Owned, an Ethological Jurisprudence of Property: From the Cave to the Commons

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"This book draws upon domestication science to undertake a radical reappraisal of the jurisprudence of property and intellectual property. Bringing together animal studies and legal philosophy, it articulates a critique of dominant property models and relationships from the perspective of cognitive ethology, domestication science and animal behaviour. In doing so, a radical new picture of property emerges. Focusing on the emergence of property models through prevailing ideas of human domestication and settlement, the book challenges the anthropocentrism that informs standard approaches to ownership and to authorship. Utilising a wide range of examples from ethology and animal studies, the book thus rethinks the very nature of property as uniquely human. This highly original contribution to the fields of property and intellectual property will appeal, not only to legal scholars in these areas, as well as in animal law; but also to legal theorists and others working in the social sciences with interests in posthumanism and animal studies"-- Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgements Preface: the hunter and the farmer and that dog Introduction: Owned, a dogged tale of property PART 1 Domestication, the stone age 1 Canis familiaris – the invention of domestication 2 The imitation of domestication 3 Socialisation PART 2 Territory, the space age 4 Marking territory 5 Resource guarding 6 Separation anxiety PART 3 Dominion, the machine age 7 Predatory drift 8 Pack fiction 9 Wild abandon PART 4 Altruism, the social age 10 Shared interests 11 Resocialisation 12 Res familiaris Not the end of it Bibliography Index