Infrahumanisms : science,culture, and the making of modern non/personhood

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Label

Infrahumanisms : science,culture, and the making of modern non/personhood

Title remainder

science,culture, and the making of modern non/personhood

Statement of responsibility

Megan H. Glick

Creator

• Glick, Megan H., 1980-

Author

• Glick, Megan H., 1980-

Subject

• Human beings
• Human beings
• Human rights
• Human rights
• Human-animal relationships
• Human-animal relationships
• Persons
• Persons
• Extraterrestrial beings
• Extraterrestrial beings

Language

eng

Summary

Considers how conversations surrounding nonhuman life have impacted a broad range of attitudes toward forms of human difference such as race, sexuality, and health. She examines the history of human and nonhuman subjectivity as told through twentieth-century scientific and cultural discourses that include pediatrics, primatology, eugenics, exobiology, and obesity research. outlining how the category of the human is continuously redefined in relation to the infrahuman - a liminal position of speciation existing between the human and the nonhuman - the author reads a number of phenomena, from early twentieth-century efforts to define children and higher order primates as liminally human and the postwar cultural fascination with extraterrestrial life to anxieties over AIDS, SARS, and other cross-species diseases. in these cases the efforts to define a universal humanity create the means with which to reinforce notions of human difference and maintain human-nonhuman hierarchies. In foregrounding how evolving definitions of the human reflect shifting attitudes about social inequality, the author shows how the consideration of nonhuman subjectivities demands a rethinking of long-held truths about biological meaning and difference

Member of

• ANIMA (Duke University Press)

Cataloging source

NcD/DLC

Dewey number

128

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

BD450

LC item number

.G538 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

ANIMA: critical race studies otherwise