Affect, Space and Animals

Jopi Nyman is Head of English at the School of Humanities at the University of Eastern Finland. Nora Schuurman is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Eastern Finland.

1 Introduction PART I Being with Animals: Affect 2. Never-ending Stories, Ending Narratives: Polar Bears, Climate Change Populism, and the Recent History of British Nature Documentary Film 3. Cattle Tending in the "Good Old Times": Human–Cow Relationships in Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Finland 4. In Pursuit of Meaningful Human–Horse Relations: Responsible Horse Ownership in a Leisure Context 5. "... and Horses": The Affectionate Bond between Horses and Humans/Gods in Homer’s Iliad PART II Mapping Human–Animal Spaces: Relationality 6. Re-reading Sentimentalism in Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty: Affect, Performativity, and Hybrid Spaces 7. Seeing the Animal Otherwise: An Uexküllian Reading of Kerstin Ekman’s The Dog 8. Transcultural Affect: Human–Horse Relations in Joe Johnston’s Hidalgo, Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, and Belá Tarr’s The Turin Horse 9. What’s Underfoot: Emplacing Identity in Practice among Horse–Human Pairs Part III From Objects to Subjects: Exploring Animal Subjectivity 10. Moving (with)in Affect: Horses, People, and Tolerance 11. Companionable Human–Animal Relationality: A Reading of a Buddhist Jātaka (Rebirth) Tale 12. Passing the Cattle Car: Anthropomorphism, Animal Suffering, and James Agee’s "A Mother’s Tale" 13. An Avian–Human art? Affective and Effective Relations between Birdsong and Poetry Part IV Methodological Afterword 14. Ethnographic Research in a Changing Cultural Landscape