We Are Best Friends: Animals in Society

• Main Author: Irvine, Leslie (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: pets; chronic pain; friendship; animal protection; dog-human friendship; "peternal"; human-animal bond; homophobia; biocentrism; pig; sleep; biophilia; voluntary childlessness; CBT; conservation ethics; animal law; relational ethics; narrative ethics; media and crime; companion animals; environmental justice; human-animal relationships; legal status of companion animals; energy development; young adult literature; animal studies; interspecies hierarchy; human-animal interaction; LGBT; hydraulic fracturing; content analysis; autoethnography; family; dog; environmental sociology; women
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Friendships between humans and non-human animals were once dismissed as sentimental anthropomorphism. After decades of research on the emotional and cognitive capacities of animals, we now recognize human-animal friendships as true reciprocal relationships. Friendships with animals have many of the...