie Björck; Kristina Jennbert; Ann-Sofie Lönngren (Ed.), Exploring the Animal Turn: Human-Animal Relations in Science, Society and Culture (pp. 193-205). Lund: Pufendorfinstitutet
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Telling stories of humans, animals, and modernization
2014 (English)In: Exploring the Animal Turn: Human-Animal Relations in Science, Society and Culture / [ed] Erika Andersson Cederholm; Amelie Björck; Kristina Jennbert; Ann-Sofie Lönngren, Lund: Pufendorfinstitutet , 2014, p. 193-205Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Pufendorfinstitutet, 2014
National Category
General Literature Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-49574 (URN)978-91-979893-8-1 (ISBN)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P13-0505:1
Available from: 2022-07-13 Created: 2022-07-13 Last updated: 2022-07-13Bibliographically approved
Principal InvestigatorBjörck, Amelie
Coordinating organisation
Södertörn University
Funder
Period
2014-01-01 － 2016-12-31
National Category
Specific LiteraturesCultural StudiesEthics
Identifiers
DiVA, id: project:1727Project, id: P13-0505:1_RJ

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