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This new edition of Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other
Animals and the Earth begins with an historical, grounding overview
that situates ecofeminist theory and activism within the larger
field of ecocriticism and provides a timeline for important
publications and events. Throughout the book, authors engage with
intersections of gender, sexuality, gender expression, race,
disability, and species to address the various ways that sexism,
heteronormativity, racism, colonialism, and ableism are informed by
and support animal oppression. This collection is broken down into
three separate sections: -Affect includes contributions from
leading theorists and activists on how our emotions and embodiment
can and must inform our relationships with the more-than-human
world -Context explores the complexities of appreciating difference
and the possibilities of living less violently -Climate, new to the
second edition, provides an overview of our climate crisis as well
as the climate for critical discussion and debate about ecofeminist
ideas and actions Drawing on animal studies, environmental studies,
feminist/gender studies, and practical ethics, the ecofeminist
contributors to this volume stress the need to move beyond binaries
and attend to context over universal judgments; spotlight the
importance of care as well as justice, emotion as well as reason;
and work to undo the logic of domination and its material
implications.
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Livestock's Longer Shadow is one the most important books of its
kind since Ruth Harrison's Animal Machines (1964). Most people have
little idea how eating animal-based foods harm animals, our health
and our planet. We want to believe the animals we eat do not suffer
pain, injury, live good lives and eating them is a trade-off for
the care we afford them. We accept the illnesses we suffer are
simply a consequence of getting old. We want to believe our food
choices do not cause rainforest and ocean deforestation. We are
told farmers are the guardians of the countryside, yet our
landscape is over-cultured and biologically dysfunctional, and our
environment polluted by livestock farming. Livestock's Longer
Shadow, cuts through the noise for anyone wanting to know how we
really treat animals, our health and our planet through the ways we
farm and consume animals, through a UK lens. Tim Bailey is an
Environmental Scientist and one of the UK's leading and most
prominent regulatory farm pollution experts. He brings together all
aspects of the UK's animal-based farming and food system, from farm
to fork, documents its devastation and provides us with a kinder,
more compassionate, sustainable and healthier way forward. In
sounding the alarm on the paradigms of animal-based food
production, the author uses his own first-hand experience of the
impacts of livestock farming from a career regulating the industry
spanning over 30-years.
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.
Zoo Ethics examines the workings of modern zoos and considers the
core ethical challenges faced by people who choose to hold and
display animals in zoos, aquariums, or sanctuaries. Jenny Gray
asserts the value of animal life and assesses the impacts of modern
zoos, including the costs to animals in terms of welfare and the
loss of liberty. Gray highlights contemporary events, including the
killing of the gorilla Harambe at the Cincinnati Zoo in May 2016,
the widely publicized culling of a young giraffe in the Copenhagen
Zoo in 2014, and the investigation of the Tiger Temple in western
Thailand. Gray describes the positive welfare and health outcomes
of many animals held in zoos, the increased attention and
protection for their species in the wild, and the enjoyment and
education of the people who visit zoos. Zoo Ethics will empower
students of animal ethics and veterinary sciences, zoo and aquarium
professionals, and interested zoo visitors to have an informed view
of the challenges of compassionate conservation and to develop
their own ethical positions.
Winner of the 2017 Virginia Marie Folkins Award, Association of
King County Historical Organizations (AKCHO) Winner of the 2017 Hal
K. Rothman Book Prize, Western History Association Seattle would
not exist without animals. Animals have played a vital role in
shaping the city from its founding amid existing indigenous towns
in the mid-nineteenth century to the livestock-friendly town of the
late nineteenth century to the pet-friendly, livestock-averse
modern city. When newcomers first arrived in the 1850s, they
hastened to assemble the familiar cohort of cattle, horses, pigs,
chickens, and other animals that defined European agriculture.
This, in turn, contributed to the dispossession of the Native
residents of the area. However, just as various animals were used
to create a Euro-American city, the elimination of these same
animals from Seattle was key to the creation of the new
middle-class neighborhoods of the twentieth century. As dogs and
cats came to symbolize home and family, Seattleites' relationship
with livestock became distant and exploitative, demonstrating the
deep social contradictions that characterize the modern American
metropolis. Throughout Seattle's history, people have sorted
animals into categories and into places as a way of asserting power
over animals, other people, and property. In The City Is More Than
Human, Frederick Brown explores the dynamic, troubled relationship
humans have with animals. In so doing he challenges us to
acknowledge the role of animals of all sorts in the making and
remaking of cities.
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