AESL defintions and key concepts

Sentient

To think and feel

Agency

to think and act

Name the four lenses and give an example of each relating to animals

Sociocultural → media about animals, like the cartoon called Raccoons
Socioeconomic → horses giving rides in carriages
Socioenvironmental→ beekeeping
Sociopolitical → government banning trophy hunting

What are the two type of animal groups?

wild→ wheather people control animal reproduction

domestic →move around on their own/ no human control

informal care work

choosing to care for you when they don’t have to / not employed to

emotional labour

performance of desired behaviour at work

emotional management

suppressing your intial instinct

Interspecies communication work

the way humans and animals communicate and react accordingly

Work Lives

• Recognizing that animals are whole beings with physical , emotional, and intellectual instincts

• their well-being before and after work → both on daily basis and lifetime

homogenize

treating as identical

animal voices

communicated primarily through body language but also sound

Courthouse dogs

dogs taht work in the legal system, support children that have to be a witness in a case

What is considered illegal creulty?

Abuse and neglect

Disenfranchised grief

greif not recognized by society

Storytelling

the oldest human form of sharing knowledge
→ can be verbal, visual, or drawings
→ can be both fact or fiction

→ help us feel and understand

What are the three main emotional and psychologicalresponses to climate change

Solastagin→ distress about environmental harm

ecogrief→ grief related to ecological damage

ecoanxiety → anxiety about what is happening around them and the planet and what is to come of the planet

unceded land

Indigenous territories that were never legally surrendered, sold, or transformed to the crown or Canada through a treaty, sale, or formal agreement

Colonialism

The practice by which one power exerts political, economic, social, and cultural domination over a separated territory and its indigenous population

Extractivism

Folks from Europe intruding and saying “we want your resources” and proceeding to take all the animals and resources. They then typically put the animals on display (zoo)

what are the two main types of elephants

asian elephant: only males have tusks and are smaller compared to african elephants

african elephant: both sexes have tusks, larger

elephant culture

• have both matrilineal (passed down from mother) and matriarchal societies (female lead societies)

• communicate through many vocalizations, gestures, and vibrations

• exceptional memories

• elders have immense knowledge

• everyone cares for the young

Subsistence work

work done to survive

care work

To care for

Also includes teaching

Social reproduction

Care work + subsistence work

Ecosocial reproduction

wild animal care work + subsistence work +social reproduction

endangered species

animals at risk of extinction

conservation

conserve the animal/species (work)

Humane jobs

jobs taht benefit both humans and animals; work that helps, not harms

One Health

environmental health + human health + animal health

anthropomorphizing

ascribing human characteristics to animals

• can be potentially useful but also has flaws

multispecies communication

the exchange of signals, information, or cues between different biological species, including animals, plants, and microorganisms

coexistence

we can share our space

anthropocentric

thinking only from a human based lens

synanthropy

the phenomenon of wild animals and other organisms living in human environment

enroachment

the process where human activities—such as expanding cities, building roads, and clearing land for agriculture—invade, fragment, and shrink natural wildlife habitats