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- Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Ostasienstudien (IZO) (40) (remove)
Tätigkeitsbericht SS 2006 bis WS SS 2007 / Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Ostasienstudien IZO i.G.
(2007)
Tätigkeitsbericht WS 04/05 bis WS 05/06 / Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Ostasienstudien IZO i.G.
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Tätigkeitsbericht WS 2007/08 bis SS 2008 / Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Ostasienstudien IZO i.G.
(2008)
Mobilizations in defence of ‘companion animals’ have become major sites of contestation in Chinese society in recent years. They often reject the existing ambiguity between the use of these animals as pets and as meat, demanding unambiguous respect for and protection of dogs. However, in a society where inequalities are as significant as in China, where the level of poverty, sickness, and environmental and industrial tragedies appears overwhelming, one may ask how pets’ destinies have become such a symbolic focus and source of occasional fury – for both Chinese and foreign audiences. Taking this question seriously, this article aims to examine such mobilizations in China – demanding the protection of dogs – as a starting point to theoretically unwrap the more general problem of how the perception of certain beings as ‘weak’ and as deserving the protection of society is socially constructed, and what the related choices imply. I argue that to better understand these mobilizations to protect dogs, we should not separate the focus of the calls for protection from the social web of relationships and oppositions in which they are entrenched.