The Rise of Critical Animal Studies (eBook, PDF)

From the Margins to the Centre
Redaktion: Taylor, Nik; Twine, Richard

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

As the scholarly and interdisciplinary study of human/animal relations become crucial to the urgent questions of our time, notably in relation to environmental crisis, this volume explores the inner tensions within the broad field of animal studies and provides a platform for the latest critical thinking on the condition and experience of animals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135100872
• Artikelnr.: 40830755

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

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"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

"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