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Marie Leth-Espensen, private photo

Marie Leth-Espensen

Affiliated researcher

Marie Leth-Espensen, private photo

Care in a Time of Anthropogenic Problems: Experiences from Sanctuary-Making in Rural Denmark

Author

  • Marie Leth-Espensen

Editor

  • Kadri Aavik
  • Kuura Irni
  • Milla-Maria Joki

Summary, in English

This chapter examines the embodied and situated practices of care in the context of farmed animal sanctuaries in rural Denmark. In approaching care as an “ethical doing,” as suggested by María Puig de la Bellacasa, this chapter asks what kind of alternative images of multispecies life might emerge from sanctuary caregiving in a time of anthropogenic problems? In documenting the difficult task of providing life-long care for animals bred for profit within normative structures embedded in industrial production, the analysis highlights sanctuary caregiving as a disruptive site for rethinking ethics and politics beyond the nature-culture dichotomy.

Department/s

  • Department of Sociology of Law

Publishing year

2023

Language

English

Pages

97-116

Publication/Series

Critical Animal Studies

Volume

6

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Brill

Topic

  • Other Social Sciences

Keywords

  • Farmed Animal Sanctuaries
  • care ethics
  • ethical doings
  • naturecultures
  • post-domestic care

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9789004679375