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(NON-HUMAN)ANIMAL COMPANIONSHIP: A CRUCIAL SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

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HOY-GERLACH J., RAUKTIS M., NEWHILL C.

Society Register

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2020

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vol. 4

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issue 2

109-120

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Background Human-animal interaction (HAI) offers benefits across physical, emotional, psychological, and social spheres of human functioning. The aim of this paper is to delineate how animal companionship, via provision of HAI benefits, offers vital support to people experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic and associated stressors. Method Each of the empirically supported types of HAI benefits – physical, emotional, psychological, and social – will be situated within a biopsychosocial framework of human functioning and considered in terms of how they may help to ameliorate stressors specifically related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings Benefits derived from animal companionship may help alleviate physical, emotional, psychological, and social stressors specifically related to experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic. Discussion Benefits of animal companionship may be particularly salient for well-being and coping when people are experiencing a dramatic increase in stressors via a pandemic crisis. Community responses need to include plans (pet food pantries, temporary foster care, veterinary access/zoonotic safety) for keeping people and their companion animals together during such difficult times. Originality/value This article is unique in that it delineates the animal companionship benefits in terms of how such may help alleviate stressors associated with a pandemic.

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Relacje osób w kryzysie bezdomności ze zwierzętami: wsparcie i zakorzenienie czy wykorzystywanie zwierząt?

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Mamzer H.

Praca Socjalna

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2021

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vol. 36(5)

107-128

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The relationship between the homeless and their animals is treated as marginal, as an issue of little social importance. The most probable cause are “common sense” approaches that focus on the more urgent challenges that need to be addressed to increase the well-being of the homeless such as providing health care, financial support and employment. Contrary to these needs, relations with animals appear as a kind of a whim that creates problems and is not crucial. Indeed, in the social sciences in general, the value of human and animal companionship, as an important source of positive emotions, is being increasingly analysed. The role of animals in human societies increases as social consciousness changes. The role of animals in the lives of socially marginalized people is still being questioned. In this work I identify the emotional significance of the relationship with animals for the homeless people.

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Tematyka relacji osób bezdomnych i ich zwierząt jest traktowana marginalnie, jako kwestia mało istotna społecznie. Zagadnienie to wymaga głębszego oglądu ze strony socjologii, pracy socjalnej i psychologii. Nauki społeczne i humanistyczne coraz częściej podejmują refleksję nad rolą zwierząt towarzyszących w zmieniającym się społeczeństwie ponowoczesnym, jednak analizy te dotyczą w ogromnej mierze sytuacji typowych, powszechnych. Znacznie mniej uwagi poświęca się roli relacji ze zwierzętami w życiu osób marginalizowanych ze względu na przynależność do określonej społecznie kategorii. Jedną z takich sytuacji jest los osób bezdomnych, które opiekują się zwierzętami. Celem prezentowanego tekstu jest analiza roli relacji ze zwierzętami w życiu osób bezdomnych.

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Memorial Services and Rituals for Companion Animals in Japan, Poland and the United States of America

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Pręgowski M. P.

Analecta Nipponica

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2018

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issue 8

109-122

JA

本論は、伴侶動物（コンパニオンアニマル）の死とペットの墓に関する日本社会の幾つかの慣習について論じ、さらにアメリカとポーランドでのそれと比較する。この比較は、日本における伴侶動物の死について書いた研究者の報告（Ambros 2012; Kenney 2004;Veldkamp 2009）だけでなく、三年間（2012–2015）にわたって行われたポーランドとアメリカにおけるペットの墓に関する筆者独自の調査に基づいている。まず日本における近年のペットブームについて簡潔に記述し、その後ポーランドとアメリカだけでなく、日本で亡くなった動物がどのように追悼されるか述べる。本論は、それぞれ三つの社会におけるペットの墓の外観やペットの墓に関する慣習だけでなく、葬式や慰霊などについても論じる。

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This article discusses some of the Japanese social practices related to companion animal death and pet cemeteries, and compares them with American and Polish ones. The comparison stems from the author’s own research on pet cemeteries in Poland and the United States of America performed over the span of three years (2012–2015), as well as from the findings of researchers writing about Japan in the companion animal death context (including Ambros 2012; Kenney 2004; Veldkamp 2009). After starting with a brief description of the recent pet boom in Japan, I present the ways in which departed animals are commemorated there, as well as in Poland and the United States. The article discusses funerary rites, memorial services, as well as the looks of pet cemeteries and pet cemetery related practices in each of the three societies.

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(NON-HUMAN)ANIMAL COMPANIONSHIP: A CRUCIAL SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Relacje osób w kryzysie bezdomności ze zwierzętami: wsparcie i zakorzenienie czy wykorzystywanie zwierząt?

Memorial Services and Rituals for Companion Animals in Japan, Poland and the United States of America