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A revolutionary new theory and call to action on animal rights,
ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.
Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the
cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting,
habitat destruction, or neglect of the companion animals that
people purport to love, animals suffer injustice and horrors at our
hands every day. The world needs an ethical awakening, a
consciousness-raising movement of international proportions. In
Justice for Animals, one of the world's most influential
philosophers and humanists Martha C. Nussbaum provides a
revolutionary approach to animal rights, ethics, and law. From
dolphins to crows, elephants to octopuses, Nussbaum examines the
entire animal kingdom, showcasing the lives of animals with wonder,
awe, and compassion to understand how we can create a world in
which human beings are truly friends of animals, not exploiters or
users. All animals should have a shot at flourishing in their own
way. Humans have a collective duty to face and solve animal harm.
An urgent call to action and a manual for change, Nussbaum's
groundbreaking theory directs politics and law to help us meet our
ethical responsibilities as no book has done before.
In Poetics of Deconstruction, Lynn Turner develops an intimate
attention to independent films, art and the psychoanalyses by which
they might make sense other than under continued license of the
subject that calls himself man. Drawing extensively from Jacques
Derrida's philosophy in precise dialogue with feminist thought,
animal studies and posthumanism, this book explores the
vulnerability of the living as rooted in non-oppositional
differences. From abjection to mourning, to the speculative and the
performative, it reposes concepts and buzzwords seemingly at home
in feminist theory, visual culture and the humanities more broadly.
Stepping away from the carno-phallogocentric legacies of the
signifier and the dialectic, Poetics of Deconstruction asks you to
welcome nonpower into politics, always sexual but no longer
anchored in sacrifice.
Ethology, or how animals relate to their environments, is currently
enjoying increased academic attention. A prominent figure in this
scholarship is Gilles Deleuze and yet, the significance of his
relational metaphysics to ethology has still not been scrutinised.
Jason Cullen's book is the first text to analyse Deleuze's
philosophical ethology and he prioritises the theorist's
examination of how beings relate to each other. For Cullen,
Deleuze's Cinema books are integral to this investigation and he
highlights how they expose a key Deleuzian theme: that beings are
fundamentally continuous with each other. In light of this
continuity then, Cullen reveals that how beings understand each
other shapes them and allows them to transform their shared worlds.
Rain is lashing down when Barby Keel is called out to an emergency
unfolding at the gates of her animal sanctuary, deep in the Sussex
countryside. A greyhound had been dumped under the cover of
darkness, and is at death's door. In the 37 years she has dedicated
her life to the welfare of animals, Barby has witnessed the horrors
that humans are capable of, but never has she seen anything as
barbaric as this poor dog's condition. Cigarette burns scar his
flank, and he is so malnourished that he struggles to stand, every
rib showing through his patchy fur. It's touch-and-go whether he
will survive the night. The dog, who Barby names Bailey, proves he
has a fighting spirit and, slowly but surely, begins the long road
to recovery. But Barby is facing her own battle with ill health -
one that threatens the future of the entire sanctuary... Will You
Love Me? is an emotional, joyful true story of the deepest bond
that exists between humans and animals, and shows how in rescuing
others, we can rescue ourselves.
Building on discussions originating in post-humanism, the
non-philosophy of Francois Laruelle, and the science of "species
being of humanity" stemming from Marx's critique of philosophy,
Katerina Kolozova proposes a radical consideration of capitalism's
economic exploitation of life. This book uses Francois Laruelle's
work to think through questions of "practical ethics" and bring the
abstract tools of Laruelle's non-philosophy into conversation with
other critical methods in the humanities. Kolozova centres the
question of the animal at the very heart of what it means for us as
human beings to think and act in the world, and the mistreatment of
animality that underpins the logic of capitalism.
Ethnoprimatology, the combining of primatological and
anthropological practice and the viewing of humans and other
primates as living in integrated and shared ecological and social
spaces, has become an increasingly popular approach to primate
studies in the twenty-first century. Offering an insight into the
investigation and documentation of human-nonhuman primate relations
in the Anthropocene, this book guides the reader through the
preparation, design, implementation, and analysis of an
ethnoprimatological research project, offering practical examples
of the vast array of methods and techniques at chapter level. With
contributions from the world's leading experts in the field,
Ethnoprimatology critically analyses current primate conservation
efforts, outlines their major research questions, theoretical bases
and methods, and tackles the challenges and complexities involved
in mixed-methods research. Documenting the spectrum of current
research in the field, it is an ideal volume for students and
researchers in ethnoprimatology, primatology, anthropology, and
conservation biology.
Underdogs looks into the rapidly growing initiative to provide
veterinary care to underserved communities in North Carolina and
Costa Rica and how those living in or near poverty respond to these
forms of care. For many years, the primary focus of the humane
community in the United States was to control animal overpopulation
and alleviate the stray dog problem by euthanizing or sterilizing
dogs and cats. These efforts succeeded by the turn of the century,
and it appeared as though most pets were being sterilized and given
at least basic veterinary care, including vaccinations and
treatments for medical problems such as worms or mange. However, in
recent years animal activists and veterinarians have acknowledged
that these efforts only reached pet owners in advantaged
communities, leaving over twenty million pets unsterilized,
unvaccinated, and untreated in underserved communities. The problem
of getting basic veterinary services to dogs and cats in low-income
communities has suddenly become spotlighted as a major issue facing
animal shelters, animal rescue groups, animal control departments,
and veterinarians in the United States and abroad. In the past five
to ten years, animal protection organizations have launched a new
focus trying to deliver basic and even more advanced veterinary
care to the many underserved pets in the Unites States. These
efforts pose a challenge to these groups as does pet keeping to
people living in poverty across most of the world who have pets or
care for street dogs.
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