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Karl’s Law School, or The Oven Bird in Buffalo
Get PDFPublished as Chapter 4 in Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law: Revisiting The Oven Bird’s Song.https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/book_sections/1351/thumbnail.jp
The Songs of Other Birds
Get PDFPublished as Chapter 14 in Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law: Revisiting The Oven Bird’s Song, Mary Nell Trautner, ed..
In this essay, written for a volume that re-engages with David Engel\u27s classic article, The Oven Bird\u27s Song, I consider how we decide how to situate what we encounter in our research. Comparing the findings of my own research in Taipei with Engel\u27s work in Thailand and America, I ask how we can decide to give different interpretations of seemingly similar social phenomena -- specifically, our interlocutors\u27 evident distaste for invoking the law.
Although many of my interlocutors in Taiwan expressed dismay at the disorder of their nation, no one ever suggested that law would be a good way to solve the problem. The community activists I studied did not see law as a useful tool. I studied government administrators and community activists. For both, the invocation of law was at best a bit of icing on a cake of otherwise appropriate social belonging. At worst, it could signal breakdown: a failure of social engagement; of social norms; of other, more legitimate, values.
This devaluation of legality among my interlocutors is certainly reminiscent of the devaluation of litigation in Sander County (Engel 1984) and in northern Thailand (Engel 2006). Yet seen within its sociohistorical context, it highlights important differences as well. These differences, in turn, highlight the way that understanding the roles of law in society depends heavily on historically informed, culturally embedded, and locally specific research.https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/book_sections/1231/thumbnail.jp
Saving Species, One Individual at a Time: Zoo Veterinarians Between Welfare and Conservation
Get PDFThe role of zoo veterinarians has changed significantly in the last several decades, reflecting and revealing broader transformations in zoo culture, especially among North American accredited zoos. This article draws on several interviews with prominent zoo vets, as well as on regulations that pertain to their work, to highlight their current position at the nexus of animal health and welfare, on the one hand, and of species conservation, on the other hand. The transformation of zoos into conservation institutions in particular has resulted in the vets’ novel focus on the sustainability of populations and their intensified involvement in in situ wildlife management. The article will explore the everyday negotiations that zoo vets must undertake to balance between caring for the individual animal’s medical needs and for the long-term survival of her population and species. Despite the central role of the zoo vet in this institutional arena, very little has been written about this figure from a scholarly perspective. The article concludes with a call for further explorations in this direction
