Böcker av Nik Taylor

This book was originally made available to attendees of Doomsday 11 in May 2022. Doomsday is the world's premier annual gathering to celebrate the mysterious world of Bizarre Magic, Storytelling Magic and paranormal high-strangeness. Making Dark Magicks contains:A foreword by Ashton CarterMy 'Making Dark Magicks' lecture in fullTwo illustrated articles on two of the shows I discuss in my lectureThe full illustrated script of 'Phantasmagoria: Stories To Be Told Out' (which includes 13 mini scripts for effects, including the needle swallow script I talked about in the lecture)A write up of my propless storytelling effect 'The Gift of Hermes' which leaves your audience with a little bit of magical thinking to take with them after your show.I hope it will be useful to you when making your own magicks.

In this book, Nik Taylor and Heather Fraser consider how we might better understand human-animal companionship in the context of domestic violence. The authors advocate an intersectional feminist understanding, drawing on a variety of data from numerous projects they have conducted with people, about their companion animals and links between domestic violence and animal abuse, arguing for a new understanding that enables animals to be constituted as victims of domestic violence in their own right. The chapters analyse the mutual, loving connections that can be formed across species, and in households where there is domestic violence. Companion Animals and Domestic Violence also speaks to the potentially soothing, healing and recovery oriented aspects of human-companion animal relationships before, during and after the violence, and will be of interest to various academic disciplines including social work, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, geography, as well as to professionals working in domestic violence or animal welfare service provision.

This book employs an an intersectional feminist approach to highlight how research and teaching agendas are being skewed by commercialized, corporatized and commodified values and assumptions implicit in the neoliberalization of the academy.

This book argues that qualitative methods, ethnography included, have tended to focus on the human at the cost of understanding humans and animals in relation, and that ethnography should evolve to account for the relationships between humans and other species.