Abstract
The previous chapter presented an historical overview of ethnography in order to contextualise our argument that it offers a set of ideas, principles and practical approaches to the study of social life that we think make an ideal starting point for developing new posthuman or multi-species methods. In this chapter, we continue building our argument that such methods are needed by considering why we should listen to—and for—the voices of other animals in our research. With the metaphor of voice in mind, we introduce some of the political and philosophical difficulties of posthuman research by outlining the interconnected nature of epistemology, power and method and shed light on a number of complexities that emerge when one scrutinises humanist claims to knowledge about animals.
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Hamilton, L., Taylor, N. (2017). Listening for the Voices of Animals. In: Ethnography after Humanism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53933-5_3
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