This volume aims to encourage subjecting post-humanist transformations to experiments both in thought and in practice. It combines new empirical and theoretical work by international authors in the research field of human-animal studies: along with examples of how the relationship between animals and humans was handled in the past and how it is presented and discussed in contemporary art and science, this volume also contains analyses of literary and philosophical texts and linguistic research. Other contributions provide information on the observable and potential social, scientific, and economic shifts in the relationship between humans and animals.

Reingard Spannring (Univ.-Ass. Dr.), Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften, Reinhard Heuberger (Ass.-Prof. Dr.), Institut für Anglistik, Gabriela Kompatscher (Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr.), Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen, sowie Andreas Oberprantacher (Ass.-Prof. Dr.), Institut für Philosophie, forschen und lehren an der Universität Innsbruck. Karin Schachinger (BA), Gender Studies, ist Projektmitarbeiterin an der Universität Innsbruck. Alejandro Boucabeille (BA), Zeitgeschichte, studiert an der Universität Innsbruck.