Professor Morin |
Other questions we might discuss:
- What might be some similarities/differences in the day-to-day experience of being caged for both humans and animals, particularly the psychological/behavioral effects? How do human and non-human animals experience and/or act upon/resist their experience of enclosure?
- How can we explain the various "disciplinary regimes" or mandates that socially validate the caging of humans and nonhumans? How are these similar for humans and animals, and how different? How have these changed for zoos and prisons over the past 40 years?
- What have been the ethical/moral, social, political, and/or economical challenges to the caging of animals in zoos, brought about by the animal rights movement? What have been the challenges to the caging of humans in maximum-security solitary confinement, brought about by the prisoner rights movement? How has each of these institutions evolved/ devolved over the past 40 years?
- If indeed it is the case that more "progress" has been made on behalf of animals in caged in zoos compared with men caged in prisons, to what can we attribute this transformation? Can the prisoner rights movement learn anything from the animal rights movement, or vice versa, with the goal advancing both human rights and animal rights?
Hope you'll join us for pizza, salad, and stimulating informal conversation between faculty, students, staff, and community members in the lovely Willard–Smith Library (Vaughan Literature Building) at noon on Thursday, January 23rd.
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