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Brianne Donaldson Brianne Donaldson is the author of Creaturely Cosmologies: Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal and Planetary Liberation (2015), and the forthcoming Insistent Life: Foundations for Bioethics in the Jain Tradition (2020, co-authored with Ana Bajželj). She is the editor of Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature: A Common World for Animals and the Environment (2014), and The Future of Meat Without Animals (2016; co-edited with Christopher Carter). She is assistant professor and Shri Parshvanath Presidential Chair in Jain studies at University of California, Irvine.
Ashley King is a doctoral candidate in religious studies at Northwestern University. Their dissertation project, “Body, Flesh, Meat: A Science-fictional Theory of Soteriology,” develops the concepts of “flesh” and “meat” to theorize racialized queerness, transness, and animality in the viscously embodied soteriologies of contemporary science fiction.
Acknowledgements
List of Images
Introduction—Transformed by Ghosts: Toward Futures of Less Loss
Brianne Donaldson
I: Overcoming Institutional Numbness
1 Visual Feeling One
Jo-Anne McArthur
2 The Gift of the Monkey Who Danced into Oblivion and the One Dressed in a Cage
John P. Gluck
3 Mourning Tiger Mascots in Baton Rouge
Nathan P. Kalmoe and Kathryn K. Will
4 Ghostly Greyhounds: Running the Race, Living through Memory
Bradley Rowe and Suzanne Rice
5 Encountering Loss: A Search for Minnesota's Moose in a Changing Climate
Elizabeth Singleton
6 Claimed by Roadkill
Matthew Calarco
7 Prophetic Labrador: Expanding (Black) Theology by Overcoming the Invisibility of
Animal Life and Death
Christopher Carter
II: The Public Power of Intimate Sorrow
8 Visual Feeling Two
Julia Schlosser
9 “Every Love Story is a Ghost Story”: The Transformative Power of Dog Dedication
Jessica Ullrich
10 Hos-Pet-Ality: Handmade Selves and Transspeciated Femininity
Ashley King
11 Macey's Ashes: After-Death Care of Companion Animals as Interspecies Family
Amy Defibaugh
12 The Transformer: Approaching the Assisted Death of Animals and Humans with
Epistemic Humility and Uncertainty
L. Syd M Johnson
13 “How Do you Know His Name is Gabriel?”: Finding Communion with the Singular Lives of Creatures
Anne Mamary
14 Nikki: The Passing of a Herd's Matriarch
Susie Coston
III: Experiments in Feeling and Ritual
15 Visual Feeling Three
Adam Wolpa
16 Logos, Pathos, and the Absent Presence of the Persons We Eat
Brian G. Henning and Hope Philea Henning
17 Ghosts at a Glance: Four Animal Fragments
Anat Pick, with illustrations by Shira Avivi-Weisz
18 Goats of My Childhood: Rethinking Islamic Sacrifice without Animals
Saadullah Bashir
19 Living in Awareness of the Dead: Buddhist Experiments in Ethical Sensibility
Justin Fifield
20 Francisco y Chica: Feeling Memory Across Borders
Juan Fernando Villagómez
21 Salvaging Shame, Saving Ourselves: The Productive Role of Shame for Animals and
Marginalized Life
Brianne Donaldson and Isaac Willis
22 Ghost Stories: An Epilogue
Ashley King
This is an ambitious collection that brings an intimate voice to the discussion of ethical issues that are usually developed in more distanced rights-based discussions.
— Jane Desmond, Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
This topical collection of essays takes part in “the affective turn” of animal ethics, and is distinguished by its focus on personal experiences and a type of auto-scholarship wherein the writers explicitly draw from their own affective engagements with nonhuman animals.
— Elisa Aaltola, Collegium Research Fellow, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Turku