Taşdizen, B., Yetiş, EÖ and Bakırlıoğlu, Y. (2024) Intersubjectivity as an analytical concept to study human-animal interaction in historical context: street dogs in Late Ottoman period. Frontiers in Sociology, 9. 1389010. ISSN 2297-7775
Abstract
Human knowledge pertaining to human-animal interaction is constructed by the human author, albeit the presence of animal subjects. Such a human lens is pronounced when studying human-animal interactions across history, whose nonhuman animal subjects are not only absent, and therefore eliminating the possibility of conducting empirical studies <jats:italic>in situ</jats:italic>, but also their experiences are filtered by the interpretative lens of human authors of extant historical accounts as well as contemporary human analysts who interpret these accounts. This article draws upon such epistemological limitations of understanding nonhuman animal presence in historical accounts and offers human-animal intersubjectivity as an analytical concept, involving generative iterability and indistinctive boundaries that emphasise intersubjective openness and relationality, to trace and disclose the continuity of human-animal co-existence. The article’s historical scope is the Late Ottoman period characterised by a sense of temporal and spatial disorientation and reorientation for humans as well as street dogs during its modernisation processes.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
Authors/Creators: |
|
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 Taşdizen, Yetiş and Bakırlıoğlu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords: | intersubjectivity; human-animal interaction; animal history; co-existence; joint attendance; anthropomorphism; generative iterability; indistinctive boundaries |
Dates: |
|
Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 09 Jul 2024 08:34 |
Last Modified: | 09 Jul 2024 08:34 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1389010 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Frontiers Media SA |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1389010 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:214558 |