Animals as Criminals: Towards a Foucauldian Analysis of Animal Trials

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2018-01-01

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Koyuncu, Emre

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Scholarship on the early modern practice of animal trials in Europe has grown substantially in the last few decades. After a critical literature review pointing at the shortcomings of positivist approaches and of the interpretation of the phenomenon as a purely religious practice, I present Foucauldian genealogy as a more rigorous framework for understanding the purpose this peculiar practice may have served. The benefits of adopting a Foucauldian perspective are twofold. First, it allows for a subtle functionalism that does not treat this tradition as a homogeneous block. Second, it gives an opportunity to introduce the animal body into Foucault's genealogy of power, which rather focuses on the human body and interhuman relationships.

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PROSECUTION, LAW

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/52478

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PARERGON

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https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2018.0004

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E. Koyuncu, “Animals as Criminals: Towards a Foucauldian Analysis of Animal Trials,” PARERGON, pp. 79–96, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/52478.