Savage Humans and Stray Dogs
A study in Aggression
(Sprache: Englisch)
The mass slaughter of stray dogs at Bangalore and elsewhere in Karnataka in 2007 outraged animal lovers throughout India. While the killing of two children, attributed to such animals, was profoundly tragic, the authorities` response was both cruel and...
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The mass slaughter of stray dogs at Bangalore and elsewhere in Karnataka in 2007 outraged animal lovers throughout India. While the killing of two children, attributed to such animals, was profoundly tragic, the authorities` response was both cruel and counter-productive in terms of a strategy for controlling stray dog populations. Savage Humans and Stray Dogs: A Study in Aggression explores the entire gory train of events in detail and argues that there might have been more to it than met the eye. The book looks at human aggression and the entire range of relations between human and non-human living beings, and contends that the onslaught had its cultural/psychological roots in a mindset that has evolved in a universe of morality that humans have created and which excludes animals. This universe reflects the defining influence of the Judaeo-Christian and Renaissance-Humanist tradition on the evolution of modernity in the West. In contrast, the major ancient Indian texts embody a very different tradition in which all creation, animate and inanimate, is seen to be a manifestation of the Universal Consciousness and, hence, deserving of justice and respect. The author explores the psychological roots of violence, showing that in some cases, demand for slaughter of animals reflects the transference of the genocidal impulse to it. This book is a stimulating read for people interested in the study of behavioural psychology, aggression, violence, human-animal relations and the environment. It would also be an invaluable resource for animal rights activists.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Savage Humans and Stray Dogs “
PrefaceIntroduction
The Killing Fields of Karnataka
Introduction
The Killing Fields of Karnataka
The Games People Play
A Divide That Isn't
The Moral Universe of the Soul
The Wages of Exclusion
Eradicating the Roots of Aggression
Postscript
Index
Autoren-Porträt
Hiranmay Karlekar, a distinguished Indian journalist, is Consultant Editor of The Pioneer and, currently, a member of the Animal Welfare Board of India, India's apex governmental body dealing with animal welfare. Mr Karlekar frequently writes on animals in his column which appears in The Pioneer every Thursday and has also written about them in The Tribune and the Outlook magazine.A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard (Class of 1967), Mr Karlekar, in his career as a journalist spanning four-and-a-half decades, has been Editor of Hindustan Times, Deputy Editor of The Indian Express, and Assistant Editor of The Statesman and the Hindusthan Standard, an erstwhile publication of the Ananda Bazar Patrika group in Kolkata. Starting his journalistic career with Ananda Bazar Patrika as a Staff reporter in 1963, Mr Karlekar has also been Associate Editor of Aajkaal published from Kolkata.A member of the Press Council of India in two stints during 1978-80 and 2004-07, Mr Karlekar has been a General Secretary of the Editors Guild of India, a member of the Board of Directors of the Press Trust of India, one of India's two national news agencies, and a nominee of the Editors Guild in the Central Press Accreditation Committee of the Government of India.Apart from his innumerable journalistic writings, Mr Karlekar's publications include two Bengali Novels, Bhabisyater Ateet (1994) and Mehrunnisa (1995), the latter based on Bangladesh's Liberation struggle, a socio-political work in English, In the Mirror of Mandal: Social Justice, Caste, Class and the Individual (1992), and Bangladesh: The Next Afghanistan? (2005). He edited-and contributed two chapters to-Independent India: The First Fifty Years (1998), an anthology of essays published to mark 50 years of India's independence. Mr Karlekar is a keen photographer.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 296 Seiten, Maße: 14 x 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Sage,
- ISBN-10: 8178298791
- ISBN-13: 9788178298795
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.08.2008
Sprache:
Englisch
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It is time to remember that when we destroy and demonise the guardians, we lay ourselves open to attack. Karlekar's book is one such spark of sanity. Try and identify the shadow.
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