Meaning of de-animalise | Babel Free

Definitions

Forma verbal. Verb. [C1]

Examples

“Such a process seems to be expressing not so much a wish to "de-animalise' the body through its cultural marking, but rather to particularise a body that is still too generic, differentiating it from the bodies of other human collectivities as well as from those of other species.”

“We have become accustomed to food chains that actively de-animalise food origins through established processes of re-naming, re-constitution and re-packaging (Buller & Cesar, 2007; Fiddes, 1992).”

“Within positivist criminology, those with a limited capacity to 'de-animalise' were variously cast as lesser persons with inusfficiently developed characters, and identified through such labels as 'moral degenerate', member of the 'dangerous classes', 'sinful men', 'asocial', 'incorribible criminal', 'habitual criminal', and so on (Pavlich 2010).”

“They de-animalise us as they de-humanise foetuses before exterminating them and forget The good we do in eating vermin.”

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