Special Issue "Minding Animals: Emerging Issues Concerning Our Relationships with Other Animals"

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A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2011)

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Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Marc Bekoff
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Boulder (EBIO), University of Colorado at Boulder, Ramaley N122, Campus Box 334, Boulder, CO 80309-0334, USA
Website: http://marcbekoff.com/
E-Mail: marc.bekoff@gmail.com
Interests: animal behavior; animal cognition; cognitive ethology; animal protection

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Dear Colleagues,

In July 2009 more than 500 delegates from 23 countries gathered in Newcastle, Australia for the first Minding Animals conference. People from numerous disciplines including biology, psychology, anthropology, and the social sciences and humanities gathered to share ideas and learn more about the complex nature of human-nonhuman animal relationships. The essays in this volume show just how wide-ranging and eclectic we must be as we study the frustrating, paradoxical, and challenging aspects of our interactions with the nonhuman beings with whom we share Earth. For example, how can people who say they love animals go on to harm them "out of love for them?" In the end everyone agreed that each of us could do more to expand our "compassion footprint" to make the world a more peaceful place for humans and other animals. Compassion for animals will make for more compassion among people and that's what we need as we journey into the future.

Prof. Dr. Marc Bekoff
Guest Editor

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Keywords

anthrozoology
animal minds
cognitive ethology
animal protection
animal rights
animal welfare

Published Papers (13 papers)

Marc Bekoff

Editorial: Minding Animals: A Transdisciplinary Approach for Furthering Our Understanding of Animals in Society

Animals 2011, 1(1), 4-6; doi:10.3390/ani1010004

Received: 10 November 2010 / Accepted: 7 December 2010 / Published: 8 December 2010

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Clive Phillips, Serdar Izmirli, Javid Aldavood, Marta Alonso, Bi Choe, Alison Hanlon, Anastasija Handziska, Gudrun Illmann, Linda Keeling, Mark Kennedy, Gwi Lee, Vonne Lund, Cecilie Mejdell, Veselinas Pelagic and Therese Rehn

Article: An International Comparison of Female and Male Students’ Attitudes to the Use of Animals

Animals 2011, 1(1), 7-26; doi:10.3390/ani1010007

Received: 7 December 2010 / Accepted: 8 December 2010 / Published: 9 December 2010

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Abstract: Previous research has demonstrated that in households where the male partner is more dominant, there is convergence in male and female attitudes towards animals, whereas if the female partner is empowered they exhibit greater empathy towards animals than the male partner. We tested this theory of ‘female empowered empathy’ internationally in a survey of female and male students’ attitudes towards use of animals, conducted in 11 Eurasian countries: China, Czech Republic, Great Britain, Iran, Ireland, South Korea, Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Spain and Sweden. Gender empowerment was estimated for each country using the Gender Empowerment Measure designed by the United Nations. The survey was administered via the internet in universities within countries, and 1,902 female and 1,530 male student responses from 102 universities were received. Respondents rated the acceptability of 43 major concerns about human use of animals, and the importance of 13 world social issues, including animal protection, environmental protection and sustainable development. Females had greater concern for animal welfare and rights than males. There was a positive correlation between the Gender Empowerment Measure and the ratio of female to male concern for animal welfare and rights, but not for other world issues. Thus in countries where females were more empowered, principally Sweden, Norway and Great Britain, females had much greater concern than males for animal issues, whereas in other countries the responses of males and females were more similar. Across countries female students were more likely to avoid meat and less likely to avoid eggs, milk and seafood than male students, and were more likely to have kept pets than males. Females rated cats as more sentient than males did. The results demonstrate that females have greater concern for animal welfare and rights than males, and that this is more likely to be expressed in countries where females are relatively empowered, suggesting that ‘emancipated female empathy’ operates across countries as well as at a local level.

Karen Dalke

Article: A Translocal Perspective: Mustang Images in the Cultural, Economic and Political Landscape

Animals 2011, 1(1), 27-39; doi:10.3390/ani1010027

Received: 29 November 2010 / Accepted: 9 December 2010 / Published: 14 December 2010

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Rod Bennison

Article: An Inclusive Re-Engagement with our Nonhuman Animal Kin: Considering Human Interrelationships with Nonhuman Animals

Animals 2011, 1(1), 40-55; doi:10.3390/ani1010040

Received: 19 November 2010 / Accepted: 9 December 2010 / Published: 14 December 2010

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Jill Bough

Article: The Mirror Has Two Faces: Contradictory Reflections of Donkeys in Western Literature from Lucius to Balthazar

Animals 2011, 1(1), 56-68; doi:10.3390/ani1010056

Received: 30 November 2010 / Accepted: 9 December 2010 / Published: 14 December 2010

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Margaret Rose

Article: Challenges to the Development and Implementation of Public Policies to Achieve Animal Welfare Outcomes

Animals 2011, 1(1), 69-82; doi:10.3390/ani1010069

Received: 22 December 2010 / Accepted: 31 December 2010 / Published: 31 December 2010

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Matthew Cole

Article: From “Animal Machines” to “Happy Meat”? Foucault’s Ideas of Disciplinary and Pastoral Power Applied to ‘Animal-Centred’ Welfare Discourse

Animals 2011, 1(1), 83-101; doi:10.3390/ani1010083

Received: 22 December 2010 / Accepted: 6 January 2011 / Published: 11 January 2011

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Bernard E. Rollin

Article: Animal Rights as a Mainstream Phenomenon

Animals 2011, 1(1), 102-115; doi:10.3390/ani1010102

Received: 21 December 2010 / Accepted: 4 January 2011 / Published: 19 January 2011

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Sune Borkfelt

Article: What’s in a Name?—Consequences of Naming Non-Human Animals

Animals 2011, 1(1), 116-125; doi:10.3390/ani1010116

Received: 7 January 2011 / Accepted: 13 January 2011 / Published: 19 January 2011

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Camilla H. Fox and Marc Bekoff

Article: Integrating Values and Ethics into Wildlife Policy and Management—Lessons from North America

Animals 2011, 1(1), 126-143; doi:10.3390/ani1010126

Received: 18 January 2011 / Accepted: 18 January 2011 / Published: 25 January 2011

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Eleonora Gullone

Review: Conceptualising Animal Abuse with an Antisocial Behaviour Framework

Animals 2011, 1(1), 144-160; doi:10.3390/ani1010144

Received: 21 December 2010 / Accepted: 18 January 2011 / Published: 26 January 2011

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Timothy Ikin

Article: A Conservation Ethic and the Collecting of Animals by Institutions of Natural Heritage in the Twenty-First Century: Case Study of the Australian Museum

Animals 2011, 1(1), 176-185; doi:10.3390/ani1010176

Received: 18 January 2011 / Accepted: 27 January 2011 / Published: 15 February 2011

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Deidre Wicks

Article: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life—The Case of Animal Suffering

Animals 2011, 1(1), 186-199; doi:10.3390/ani1010186

Received: 18 January 2011 / Accepted: 17 February 2011 / Published: 21 February 2011

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