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In Animals as Biotechnology sociologist Richard Twine places the question of human/animal relations at the heart of sustainability and climate change debates. The book is shaped by the emergence of two contradictory trends within our approach to nonhuman animals: the biotechnological turn in animal sciences, which aims to increase the efficiency and profitability of meat and dairy production; and the emerging field of critical animal studies - mostly in the humanities and social sciences - which works to question the nature of our relations with other animals. The first part of the book...

Richard Twine places the question of human-animal relations at the heart of sustainability & climate change debates. His argument is shaped by the increasingly biotechnological turn in animal sciences & by work in the emerging field of critical animal studies, which questions the nature of our relationship with other species.

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...