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.
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 theory
- doing critical animal studies
- critical animal studies and anti-capitalism
- contesting 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.
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- The Rise of Critical Animal Studies
charts contemporary developments in the field of animal studies and will incite much-needed critical debate. - Uniquely focused upon four areas of tension within the field of animal studies, The Rise of Critical Animal Studies gets to grips with the key issues and the political stakes involved as the interdisciplinary field continues to grow.
- Showcasing current research in critical animal studies and its intersection with various urgent contemporary policy debates and theoretical developments, this collection will appeal to a broad audience.
- The first edited collection on Critical Animal Studies, this will become a key establishing text in the broader field of animal studies.
- Presenting a diverse mix of established senior scholars and emergent writers in the field of critical animal studies, this collection presents innovative discussion and debate on issues with broad contemporary urgency in both the academy and social policy generally.
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
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.
"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
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Klappentext
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.
