"We have to think of the animals": affections, politics and symbiosis in animal protection

• Grant number: 09/13354-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2010
• End date: July 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Theory of Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Piero de Camargo Leirner
• Grantee: Guilherme Antunes de Oliveira
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The proposal is an analysis about public policies for the management of animal life and the work of animal protection associations in an urban-industrial. The perceptions and conceptions of animal as well as the animal rights and protection will be analyzed at both the representational and discursive as in political praxis, allowing also a theoretical-methodological reflection about the nature and culture binomial . It is intended that the empirical observation contributes to the analysis of the actions and ideas aimed to coexistence between humans and animals, where argumentation ethics in the policies, laws and the militant discourse and also the ecological sensibilities may also provide subsidies to understanding notions like welfare, animal rights and protection as well as the understanding of domesticity and living with animals in the human socius.