1 The Chinese University of Hong Kong Department of Cultural and Religious Studies 2 nd Semester, 2016-2017 CURE 3003 / UGEC 3481 Animals, Culture and Modern Society 動物,文化與現代社會 Course Outline Lecturer: Dr. Chan Ka Ming (e-mail address: [email protected]) Teaching Assistants: Liu Haiping (e-mail address: [email protected]) Lu Xin (e-mail address: [email protected]) Content of the Course How do we understand and connect to animal kingdom? How do human-animal connections shape modern culture and society? How do cultural studies and humanities expand our scope on animal and nature? Culture is ordinary, in Raymond William’s saying, but the ordinariness is merely treated as a reflection of human everyday life. Although cultural studies has sustained concern on everyday life with mass production, consumerism, sexism, racism and postmodernism, the discipline always lags behind the concern of nature and animal species. As the issues of animal abuse, environmental protection, factory farming, animal protection policy and law-making, as well as media various portrayals being the hot topics of our (post)modern world, the study of animal with the perspective of cultural studies and other humanity disciplines can explore the possibilities of better human-animal relationship. This course is designed with an empathic concern of other-than-human animals. By exploring different issues of human and animals’ life, this course looks for a harmonious balance of nature and modern culture. This course focuses on three areas, through which we can explore the different aspects of animal and cultural studies. These areas are: A. Entering Jurassic World – Remaking Animals in Leisure (Lecture A1-A4) B. Attacking Godzilla – Representing Animals in Media (Lecture B1-B4) C. Leaving Zootopia – Revitalizing Animals in the City (Lecture C1-C4)
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong Department of Cultural and Religious Studies
2nd Semester, 2016-2017
CURE 3003 / UGEC 3481 Animals, Culture and Modern Society 動物,文化與現代社會
Course Outline Lecturer: Dr. Chan Ka Ming (e-mail address: [email protected])
Teaching Assistants: Liu Haiping (e-mail address: [email protected])
Content of the Course How do we understand and connect to animal kingdom?
How do human-animal connections shape modern culture and society? How do cultural studies and humanities expand our scope on animal and nature?
Culture is ordinary, in Raymond William’s saying, but the ordinariness is merely treated as a reflection of human everyday life. Although cultural studies has sustained concern on everyday life with mass production, consumerism, sexism, racism and postmodernism, the discipline always lags behind the concern of nature and animal species. As the issues of animal abuse, environmental protection, factory farming, animal protection policy and law-making, as well as media various portrayals being the hot topics of our (post)modern world, the study of animal with the perspective of cultural studies and other humanity disciplines can explore the possibilities of better human-animal relationship. This course is designed with an empathic concern of other-than-human animals. By exploring different issues of human and animals’ life, this course looks for a harmonious balance of nature and modern culture. This course focuses on three areas, through which we can explore the different aspects of animal and cultural studies. These areas are:
A. Entering Jurassic World – Remaking Animals in Leisure (Lecture A1-A4) B. Attacking Godzilla – Representing Animals in Media (Lecture B1-B4) C. Leaving Zootopia – Revitalizing Animals in the City (Lecture C1-C4)
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Each area covers a set of animal issue discussion. Area A, apart from theorizing animal with cultural studies, tackles the basic animal issues: pet-nurturing, zoo-building, forest-sustaining and tourism. This is to provide a foundation for understanding animals with a critical reflection of everyday life. Area B, set with the concern of media, discusses issues of animal representation in cartoon, cinema, literature and journalism. This is to read how animals would be represented and how this affects human understanding and related policy-making. A screening will be run after Lecture Area B. This is to provide an alternative understanding of animal representation in popular media. Area C further deals with the matters of animal-city relationship in seeing how dogs and cats, cattle and swine, and fishes and dolphins are (mal)treated in the street, the farm and the sea respectively. This is to end the course with a leading thought of perfect balance of nature and modernity; and more queries of human-animal relationship will be raised for contemplation. 中文簡介 我們究竟與動物王國有甚麼關係?而我們與動物的聯繫,又如何影響現化文化與社會?更進
Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of the course, students are expected to be able to: 1. Explain the concern of other-than-human animal with cultural studies perspective; 2. Identify the key issues and critical assessment of human-animal relationship; 3. Understand the approach in studying culture, animal and environment; 4. Enrich the angle of analyzing human living and animal species.
Medium of Instruction:
Cantonese (with teaching material in English) Teaching / learning activities:
Lectures, tutorial presentation and discussion Assessment:
1. Lecture and Tutorial Participation (20%) Students are expected to attend at least 80% of all lectures and tutorials respectively; and students should contribute to our discussion, including lectures and tutorials. Those who cannot attend classes should provide proof of evidences to explain the absence. Students who cannot attend 80% of classes have to do extra written work (of not less than 1000 words) on reviewing articles for their particular absent classes; otherwise they may have the risk of failing the course.
2. Tutorial Presentation and Discussion (20%) Students will be divided into groups in tutorial and have to decide a topic for presentation. This is to refresh the topics and issues discussed in lectures. At the end of presentation, the presenters are expected to run a “Question & Answer” section for follow-up discussion. Tutorial will start on the week 4 and run in separated weeks with 5 to 6 tutorials totally.
3. Mid-term Paper (20%) of 1000-3000 words Deadline – 24 March 2017 Mid-term paper shall be submitted after Lecture Area B. Students are encouraged to decide their interested topic (which is inspired by Lecture Area A and B) for analytical writing.
4. Final Paper (40%) of 2000-4000 words Deadline – 27 April 2017 Final paper shall be submitted after the end of the course. Students have to decide a topic for broadening the analytical framework and examining issues or phenomenon linked to the course.
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Teaching Period: 9 January – 14 April 2017 Day, Time and Venue of Lecture: Thursday 2:30-5:15p.m. UCC C4 鄭棟材樓 Tutorial: Starting from week 3 or 4; schedule will be confirmed later. Teaching Calendar
DeMello, Margo. Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. (Chapter 16 – Animals in Literature
and Film.)
Ingram, David. Green Screen: Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema. Exeter:
University of Exeter Press, 2000. (Part II –Wild Animals in Hollywood Cinema.)
Extended Reading
Mulvey, Laura. Visual and Other Pleasures (Language, Discourse, Society). 2nd ed.
London: Macmillan, 2009. (Chapter 3: Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema)
Week 8. Lecture B3: How does the wolf reincarnate as a pig?
- Symbolizing animals
Reading: McCance, Dawne. Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction. New York: University of
New York, 2013. (Chapter 9 – The Subject of Ethics: Cultural Studies, Art,
Architecture and Literature.)
Waldau, Paul. Animal Studies: An Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press,
2013. (Chapter 5 – Animals in the Creative Arts.)
唐克龍。《中國現當代文學動物敘事研究》。天津:南開大學出版社,2010 年。(第
二章──動物叙事與中國當代文學的教化傳統)
Extended Reading
Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972 (Part 2 – Myth Today.)
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Week 9. Lecture B4: How does Brother Cream (忌廉哥) escape from brutality?
- Journalizing animals
Reading: Fox, Michael Allen and Lesley McLean. “Animals in Moral Space” In Animal
Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World. edited by Jodey Castricano,
145-76. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008.
Wee, Lionel. “Media Representation and the Cultivation of Social Consciousness:
Comparing the Discourses of Climate Change and Animal Rights” In Media,
Spiritualities and Social Change. edited by Stewart M. Hoover and Monica Emerich,
161-71. London: Continuum, 2011.
Little, Janine. Journalism Ethics and Law: Stories of Media Practice. Melbourne:
Oxford University Press, 2013. (Chapter 10 – Animal Rights and Public Interest:
How Journalists Advocating for Animals Helped Shape Australian Law.)
Extended Reading
Hall, Stuart, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke and Brian Roberts. ed.
Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order. The 2nd edition.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. (Part IV – The Politics of ‘Mugging’)
Week 10. Screening and Discussion: How are animals represented?
Area C Leaving Zootopia – Revitalizing Animals in the City
Week 11. Lecture C1: Should we sterilize dogs and cats in the city?
- Urbanizing species
Reading: Bisgould, Lesli. “Power and Irony: One Tortured Cat and Many Twisted Angles to
Our Moral Schizophrenia about Animals” In Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in
a Posthuman World. edited by Jodey Castricano, 259-70. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier
University Press, 2008.
DeMello, Margo. Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. (Chapter 4 – Animals “in the Wild
and Human Societies; Chapter 12 – Violence to Animals.)
二犬十一咪,阿離及阿蕭編著。《動物權益誌》。香港:三聯出版社,2013年。
(Part I – 10.人道毀滅,還是絕育放回?11.動物受虐的執法鬧劇;12.社會改造
的契機.)
Extended Reading
Bennett, Tony. Culture: a Reformer's Science. London: SAGE Publications, 1998.
(Chapter 8 – Culture and Policy.)
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Week 12. Lecture C2: Should we reserve land for farming?
- Industrializing species
Reading: Damron, W. Stephen. Introduction to Animal Science: Global, Biological, Social,
and Industry Perspective. 5th Edition. Boston: Pearson, 2013. (Chapter 29 –
Animals in Sustainable Agriculture.)
Paarlberg, Robert. Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know? New York:
Oxford University Press, 2010. (Chapter 10 – Agriculture, the Environment, and
Farm Animals.)
Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation. New York: AVON, 1975. (Chapter 3 – Down on
the Factory Farm.)
Extended Reading
Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac & other Writings on Ecology and
Conservation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. (Part III: The Upshot –
The Land Ethics.)
Week 13. Lecture C3 Should we stop exploring the sea?
- Drying species
Reading: Bryld, Mette and Nina Lykke. Cosmodolphines: Feminist Cultural Studies of
Technology, Animals and the Sacred. London: Zed Books, 1999. (Chapter 8 –
Rocket State and Dolphin State.)
Roberts, Callum. The Unnatural History of the Sea. Washington: Island Press, 2007.
(Chapter 1 – The End of Innocence; Chapter 12 – The Inexhaustible Sea; Chapter
22 – No Place Left to Hide.)
二犬十一咪,阿離及阿蕭編著。《動物權益誌》。香港:三聯出版社,2013年。
(Part I – 6.龍尾灘上無脊椎動物的疼痛;7.傾聽海靈:活在香港的海豚;8.別掏
盡生命之源:海洋生態災難.)
Extended Reading
Soja, Edward W. Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical
Social Theory. 4th edition. London: Verso, 1994. (Chapter 11 – Globalization and
Localization.)
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Week 14. Lecture C4: Conclusion Should we save animal by studying culture?
- Harmonizing species, a Way-out or just a Discourse?
Reading: Caras, Roger A. A Perfect Harmony: The Intertwining Lives of Animals and Humans
Throughout History. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. (Chapter 1: The Other
Scenario.)
O’Sullivan, Siobhan. Animals, Equality and Democracy. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2011. (Chapter 5 – What’s Good for the Goose Should Also be Good for
the Gander.)
Suzuki, David, Amanda McConnell and Adrienne Mason. The Sacred Balance:
Rediscovering Our Place in Nature. Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2007. (Chapter
1: Home Sapiens: Born of the Earth; Chapter 9: Restoring the Balance.)
Extended Reading
Grossberg, Lawrence. Cultural Studies in the Future Tense. Durham and London:
Duke University Press, 2010. (Chapter 6 – In Search of Modernities.)
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