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Book SynopsisIntellectual struggles with the animal question-- how humans can rethink and reconfigure their relationships with other animals-- first began to take hold in the 1970s. Over the next forty years, scholars from a wide range of fields would make sweeping reevaluations of the relationship between humans and other animals. The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies brings these diverse evaluations together for the first time, paying special attention to the commodification of animals, the degradation of the natural world and a staggering loss of animal habitat and species extinction, and the increasing need for humans to coexist with other animals in urban, rural and natural contexts. Linda Kalof maps these themes into the five major categories that structure this volume: Animals in the Landscape of Law, Politics and Public Policy; Animal Intentionality, Agency and Reflexive Thinking; Animals as Objects in Science, Food, Spectacle and Sport; Animals in Cultural Representations; and Animals in Ecosystems. Written by international scholars with backgrounds in philosophy, law, history, English, art, sociology, geography, archaeology, environmental studies, cultural studies, and animal advocacy, the thirty chapters in this handbook investigate key issues and concepts central to understanding our current relationship with other animals and the potential for coexistence in an ecological community of living beings.
Trade ReviewOffering an outlook for healthier collaboration, these varied voices constitute a valuable and timely authority to consider while venturing on an animal studies project -- no matter from which discipline. * Liza Bauer, Kult Online *
Table of ContentsPreface List of Contributors Introduction, Linda Kalof Part I. Animals in the Landscape of Law, Politics and Public Policy 1. Animal Rights, Gary Francione and Anna Charlton 2. Animals in Political Theory, Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka 3. Animals as Living Property, David Favre 4. The Human-Animal Bond, James Serpell 5. Animal Sheltering, Leslie Irvine 6. Roaming Dogs, Arnold Arluke and Kate Atema 7. Misothery: Contempt for Animals and Nature, Its Origins, Purposes, and Repercussions, James B. Mason 8. Continental Approaches to Animals and Animality, Ralph Acampora 9. Animals as Legal Subjects, Paul Waldau 10. The Struggle for Compassion and Justice through Critical Animal Studies, Carol Gigliotti 11. Interspecies Dialogue and Animal Ethics: The Feminist Care Perspective, Josephine Donovan Part II. Animal Intentionality, Agency and Reflexive Thinking 12. Cetacean Cognition, Lori Marino 13. History and Animal Agencies, Chris Pearson 14. What Was It Like to Be a Cow? History and Animal Studies, Erica Fudge 15. Animals as Sentient Commodities, Rhoda Wilkie 16. Animal Work, Jocelyne Porcher 17. Animals as Reflexive Thinkers: The Aponoian Paradigm, Mark Rowlands and Susana Monsó Part III. Animals as Objects in Science, Food, Spectacle and Sport 18. The Ethics of Animal Research - Theory and Practice, Bernard Rollin 19. The Ethics of Food Animal Production, Paul Thompson 20. Animals as Scientific Objects, Mike Michael 21. The Problem with Zoos, Randy Malamud 22. Wolf Hunting and the Ethics of Predator Control, John Vucetich and Michael P. Nelson Part IV. Animals in Cultural Representations 23. Practice and Ethics of the Use of Animals in Contemporary Art, Joe Zammit-Lucia 24. Animals in Folklore, Boria Sax Part V. Animals in Ecosystems 25. Archaeozoology, Juliet Clutton-Brock 26. Animals and Ecological Science, Anita Guerrini 27. Staging Privilege, Proximity, and "Extreme Animal Tourism," Jane Desmond 28. Commensal Species, Terry O'Connor 29. Lively Cities: People, Animals, and Urban Ecosystems, Marcus Owens and Jennifer Wolch 30. Animals in Religion, Stephen R. L. Clark Index
