Who is the weak? a critical examination of the construction of 'weak' and 'strong' interests from the case of dog protection in chinese society
Mobilizations in defence of ‘companion animals’ have become major sites of contestation in Chinese society in recent years. They often reject the existing ambiguity between the use of these animals as pets and as meat, demanding unambiguous respect for and protection of dogs. However, in a society w...
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Frankfurt am Main
IZO, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Ostasienstudien
November 2016
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| Schriftenreihe: | Frankfurt working papers on East Asia
no. 10 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Mobilizations in defence of ‘companion animals’ have become major sites of contestation in Chinese society in recent years. They often reject the existing ambiguity between the use of these animals as pets and as meat, demanding unambiguous respect for and protection of dogs. However, in a society where inequalities are as significant as in China, where the level of poverty, sickness, and environmental and industrial tragedies appears overwhelming, one may ask how pets’ destinies have become such a symbolic focus and source of occasional fury – for both Chinese and foreign audiences. Taking this question seriously, this article aims to examine such mobilizations in China – demanding the protection of dogs – as a starting point to theoretically unwrap the more general problem of how the perception of certain beings as ‘weak’ and as deserving the protection of society is socially constructed, and what the related choices imply. I argue that to better understand these mobilizations to protect dogs, we should not separate the focus of the calls for protection from the social web of relationships and oppositions in which they are entrenched. |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 22-24 |
| Beschreibung: | 24 Seiten |
| ISSN: | 1869-6872 |