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1 online resource (307 pages) |
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Routledge Advances in Sociology |
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Routledge advances in sociology.
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Human-animal relationships -- Research
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Animals -- Social aspects -- Research
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Animal welfare -- Research
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Twine, Richard
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ISBN |
9781135100872 |
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113510087X |
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