REVIEW: 'What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? by Vinciane Despret

Authors

  • Helen Tiffin University of Wollongong, NSW

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60162/swamphen.6.11540

Keywords:

animal studies, anthropomorphism, ethology, behaviourist studies, empirical studies, theory and philosophy, cultural ecology

Abstract

Vinciane Despret's What Would Animals Say if We Asked the Right Questions? (with its Foreword by Bruno Latour), offers an engaging and convincing empiricist challenge to accepted scientific beliefs about the ‘natural’ world, animals, and animal behaviours.

Author Biography

  • Helen Tiffin, University of Wollongong, NSW

    Helen M. Tiffin is an Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
    Tiffin held the post of Professor in the School of English, Media Studies, and Art History (EMSAH) at the University of Queensland. She later became Professor of English and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in English and Post-Colonial Studies at Queen's University.

    Tiffin returned to Australia from Canada to take up her post at the University of Tasmania. She now lives in Lord Howe Island.

References

Despret, Vinciane. What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? Trans. Brett Buchanan. Foreword by Bruno Latour. Posthumanism series, Vol. 38. Minneapolis:

U. of Minnesota P., 2016. 280 pp.

'The Scientific Fables of an Empirical La Fontaine', Foreword by Bruno Latour in Vinciane Despret, Vinciane. What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? Trans. Brett Buchanan. Posthumanism series, Vol. 38. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota P., 2016. 280 pp.

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Published

2017-03-07

Issue

Vol. 6 (2016): AJE: The Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology

Section

Book Reviews

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