Countering Brutality to Wildlife, Relationism and Ethics: Conservation, Welfare and the ‘Ecoversity’

Steven Garlick; Julie M Matthews; Jennifer Carter

doi:10.3390/ani1010161

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Countering Brutality to Wildlife, Relationism and Ethics: Conservation, Welfare and the ‘Ecoversity’

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Countering Brutality to Wildlife, Relationism and Ethics: Conservation, Welfare and the ‘Ecoversity’

Steven Garlick, Julie M Matthews and Jennifer Carter

Animals, Vol.1, pp.161-175

2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani1010161

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Abstract

wildlife

ecoversity

Derrida

ethics

universities

Wildlife cruelty is commonplace in society. We argue for a new engagement with wildlife through three elements: a relational ethic based on intrinsic understanding of the way wildlife and humans might view each other; a geography of place and space, where there are implications for how we ascribe contextual meaning and practice in human-animal relations; and, engaged learning designed around our ethical relations with others, beyond the biophysical and novel, and towards the reflective metaphysical. We propose the 'ecoversity', as a scholarly and practical tool for focusing on the intersection of these three elements as an ethical place-based learning approach.

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Title: Countering Brutality to Wildlife, Relationism and Ethics: Conservation, Welfare and the ‘Ecoversity’
Authors: Steven Garlick (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health and Education
Julie M Matthews (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Jennifer Carter (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Publication details: Animals, Vol.1, pp.161-175
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date published: 2011
DOI: 10.3390/ani1010161
ISSN: 2076-2615
Copyright note: Copyright © 2011 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Organisation Unit: Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449867302621
Output Type: Journal article

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