Transgressing boundaries of grievability: Ambiguous emotions at pet cemeteries

Schuurman, Nora; Redmalm, David

doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2019.03.006

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“…Initiated in the early years of the 20th century by animal welfare societies, the humane killing of pets has now become a norm and standard practice in urban pet-keeping. This is part of a wider change in the ways of relating to pet death, including its relocation to the spaces of vet clinics (Schuurman 2017), the practice of burying them at pet cemeteries (Schuurman & Redmalm 2019), and the increasing acceptance of expressing grief for a lost pet (Redmalm 2015).…”

Section: Agency and Controlmentioning

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From pest to pet. Liminality, domestication and animal agency in the killing of rats and cats

Schuurman

Dirke

2020

FJHAS

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The ways in which the end of life of an animal is understood and undertaken depend on the category of the animal and its position in relation to humans. In this paper, we explore how transformations in human–animal relationality, including practices and cultural conceptions about animals become apparent in the norms and practices regarding the killing of animals. We focus here on rats and cats, species whose position in society has always been liminal, especially between the category of pet and that of pest but also between wild and domesticated. Rats and cats have co-existed with each other and with humans since a very long time and the three species have co-evolved in a constant dance of mutual interests and conflicts. The shared history of this multispecies network reflects in many ways how humans have related to animals in different historical and spatial contexts and how these relations have transformed. By discussing the entanglement of rats, cats and humans in the close connection between caring and killing we wish to highlight the ways in which human–animal relations are manifested in the North of Europe during the 20th century. The specific context of the study is Sweden and Finland, countries that share similar history and cultural characteristics. In our analysis we draw from various data collected in both countries, including written narratives from an nationwide writing collection and historic documents such as the journals of animal welfare societies and documents concerning the extermination of rats.

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Section: Agency and Controlmentioning

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From pest to pet. Liminality, domestication and animal agency in the killing of rats and cats

Schuurman

Dirke

2020

FJHAS

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“…Other scholars have examined pet cemeteries elsewhere in the world, adopting anthropological and sociological approaches to their studies, without necessarily drawing on the substantial archaeological literature on cemetery recording methods and data analyses (e.g. Chalfen 2003; Brandes 2009; Gaillemin 2009; Veldkamp 2009; Ambros 2010; Pregowski 2016a; Bardina 2017; Schuurman & Redmalm 2019). This article takes a more systematic approach to the recording of animal burial grounds, comparing results to contemporaneous human burial practices and examining changing commemoration practices.…”

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“…Even by the late twentieth century, there was a discrepancy between the role of animals in life, as suggested by their treatment after death and the language used to describe the human-animal relationship. An animal may be considered part of the family, but this belief is not always committed to public text on the gravestone (Pregowski 2016a; Bardina 2017; Schuurman & Redmalm 2019).…”

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“…These changes are especially pronounced in the second half of the twentieth century, and are also observed elsewhere in the world. In their assessment of Finnish and Swedish pet cemeteries, Schuurman and Redmalm (2019) suggest that fewer references to owners in post-Second World War pet gravestones provides evidence for the acceptance of animals in the family. Furthermore, Brandes (2009: 107–109) identified an increased use of familial identifiers in later twentieth-century pet burials in Hartsdale, New York.…”

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Do all dogs go to heaven? Tracking human-animal relationships through the archaeological survey of pet cemeteries

Tourigny

2020

Antiquity

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“…Analogously, according to the survey [18], 67% of United States households, or about 85 million families, own a pet; the total number of cats and dogs is 94.2 million and 89.7 million, respectively. Pets are often considered to be friends or a part of a family, and they generally live with people and participate in everyday activities [19,20]. This is particularly true in the case of guide dogs for the blind; they will not only accompany the owner during his/her daily routine and to work, but will also be present in medical settings where constant monitoring is desirable.…”

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Method for Distinguishing Humans and Animals in Vital Signs Monitoring Using IR-UWB Radar

Wang

Zhang

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IJERPH

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Radar has been widely applied in many scenarios as a critical remote sensing tool for non-contact vital sign monitoring, particularly for sleep monitoring and heart rate measurement within the home environment. For non-contact monitoring with radar, interference from house pets is an important issue that has been neglected in the past. Many animals have respiratory frequencies similar to those of humans, and they are easily mistaken for human targets in non-contact monitoring, which would trigger a false alarm because of incorrect physiological parameters from the animal. In this study, humans and common pets in families, such as dogs, cats, and rabbits, were detected using an impulse radio ultrawideband (IR-UWB) radar, and the echo signals were analyzed in the time and frequency domains. Subsequently, based on the distinct in-body structure between humans and animals, we propose a parameter, the respiratory and heartbeat energy ratio (RHER), which reflects the contribution rate of breathing and heartbeat in the detected vital signs. Combining this parameter with the energy index, we developed a novel scheme to distinguish between humans and animals. In the developed scheme, after background noise removal and direct-current component suppression, an energy indicator is used to initially identify the target. The signal is then decomposed using a variational mode decomposition algorithm, and the variational intrinsic mode functions that represent human respiration and heartbeat components are obtained and utilized to calculate the RHER parameter. Finally, the RHER index is applied to rapidly distinguish between humans and animals. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach more effectively distinguishes between humans and animals in terms of monitoring vital signs than the existing methods. Furthermore, its rapidity and need for only minimal calculation resources enable it to meet the needs of real-time monitoring.

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Transgressing boundaries of grievability: Ambiguous emotions at pet cemeteries

Cited by 16 publications

References 24 publications

From pest to pet. Liminality, domestication and animal agency in the killing of rats and cats

From pest to pet. Liminality, domestication and animal agency in the killing of rats and cats

Do all dogs go to heaven? Tracking human-animal relationships through the archaeological survey of pet cemeteries

Method for Distinguishing Humans and Animals in Vital Signs Monitoring Using IR-UWB Radar

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