Families’ Life Courses with Animal Companions
Language: English
In contemporary family studies, the family practices approach (FSA) asserts that the family is a network (NST) constituted by exchanges, and practices such as body care, food, or sexual intimacy (Morgan, 2011, Gabb &Finch 2018). Those practices build emotional ties and attachments also between animals and humans (Gouveia & Càstren, 2021). Animals are increasingly considered family members (Konecki, 2005; Carter, 2015; Charles, 2016; Irvine, Cilia, 2017; Stewart 2018; Charles & Wolkowitz, 2019; Dore et al. 2019). The human-animal bond is studied to be a mutually beneficial relationship essential for well-being (Wollrab, 1998, Walsh 2009).
Existing studies, primarily focusing on the relations between humans, have yet to look at a broader examination of interspecies relationships. Therefore, we invite papers coming from different cultural and family contexts to network together over issues related to:
- Everyday Life Practices among Multispecies Families
- Animal Companions and public spaces
- Animal Companions and Family Morphology
- Multispecies Family in the City and/or in the Countryside
- Families from different social backgrounds and capitals living with AC
- Health and Wellbeing in Multispecies Families
- Interspieces bonds
- Gender, Sex and Animals
- Methodology of Research in the Field of Multispecies Families.