de-animalise

present singular third person de-animalises · participle present de-animalising · participle past de-animalised · past de-animalised

1. alternativeAlternative form of deanimalize.

   They de-animalise us as they de-humanise foetuses before exterminating them and forget The good we do in eating vermin.

   2017, David Hamilton, Storyteller, page 27

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   Such a process seems to be expressing not so much a wish to "de-animalise' the body through its cultural marking, but rather to particularise a body that is still too generic, differentiating it from the bodies of other human collectivities as well as from those of other species.

   2005, Alexandre Surralles, Alexandre Surrallés, Pedro García Hierro, The Land Within, page 59

   We have become accustomed to food chains that actively de-animalise food origins through established processes of re-naming, re-constitution and re-packaging (Buller & Cesar, 2007; Fiddes, 1992).

   2012, Lynda Birke, Jo Hockenhull, Crossing Boundaries: Investigating Human-Animal Relationships

   Within positivist criminology, those with a limited capacity to 'de-animalise' were variously cast as lesser persons with inusfficiently developed characters, and identified through such labels as 'moral degenerate', member of the 'dangerous classes', 'sinful men', 'asocial', 'incorribible criminal', 'habitual criminal', and so on (Pavlich 2010).

   2015, Don Crewe, Ronnie Lippens, What is Criminology About?: Philosophical Reflections