Rise of Critical Animal Studies

Nik Taylor is an Associate Professor in Sociology at Flinders University in South Australia where she teaches and researches on human-animal relations.Richard Twine is a sociologist and has most recently held positions at the Universities of Glasgow and Lancaster.

• 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

"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