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Author Włodarczyk, Justyna, author.

Title Genealogy of obedience : reading North American dog training literature, 1850s-2000s / by Justyna Włodarczyk
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Human-animal studies, 1573-4226 ; volume 20
Human-animal studies ; v. 20.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Periodizing Dog Training with Foucault -- 2.1850-1910: Shaping the Dog's Soul -- 3.1910-1970s: The Emergence and Strengthening of the Disciplinary Regime -- 4.1980s-2000s: From Governmentality to Self-Governmentality: Biopower, Behaviorism and Care of Self -- 5.2000-2015: Beyond Behaviorism: Affirmative Biopolitics -- 1. The Gentle Way in Punishment: Transcending Animality/Performing Animality in Early US Pet Dog Training Manuals, 1850-1900 -- 1. Dog Training in the Nineteenth Century -- 2. Canine Sagacity -- 3. The Gentle Way in Punishment -- 4. Canine Minstrelsy -- 5. Conclusion -- 2. Hunting Dog Manuals: The Pointer as a Work of Art in the Age of Biopolitical Reproduction, 1845-1909 -- 1. Sports Hunting -- 2. The Notion of Breed and Hunting Dogs -- 3. Polishing Instinct: The Pointer as a Work of Art -- 4.S.T. Hammond's Training or Breaking? -- 5. Hunting in Black and White -- 3. Culture of Instinct: Emergence of the Disciplinary Regime, 1910-1946
Note continued: 1. Was Most Modem? -- 2. Police Dogs -- 3. Most's Masculine Methods -- 4. Nietzsche Goes to the Dogs -- 5. Should American Dogs Bite? -- 6. Conclusion -- 4. The Rise and Fall of Obedience: From Helen Whitehouse Walker to the Dawn of Positive Training, 1933-1984 -- 1. Leading Others: Tools of Discipline -- 2. Governmentality -- 3. Training You to Train Your Dog: Layers of Human-Canine Discipline -- 4. The Soul of a Trainer: Crossover Trainers, 1980s-2000s -- 5. Off the Leash -- 6. Feeling Power and Positive Dog Training -- 5. Power without Coercion: From Governmentality to Self-Governmentality, from Discipline to Self-Control, 1984-2000s -- 1. Had Foucault Read Skinner? -- 2. Training as a Practice of Freedom -- 3. Doggie Zen: Dog Training and Technologies of the Self -- 4. From Discipline to Control -- 5. Accounting for Affect/Accounting for Gender -- 6. Countermodernity: Resistance to the Positive Training Revolution, 1980s-2000s
Note continued: 1. Disciplining Affects: The Dog Whisperer -- 2. Vicki Hearne: On the Nature of Freedom -- 3. David McCaig: Pastoral Dissent -- 7. Be More Dog: Towards an Affirmative Biopolitics -- 1. Do More with Your Dog -- 2. Are We Having Fun Yet? -- 3. Affirmative Biopolitics -- 4. Garrett, Foucault and Radical Behaviorism -- 5. Beyond Behaviorism -- 6. Beyond Agility -- 7. Back to Ethology, Back to the Body -- 8. Conclusion
Summary In Genealogy of Obedience Justyna Włodarczyk provides a long overdue look at the history of companion dog training methods in North America since the mid-nineteenth century, when the market of popular training handbooks emerged. Wlodarczyk argues that changes in the functions and goals of dog training are entangled in bigger cultural discourses; with a particular focus on how animal training has served as a field for playing out anxieties related to race, class and gender in North America. By applying a Foucauldian genealogical perspective, the book shows how changes in training methods correlate with shifts in dominant regimes of power. It traces the rise and fall of obedience as a category for conceptualizing relationships with dogs
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Dogs -- Training -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Dogs -- Training -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Dogs -- Training -- United States -- History -- 21st century
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Animal Husbandry.
Dogs -- Training
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004380295
9004380299