Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Ηθική Φιλοσοφία, Δίκαιο και Ευζωία των ΖώωνLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Author:
Vergara-Kesada Louiza-Eirini
Supervisors info:
Γεώργιος Αραμπατζής, Μέλος ΔΕΠ (Καθηγητής), ΕΚΠΑ Τμήμα Φιλοσοφίας Διδάσκων ΔΠΜΣ "Ζώα: Ηθική, Δίκαιο, Ευζωία"
Ευάγγελος Πρωτοπαπαδάκης, Μέλος ΔΕΠ (Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής), ΕΚΠΑ, Τμήμα Φιλοσοφίας, Διδάσκων ΔΠΜΣ «Ζώα: Ηθική, Δίκαιο, Ευζωία» Τμήματος Φιλοσοφίας ΕΚΠΑ-Ελληνικό Ινστιτούτο Παστέρ
Αλεξάνδρα Χαλκιά, Μέλος ΔΕΠ (Καθηγήτρια), Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο, Τμήμα Κοινωνιολογίας
Original Title:
Αστικές Γατοκοινότητες: Πολιτικές της Φροντίδας και Ευκαιρίες Αλληλεγγύης
Translated title:
Cat Communities: Politics of Care and Opportunities for Solidarity
Summary:
The present paper explores the ruptures created by urban
multispecies communities in the norms of security, individualism and
social antagonism. The main research field is a cat community in the Grove of Nea Philadelphia and supplementary to those observations,
more fragmented contacts with other cat communities in Athens and my relationship
with the semi-family cats I live with are added. The present work draws analytical
tools and data from phenomenology, anthropology of the senses,
semiology, physiology and ethology of the cat, ecofeminism, posthumanism, postcolonial criticism, queer theory, urban political geography and political ecology.
Multispecies ethnography and auto-ethnography are chosen as the main methodology for the case study. The first part of the research studies
the power relations of human and non human animals in space and attempts a foucauldian analysis of the recent institutionalization of human and animal relations in the domain of the greek state. The second part is the field study of the cat community
in the Grove of New Philadelphia. Through a posthumanist and intersectional
feminist perspective, it aims to the designation of culture, and political and
social relations of the cat community, by studying the meanings that the
cats and carers attribute to it. The last part tries to outline a
proposal for a posthumanist and intersectional feminist ethics and politics of
solidarity, based on relationships of care and attention, and acknowledges the
intersections of different oppressions suffered by human and non-human animals.
Main subject category:
Geography - Anthropology - Folklore
Keywords:
multispecies autoethnography, posthumanism, intersectional feminism, cat communities, biopower of security, politics of care
