Description
Book SynopsisCritical Animal Geographies provides new geographical perspectives on critical animal studies, exploring the spatial, political, and ethical dimensions of animalsâ lived experience and human-animal encounter. It works toward a more radical politics and theory directed at the shifting boundary between human and animal. Chapters draw together feminist, political-economic, post-humanist, anarchist, post-colonial, and critical race literatures with original case studies in order to see how efforts by some humans to control and order life â human and not â violate, constrain, and impinge upon others. Central to all chapters is a commitment to grappling with the stakes â violence, death, life, autonomy â of human-animal encounters. Equally, the work in the collection addresses head-on the dominant forces shaping and dependent on these encounters: capitalism, racism, colonialism, and so on. In doing so, the book pushes readers to confront how human-animal relations are mixed up wi
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction PART I: POLITICS Chapter 2. Animal geographies, anarchist praxis and critical animal studies Chapter 3. Practice as theory: learning from food activism and performative protestChapter 4. Pleasure, pain and place: ag-gag, crush videos, and animal bodies on displayPART II: INTERSECTIONS Chapter 5. Wildspace: the cage, the supermax, & the zoo Chapter 6. Commodification, violence and the making of workers and ducks at Hudson Valley Foie Gras Chapter 7. Race, space, and wildlife management Chapter 8. Pit bulls, slavery, and whiteness in the mid- to late- nineteenth century US: geographical trajectories; primary sources PART III: HIERARCHIES Chapter 9. Coyotes in the city: gastro-ethical encounters in a more-than-human world Chapter 10. Livelier livelihoods: animal and human collaboration on the farm Chapter 11. En-listing life: red is the color of threatened species lists Chapter 12. Doing critical animal geographies: future directions
