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020			_a9781478025139
082			_a591.5095 DAV-N
100			_aDave, Naisargi N.
245			_aIndifference : _bon the praxis of interspecies being / _cNaisargi N. Dave
260			_aLondon _bDuke University _c2023
300			_a200 p.
365			_aUSD _b25.95.
500			_aIn Indifference, Naisargi N. Davé examines the complex worlds of animalists and animalism in India. Through ethnographic fieldwork with animal healers, animal activists, farmers, laborers, transporters, and animals themselves, and moving across animal shelters and dairy farms to city streets and abattoirs, Davé shows how human-animal relations often manifest through care and violence. More surprisingly, what Davé also finds animating interspecies relationality in India is an ethic of indifference---that is, an orientation of mutual regard rather than curiosity, love, desire, or animus. For Davé, indifference is a respect for others in their otherness that allows human and nonhuman animals to flourish in immanent encounters. Indifference, then, becomes the basis for an interspecies ethics and a method of care and practice in everyday life. With indifference, Davé describes both a mode of relationality in the world and a scholarly approach: seeking what is possible when we approach ethico-political concepts with indifference rather than commitment or antagonism. Moments of indifference, Davé contends, offer the promise of otherwise worlds.
650			_aHuman animal relationships - Moral and ethical aspects - India
650			_aAnimals and civilization - India
650			_aAnimal rights - Moral and ethical aspects - India
650			_aIndifferentism (Ethics)
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