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Accepted Paper:
Sensory empathy: the limits of ‘becoming animal’
Andy Flack
(University of Bristol)
What does the 'sensory turn' mean for historians of human-animal relations?
Paper long abstract:
The ‘sensory turn’ ignited transdisciplinary attention to sensescapes, and the utility of sensory ‘re-enactments’. What does this mean for animal/ environmental historians? It might generate empathy able to smash species boundaries, helping us to ‘become animal’. But it poses questions about the simulation/ spectacularisation of difference. This paper examines sensory history as a 'new frontier' in the study of human-animal relations, reviewing recent historiographical developments, illustrating key ideas with reference to my own research around the 'nocturnal', and proposing avenues for future explorations.