The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: From the Margins to the Centre

ISBN-13: 9781138125919 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 286 str.

Nik Taylor; Richard Twine

Opis

As the scholarly and interdisciplinary study of human/animal relations becomes crucial to the urgent questions of our time, notably in relation to environmental crisis, this collection explores the inner tensions within the relatively new and broad field of animal studies. This provides a platform for the latest critical thinking on the condition and experience of animals. The volume is structured around four sections:

• engaging theory
• doing critical animal studies
• critical animal studies and anti-capitalism
• contesting the human, liberating the animal: veganism and activism.

The Rise of Critical Animal Studies demonstrates the centrality of the contribution of critical animal studies to vitally important contemporary debates and considers future directions for the field. This edited collection will be useful for students and scholars of sociology, gender studies, psychology, geography, and social work.

Recenzje

"Indispensable for anyone concerned with how badly humans treat each other, other animals, and the environment. Summing Up: Essential" - P. Beirne, University of Southern Maine for CHOICE

Spis treści

Locating the ‘Critical’ in Critical Animal Studies  Part I: Engaging Theory 1. Beyond Speciesism: Intersectionality, Critical Sociology and the Human Domination of Other Animals  2. From Centre to Margins and Back Again: Critical Animal Studies and the Reflexive Human Self  3. Vegans on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown  Part II: Doing Critical Animal Studies 4. Listening to Voices: On the Pleasures and Problems of Studying Human-Animal Relationships  5. Studying Perpetrators of Socially-Sanctioned Violence against Animals through the I / eye of the CAS Scholar  6. Doing Critical Animal Studies Differently: Reflexivity and Intersectionality in Practice   Part III: Critical Animal Studies and Anti-Capitalism  7. Labourers or Lab Tools? Rethinking the Role of Lab Animals in Clinical Trials  8. The Cultural Hegemony of Meat and the Animal Industrial Complex  9. Mapping Non-human Resistance in the Age of Biocapital   Part IV: Contesting the Human, Liberating the Animal: Veganism and Activism  10. ‘The Greatest Cause on Earth’: The Historical Formation of Veganism as an Ethical Practice   11. On the Limits of Food Autonomy: Rethinking Choice and Privacy   12. The Radical Debate: A Straw Man in the Movement?.  Conclusion: Future Directions for Critical Animal Studies