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Agency
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Agency is the ability of individuals to act independently and of their own volition.
Otherness
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The term ‘otherness’ refers to a process or situation in which a distinction is created between ‘us’ and ‘them’ — the ‘others’.
Animal Rights
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Animal rights is the idea that humans "do not have a right to use non-human animals for our own purposes, which include food, clothing, entertainment, and vivisection. This is based on a rejection of speciesism and the knowledge that animals are sentient beings." (Lin 2019)
Speciesism
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Speciesism is the biased belief in the superiority of some species over others. According to this prejudice some animal species are favoured over others, and the human animal is favoured above all other species.
Critical cartography
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Critical cartography refers to the academic field in which products and processes of cartography are critically analysed in order to reveal hegemonic power-relations.
Online-offline nexus
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The online-offline nexus is a description of social reality in the post-digital age. We live our social lives increasingly at the intersection of online and offline forces.
Surveillance
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Surveillance is a mode of power based on the detailed and totalized observation of behavior. It is the prevailing form of power developed and deployed in modernity
Panopticon
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The panopticon is a structure of power-knowledge, used by Michel Foucault to describe a system in which totalized surveillance can be organized.
Actor-Network Theory (ANT)
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Actor-Network Theory is a theoretical and methodological approach that sees all social phenomena as the product of network interactions. It is unique in that it recognizes both objects and technologies as network nodes equal with human actants.
Culture
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Culture is shorthand for the stuff that makes human interactions meaningful and comprehensible.
Ideology
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Ideology is any set of socially structured ideas guiding behavior and thought in particular domains of life.
Formats
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Formats are recognizably patterned forms of behavior, subject to norms and judged accordingly by others.
Linguicism
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Linguicism is language discrimination or language racism, the discrimination of speakers of a certain language.
