Rise of Critical Animal Studies

From the Margins to the Centre

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

AvNik Taylor,Richard Twine,Australia) Taylor, Nik (Flinders University,UK) Twine, Richard (Edge Hill University

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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 theorydoing critical animal studiescritical animal studies and anti-capitalismcontesting the human, liberating the animal: veganism and activism.The Rise of Critical Animal Studies demonstrates the centrality of the contribution of critical animal studies to vitally important contemporary debates and considers future directions for the field. This edited collection will be useful for students and scholars of sociology, gender studies, psychology, geography, and social work.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-09-29
Mått156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt570 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Advances in Sociology
Antal sidor286
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781138125919

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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