Owned, An Ethological Jurisprudence of Property by Gibson, Johanna;

Short description:

This book draws upon domestication science to undertake a radical reappraisal of the jurisprudence of property and intellectual property.

Long description:

This book draws upon domestication science to undertake a radical reappraisal of the jurisprudence of property and intellectual property.

Bringing together animal studies and legal philosophy, it articulates a critique of dominant property models and relationships from the perspective of cognitive ethology, domestication science and animal behaviour. In doing so, a radical new picture of property emerges. Focusing on the emergence of property models through prevailing ideas of human domestication and settlement, the book challenges the anthropocentrism that informs standard approaches to ownership and to authorship. Utilising a wide range of examples from ethology and animal studies, the book thus rethinks the very nature of property as uniquely human.

This highly original contribution to the fields of property and intellectual property will appeal not only to legal scholars in these areas, as well as in animal law, but also to legal theorists and others working in the social sciences with interests in posthumanism and animal studies.

Table of Contents:

Contents

Preface: The Hunter and the Farmer and That Dog

Domestication, the Stone Age

1. Canis Familiaris, the Invention of Domestication











2. The Invention of Imitation











3. Socialisation







Territory, the Space Age









4. Marking Territory











5. Resource Guarding











6. Separation Anxiety







Dominance, the Machine Age









7. Predatory Drift











8. Pack Fiction











9. Wild Abandon







Altruism, the Social Age









10. Shared Interests











11. Resocialisation











12. Res familiaris

Not the end of it