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Squirrelling: Human-Animal Studies in the Northern-European Region

by Amelie Björck , Claudia Lindén , Ann-Sofie Lönngren
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9789189109940
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Sodertorn University
  • Publisher Imprint: Sodertorn University
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  • Pages: 256
  • Original Price: GBP 19.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Amelie Bjorck
  • Item Weight: 291 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Comparative Literature

This collection maps out the current state of the field of literary and cultural animal studies in Northern Europe. With contributors from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Poland, and Sweden, the work spans a wide variety of issues regarding human and non-human life in relation to different kinds of cultural expression, while others are more general in character. Above all others, one urgent and overarching question is addressed: How can we challenge the current anthropocentric paradigm in ways that benefit the production of less violent, more ethically sound and sustainable knowledge regarding the relationship between human and non-human life?

Ratatǫskr, in Norse mythology, is a squirrel that scurries up and down Yggdrasil (the tree of life), carrying messages between the dragon at its roots and the eagle at its top. Being a representation of a 'real' animal species, but also a part of the mythology organizing the human world, Ratatǫskr is ideally situated for literary and cultural animal studies. Apart from directing the scope of interest towards Northern Europe, this figure reminds us that the "squirrelling" and storage of productive and just knowledge about all forms of life is an important undertaking if there is to be a future for any of them.

Björck, Amelie: - Amelie Björck is associate professor and senior lecturer in comparativeliterature and drama at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden. Herscholarly work mainly encompasses human-animal studies in late modernand contemporary literature and culture. In several articles she has takenan interest in the relation between modes of narrating, reading, and animalethics. Björck's most recent project focused on how narrative temporalityin different forms of literature and art conditions the space and agency offarmed animals. The project resulted in the book "Zooësis. Om kulturellagestaltningar av lantbruksdjurens tid och liv" (Glänta Produktion, 2019).

Lindén, Claudia: - Claudia Lindén is professor in comparative literature at SödertörnUniversity in Stockholm, Sweden. Her research interests include 19thcenturyScandinavian literature, Gothic literature, animal studies, genderstudies, queer theory, theory of history. Lindén is currently working on theanimal studies-project "Bear traces: A study of the bear in nationalromantic literature around the Baltic Sea."

Lönngren, Ann-Sofie: - Ann-Sofie Lönngren is professor in comparative literature at SödertörnUniversity in Stockholm, Sweden. Her research interests include Northern-European literature after 1880, animal studies, interdisciplinarity, queertheory, transgender studies, ethics, education, indigenous studies and intersectionality.Lönngren's most recent book is Following the "Animal. Power, Agency, and Human-animal Transformations in Modern, Northern-EuropeanLiterature" (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015).

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