“Animal Laborers in Cappadocia: Complicating the Human-Animal Divide.”
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2019
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Since the times Peter Singer published his seminal Animal Liberation (1975) and Tom Regan made The Case for Animal Rights (1986), critical discourses on animal rights and animal liberation mostly remained limited with concerns about the industrial uses and capitalist exploitation and consumption of the bodies of the suffering animals. Meat consumption, leather and fur production and experiments on lab animals have been the typical targets of these philosophical and activist reactions that focus only on the materiality of biotic existence. Though well-grounded, these reactions seem to have neglected the exploitation of the “material-discursivity,” in Karen Barad’s terms, of the animal body. As pre-historic cave paintings and human-made artefacts prove, humans have been consuming not only the material bodies of animals, but also the discursivity of those bodies, generated by their semiotic value. Today, we are living in the middle of the sixth mass extinction of plants and animals. This crisis urges us for a wider understanding, among other things, of the abuses of the animal body by humans. Accordingly, I argue that, for the establishment of multispecies justice, the exploitation of the material-discursive bodies of animals as “semiotic laborers” should also be accounted for. In this context, the animal laborers in Cappadocia, namely the horses and camels that occupy a significant place in the local tourism industry, represent an intriguing example.
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Animal studies, Animal labor, Cappadocia, Tourism
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The 13th Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Biennial Conference: “Paradise on Fire.”
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Akıllı, Sinan. “Animal Laborers in Cappadocia: Complicating the Human-Animal Divide.” The 13th Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Biennial Conference: “Paradise on Fire.” University of California, Davis, CA, USA, June 26-30, 2019.
