Description
Book SynopsisWithin the education system, acts of violence toward animals take place and are manifested on a routine basis in science classes, in lecture halls, in school canteens, and during study visits to zoos, farms, and slaughterhouses. Taken for granted as necessary for teaching and learning, this violence profoundly affects animals as well as students. It also provides new entry points for understanding education as a multispecies power regime, driven by numerous other investments than knowledge dissemination alone. What, then, is the nature of this educational violence, and how exactly does education work through techniques of interference with student and animal bodies?
Based on ethnographic research within upper secondary schools and higher education, this book challenges the use of animals in education by innovative engagement of Deleuze and Guattari's tool of schizoanalysis. Sparking a fundamental rethinking of educational processes, relations, and aims, the book explores ho
Table of Contents
Introduction: Education, Schizoanalysis, and Critical Animal Theory 1. An Abstract Machine? Education in the Animal-Industrial Complex 2. Desiring-Machines: Education and the “Human-Animal Bond” 3. Command-Machines: The Order-Words of Animal Science Pedagogies 4. Comfort-Machines: Promises of Animal Welfare and Environmental Education 5. Edutainment-Machines: Pedagogies of the Spectacle 6. Technical Machines: Didactic Technologies of Animal Control Systems 7. Killing-Machines: Animal Breeding, Shooting and Slaughter in Education Conclusion 8. Schizoanalysis and Micropolitics: How to Change the System from Within Postscript Notes References Index
