Genealogy of Obedience: Reading North American Dog Training Literature, 1850s-2000s

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BRILL, Aug 27, 2018 - Philosophy - 272 pages
In Genealogy of Obedience Justyna Włodarczyk provides both a historical account of the changing methods of dog training in America since the 1850s and theoretical reflections on how the understanding of training has been entangled in conceptualizations of race, class and gender.
 

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CanineHuman Intensifications Periodizing
1
From Governmentality to SelfGovernmentality
18
1
26
2
53
3
80
From Helen Whitehouse Walker
107
From Governmentality
134
Resistance to the Positive Training
166
Towards an Affirmative Biopolitics
200
The Death of Obedience
229
References
237
Index
255
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