Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination

Nathan Poirier is a professional tutor at Lansing Community College, has a graduate specialization in women’s and gender studies, master’s degrees in anthrozoology and mathematics, and is co-editor of Emerging New Voices in Critical Animal Studies: Vegan Studies for Total Liberation.Sarah Tomasello received her B.A. in Anthropology and Religious Studies and an M.S. in Anthrozoology from Canisius College. She has published in Green Theory and Praxis, and book chapters in Gender and Sexuality in Critical Animal Studies and Emerging New Voices in Critical Animal Studies.Amber E. George, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Galen College. Dr. George is a board member for Critical Animal Studies and editor of Journal for Critical Animal Studies. Dr. George has co-edited numerous books on critical animal studies.

• Acknowledgments – Charlotte Anne: Foreword – Nathan Poirier/Sarah Tomasello/Amber E. George: Introduction: Imagining with Abandon – Cameron Whitley: Connecting Transgender Studies and Critical Animal Studies – Agnese Martini/Francesca Corradini/Matteo Porazzi: Anthropogenic Monsters: A CAS and Liberating Perspective on the Contemporary Production of Human and Nonhuman Monsters – Nandita Bajaj/Kirsten Stade: Animal Liberation through Procreative Justice –John Tallent: Antinatalism, Veganism, and the Imperative of a Total Liberationist Perspective – Elisabeth Dimitras: Procreation and Aviation: The Elephants in the Vegan Room – Ezgi Karaoğlu: Infrastructural Approach to Urban Street Animals of Istanbul: Contestation, Violence, Affectivity, and Spatial Visibility in Metropolis – Zane McNeill/Nathan Poirier: Ida B. Wells’ Historical and Contemporary Legacy, and Relevance to Critical Animal Studies – Nathan Poirier/Simon Springer: Listening to and Learning with African Anarchism, Black Anarchism, and Anarcho-Blackness – Will Boisseau: Vegan Mutual Aid: Anarchist Solidarity in Times of Crisis – Nathan Poirier: Create Meat Though the World May Perish: A Vegan Critique of In Vitro Meat and Clean Milk – Jeremy Bendik-Keymer: The Others Called ‘Humans’ Amidst the Many: Anthroponomy and the Planetary Problem –Laura Schleifer: Post-Scarcity Veganarchism – Seven Mattes: Afterword – Notes on Contributors –Index.

It is rare, truly, that one finds a book that delivers on its radical and iconoclastic promise. This book does precisely that. Delinking critical animal studies from a presumed narrowness, Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination is deeply intersectional, deeply committed, and deeply cutting edge—in a rigorous, robust, and genuine way. This collection goes there; it is not afraid, at all, to be Black, trans, feminist, and anarchistic in ways that we strongly need. In short, read this. Now.Marquis BeyAuthor of Black Trans Feminism