Becoming with a police dog : training technologies for bonding
| Autor: | Rebekah Fox, Harriet Smith, Nickie Charles, Mara Miele |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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More than human 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Automatic identification and data capture 0507 social and economic geography Training (civil) HV General purpose Argument Embodied cognition Ethnography Animal geography Engineering ethics SF Sociology 050703 geography Earth-Surface Processes |
| ISSN: | 0020-2754 |
| Popis: | To develop and illustrate the potential for visual methodologies in conducting multispecies ethnography, we present a case study of general‐purpose police dog training in the UK. Our argument is two‐fold: first, we draw on STS approaches and insights for looking at training activities as material and socio‐cultural devices that, we argue, constitute a training technology. Here we have been influenced by the work of Cussins and adopted her concept of “ontological choreographies” for addressing the development of the police dog–police officer bond and ability to communicate for working together. Second, we argue that visual data capture presents valuable opportunities for “less human‐centred” and more symmetrical methods to approach non‐human/more than human research subjects. We illustrate how photo diaries and video clips enabled us to remain attentive to the material and embodied practices of dog training, bringing to the fore the dogs’ actions, tools, and devices and thus enlivening the material–cultural choreographies of the training activities. In conclusion, we elucidate how this onto‐epistemological approach enabled us to investigate the material and corporeal construction of the general purpose (GP) police dog. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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