Why We Love and Exploit Animals - Bridging Insights from Academia and Advocacy (Hardcover)

This unique book brings together research and theorizing on human-animal relations, animal advocacy, and the factors underlying exploitative attitudes and behaviors towards animals. Why do we both love and exploit animals? Assembling some of the world's leading academics and with insights and experiences gleaned from those on the front lines of animal advocacy, this pioneering collection breaks new ground, synthesizing scientific perspectives and empirical findings. The authors show the complexities and paradoxes in human-animal relations and reveal the factors shaping compassionate versus exploitative attitudes and behaviors towards animals. Exploring topical issues such as meat consumption, intensive farming, speciesism, and effective animal advocacy, this book demonstrates how we both value and devalue animals, how we can address animal suffering, and how our thinking about animals is connected to our thinking about human intergroup relations and the dehumanization of human groups. This is essential reading for students, scholars, and professionals in the social and behavioral sciences interested in human-animal relations, and will also strongly appeal to members of animal rights organizations, animal rights advocates, policy makers, and charity workers.

General

Imprint:	Crc Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2019
First published:	2020
Editors:	Kristof Dhont • Gordon Hodson
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	374
ISBN-13:	978-0-8153-9664-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > Animal behaviour Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Animals & society > General
LSN:	0-8153-9664-3
Barcode:	9780815396642

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