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Genealogy of Obedience
Reading North American Dog Training Literature, 1850s-2000s
Series: - Human-Animal Studies, Volume: 20
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In Genealogy of Obedience Justyna WÅodarczyk 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. WÅodarczyk 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.
Justyna WÅodarczyk, PhD (2009) is Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw. She has published on the human-animal bond in the US and in Poland and has recently co-edited Free Market Dogs: The Human-Canine Bond in Post-Communist Poland (Purdue, 2016).
Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Canine- Human Intensifications, Periodizing Dog Training in the US Since the 1850s â1 Periodizing Dog Training with Foucault â2 1850â1910: Shaping the Dogâs Soul â3 1910â1970s: The Emergence and Strengthening of the Disciplinary Regime â4 1980sâ2000s: From Governmentality to Self-Governmentality: Biopower, Behaviorism and Care of Self â5 2000â2015: Beyond Behaviorism: Affirmative Biopolitics 1 The Gentle Way in Punishment: Transcending Animality/ Performing Animality in Early US Pet Dog Training Manuals, 1850â1900 â1 Dog Training in the Nineteenth Century â2 Canine Sagacity â3 The Gentle Way in Punishment â4 Canine Minstrelsy â5 Conclusion 2 Hunting Dog Manuals: The Pointer as a Work of Art in the Age of Biopolitical Reproduction, 1845â1909 â1 Sports Hunting â2 The Notion of Breed and Hunting Dogs â3 Polishing Instinct: The Pointer as a Work of Art â4 S.T. Hammondâs Training or Breaking? â5 Hunting in Black and White 3 Culture of Instinct: Emergence of the Disciplinary Regime, 1910â1946 â1 Was Most Modern? â2 Police Dogs â3 Mostâs Masculine Methods â4 Nietzsche Goes to the Dogs â5 Should American Dogs Bite? â6 Conclusion 4 The Rise and Fall of Obedience: From Helen Whitehouse Walker to the Dawn of Positive Training, 1933â1984 â1 Leading Others: Tools of Discipline â2 Governmentality â3 Training You to Train Your Dog: Layers of Human-Canine Discipline â4 The Soul of a Trainer: Crossover Trainers, 1980sâ2000s â5 Off the Leash â6 Feeling Power and Positive Dog Training 5 Power without Coercion: From Governmentality to Self-Governmentality, from Discipline to Self-Control, 1984â2000s â1 Had Foucault Read Skinner? â2 Training as a Practice of Freedom â3 Doggie Zen: Dog Training and Technologies of the Self â4 From Discipline to Control â5 Accounting for Affect/Accounting for Gender 6 Countermodernity: Resistance to the Positive Training Revolution, 1980sâ2000s â1 Disciplining Affects: The Dog Whisperer â2 Vicki Hearne: On the Nature of Freedom â3 David McCaig: Pastoral Dissent 7 Be More Dog: Towards an Affirmative Biopolitics â1 Do More with Your Dog â2 Are We Having Fun Yet? â3 Affirmative Biopolitics â4 Garrett, Foucault and Radical Behaviorism â5 Beyond Behaviorism â6 Beyond Agility â7 Back to Ethology, Back to the Body â8 Conclusion Conclusion: The Death of Obedience References Index
All interested in human-animal relations, animal training, biopolitics; the intersections of animal studies and cultural studies/American studies. Animal training practitioners and animal cognition scientists will also find this of interest.