Bøger af Sune Borkfelt

For mange er jagt noget af det mest naturlige, et menneske kan foretage sig. Jagt er at vende tilbage til urtilstanden. At blive et oprindeligt menneske i tættere kontakt med naturen – både vores egen og den, som vi lever af og med, men sjældent i.For andre er jagten drab på uskyldige væsener og en tilbagevenden til en unødigt grusom måde at skaffe sig føden på. Jagt er årsag til indædte diskussioner om værdier, dyr og natursyn.Denne bog forsøger at kaste lys over fænomenet jagt. Hvad skyldes den store interesse for at tage på jagt? Hvilke former for jagt findes der? Hvordan har jagten ændret sig gennem historien? Hvad sker der, når vi dræber dyret? Er der forskel på inuittens hvaldrab og byboerens drab af fasanen? Hvad betyder jagtens ritualer og sprog for forståelsen af den? Hvilken opfattelse af mænd, kvinder, dyr og natur udtrykker jagten? Hvilke værdier er det, som jagten understøtter og udfordrer?

Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity examines literary depictions of slaughterhouses from the development of the industrial abattoir in the late nineteenth century to today. The book focuses on how increasing and ongoing isolation and concealment of slaughter from the surrounding society affects readings and depictions of slaughter and abattoirs in literature, and on the degree to which depictions of animals being slaughtered creates an avenue for empathic reactions in the reader or the opportunity for reflections on human-animal relations. Through chapters on abattoir fictions in relation to narrative empathy, anthropomorphism, urban spaces, rural spaces, human identities and horror fiction, Sune Borkfelt contributes to debates in literary animal studies, human-animal studies and beyond.

Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis connects insights from the field of literary animal studies with the urgent issues of climate change and environmental degradation, and features considerations of new interventions by literature in relation to these pressing questions and debates. This volume informs academic debates in terms of how nonhuman animals figure in our cultural imagination of topics such as climate change, extinction, animal otherness, the posthuman, and environmental crises. Using a diverse set of methodologies, each chapter presents relevant cases which discuss the various aspects of these interstices. This volume is an intersection between literary animal studies and climate fiction intended as an interdisciplinary intervention that speaks to the global climate debate and is thus relevant across the environmental humanities.