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Author Taylor, Nik

Title The Rise of Critical Animal Studies : From the Margins to the Centre
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (307 pages)
Series Routledge Advances in Sociology
Routledge advances in sociology.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 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 scholar6 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 practice11 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; Index
Summary 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 theorydoing critical animal studiescritical animal studies and anti-capitalismcontesting the human, liberating the animal: v
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Human-animal relationships -- Research
Animals -- Social aspects -- Research
Animal welfare -- Research
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General.
Form Electronic book
Author Twine, Richard
ISBN 9781135100872
113510087X