Stealing from Bakhtin: Writing the Voices of the ”Voiceless”
This essay investigates an approach to writing about animals within the humanities. The goal is to focus attention on animals as actors, rather than speaking on their behalf. By combining Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of speech genres with Donna Haraway’s perspectives on co-habitation between all species...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:38ff5ac91f934472993fe656ddc6a479 2023-08-27T04:11:38+02:00 Stealing from Bakhtin: Writing the Voices of the ”Voiceless” Guro Flinterud 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.5324/njsts.v2i1.2139 https://doaj.org/article/38ff5ac91f934472993fe656ddc6a479 EN eng Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/njsts/article/view/2139 https://doaj.org/toc/1894-4647 doi:10.5324/njsts.v2i1.2139 1894-4647 https://doaj.org/article/38ff5ac91f934472993fe656ddc6a479 Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies, Vol 2, Iss 1 (2016) Science Q Technology T article 2016 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.5324/njsts.v2i1.2139 2023-08-06T00:43:50Z This essay investigates an approach to writing about animals within the humanities. The goal is to focus attention on animals as actors, rather than speaking on their behalf. By combining Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of speech genres with Donna Haraway’s perspectives on co-habitation between all species, I suggest that a careful attention to animals as communication partners might give us a tool to capture the contribution animals make in the creation of history and culture. Two examples will be provided to illustrate this concept: The first example is a media story about celebrity polar bear Knut. The second example is an oral account of human-animal interaction in the zoo. Article in Journal/Newspaper polar bear Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies 2 1 71 |
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This essay investigates an approach to writing about animals within the humanities. The goal is to focus attention on animals as actors, rather than speaking on their behalf. By combining Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of speech genres with Donna Haraway’s perspectives on co-habitation between all species, I suggest that a careful attention to animals as communication partners might give us a tool to capture the contribution animals make in the creation of history and culture. Two examples will be provided to illustrate this concept: The first example is a media story about celebrity polar bear Knut. The second example is an oral account of human-animal interaction in the zoo. |
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