Stray Agency and Interspecies Care: The Amsterdam Stray Cats and Their Humans
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Abstract This chapter discusses the Stichting Amsterdamse Zwerfkatten (Amsterdam Stray Cat Foundation, afterwards SAZ), who work with and for stray cats. In their practices views they challenge common assumptions about cat subjectivity agency, cats’ right to a habitat social relations, as well idea that there is strict difference between cats humans. Their approach offers an alternative way of thinking agency human networks cat-human sharing city cats, working towards more freedom I examine these relations from perspective care, politics, investigate whether or not this can function model building new communities other animals, which centres agency.
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عنوان ژورنال: The international library of environmental, agricultural and food ethics
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2215-1737', '1570-3010']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63523-7_16