Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial

Tomaž Grušovnik is associate professor of philosophy and senior research fellow at the Faculty of Education, University of Primorska, and at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia.Reingard Spannring is a sociologist at the Institute for Educational Science, University of Innsbruck in Austria. Karen Lykke Syse is a cultural historian and is associate professor at Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo in Norway.

• Introduction: Introducing Denialism in Environmental and Animal AbuseTomaž Grušovnik, Reingard Spannring and Karen Lykke SyseChapter 1: From Denial to Moral Disengagement: How Integrating Fundamental Insights from Psychology Can Help Us Better Understand Ongoing Inaction in the Light of an Exacerbating Climate CrisisSusanne Stoll-Kleemann Chapter 2: Denial as a Sense of Entitlement: Assessing the Role of CultureArne Johan VetlesenChapter 3: Skepticism and Animal Virtues: Denialism of Animal MoralityTomaž GrušovnikChapter 4: Human Uniqueness, Animal Minds, and Anthropodenial Adam SeeChapter 5: Suffering Animals: Creaturely Fellowship and its DenialCraig TaylorChapter 6: Brave New Salmon: From Enlightened Denial to Enlivened PracticesMartin Lee Mueller and Katja Maria HydleChapter 7: The Animal that Therefore was Removed from View: The Presentation of Meat in Norway, 1950-2020Karen Lykke Syse and Kristian BjørkdahlChapter 8: Political Economy of Denialism: Addressing the Case of Animal AgricultureJohn Sorenson and Atsuko MatsuokaChapter 9: Celebrate the Anthropocene? Why “Techno-Eco-Optimism” is a Strategy of Ultimate DenialHelen Kopnina, Joe Gray, Haydn Washington and John PiccoloChapter 10: The Horse in the Room: The Denial of Animal Subjectivity and Agency in Social Science Research on Human-Horse Relationships Reingard Spannring and José De Giorgio-SchoorlChapter 11: Still in the Shadow of Man? Judicial Denialism and Nonhuman AnimalsOpi Outhwaite

Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial is a useful reference book for the topic of denial in relation to nonhuman nature that will hopefully inspire greater kindness toward and respect for planetary life.