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- 9782940600427
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- Graduate Institute Publications
- Date de publication
- 16/03/2023
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- anglais
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Back Then It Was Culture, Now It Is Animal Torture
Moral-Phenomenological Milieu of Human-Elephant Entanglements in Kerala
Anu Karippal
Graduate Institute Publications
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Interrogating responses and reactions and the atmosphere of fear that my
presence instigated, this paper critically examines human-elephant relations
in Kerala amidst the bigger debates on animal rights, the emergence of
elephants as a flagship species of conservation, and concerns regarding
elephant captivity. The paper delves into how elephant handlers and owners
reposition themselves and respond to activistic claims that portray human-
elephant relations as torturous. Further, the study calls into question the
strict nature-culture/wild-domesticated binaries posed by the activism
discourse by probing the fuzzy naturecultures through which elephants and
humans navigate their mundane lives. Moving forward, the research proposes
that humans and elephants are attuned and entangled through nuanced
phenomenological alignments that the normative moral frameworks on elephant
captivity seem to overlook. Deploying various disciplinary and theoretical
frameworks, this paper argues that incorporating the ethical turn in
anthropology can yield incisive perspectives in interspecies studies. We
extend our heartfelt thanks to the Vahabzadeh Foundation for financially
supporting the publication of best works by young researchers of the Graduate
Institute, giving a priority to those who have been awarded academic prizes
for their master’s dissertations.
presence instigated, this paper critically examines human-elephant relations
in Kerala amidst the bigger debates on animal rights, the emergence of
elephants as a flagship species of conservation, and concerns regarding
elephant captivity. The paper delves into how elephant handlers and owners
reposition themselves and respond to activistic claims that portray human-
elephant relations as torturous. Further, the study calls into question the
strict nature-culture/wild-domesticated binaries posed by the activism
discourse by probing the fuzzy naturecultures through which elephants and
humans navigate their mundane lives. Moving forward, the research proposes
that humans and elephants are attuned and entangled through nuanced
phenomenological alignments that the normative moral frameworks on elephant
captivity seem to overlook. Deploying various disciplinary and theoretical
frameworks, this paper argues that incorporating the ethical turn in
anthropology can yield incisive perspectives in interspecies studies. We
extend our heartfelt thanks to the Vahabzadeh Foundation for financially
supporting the publication of best works by young researchers of the Graduate
Institute, giving a priority to those who have been awarded academic prizes
for their master’s dissertations.
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