Introducing Non-humans in Social Science: Ontologies, Theories and Case Studies

Abstract

The chapter is an Introduction to the book on the topic of non-human in social science. It argues that adopting the perspecitve of diverse "others" have been embraced in social science and explains that the concept of non-human is used in the book as a prism that offers different perspective of the world, society and culture and being(s) and that to focus on non-humans and their relationship to humans is an act of hybridizing.

Keywords

• non-human
• human
• the other
• hybridity