Animal Oppression and Malev(i)olence

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Hunting, Domesecration, Capitalism, and the Deformation of Human Society

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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While the dominant cultural narrative depicts the history of hunting, capturing, and killing of other animals as beneficial for human development, historical and contemporary evidence shows otherwise. This book reveals that the human practice of stalking, killing, exploiting, and eating other animals led to the social construction of a malev(i)olent and predacious form of masculinity and the start of human social stratification and oppression. Thereafter the course of human social development was placed on a deformative trajectory, leading to warfare, the emergence of deadly zoonotic disease, and terrorist-based colonial and imperialist orders. Primarily spread throughout the world by way of European conquests, and leading to the rise of capitalism, hunting and this violent and rapacious form of masculinity is continually promoted as ideal training for warfare and global domination, especially in the United States. As US-driven global violence and destruction accelerates in the 21st century, challenges to this dominant form of masculinity and its caustic capitalist progeny are essential for creating a peaceful and sustainable world.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-14
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Animal Studies and Theory
Antal sidor288
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9798216388593

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IntroductionChapter 1 - Hunting and the Deformation of Human SocietyChapter 2 - Hunting, “Angling,” and Trapping and Medieval Malev(i)olenceChapter 3 - The Malev(i)olent World Invades the AmericasChapter 4 - Enslaved People, Slain Elephants, and European Hunters Around the WorldChapter 5 - Bloodsport, Domesecration and the Expansion of U.S. CapitalismChapter 6 - Ideological Scaffolding of Early 20th Century OppressionChapter 7 - Getting Tough: Malev(i)olence in the Mid-20th Century U.S.Chapter 8 - Malev(i)olence and the Killing of Hope: Vietnam and BeyondChapter 9 - Malev(i)olent Predation at Home and AbroadChapter 10 - Malev(i)olence Explodes into the 21st CenturyChapter 11 - Malev(i)olence and 21st Century Destruction and GenocideChapter 12 - Transcending Malev(i)olent Capitalism

"David Nibert's work has established him as a preeminent scholar of critical animal studies and vegan sociology. His intersectional approach has inspired countless scholars over the past quarter of a century and continues to inform the field with a conscientious feminist approach rooted in powerful historical evidence, political analysis, and linguistic resistance. This latest contribution interrogates the most fundamental, if uncomfortable, variables in social oppression, that being the toxicity of hegemonic masculinity and the horrifying legacy of violent patriarchy. Too often, historical accounts of unequal social relations remain gender- and species-neutral, obscuring the stronghold that human masculinity has held over women and other minoritized humans, fellow animals, and the environment to the ultimate detriment of social wellbeing and propensity for progress. Nibert's account of global malev(i)olence is a reckoning with masculinity's rampant destruction, tracing with excruciating detail its multifaceted efforts to accumulate power, knowledge, and control over reality itself. To reclaim peace for the people and salvage the world for a habitable future, Nibert urgently calls for an unabashed confrontation with patriarchy wherever it manifests, championing a symbiotic, anti-hierarchical, and care-based approach to multispecies social life in its wake. Readers are invited to embrace a post-patriarchal eco-consciousness with enticing and thought-provoking vegan feminist wordsmithery that interrogates the normalization of unequal social relations in the very language we use to understand it. This is the book we’ve been waiting for. Its robust political sociology and attention to historical detail beautifully complements an existing literature of vegan feminist thought that has been coalescing for many decades now."