{"id":64608,"date":"2020-03-11T09:09:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T13:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=64608"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:12","slug":"coulter-hudson-rex-charming-canine-actor-challenges-us-to-look-at-animal-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/03\/coulter-hudson-rex-charming-canine-actor-challenges-us-to-look-at-animal-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"COULTER: \u2018Hudson &#038; Rex\u2019: Charming canine actor challenges us to look at animal labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kendra Coulter, Associate Professor in Labour Studies, wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/hudson-and-rex-charming-canine-actor-challenges-us-to-look-at-animal-labour-132844?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2010%202020&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2010%202020+CID_0e1543c76cd3d21e0f22b1ada2121f58&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Hudson%20%20Rex%20Charming%20canine%20actor%20challenges%20us%20to%20look%20at%20animal%20labour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">piece recently published in\u00a0<em>The Conversation<\/em><\/a> about how canine actors, such as the fictional police canine Rex in the television series <em>Hudson &amp; Rex<\/em>, challenges us to look at animal labour.<\/p>\n<p>Coulter writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;My favourite police officer on television is smart, empathetic, attentive and brave. He\u2019s also incredibly handsome.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m talking about Rex, the fictional police canine played by the German shepherd Diesel vom Burgimwald who co-stars on CITY TV\u2019s hit show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citytv.com\/toronto\/shows\/hudson-rex\/\">Hudson &amp; Rex<\/a>. It\u2019s not prestige TV, but it is a well-made, diverse, thoughtful and unapologetically Canadian police procedural with an impressive four-legged officer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As the show wraps up its second season, it\u2019s clear that Rex\/Diesel has charmed audiences. His work also invites us to think more about animals\u2019 minds, work and contributions to our shared communities.\u00a0K9 partnerships have long been part of popular culture (Turner &amp; Hooch, K9, F.B. Eye, the Canadian Katts &amp; Dog). Yet for people who have had police dogs used against them, the image of a German shepherd (or Malinois) may not evoke positive feelings.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As an analyst of animal labour, I am intrigued both by Diesel\u2019s work, and by how Rex the police canine is portrayed.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/hudson-and-rex-charming-canine-actor-challenges-us-to-look-at-animal-labour-132844?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2010%202020&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2010%202020+CID_0e1543c76cd3d21e0f22b1ada2121f58&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Hudson%20%20Rex%20Charming%20canine%20actor%20challenges%20us%20to%20look%20at%20animal%20labour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kendra Coulter, Associate Professor in Labour Studies, wrote a piece recently published in\u00a0The Conversation about how canine actors, such as the fictional police canine Rex in the television series Hudson &#038; Rex, challenges us to look at animal labour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,38],"tags":[110,522,3126,31,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64609,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64608\/revisions\/64609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}