de-animalise

English

Verb

de-animalise (third-person singular simple present de-animalises, present participle de-animalising, simple past and past participle de-animalised)

1. Alternative form of deanimalize
   • 2005, Alexandre Surralles, Alexandre Surrallés, Pedro García Hierro, The Land Within, page 59:

     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.

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

     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).

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

     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).

   • 2017, David Hamilton, Storyteller, page 27:

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