Animals and society Books

Book SynopsisConducting the first systematic examination of the place of animals in scholarly and popular thinking about nature, Anna L. Peterson builds a nature ethic that conceives of nonhuman animals as active subjects simultaneously a part of nature and human society.Trade ReviewBeing Animal is a wonderful and most welcomed book in which noted author Anna Peterson convincingly argues that, "The separation between nature and animals is both strange and destructive." Animals, domesticated and wild, are not 'Others', and human constructed boundaries that invariably trump our interests over theirs put us on a very slippery slope that leads us away from whom other animals really are and what they want and need from us. The safety, well-being, and very lives of individual animals count and these beings must be factored into decisions that center more on holistic and broader environmental matters. -- Marc Bekoff, author of Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals (with Jessica Pierce) and editor of Ignoring Nature No More: The Case for Compassionate Conservation In this provocative and beautifully written book, Anna L. Peterson challenges us to think about real animals, not abstractions of them, as part of nature and, therefore, as a necessary consideration for a complete environmental ethic and theology. For too long, environmental and animal ethicists, philosophers and theologians have been taking different paths, rarely interacting directly with each other. Peterson calls for an alternative nature ethic, one that is holistic and includes serious consideration of animals. As she claims and supports through carefully researched examples, and a fascinating reinterpretation of Marx, nonhuman animals are the 'proletariat of environmental thought' and as such they 'demand and embody the negation of human exceptionalism.' Peterson makes a powerful contribution to environmental and animal ethics, building a necessary bridge between these two natural allies. -- Laura Hobgood-Oster, Southwestern University, author of The Friends We Keep: Unleashing Christianity's Compassion for Animals [A]n excellent introduction to the issues surrounding animal rights... Peterson weaves clear, down-to-earth writing with extensive knowledge of the philosophical debates in animal rights... Engaging, stimulating, and well written... Quarterly Review of Biology Marvelous and insightful. Journal of Society and Animals Being Animal offers many important contributions to the current debate. It is thought-provoking and is an important book for both environmental and animal ethics. -- Andrew Woodhall Ethical Theory and Moral PracticeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Animals and Nature 2. Animals in Environmental Perspective 3. Animal Ethics 4. Wild Animals 5. Domesticated Animals 6. The Debate Between Environmentalism and Animal Advocacy 7. Between Animals and Nature: Finding Common Ground 8. Being Animal Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRethinking what it means for dogs and humans to live together in the twenty-first century, taking us beyond sentimentality and into a form of thought that sees the world in a radically different way.Trade ReviewIn three lively and beautifully written movements, Colin Dayan offers a memorable tour de force that threads together memoir and an analysis of the deprivations of life, human and nonhuman and human with nonhuman, that so pervasively characterize our neoliberal world-historical moment. Intelligent and moving, With Dogs at the Edge of Life is an extraordinary book, a courageous and compelling intermingling of arresting cultural critique and autobiographical reflections of a life lived in the company of canines. -- David L. Clark, McMaster University Colin Dayan has again produced a probing and brilliant examination of that long 'history of extermination masked by the veneer of enlightenment.' Always writing with justice in mind, Dayan's consideration of our relationship with dogs yields a complex meditation on humanity and life's uncertain possibilities. Beautiful, 'more than just another dog story,' as only Dayan could write it. -- Avery F. Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara Whether openly acknowledged or not, we are all in relationships with dogs-as companions, as lovers, as protector and protected. Some relationships are marked by fear, perhaps hatred. Most are contradictory, many escape description. In her poetic, political, autobiographical homage to life and death with dogs, Dayan helps us stay with them as we traverse treacherous edges. We are fortunate to have so gifted an interpreter and loving a guide. -- Lori Gruen, author of Entangled Empathy and Ethics and Animals In an inimitable mode of testimony and confession, Colin Dayan argues that relations with dogs, from the southern United States to Turkey, structure violence, vulnerability, and antagonism. Extending her work on the physical exploration of unnameable states, Dayan shows how bonds with dogs uniquely condition the creation of social value. And I say that as a cat person. -- Rei Terada, University of California, Irvine Stimulating and lyrical... intellectually fierce reading for philosophically minded readers, especially dog lovers. Kirkus Reviews Erudite and imaginative as the book asks why only members of our species get to be persons... Boston Review Emotionally and intellectually challenging, the volume boasts a rich, resonant message: Not everyone sees the dog the same. American Kennel ClubTable of ContentsPreface By Way of Beginning I. Like a Dog 1. Dogs and Light 2. Back Talking Like I Did 3. They Killed My Dog II. When Law Comes to Visit 4. Dead Dogs 5. Speaking About Extinction 6. Fable for the End of a Breed III. Pariah Dogs 7. Through the Eyes of Dogs 8. If I Sense the Beauty Coda Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWith this highly original and exciting book, Aaron S. Gross stands at the cutting edge of a radical reconsideration of the nature of religiosity and theological reflection. Beautifully written, this book has to be read by anyone with an interest in the study of religion. -- Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College Starting from the scandal evoked by the revelation of grossly cruel practices in kosher slaughterhouses in the United States, and the subsequent defense of these practices by leading figures in Orthodox Jewry, Aaron S. Gross proceeds to a wide-ranging exploration of the justification of slaughter in Abrahamic religion and into our willed blindness to the animal as a religious subject. His philosophical and theological inquiries are driven by well-justified ethical concern at what factory farming, buttressed by so-called animal science, tells about the age we live in. -- J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature A leading young scholar in the emerging field of animal studies, Gross reveals the deep binaries around which most dominant religious worldviews, as well as the Enlightenment-vectored study of religion, have always revolved-human/animal, subject/object, culture/nature, self/other. Without a radical surrender of these divisions, which render animals as but 'a foil and shadow of the human world,' no legitimate theorizing about religion can take place. Nor is any true religious life possible. Echoing two heartbreaking cries to heaven, separated by eighteen hundred years-the plea of a calf seeking refuge from kosher slaughter in the robes of Rabbi Judah the Prince and the screams of cattle half-butchered but still alive in the now-infamous 'kosher' meat-processing plant in Postville, Iowa-this work makes its own unforgettable plea. Do we have the courage to sacrifice sacrifice itself? There will be no getting around this book. -- Kimberley C. Patton, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University The Question of the Animal and Religion makes a significant contribution to both the larger field of animal studies and the smaller subdiscipline of animal studies in religion. This is in part because Aaron S. Gross's case study on the brutal and systematic animal cruelty at a kosher-meat-producing company is so important, and especially because Gross's is the first work in animal studies in religion to present such a thorough methodological approach. -- Barbara K. Darling, Wheaton College The Question of the Animal and Religion makes a crucial contribution to the emerging field of animals and religion. As of today, I cannot name another study that has specifically analyzed the thinking of the foundational theorists of religious studies such as Mircea Eliade, Emile Durkheim, and J.Z. Smith in regard to animals. -- Barbara Rossetti Ambros, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Question of the Animal and Religion persuasively demonstrates the need to extend our understanding of religion beyond the human drama to include, as Gross insists, the drama of living itself. This book deserves to be taken seriously. Reading Religion Gross's book marks a welcome and important step in bringing animal studies to the study of religion, and religion to animal studies. -- Katharine Mershon Journal of ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Ethical Tropes in American Kosher Certification 2. The Event and Response 3. The Absent Presence: Animals in the History of the Study of Religion 4. After the Subject: Hunter-Gatherers and the Reimagination of Religion 5. Disavowal, War, Sacrifice: Jacques Derrida and the Reimagination of Religion 6. Sacrificing Animals and Being a Mensch: Dominion, Reverence, and the Meaning of Modern Meat Epilogue Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWith this highly original and exciting book, Aaron S. Gross stands at the cutting edge of a radical reconsideration of the nature of religiosity and theological reflection. Beautifully written, this book has to be read by anyone with an interest in the study of religion. -- Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College Starting from the scandal evoked by the revelation of grossly cruel practices in kosher slaughterhouses in the United States, and the subsequent defense of these practices by leading figures in Orthodox Jewry, Aaron S. Gross proceeds to a wide-ranging exploration of the justification of slaughter in Abrahamic religion and into our willed blindness to the animal as a religious subject. His philosophical and theological inquiries are driven by well-justified ethical concern at what factory farming, buttressed by so-called animal science, tells about the age we live in. -- J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature A leading young scholar in the emerging field of animal studies, Gross reveals the deep binaries around which most dominant religious worldviews, as well as the Enlightenment-vectored study of religion, have always revolved-human/animal, subject/object, culture/nature, self/other. Without a radical surrender of these divisions, which render animals as but 'a foil and shadow of the human world,' no legitimate theorizing about religion can take place. Nor is any true religious life possible. Echoing two heartbreaking cries to heaven, separated by eighteen hundred years-the plea of a calf seeking refuge from kosher slaughter in the robes of Rabbi Judah the Prince and the screams of cattle half-butchered but still alive in the now-infamous 'kosher' meat-processing plant in Postville, Iowa-this work makes its own unforgettable plea. Do we have the courage to sacrifice sacrifice itself? There will be no getting around this book. -- Kimberley C. Patton, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University The Question of the Animal and Religion makes a significant contribution to both the larger field of animal studies and the smaller subdiscipline of animal studies in religion. This is in part because Aaron S. Gross's case study on the brutal and systematic animal cruelty at a kosher-meat-producing company is so important, and especially because Gross's is the first work in animal studies in religion to present such a thorough methodological approach. -- Barbara K. Darling, Wheaton College The Question of the Animal and Religion makes a crucial contribution to the emerging field of animals and religion. As of today, I cannot name another study that has specifically analyzed the thinking of the foundational theorists of religious studies such as Mircea Eliade, Emile Durkheim, and J.Z. Smith in regard to animals. -- Barbara Rossetti Ambros, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Question of the Animal and Religion persuasively demonstrates the need to extend our understanding of religion beyond the human drama to include, as Gross insists, the drama of living itself. This book deserves to be taken seriously. Reading Religion Gross's book marks a welcome and important step in bringing animal studies to the study of religion, and religion to animal studies. -- Katharine Mershon Journal of ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Ethical Tropes in American Kosher Certification 2. The Event and Response 3. The Absent Presence: Animals in the History of the Study of Religion 4. After the Subject: Hunter-Gatherers and the Reimagination of Religion 5. Disavowal, War, Sacrifice: Jacques Derrida and the Reimagination of Religion 6. Sacrificing Animals and Being a Mensch: Dominion, Reverence, and the Meaning of Modern Meat Epilogue Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA provocative defense of meat eating as an affirmation of our vital relation and debt to animals.Trade ReviewWitty and comical yet always serious in its defense of meat eating, Eat This Book is a pure joy to read. -- Brett Buchanan, Laurentian University Eat This Book challenges ethical vegetarians with a variety of counterarguments to consider. Though some of the rhetoric may prove indigestible, such skepticism ultimately feeds the philosophic debate on diet. -- Ralph R. Acampora, Hofstra UniversityTable of ContentsTranslator's Preface A Sort of Aperitif Appetizer: How Does One Recognize an Ethical Vegetarian? Hors d'Oeuvre: A Short History of Vegetarian Practices First Course: Some (Good) Reasons Not to Become an Ethical Vegetarian Second Course: The Ethics of the Carnivore A Sort of Dessert Postface Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA provocative defense of meat eating as an affirmation of our vital relation and debt to animals.Trade ReviewWitty and comical yet always serious in its defense of meat eating, Eat This Book is a pure joy to read. -- Brett Buchanan, Laurentian University Eat This Book challenges ethical vegetarians with a variety of counterarguments to consider. Though some of the rhetoric may prove indigestible, such skepticism ultimately feeds the philosophic debate on diet. -- Ralph R. Acampora, Hofstra UniversityTable of ContentsTranslator's Preface A Sort of Aperitif Appetizer: How Does One Recognize an Ethical Vegetarian? Hors d'Oeuvre: A Short History of Vegetarian Practices First Course: Some (Good) Reasons Not to Become an Ethical Vegetarian Second Course: The Ethics of the Carnivore A Sort of Dessert Postface Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA sophisticated effort to reconcile the supposed conflict between animal rights and abortion rights.Trade ReviewBeating Hearts deals with two very significant issues in a thoughtful, morally conscientious exploration of the treacherous terrain occupied by each concern and their overlapping aspects. With rare eloquence, Colb and Dorf consistently, carefully, and kindly interrogate the basis for deeply held beliefs about these extremely important issues. -- Taimie Bryant, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles Beating Hearts is a refreshing and surprisingly fun journey. This nuanced book clarifies how it is possible (indeed, how it is all but required) to be both pro-choice on abortion and fully committed to animal rights. Colb and Dorf offer a wealth of knowledge and insight as they walk us through the various issues raised by these two ethical commitments. -- Neil H. Buchanan, Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School Beating Hearts is a deeply personal yet rigorously reasoned exploration of the moral questions that animal experimentation, hunting, and farming have in common with abortion. Sherry F. Colb and Michael C. Dorf have written a compelling condemnation of most of the ways we exploit and abuse our fellow sentient beings while defending a right to abortion-but without devaluing the human fetus. No one who has read their passionate but carefully documented analysis will ever think about these searing questions the same way again. -- Laurence H. Tribe, Harvard Law School Recommended. CHOICE A worthwhile new book... -- Nathan Heller New YorkerTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Two Movements, One Set of Issues Part I: Ethics 1. Sentience or Species? 2. The Necessity Defense 3. Reproductive Servitude 4. Death Versus Suffering Part II: Movements 5. Strategy 6. Graphic Images 7. Violence Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe biologist Nathan H. Lents shows that humans and animals are not as different as once believed: the same evolutionary forces of cooperation and competition have shaped both human and animal behavior. He describes the strides scientists have made in decoding animal behavior to explain that we are distinguished only in degree, not in kind.Trade ReviewNot So Different lucidly and entertainingly reminds us just how much of us there is in other mammals and vertebrates-and how much of them there is in us. You may never think of yourself in quite the same way again. -- Ian Tattersall, American Museum of Natural History In a beautifully written and very readable book, Nathan H. Lents provides compelling evidence that animals are not that different from us, making it difficult to argue that there is a vast gulf between us and the rest of the animals. As Lents artfully shows, that gulf just does not exist. -- Con Slobodchikoff, author of Chasing Doctor Dolittle: Learning the Language of Animals As someone who has studied animal behavior and cognitive ethology and animal emotions for many decades, I have always been fascinated by the similarities and differences between humans and other animals. In Not So Different, Nathan H. Lents focuses on the similarities, and readers will discover that humans and nonhumans share numerous traits, some of which might seem rather surprising, but the existence of which can be readily explained by well-accepted evolutionary arguments and considerations of the social worlds of the animals involved, something Lents does very well. -- Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals and Rewilding our Hearts: Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence Nathan H. Lents has put together a comprehensive look at animal counterparts of human emotions and thoughts. The scope and quantity of his examples make a compelling argument for zoological precursors to nearly all human sentiments and many cognitive capabilities. His book is a charming read for general audiences that will also find value in the biology courses of high school and university curricula. -- Joan Roughgarden, author of Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People Thoroughly enjoyable and accessible... Whether Lents is discussing love, grief, greed, or envy, he provides ample evidence that animals have a rich inner life. Publishers Weekly (starred review)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Emotions, Drives, and the Brain 1. Why Do We Play? 2. Animal Systems of Justice 3. Moral Animals 4. Sexual Politics 5. Do Animals Fall in Love? 6. The Agony of Grief 7. Jealous Beasts: The Dark Side of Love 8. Darker Still: Envy, Greed, and Power 9. Afraid of the Dark 10. The Richness of Animal Communication Epilogue: Metacognition, Self-awareness, and the Mind Notes Index

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Book SynopsisGiovanni Aloi maps the discourses and practices that have enabled the emergence of taxidermy in contemporary art. Speculative Taxidermy contextualizes the resilient presence of animal skin, bones, and feathers in gallery spaces, films, and fashion as a productive opportunity to rethink ethical and political stances in human-animal relationships.Trade ReviewThe first volume to focus on animals in a media-based subset of contemporary art, Speculative Taxidermy offers a lucid and compelling account of why animals have become serious subjects in art, and with what consequences for the history of art and biological science. There is no greater authority on the subject than Aloi. -- Susan McHugh, University of New England Speculative Taxidermy makes a fascinating contribution to the nonhuman turn and invites us to find new ways to envisage the relationships between human and nonhuman animals. It will be a significant text for ethical and political debates in animal studies and the environmental humanities. -- Hannah Stark, University of TasmaniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: The Carnal Immanence of Political Realism—Realism, Materiality, and AgencyIntroduction: New Taxidermy Surfaces in Contemporary Art1. Reconfiguring Animal Skins: Fragmented Histories and Manipulated Surfaces2. A Natural History Panopticon: Power, Representation, and Animal Objectification3. Dioramas: Power, Realism, and Decorum4. The End of the Daydream: Taxidermy and Photography5. Following Materiality: From Medium to Surface—Medium Specificity and Animal Visibility in the Modern Age6. The Allure of the Veneer: Aesthetics of Speculative Taxidermy7. This Is Not a Horse: Biopower and Animal Skins in the AnthropoceneCoda: Toward New Mythologies—the Ritual, the Sacrifice, the InterconnectednessAppendix: Some Notes Toward a Manifesto for Artists Working with and About Taxidermy Animals, by Mark Dion and Robert MarburyNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTaming the Wild Horse examines Gao’s illustrated poems in terms of monasticism and contemplative practice, as well as the multivalent meaning of the “horse” in traditional Chinese culture and the consequences for both human and nonhuman animals.Trade ReviewFascinating and provocative on their own, the Daoist horse taming poems and pictures respond to a well-known Chan (Zen) Buddhist text called the Ox Herding Pictures. Komjathy's translation thus completes a conversation we have only seen half of for a long time. -- Suzanne Cahill, University of California, San Diego Komjathy provides a fascinating study with impeccable translations of the original Chinese text and commentaries on the Daoist Horse Taming Pictures, often thought of as parallel to the Chan Buddhist Ox Herding Pictures in providing a visual and literary template for understanding the stages of spiritual discipline and training. Taming the Wild Horse is a must-read for all scholars doing research in the fields of East Asian and comparative religion, philosophy, literature, and culture. -- Steven Heine, Florida International University With elegance and erudition Komjathy invites the reader into a journey through a medieval Chinese religious landscape that is strangely familiar, but deeply embedded in a historical and cultural context far removed from the modern world. Translated into English for the first time, the Horse Taming Pictures provide a heretofore unseen glimpse into the world of Daoist monastic training. Komjathy pioneers a new model for Daoist studies that is historically nuanced but reaches forward into issues of contemporary ethical and spiritual concern. -- James Miller, Queen's University Komjathy has uncovered a previously hidden gem of the Daoist contemplative path that was inspired by the famous Ox Herding Pictures. His translation is deft, his notes are meticulous, and the historical, philosophical, and zoological contextual materials he provides are thorough. This is essential reading for those interested in the history of Daoism, the Complete Perfection (Quanzhen) School, comparative mysticism, and the culture of the horse. -- Harold D. Roth, Brown University Rarely is the field of animal studies so fortunate as to have a leading area specialist give such substantial critical attention to animals. Komjathy's richly annotated translation makes this centuries-old set of prints and poems accessible for anyone interested in the intersection of animals and religion. The book's robust engagement with animal studies leads to stunning insights into the nature of Daoist contemplative practices and, ultimately, into the nature of religion. -- Aaron Gross, University of San DiegoTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Illustrations and Tables List of Abbreviations Part I: Introduction 1. In Search of the Wild Horse 2. Of Stallions, Steppes, and Stables Part II: Translations Horse Taming Poems Commentary on the Horse Taming Poems Part III: Exegesis Being with Horses Appendix 1. Hagiography of Gao Daokuan (1195-1277) Appendix 2. Song of Pure Awakening Appendix 3. Horse-Related Technical Terminology in the Horse Taming Pictures Notes Character Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMatthew Calarco explores key issues in the philosophy of animals and their significance for our contemporary world. The Boundaries of Human Nature shows readers why philosophy can help transform not just the way we think about animals but also how we interact with them.Trade ReviewAn elegant dive into philosophical perspectives on the human and the animal, ranging from ancient traditions to ecofeminism. Calarco intersperses new insights on animal capacities for moral agency, emotions, and language to support an argument for veganism. The result is a compelling read that invokes a sense of wonder before the mysteries of our fellow creatures. -- Cynthia Willett, author of Interspecies EthicsMatthew Calarco is a leading voice in philosophical animal studies. This book offers an accessible overview of diverse philosophical perspectives on animals, ranging from ancient sources to some of the most cutting-edge contemporary perspectives. Throughout Calarco writes with passionate clarity, encompassing warmth and compassion. -- Dinesh Wadiwel, author of The War Against AnimalsFrom Plato to Haraway, Matthew Calarco's philosophical travelogue explores the pitfalls of human exceptionalism and the promise of a less violent future in which humans and more-than-humans can collectively thrive. At a time of ecological meltdown, philosophy is the pharmakon: both poison and cure in the life-saving quest for multispecies flourishing. -- Anat Pick, author of Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and FilmIn this fascinating and thoughtful book, Calarco assembles a menagerie of animals and their philosophers to offer an engaging exploration of the many diverse, unequal, and often highly consequential ways in which human lives are made both meaningful and liveable in company with our animal others. -- Thom van Dooren, author of The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared WorldsThe Boundaries of Human Nature presents in elegant and succinct prose how animals have been regarded by leading thinkers from the Jains and early Greek thinkers to modern and late modern philosophers. Calarco gleans from this array of diverse authors a profound lesson: namely, that animals require our utmost regard and appreciation rather than being made subject to slaughter and mass extermination. -- Edward S. Casey, author of The World on Edge[A] lucid, entertaining compendium... * Animal Studies Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Plato’s Pigs2. Aristotle’s Wonderful Animals3. Cynicism’s Dogs4. Jainism’s Birds5. Plutarch’s Grunter6. Descartes’s Beast-Machine7. Kant’s Elephants8. Bentham’s Suffering Animal9. Nietzsche’s Overhuman Animal10. Derrida’s Cat11. Adams’s Absent Referent12. Plumwood’s Crocodile13. Haraway’s Companion SpeciesNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisMatthew Calarco explores key issues in the philosophy of animals and their significance for our contemporary world. The Boundaries of Human Nature shows readers why philosophy can help transform not just the way we think about animals but also how we interact with them.Trade ReviewAn elegant dive into philosophical perspectives on the human and the animal, ranging from ancient traditions to ecofeminism. Calarco intersperses new insights on animal capacities for moral agency, emotions, and language to support an argument for veganism. The result is a compelling read that invokes a sense of wonder before the mysteries of our fellow creatures. -- Cynthia Willett, author of Interspecies EthicsMatthew Calarco is a leading voice in philosophical animal studies. This book offers an accessible overview of diverse philosophical perspectives on animals, ranging from ancient sources to some of the most cutting-edge contemporary perspectives. Throughout Calarco writes with passionate clarity, encompassing warmth and compassion. -- Dinesh Wadiwel, author of The War Against AnimalsFrom Plato to Haraway, Matthew Calarco's philosophical travelogue explores the pitfalls of human exceptionalism and the promise of a less violent future in which humans and more-than-humans can collectively thrive. At a time of ecological meltdown, philosophy is the pharmakon: both poison and cure in the life-saving quest for multispecies flourishing. -- Anat Pick, author of Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and FilmIn this fascinating and thoughtful book, Calarco assembles a menagerie of animals and their philosophers to offer an engaging exploration of the many diverse, unequal, and often highly consequential ways in which human lives are made both meaningful and liveable in company with our animal others. -- Thom van Dooren, author of The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared WorldsThe Boundaries of Human Nature presents in elegant and succinct prose how animals have been regarded by leading thinkers from the Jains and early Greek thinkers to modern and late modern philosophers. Calarco gleans from this array of diverse authors a profound lesson: namely, that animals require our utmost regard and appreciation rather than being made subject to slaughter and mass extermination. -- Edward S. Casey, author of The World on Edge[A] lucid, entertaining compendium... -- Wendy Woodward * Animal Studies Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Plato’s Pigs2. Aristotle’s Wonderful Animals3. Cynicism’s Dogs4. Jainism’s Birds5. Plutarch’s Grunter6. Descartes’s Beast-Machine7. Kant’s Elephants8. Bentham’s Suffering Animal9. Nietzsche’s Overhuman Animal10. Derrida’s Cat11. Adams’s Absent Referent12. Plumwood’s Crocodile13. Haraway’s Companion SpeciesNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA look at the limitations of the philosophy behind animal rights and why it mattersTrade Review"An interesting contribution to the area of animal studies and animal ethics."--Anthrozoos

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Book SynopsisDrawing from diaries, journals, school textbooks, and printed propaganda, J.W. Mohnhaupt tells the stories of animals during the Third Reich, focusing each chapter on a different facet of Nazism by way of a specific animal species: red deer, horses, cats, and more.Table of Contents Introduction: The World behind the Wire 1 Blood Ties 2 Digestive Affinities 3 Drawing the Curtain on Larval Stages 4 Morituri 5 Raufbold 6 Not Really Stroganoff Conclusion: Until the Last Dog Is Hung Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisAfter adopting an Irish sight hound, Laura Schenone discovered a remarkable and little-known fight to gain justice for animals.Trade Review"This is a fascinating history of how individuals can make a real difference to animals' lives." -- Dogs Monthly"Schenone movingly describes the pioneers who took care of 'surplus' greyhounds, and how the world has finally come to its senses regarding how we treat these sensitive animals." -- Frans de Waal"If I had to recommend just one of the titles of this feature, it would be The Dogs of Avalon." -- 2017 Book of the Year - Dogs Today

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Book SynopsisGiven their tendency to splinter over tactics and goals, social movements are rarely unified. Following the modern Western animal rights movement over thirty years, Corey Lee Wrenn applies the sociological theory to examine structural conditions in the animal rights movement, facilitating factionalism in today’s era of professionalized advocacy.Trade Review“Corey Wrenn’s book highlights the ubiquity of ‘symbol mining’ from radical factions by professional ones; the consolidation of movement power by the ‘nonprofit industrial complex’; and the vulnerability of the NPIC to co-option by the state and capital. Piecemeal Protest provides an invaluable critical sociological analysis, both in terms social movement scholarship and for the lessons it contains for the NHA movement.”- Matthew Cole, The Open University “Piecemeal Protest will make an important contribution to the literature and will be of significant interest to countless scholars and activists across disciplines and social justice movements. It will capture the interest of general readers and will further their ability for critical thought and praxis. This book will be valuable in a range of university courses, from social movement classes, to the growing number of animals and society courses emerging throughout the world, to women’s studies courses.”- David A. Nibert, Wittenberg University

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Book SynopsisPositing animal stories as a distinct and significant corpus within Kafka's entire poetics, and closely examining them in dialogue with both literary and posthumanist analysis, Kafka's Zoopoetics critically revisits animality, interspecies relations, and the very human-animal contradistinction in the writings of Franz Kafka.

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Book SynopsisExplores the variety of humans' sacred encounters with the natural world, gathering a range of stories culled from Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Mayan, Himalayan, Buddhist, and Chinese shamanic traditions. This book includes tales of house cats who teach monks how to meditate, shamans who shape-shift into jaguars, and rivers that grant salvation.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Into Muir’s Forest 1. All the Christian Birds Chanted 2. The Donkey Who Communed with Allah 3. Hindu Trees Tremble with Ecstasy 4. Sharing Mayan Natural Souls 5. Friendly Yetis 6. Enlightened Buddhist Stones Epilogue: The Mountain Peaks Leaped and Danced Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExplores how scalar blindness skews our understanding of these cultures and the debates they inspire. This book elaborates on indigenous modes of "being many" that have been eclipsed by scale-blind anthropology, which generally uses its large-scale conceptual language of persons, relations, and ethnic groups for even tiny communities.Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PROLOGUE: ONE OF US INTRODUCTION: SCALAR BLINDNESS AND FORAGER WORLDS DOWNSCALE 1. MAPS OF HOME 1. AT HOME: SETTING AND MIND SETTING DOWNSCALE 2. CENSUS OF RELATIVES 2. LIVING PLURALLY: MOBILITY AND VISITING DOWNSCALE 3. TREE OF RELATIVES 3. THE SIB MATRIX: DYADIC AND SEQUENTIAL LOGIC 4. COUPLES AND CHILDREN: GENDER, CAREGIVING, AND FORAGING TOGETHER DOWNSCALE 4. TAXONOMY OF NONHUMAN RELATIVES 5. NONHUMAN KIN: UNISPECIES SOCIETIES AND PLURAL COMMUNITIES DOWNSCALE 5. FAMILY AND ETHNONYM 6. A CONTINUUM OF RELATIVES: OTHERING AND US-ING 7. THE STATE'S FORAGERS: THE SCALE OF MULTICULTURALISM EPILOGUE: PLURIPRESENT AND IMAGINED COMMUNITIES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES REFERENCES INDEX

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Book Synopsisa rational examination of the politics and economics of animal welfare builds on the scientific and philosophical work done to date written with the non-welfare specialist in mind.Trade Review"The earnest tone, completeness of the spectrum of animal uses discussed, and the simplicity and clarity of the prose and drawings all make this volume a good one to recommend to people who work with animals and need a quick primer in welfare. And readers who often encounter such animal workers might want to get a few extra copies to hand out." Journal of Agricultural and Environmental EthicsTable of ContentsPreface vi Dedication viii Chapter 1 Noah’s New Ark: Why should we do anything? 1 Chapter 2 Humans, animals and machines: Understanding animal welfare 19 Chapter 3 One big happy family: Differences between animals 45 Chapter 4 To have and to hold: Keeping and killing animals 65 Chapter 5 Made in our image: Selection and modification of animals 87 Chapter 6 Home is where the heart is: Housing and environments 113 Chapter 7 Give and take: Animal treatment 129 Chapter 8 Buying power: Individual action 149 Chapter 9 Votes and lobbies: Action by society 167 Appendix Some useful addresses 186 Index 188

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Book SynopsisHarriet Ritvo gives us a vivid picture of how animals figured in English thinking during the nineteenth century and, by extension, how they served as metaphors for human psychological needs and sociopolitical aspirations.Trade ReviewThe brilliance of Ritvo’s book, my favorite for 1987…[lies] in the particular examples that she has chosen to illustrate the institutional bonds of humans with other animals… She tells so many wonderful stories. -- Stephen Jay Gould * New York Review of Books *This is both an amusing and a valuable book… Harriet Ritvo is concerned primarily with the discussion, use, and display of animals as part of a rhetoric of human and class ascendancy. But the material presented here with impressive lucidity and control should interest virtually any reader. And the book is intriguingly and lavishly illustrated, mostly with engravings and woodcuts from sources ranging from Punch to natural histories, stockbreeders’ publications, newspapers and paintings… An important book for anyone with an interest in the sociology of animals, and in the more general social history that emerges from its beautifully presented wealth of detail. -- Vicki Hearne * New York Times Book Review *The Animal Estate is about power. It offers an invigorating new interpretation of an era often characterized as sentimental in its attachment to animals by showing how the work of people and organizations concerned with animals invariably came to portray them as property… This interesting book definitely has a bite. * Times Higher Education Supplement *An unusual social history of Victorian England… Deftly written and generously illustrated, The Animal Estate details the spectrum of Victorian animal concerns: the antivivisection movement, the popularity of zoology, the hunt, the rabies panic (not unlike today’s pit bull hysteria), and more. The reader will come out with a fuller understanding of the Victorian people and the development of our bonds with animals. * Animals *This is a remarkable book about how, in a uniquely exploitative age, animals became surrogates for human aspirations. Ritvo is not content with theoretical interpretation of human–animal interaction; she examines the attitudes of the people who actually had animals in their charge: pet owners, farmers, sportsmen, zoologists. It is a book of extraordinary timeliness. -- Coral Lansbury, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Nature of the Beast Part I. Prestige and Pedigree 1. Barons of Beef 2. Prize Pets Part II. Dangerous Classes 3. A Measure of Compassion 4. Cave Canem Part III. Animals and Empire 5. Exotic Captives 6. The Thrill of the Chase Notes Illustration Credits Index

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Book SynopsisPresents a literary study.Table of ContentsChristiane Mervaud, Bestiaires de VoltaireIntroductionI. La philosophie de Voltaire à l’épreuve de l’animalité1. De l’âme des bêtes2. De la chaîne des êtres créés3. De l’anthropocentrismeII. Les bêtes et la marche de l’esprit humain4. ‘Les animaux ont une histoire’5. D’un bestiaire immonde6. L’animal médiateur entre l’homme et la divinité7. Des dieux sous forme animaleIII. Des bestiaires8. Le bestiaire moralisé9. Voltaire fabuliste? 10. Le bestiaire du polémiste11. Le bestiaire fabuleux12. Le bestiaire religieux13. Le bestiaire amoureuxConclusionIndex nominumIndex rerumFrédéric Deloffre, Genèse de Candide: étude de la création des personnages et de l’élaboration du romanIntroduction1. Un château en Westphalie2. Maître Pangloss3. Cunégonde4. Candide et le roi des Bulgares5. Histoire de Candide: du jeu de rôles au romanIndex nominumIndex rerumAutres études sur VoltairePedro Pardo Jiménez, Cartes sur table: note sur le voyage de Candide en Espagne et sur le réalisme de VoltaireMichel Mervaud, La référence russe dans CandideJane Rush, Topaze et Ebène, songe philosophique, avec l’Histoire du Perroquet: la pensée de Voltaire dans la contrefaçon de DuisbourgAbderhaman Messaoudi, En quoi consiste la religion de Voltaire?Florian Schui, Voltaire and the European debates about industrie and serfdom, c.1760-1778Christiane Mervaud et Christophe Paillard, Le supplice de Tantale: Decroix et l’inventaire des ouvrages marginés de Voltaire à Saint-Pétersbourg par Jean-Louis WagnièreRésumés

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary collection that examines zoos from historical, philosophical, social, and cultural perspectives.Trade Review"This is one of the first attempts to propose ideas and perspectives for a distinct field of zoo studies. There is a clear editorial voice here and a sense of issues being rethought and reworked. The contributors take the reader into the zoo in interesting ways, and beyond the zoo to explore issues such as conservation and cultural politics." Garry Marvin, University of Roehampton, London and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the ideas of Bernard Shaw, Rod Preece examines modernist views of animal rights in the context of late Victorian socialism.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Long Life and Varied Interests of G.B.S. 2 Animal Sensibilities in the Shavian Era 3 Inclusive Justice among Bernard Shaw’s Contemporaries 4 The Inclusivism of Bernard Shaw 5 Creative Evolution 6 Inclusive Justice Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisAnimal rights. Those two words conjure diverse but powerful images and reactions. Some nod in agreement, while others roll their eyes in contempt. Most people fall somewhat uncomfortably in the middle, between endorsement and rejection, as they struggle with the profound moral, philosophical, and legal questions provoked by the debate.Trade Review“Diane Beers’s history of animal advocacy in the United States is illuminating, authoritative, and highly readable. The story she tells is of a movement that on the basis of a surprising depth of popular support has made steady if uneven progress, but has shown a lamentable tendency to splinter and divide.”“Destined to become a classic in its field, historian Beers’ study of the animal advocacy movement in the U.S. since the ASPCA’s founding in 1866 fills a glaring historical gap with exceptional style, accuracy and insight.” * Publishers Weekly *“Beers’s concerns are thankfully painted with a broader brush. Her book is a fortifying experience.” * BookForum *“Beers claims the origins of organized animal advocacy are rooted in the abolition movement, and shows how other social-justice efforts, such as women’s suffrage, child protection, temperance, and labor reform, attracted some of the same supporters.” * San Antonio Current *“A remarkably thorough treatise. Her writing is scholarly, but not stuffy, and her journalistic style is refreshingly unbiased.” * Daily Hampshire Gazette *

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Book SynopsisWe all have opinions on what zoos do, few people consider how they do it. Irus Braverman draws on more than sixty interviews conducted with zoo managers and administrators, as well as animal activists, to offer a glimpse into the otherwise unknown complexities of zooland.Trade Review"Braverman's Zooland engages with the new zoos of the 21st century. It is an innovative book, adding a new chapter to understanding how zoos evolve . . . Drawing upon Foucault, Braverman's ethnography of North American zoos presents an innovative, bold, and in-depth study of how zoos are conceived, managed, organized, spatialized, recorded, managed, and governed." -- Eve Darien-Smith * Political & Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR) *"Zooland: The Institution of Captivity views the history of American zoos through a different lens, relating the history of animal regulation and government to Michel Foucault's discussion of panopticon and pastoral power . . . Braverman's treatment of the history and the practice of modern zoos is comprehensive in both its research and presentation . . . [W]ith this Foucaultian approach it is certainly appropriate to apply the ideas of both the panopticon and pastoral power to the care of captive animals. This book provides a detailed perspective on the pertinent issues facing the modern zoological park." -- Tanya Mueller * Journal of Anthropological Research *"This book is a timely addition to the growing literature on zoos and human-animal relations . . . [T]here is much [in this book] to interest anthropologists . . . [I]t is a study that deserves to be taken seriously . . . [T]his book may garner as much interest from anthropologists and scholars of governance and institutional life and from those interested in regimes of value and property. It is also, I believe, a text that will help engage students in the kinds of anthropological questions these areas of inquiry aim to provoke." -- Adam Reed * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Irus Braverman's recent book Zooland is a wonderful read on a topic that is of both historical and current interest—zoos . . . Braverman does an admirable job of walking the line between zoo advocacy and condemnation and tracing an important historical and cultural shift in the self-understandings of those involved in the increasingly bureaucratized and professionalized institutional care and control of zoo animals. One gets a sense from the book and the voices of her interview subjects that zoo professionals really do care about these animals . . . The book puts forward their perspective fairly and with a great deal of compassion. On the other hand, it is steadfast in highlighting the contradictions and problems with zoo messaging that many of us have experienced and have probably only dimly perceived on a visit to our local zoo." -- Angela Fernandez * Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) *"The book's most striking chapters go beyond animal bodies to consider zoo databases, regulations, and the new technologies that bring animal bodies into being. Braverman's exploration of the backstage practices of zooland makes for fascinating reading . . . Zooland stands as an admirable achievement and a welcome addition to the literature on zoos, as well as showing how biopolitics encompass more than human life. Braverman's research really gets to the heart of the paradox that the institution of captivity is an expression of care, even if that care justifies death and suffering." -- Franklin Ginn * Environment and Planning D *"[Zooland] builds a thorough depiction of the history and contemporary work and goals of zoos and explores the nature of wildness, care, and power by interviewing zoo professionals, animal rights activists, and others, as well as diving into a wide range of legal and scholarly literature from fields as diverse as geography, sociology, animal sciences, and philosophy." -- J. R. Page * CHOICE *"[Zooland] gives a glimpse of zoos, in the same way that zoos give a glimpse of nature: a quick look behind the scenes, at a slightly upward angle, inspiring respect." -- Daniel Engber * Slate Magazine *"Zoos can provide a valuable service to society, but the pursuit of profit has their own drawbacks. Zooland: The Institution of Captivity explores the modern state of the zoo, as forces within the community paint two very different pictures: the zoo has a preserver and educator on the topic of wildlife, and zoo as the carnival, exploiting animals for profit. With sixty interviews with many people voicing their ideas on the topic, Zooland is scholarly and much recommended addition to any wildlife and social issues collection." -- Midwest Book Review"Irus Braverman has written a wonderful monograph that explores the operation of zoos—institutions that manage to be utterly familiar while retaining an aura of mystery. It will undoubtedly be a popular addition to many academic disciplines." -- Kevin D. Haggerty * Surveillance and Society *"Irus Braverman has written a very important book about zoos. Her Zooland: The Institution of Captivity is a penetrating and insightful study of the business of zoos. It will serve as a basic reference and should be in the personal library of everyone interested in zoos." -- Buffalo News"Shifting the focus away from strategies of visual display does not mean abandoning vision as one of the zoo's central themes and regulating principles, as Braverman's study clearly demonstrates . . . To explain how care and power are entangled in the surveillance practices of zoo managers, she deploys a concept of pastoral power adapted from Michel Foucault's later work. Pastoral power for Braverman is distinguished by three characteristics: its focus on care, its interest in managing populations and its concern for the individuals that make up those populations." -- Etienne Benson * BioSocieties *"Zoos have increasingly become an interconnected network of spaces in which animal populations can be managed and sustained despite the threats they face in the wild. This network is the 'Zooland' of the book's title, and its advocates portray it as a kind of Noah's Ark, 'containing the animals safely until the storm passes'. This is the essence of how modern zoos see themselves, one distilled by Braverman, a scholar of law and geography, in interviews with more than 70 zoo administrators and activists from both sides. Zooland is an insightful catalogue of zoos' claims and contradictions." -- Stephen Cave * Financial Times *"[Braverman's] accounts of record keeping, a fairly new practice, and the laws regulating the keeping of zoo animals as well as the complexity of deciding which animals will be allowed to reproduce, will be eye opening for most readers." -- Nancy Bent * BOOKLIST *"Beautifully written, finely researched, astutely argued, Zooland offers a wealth of stories, data, and views to understand the potent work of zoos and their life-propagating messiness, astonishing technologies, and detailed ordering of their captive subjects deemed wild." -- Donna Haraway * University of California at Santa Cruz, author of When Species Meet *"Brave and important, this new work puts the governance of animals at the heart of the debates about governance more broadly. Zooland opens up our understandings of social and spatial management, surveillance, classification and control, helping us understand the impact of such human social processes on nonhumans." -- David Murakami Wood * Queen's University, Canada, author of Globalization and Surveillance: The Watched World *

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Book SynopsisWe all have opinions on what zoos do, few people consider how they do it. Irus Braverman draws on more than sixty interviews conducted with zoo managers and administrators, as well as animal activists, to offer a glimpse into the otherwise unknown complexities of zooland.Trade Review"Braverman's Zooland engages with the new zoos of the 21st century. It is an innovative book, adding a new chapter to understanding how zoos evolve . . . Drawing upon Foucault, Braverman's ethnography of North American zoos presents an innovative, bold, and in-depth study of how zoos are conceived, managed, organized, spatialized, recorded, managed, and governed." -- Eve Darien-Smith * Political & Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR) *"Zooland: The Institution of Captivity views the history of American zoos through a different lens, relating the history of animal regulation and government to Michel Foucault's discussion of panopticon and pastoral power . . . Braverman's treatment of the history and the practice of modern zoos is comprehensive in both its research and presentation . . . [W]ith this Foucaultian approach it is certainly appropriate to apply the ideas of both the panopticon and pastoral power to the care of captive animals. This book provides a detailed perspective on the pertinent issues facing the modern zoological park." -- Tanya Mueller * Journal of Anthropological Research *"This book is a timely addition to the growing literature on zoos and human-animal relations . . . [T]here is much [in this book] to interest anthropologists . . . [I]t is a study that deserves to be taken seriously . . . [T]his book may garner as much interest from anthropologists and scholars of governance and institutional life and from those interested in regimes of value and property. It is also, I believe, a text that will help engage students in the kinds of anthropological questions these areas of inquiry aim to provoke." -- Adam Reed * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Irus Braverman's recent book Zooland is a wonderful read on a topic that is of both historical and current interest—zoos . . . Braverman does an admirable job of walking the line between zoo advocacy and condemnation and tracing an important historical and cultural shift in the self-understandings of those involved in the increasingly bureaucratized and professionalized institutional care and control of zoo animals. One gets a sense from the book and the voices of her interview subjects that zoo professionals really do care about these animals . . . The book puts forward their perspective fairly and with a great deal of compassion. On the other hand, it is steadfast in highlighting the contradictions and problems with zoo messaging that many of us have experienced and have probably only dimly perceived on a visit to our local zoo." -- Angela Fernandez * Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) *"The book's most striking chapters go beyond animal bodies to consider zoo databases, regulations, and the new technologies that bring animal bodies into being. Braverman's exploration of the backstage practices of zooland makes for fascinating reading . . . Zooland stands as an admirable achievement and a welcome addition to the literature on zoos, as well as showing how biopolitics encompass more than human life. Braverman's research really gets to the heart of the paradox that the institution of captivity is an expression of care, even if that care justifies death and suffering." -- Franklin Ginn * Environment and Planning D *"[Zooland] builds a thorough depiction of the history and contemporary work and goals of zoos and explores the nature of wildness, care, and power by interviewing zoo professionals, animal rights activists, and others, as well as diving into a wide range of legal and scholarly literature from fields as diverse as geography, sociology, animal sciences, and philosophy." -- J. R. Page * CHOICE *"[Zooland] gives a glimpse of zoos, in the same way that zoos give a glimpse of nature: a quick look behind the scenes, at a slightly upward angle, inspiring respect." -- Daniel Engber * Slate Magazine *"Zoos can provide a valuable service to society, but the pursuit of profit has their own drawbacks. Zooland: The Institution of Captivity explores the modern state of the zoo, as forces within the community paint two very different pictures: the zoo has a preserver and educator on the topic of wildlife, and zoo as the carnival, exploiting animals for profit. With sixty interviews with many people voicing their ideas on the topic, Zooland is scholarly and much recommended addition to any wildlife and social issues collection." -- Midwest Book Review"Irus Braverman has written a wonderful monograph that explores the operation of zoos—institutions that manage to be utterly familiar while retaining an aura of mystery. It will undoubtedly be a popular addition to many academic disciplines." -- Kevin D. Haggerty * Surveillance and Society *"Irus Braverman has written a very important book about zoos. Her Zooland: The Institution of Captivity is a penetrating and insightful study of the business of zoos. It will serve as a basic reference and should be in the personal library of everyone interested in zoos." -- Buffalo News"Shifting the focus away from strategies of visual display does not mean abandoning vision as one of the zoo's central themes and regulating principles, as Braverman's study clearly demonstrates . . . To explain how care and power are entangled in the surveillance practices of zoo managers, she deploys a concept of pastoral power adapted from Michel Foucault's later work. Pastoral power for Braverman is distinguished by three characteristics: its focus on care, its interest in managing populations and its concern for the individuals that make up those populations." -- Etienne Benson * BioSocieties *"Zoos have increasingly become an interconnected network of spaces in which animal populations can be managed and sustained despite the threats they face in the wild. This network is the 'Zooland' of the book's title, and its advocates portray it as a kind of Noah's Ark, 'containing the animals safely until the storm passes'. This is the essence of how modern zoos see themselves, one distilled by Braverman, a scholar of law and geography, in interviews with more than 70 zoo administrators and activists from both sides. Zooland is an insightful catalogue of zoos' claims and contradictions." -- Stephen Cave * Financial Times *"[Braverman's] accounts of record keeping, a fairly new practice, and the laws regulating the keeping of zoo animals as well as the complexity of deciding which animals will be allowed to reproduce, will be eye opening for most readers." -- Nancy Bent * BOOKLIST *"Beautifully written, finely researched, astutely argued, Zooland offers a wealth of stories, data, and views to understand the potent work of zoos and their life-propagating messiness, astonishing technologies, and detailed ordering of their captive subjects deemed wild." -- Donna Haraway * University of California at Santa Cruz, author of When Species Meet *"Brave and important, this new work puts the governance of animals at the heart of the debates about governance more broadly. Zooland opens up our understandings of social and spatial management, surveillance, classification and control, helping us understand the impact of such human social processes on nonhumans." -- David Murakami Wood * Queen's University, Canada, author of Globalization and Surveillance: The Watched World *

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the significance of contemporary "animal studies" for the interpretation of animals and animal symbolism in the Hebrew Bible.Trade Review"Most people who read the Hebrew Bible don't see or hear the animals. But they are everywhere, and they are complicated. This book looks at all of them—the good, the bad, and the ugly animals. Well worth reading if you are interested in literary studies, Biblical studies, or animals."—Laura Hobgood, Southwestern University"This was a book begging to be written, and I can think of no one better qualified to write it than Ken Stone. He has descended more deeply into the field of animal studies than any other scholar of the Hebrew Bible. His ecological sensibilities, theoretical acumen, and incisive exegetical arguments open up fresh perspectives on overread biblical texts and tired scholarly debates."—Stephen D. Moore, The Theological School, Drew University"Reading the Hebrew Bible with Animal Studies is an excellent book that offers a much-needed interface between biblical and animal studies....[Stone] gives biblical texts—and animals—the opportunity to contribute to both a complete reimagining of the Hebrew Bible and contemporary debates in animal studies. This monograph is poised to become a key work in the field."—Anne Létourneau, Reading Religion"Stone's monograph succeeds on several fronts. It serves as an excellent introduction to the field of animal studies for scholars who may not be familiar with this discipline. His applications of these ideas to biblical passages are always interesting, and often illuminate the text in new ways. What's more, the monograph offers a roadmap for scholars working with contemporary theories of all kinds as to how these theories can be introduced into biblical studies while building on the foundation of historical-critical scholarship."—Brandon R. Grafius, Horizons in Biblical Theology"This superb book fills a void in scholarship and deserves to be widely read....I strongly recommend it for scholars, pastors, graduate students, and other interested readers who care about animals and the future of our planet."––Barry R. Huff, Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology"Ken Stone's groundbreaking work...invites readers to enter into the animal world to discover the contributions that animals have made not only to life in ancient Israel but also to the understanding of the Bible's poems and stories....[This] wonderfully crafted, insightful, and accessible book is a 'must read' for all humans on Planet Earth."—Carol J. Dempsey, OP, Horizons"In the context of a growing interest in the multiple relationships between human and other animals, this is an important contribution to the literature, which should enjoy a broad readership."—Philip J. Sampson, Journal of Animal EthicsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Reading the Hebrew Bible with Animal Studies 1. Israel's Companion Species and the Creation of Bibles 2. Tracking the Dogs of Exodus 3. The Chimera of Biblical Sacrifice 4. From Animal Hermeneutics to Animal Ethics 5. Israel's Wild Neighbors in the Zoological Gaze 6. The Psalmist, the Primatologist, and the Place of Animals in Biblical Religion 7. Reading the Hebrew Bible in an Age of Extinction

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsForewordRandy MalamudAcknowledgmentsIntroductionKelsi Nagy and Phillip David Johnson III. The Symbolic Trash Animal1. See Gull: Cultural Blind Spots and the Disappearance of the Ring-billed Gull in TorontoGavan P. L. Watson2. Hunger Makes the WolfCharles Bergman3. Beauty and the BeastCatherine Puckett4. Managing Apocalypse: A Cultural History of the Mormon CricketChristina RobertsonII. The Native Trash Animal5. One Nation under Coyote, DivisibleLisa Couturier6. Prairie Dog and PrejudiceKelsi Nagy7. Nothing Says Trash like Packrats: Nature Boy Meets Bushy TailMichael P. BranchIII. The Invasive Trash Animal8. Canadas: From Conservation Success to Flying CarpBernard Quetchenbach9. The Bard’s Bird; or, The Slings and Arrows of Avicultural Hegemony: A Tragicomedy in Five ActsCharles Mitchell10. Fly-Fishing for Carp As a Deeper AestheticsPhillip David Johnson IIIV. The Urban Trash Animal11. Metamorphosis in DetroitCarolyn Kraus12. Kach’i: Garbage Birds in a Hybrid LandscapeJames E. Bishop13. Flying RatsAndrew D. BlechmanV. Moving beyond Trash14. Kill the Cat That Kills the Bird?Bruce Barcott15. An Unlimited Take of Ugly: The Bullhead CatfishKyhl Lyndgaard16. A Six-legged Guru: Fear and Loathing in NatureJeffrey A. Lockwood17. The Parables of the Rats and MiceKathleen Dean MoorePublication HistoryContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLoving Animals should be read by everyone who is concerned about the ethics of our relationship with animals. It provides a philosophical middle ground between extreme views on each side of the animal rights issue.—Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation and Animals Make Us HumanWe live in a messy and imperfect world, as Kathy Rudy puts it, where it's often difficult to always do the ‘right’ thing for nonhuman animals or, in some cases, even know what the ‘right’ decision is. People who truly love animals come to the table with different views because of our complicated, ambiguous, and frustrating relationships with other beings. Loving Animals is a wide-ranging and challenging book that deserves a broad readership. Dr. Rudy reviews different schools of thought and argues convincingly that sacredness, spirituality, and love must be central themes in animal advocacy. The work of love allows us to work together and move forward even in the harshest of times. I agree. Read this book and share it widely and I'm sure numerous animals will thank us for doing this.—Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of AnimalsIn Loving Animals, Kathy Rudy offers a refreshing new perspective on animal advocacy that is intellectually coherent, emotionally satisfying, and beautifully written. Some of Rudy’s conclusions regarding how we should treat the animals in our lives are radical, and yet they make perfect sense. This book is a treat for both head and heart, and parts of it will spin your head around.—Hal Herzog, author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard To Think Straight About AnimalsTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: A Change of Heart1. What’s behind Animal Advocacy?2. The Love of a Dog: Of Pets and Puppy Mills, Mixed-Breeds and Shelters3. The Animal on Your Plate: Farmers, Vegans, and Locavores4. Where the Wild Things Ought to Be: Sanctuaries, Zoos, and Exotic Pets5. From Object to Subject: Animals in Scientific Research6. Clothing Ourselves in Stories of Love: Affect and Animal AdvocacyConclusion: Trouble in the PackAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Evelyn Pluhar has written an important book that discusses key issues in developing moral thought about our treatment of non-human animals. Arguing that past writing in the area has failed to justify the moral significance of non-humans, Pluhar offers an original contribution designed to provide that justification. Her scholarship is exacting; her writing style lively, lucid, and accessible. There can be no doubt that Beyond Prejudice will stimulate much important debate about the topic of the rights of nonhumans."—Gary L. Francione, Rutgers University, School of Law"This book joins the illustrious company of Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation and Tom Regan’s The Case for Animal Rights as one of the most important books of the last two decades dedicated to changing our prejudiced attitudes and practices toward non-human animals."—Owen Flanagan, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsForeword by Bernard E. Rollin ix Preface xi Human "Superiority" and the Argument from Marginal Cases 1 Responses to the Argument from Marginal Cases 67 Speciesism and Full Personhood 124 Utilitarianism and the Protection of Innocent Life 179 Justification and Judgment: Claiming and Respecting Basic Moral Rights 224 Notes 303 Bibliography 349 Index 361

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Book SynopsisDefends the view that any sentient conative being is morally significant, a view that supports the moral status and rights of many nonhuman animalsTrade Review"Evelyn Pluhar has written an important book that discusses key issues in developing moral thought about our treatment of non-human animals. Arguing that past writing in the area has failed to justify the moral significance of non-humans, Pluhar offers an original contribution designed to provide that justification. Her scholarship is exacting; her writing style lively, lucid, and accessible. There can be no doubt that Beyond Prejudice will stimulate much important debate about the topic of the rights of nonhumans."—Gary L. Francione, Rutgers University, School of Law"This book joins the illustrious company of Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation and Tom Regan’s The Case for Animal Rights as one of the most important books of the last two decades dedicated to changing our prejudiced attitudes and practices toward non-human animals."—Owen Flanagan, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsForeword by Bernard E. Rollin ix Preface xi Human "Superiority" and the Argument from Marginal Cases 1 Responses to the Argument from Marginal Cases 67 Speciesism and Full Personhood 124 Utilitarianism and the Protection of Innocent Life 179 Justification and Judgment: Claiming and Respecting Basic Moral Rights 224 Notes 303 Bibliography 349 Index 361

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an outstanding collection. The authors write expertly on the surprisingly intimate relation between attitudes toward animals and women in our culture. From reading their work on pornography, the treatment of 'laboratory' animals, hunting, wife-beating, and factory farming I have learned a tremendous amount. This superbly edited volume makes an important contribution to the cause of animal and human liberation." -- Jane Tompkins, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I: Sexism/Speciesism: Interlocking Oppressions 9 1. Sexist Words, Speciesist Roots / Joan Dunayer 11 2. Exploring the Boundaries: Feminism, Animals, and Science / Lynda Birke 32 3. Women Battering and Harm to Animals / Carol J. Adams 55 4. License to Kill: An Ecofeminist Critique of Hunters' Discourse / Marti Kheel 85 5. Speech, Pornography, and Hunting / Maria Comninou 126 6. Abortion and Animal Rights: Are They Compatible Issues? / Gary L. Francione 149 Part II: Alternative Stories 161 7. Beyond Just-So Stories: Narrative, Animals, and Ethics / Linda Vance 163 8. Thinking Like a Chicken: Farm Animals and the Feminine Connection / Karen Davis 192 9. Of Wolves and Women / Diane Antonio 213 10. The Power of Otherness: Animals in Women's Fiction / Marian Scholtmeijer 231 11. Birds Don't Sing in Greek: Virginia Woolf and "The Plumage Bill" / Reginald Abbott 263 12. Taming Ourselves or Going Feral? Toward a Nonpatriarchal Metaethic of Animal Liberation / Brian Luke 290 13. Speciesism, Racism, Nationalism...or the Power of Scientific Subjectivity / Susanne Kappeler 320 Bibliography of Feminist Approaches to Animal Issues 353 Notes on Contributors 363 Index 367

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Book SynopsisDomestication Gone Wild offers a revisionary exploration of domestication as a narrative, ideal, and practice that reveals how our relations with animals and plants are intertwined with the politics of human difference.Trade Review"Highly recommended for students and researchers interested in human/nonhuman relationships. ... Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals." -- E. N. Anderson * Choice *"Not only this collection’s varied perspectives, but also its emerging questions, form a welcome contribution to the study of human/non-human relationships in our troubled times of extractivism and anthropogenic climate change." -- Juan Javier Rivera Andía * PoLAR *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Naming the Beast—Exploring the Otherwise / Marianne Elisabeth Lien, Heather Anne Swanson, and Gro B. Ween 1 Part I. Intimate Encounters: Domestication from Within 1. Breeding with Birds of Prey: Intimate Encounters / Sara Asu Schroer 33 2. Pigs and Spirits in Ifugao: A Cosmological Decentering of Domestication / Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme 50 3. Dog Ears and Tails: Different Relational Ways of Being with Canines in Aboriginal Australia and Mongolia / Natasha Fijn 72 4. Farm Animals in a Welfare State: Commercial Pigs in Denmark / Inger Anneberg and Mette Vaarst 94 5. Ducks into Houses: Domestication and Its Margins / Marianne Elisabeth Lien 117 Part II. Beyond the Farm: Domestication as World-Making 6. Domestication Gone Wild: Pacific Salmon and the Disruption of the Domus / Heather Anne Swanson 141 7. Natural Goods on the Fruit Frontier: Cultivating Apples in Norway / Frida Hastrup 159 8. Domestication of Air, Scent, and Disease / Rune Flikke 176 9. How the Salmon Found Its Way Home: Science, State Ownership, and the Domestication of Wild Fish / Gro B. Ween and Heather Anne Swanson 196 10. Wilderness through Domestication: Trout, Colonialism, and Capitalism in South Africa / Knut G. Nustad 215 Provocation. Nine Provocations for the Study of Domestication / Anna Tsing 231 Contributors 252 Index 255

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Book SynopsisNew in Paper Acampora details an inter-species morality by examining the underlying nature of bodily experience as animate creatures and as human beings.Trade Review“In this intellectually adventurous and scrupulously argued book, Ralph Acampora takes it as his aim to vitalize the Anglo-American debate on the ethics of transhuman contacts with a bracing injection of modern European thought.” - J. M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Messy Eating Samantha King, R. Scott Carey, Isabel Macquarrie, Victoria N. Millious, and Elaine M. Power | 1 1. Turning Toward and Away Cary Wolfe | 19 2. Subjectivities and Intersections Lauren Corman | 36 3. Being in Relation Kim Tallbear | 54 4. The Tyranny of Consistency Naisargi Dave | 68 5. Justice and Nonviolence Maneesha Deckha | 84 6. Doing What You Can Kari Weil | 99 7. Waking Up H. Peter Steeves | 112 8. Entangled María Elena García | 128 9. Disability and Interdependence Sunaura Taylor | 143 10. Asking Hard Questions Neel Ahuja | 157 11. Interspecies Intersectionalities Harlan Weaver | 172 12. Living Philosophically Matthew Calarco | 188 13. Taking Things Back, Piece by Piece Sharon Holland | 204 Coda: Toward an Analytic of Agricultural Power Kelly Struthers Montford | 223 Coda: Thinking Paradoxically Billy-Ray Belcourt | 233 Acknowledgments | 243 Recommended Reading | 245 List of Contributors | 255 Index | 259

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Messy Eating Samantha King, R. Scott Carey, Isabel Macquarrie, Victoria N. Millious, and Elaine M. Power | 1 1. Turning Toward and Away Cary Wolfe | 19 2. Subjectivities and Intersections Lauren Corman | 36 3. Being in Relation Kim Tallbear | 54 4. The Tyranny of Consistency Naisargi Dave | 68 5. Justice and Nonviolence Maneesha Deckha | 84 6. Doing What You Can Kari Weil | 99 7. Waking Up H. Peter Steeves | 112 8. Entangled María Elena García | 128 9. Disability and Interdependence Sunaura Taylor | 143 10. Asking Hard Questions Neel Ahuja | 157 11. Interspecies Intersectionalities Harlan Weaver | 172 12. Living Philosophically Matthew Calarco | 188 13. Taking Things Back, Piece by Piece Sharon Holland | 204 Coda: Toward an Analytic of Agricultural Power Kelly Struthers Montford | 223 Coda: Thinking Paradoxically Billy-Ray Belcourt | 233 Acknowledgments | 243 Recommended Reading | 245 List of Contributors | 255 Index | 259

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Book SynopsisWelfare research has established a range of scientific indicators of stress, welfare and suffering in animals that can be applied to all aspects of improving their welfare through good housing and management, and the topic continues to grow in importance among both professionals and the public.The practical focus of this authoritative, comprehensive encyclopedia aims to promote the understanding and improvement of animals' behaviour without compromising welfare. Under the editorial direction of Professor Daniel Mills, the UK's first specialist in veterinary behavioural medicine, over 180 international experts have contributed a wealth of fully cross-referenced entries from concise definitions to detailed short essays on biological, practical, clinical and ethical aspects of behaviour and welfare in domestic, exotic, companion and zoo animals.Table of Contents1: Abandoned Animals 2: Breeding 3: Central Nervous System 4: Confinement 5: Dominance 6: Environment 7: Feeding 8: Grazing Behaviour 9: Hierarchy 10: Immune Systems 11: Laying Hen Housing 12: Maternal Behaviour 13: Nursing 14: Operant Tests 15: Parental Behaviour 16: Rearing Environment 17: Sexual Behaviour 18: Slaughter 19: Transport 20: Ultrasound 21: Vision 22: Wildlife Management 23: Zoo

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘This impressive book brings together and adds to the unique, creative, and thoughtful legal possibilities David Favre has posited for achieving meaningful improvements in the lives of animals. Built on a carefully argued ethical framework and focussing on companion animals - especially dogs - as a means of emotional and political engagement - Favre addresses a significant gap in much animal law scholarship. He is able to shift from a diagnosis of shortcomings in the law affecting animals to a rich account of a host of legal reforms - both modest and significant - which might be pursued. The book is highly readable, clear-sighted, and ultimately optimistic about the prospects of legal change for the betterment of the animals with which we share our lives and the planet.‘Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to The Future of Animal Law : it’s a dog’s world 2. The arc of history: anti-cruelty, animal welfare, and animal rights 3. The modification of property law 4. The ethical framework for legal rights 5. Green shoots in law for companion animals 6. Animals in international law 7. Sovereign power and constitutional law in developing animal law 8. New legislation for the animals 9. Animal action in the courts 10. Private actions concerning ownership of animals 11. Final thoughts on the future of animal law Index

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Book SynopsisEthics IN Veterinary Practice An incisive examination of relevant and contemporary ethical issues facing veterinary practitioners, students, instructors, and animal researchers In Ethics in Veterinary Practice: Balancing Conflicting Interests, a team of distinguished scholars delivers a foundational exploration of animal ethics and a guide to examining contemporary issues and dilemmas that arise regularly in veterinary practice. The book offers comprehensive, quickly accessible, and up-to-date information on veterinary ethics with content devoted to unique issues by practice type. The authors offer a primary resource for veterinary ethics useful for veterinarians, faculty, instructors, senior undergraduates, and veterinary students that focuses on recognizing and addressing real-life ethical dilemmas and relevant philosophical discussions about the moral status of animals, animal rights, and interests. Ethics in VeterinaryTable of ContentsEthics in Veterinary Practice: Balancing Conflicting Interests-B. Kipperman, B.E. Rollin, eds. List of contributorsForewordIn memoriamPrefaceIntroductionAcknowledgementsIndexSection 1-A Fundamental Basis for Veterinary Ethics 1- Why do Animals Matter? The Moral Status of AnimalsBernard E. Rollin 2- Animal Welfare: Science, Policy and the Role of VeterinariansJoy A. Mench 3- Animal Ethics and the Evolution of the Veterinary Profession in the United StatesBernard Unti 4- Introduction to Veterinary EthicsBarry KippermanBernard E. Rollin 5- Veterinary Ethics and the LawCarol GrayDavid Favre Section 2-Clinical Veterinary Ethics 6- ProfessionalismLiz H. Mossop 7- Veterinary Advocacies and Ethical Dilemmas Barry Kipperman 8- Economic IssuesBarry KippermanGary BlockBrian Forsgren 9- Medical Errors James ClarkBarry Kipperman Section 3-Ethical Concerns by Practice Type 10- Companion AnimalsShelter medicine- Julie DinnageOutdoor cats, Overpopulation-Andrew RowanNeutering/gonadectomy, Conformational disorders, Convenience surgeries- Anne QuainBehavioral medicine-Melissa BainReferrals-Barry KippermanFutile intervention -Christian Durnberger, Herwig GrimmObesity- Barry KippermanAccess to care -Michael J. Blackwell 11- Laboratory Animals Larry Carbone 12- Food Animals Tim BlackwellShaw PerrinJennifer Walker 13- EquinesDavid W. Ramey 14- Animals in Zoos, Aquaria, and Free-Ranging WildlifeSathya ChinnaduraiBarbara De MoriJackie Gai 15- Exotic PetsMichael Dutton 16- Integrative MedicineNarda G. Robinson 17- Corporate Veterinary MedicineThomas Edling Section 4-Emerging Ethical Concerns 18- Animal Use in Veterinary EducationAndrew KnightMiriam A. Zemanova 19- Animal PainBeatriz MonteiroSheilah Robertson 20- Animal MaltreatmentMartha Smith-Blackmore 21-DeathJames Yeates 22-Moral StressCarrie JurneyBarry Kipperman 23-The Future of Veterinary EthicsHerwig GrimmSvenja Springer

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