Genealogy of Obedience: Reading North American Dog Training Literature, 1850s-2000sIn Genealogy of Obedience Justyna Włodarczyk provides a long overdue look at the history of companion dog training methods in North America since the mid-nineteenth century, when the market of popular training handbooks emerged. Włodarczyk argues that changes in the functions and goals of dog training are entangled in bigger cultural discourses; with a particular focus on how animal training has served as a field for playing out anxieties related to race, class and gender in North America. By applying a Foucauldian genealogical perspective, the book shows how changes in training methods correlate with shifts in dominant regimes of power. It traces the rise and fall of obedience as a category for conceptualizing relationships with dogs. |
Contents
| 1 | |
Periodizing Dog Training with Foucault | 9 |
From Governmentality to SelfGovernmentality | 18 |
Transcending AnimalityPerforming | 26 |
The Pointer as a Work of Art in the | 53 |
Emergence of the Disciplinary | 80 |
From Helen Whitehouse Walker | 107 |
4 | 119 |
Feeling Power and Positive Dog Training | 129 |
Resistance to the Positive Training | 166 |
Towards an Affirmative Biopolitics | 200 |
Back to Ethology Back to the Body | 223 |
The Death of Obedience | 229 |
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