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In this comprehensive updated introduction to animal ethics, Lori
Gruen weaves together poignant and provocative case studies with
discussions of ethical theory, urging readers to engage critically
and reflect empathetically on our relationships with other animals.
In clear and accessible language, Gruen discusses a range of issues
central to human-animal relations and offers a reasoned new
perspective on key debates in the field. She analyses and explains
a range of theoretical positions and poses challenging questions
that directly encourage readers to hone their ethical reasoning
skills and to develop a defensible position about their own
practices. Her book will be an invaluable resource for students in
a wide range of disciplines including ethics, environmental
studies, veterinary science, gender studies, and the emerging field
of animal studies. The book is an engaging account of animal ethics
for readers with no prior background in philosophy.
Carceral logics permeate our thinking about humans and nonhumans.
We imagine that greater punishment will reduce crime and make
society safer. We hope that more convictions and policing for
animal crimes will keep animals safe and elevate their social
status. The dominant approach to human-animal relations is governed
by an unjust imbalance of power that subordinates or ignores the
interest nonhumans have in freedom. In this volume Lori Gruen and
Justin Marceau invite experts to provide insights into the
complicated intersection of issues that arise in thinking about
animal law, violence, mass incarceration, and social change.
Advocates for enhancing the legal status of animals could learn a
great deal from the history and successes (and failures) of other
social movements. Likewise, social change lawyers, as well as
animal advocates, might learn lessons from each other about the
interconnections of oppression as they work to achieve liberation
for all. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge
Core.
In this comprehensive updated introduction to animal ethics, Lori
Gruen weaves together poignant and provocative case studies with
discussions of ethical theory, urging readers to engage critically
and reflect empathetically on our relationships with other animals.
In clear and accessible language, Gruen discusses a range of issues
central to human-animal relations and offers a reasoned new
perspective on key debates in the field. She analyses and explains
a range of theoretical positions and poses challenging questions
that directly encourage readers to hone their ethical reasoning
skills and to develop a defensible position about their own
practices. Her book will be an invaluable resource for students in
a wide range of disciplines including ethics, environmental
studies, veterinary science, gender studies, and the emerging field
of animal studies. The book is an engaging account of animal ethics
for readers with no prior background in philosophy.
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.
Combines legal opinion and philosophical analysis to explore the
controversial issues surrounding state control of sexual and
reproductive behaviour. This anthology focuses on six topics of
enduring moral, social, and legal concern: homosexual sex;
prostitution; pornography; abortion; sexual harassment; and rape.
Included in each are excerpts from influential court decisions,
followed by essays bearing specific relevance to the arguments of
the courts. The essays debate complex moral and social issues.
Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field devoted
to examining, understanding, and critically evaluating the complex
relationships between humans and other animals. Scholarship in
Animal Studies draws on a variety of methodologies to explore these
multi-faceted relationships in order to help us understand the ways
in which other animals figure in our lives and we in theirs.
Bringing together the work of a group of internationally
distinguished scholars, the contribution in Critical Terms for
Animal Studies offers distinct voices and diverse perspectives,
exploring significant concepts and asking important questions. How
do we take non-human animals seriously, not simply as metaphors for
human endeavors, but as subjects themselves? What do we mean by
anthropocentrism, captivity, empathy, sanctuary, and vulnerability,
and what work do these and other critical terms do in Animal
Studies? Sure to become an indispensable reference for the field,
Critical Terms for Animal Studies not only provides a framework for
thinking about animals as subjects of their own experiences, but
also serves as a touchstone to help us think differently about our
conceptions of what it means to be human, and the impact human
activities have on the more than human world.
The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does is the first edited volume
to critically engage with Effective Altruism (EA). It brings
together writers from diverse activist and scholarly backgrounds to
explore a variety of unique grassroots movements and community
organizing efforts. By drawing attention to these responses and to
particular cases of human and animal harms, this book represents a
powerful call to attend to different voices and projects and to
elevate activist traditions that EA lacks the resources to assess
and threatens to squelch. The contributors reveal the weakness
inherent within the ready-made, top-down solutions that EA offers
in response to many global problems-and offers in their place
substantial descriptions of more meaningful and just social
engagement.
Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field devoted
to examining, understanding, and critically evaluating the complex
relationships between humans and other animals. Scholarship in
Animal Studies draws on a variety of methodologies to explore these
multi-faceted relationships in order to help us understand the ways
in which other animals figure in our lives and we in theirs.
Bringing together the work of a group of internationally
distinguished scholars, the contribution in Critical Terms for
Animal Studies offers distinct voices and diverse perspectives,
exploring significant concepts and asking important questions. How
do we take non-human animals seriously, not simply as metaphors for
human endeavors, but as subjects themselves? What do we mean by
anthropocentrism, captivity, empathy, sanctuary, and vulnerability,
and what work do these and other critical terms do in Animal
Studies? Sure to become an indispensable reference for the field,
Critical Terms for Animal Studies not only provides a framework for
thinking about animals as subjects of their own experiences, but
also serves as a touchstone to help us think differently about our
conceptions of what it means to be human, and the impact human
activities have on the more than human world.
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.
Do depictions of crazy cat ladies obscure more sinister structural
violence against animals hoarded in factory farms? Highlighting the
frequent pathologization of animal lovers and animal rights
activists, this book examines how the "madness" of our
relationships with animals intersects with the "madness" of taking
animals seriously. The essays collected in this volume argue that
"animaladies" are expressive of political and psychological
discontent, and the characterization of animal advocacy as mad or
"crazy" distracts attention from broader social unease regarding
human exploitation of animal life. While allusions to madness are
both subtle and overt, they are also very often gendered, thought
to be overly sentimental with an added sense that emotions are
being directed at the wrong species. Animaladies are obstacles for
the political uptake of interest in animal issues-as the
intersections between this volume and established feminist
scholarship show, the fear of being labeled unreasonable or mad
still has political currency.
Combines legal opinion and philosophical analysis to explore the
controversial issues surrounding state control of sexual and
reproductive behaviour. This anthology focuses on six topics of
enduring moral, social, and legal concern: homosexual sex;
prostitution; pornography; abortion; sexual harassment; and rape.
Included in each are excerpts from influential court decisions,
followed by essays bearing specific relevance to the arguments of
the courts. The essays debate complex moral and social issues.
Do depictions of crazy cat ladies obscure more sinister structural
violence against animals hoarded in factory farms? Highlighting the
frequent pathologization of animal lovers and animal rights
activists, this book examines how the "madness" of our
relationships with animals intersects with the "madness" of taking
animals seriously. The essays collected in this volume argue that
"animaladies" are expressive of political and psychological
discontent, and the characterization of animal advocacy as mad or
"crazy" distracts attention from broader social unease regarding
human exploitation of animal life. While allusions to madness are
both subtle and overt, they are also very often gendered, thought
to be overly sentimental with an added sense that emotions are
being directed at the wrong species. Animaladies are obstacles for
the political uptake of interest in animal issues-as the
intersections between this volume and established feminist
scholarship show, the fear of being labeled unreasonable or mad
still has political currency.
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