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Author:   John Sorenson
Publisher:   Brown Bear Press
Imprint:   Brown Bear Press
Weight:   0.622kg
ISBN:  

9781551305639

ISBN 10:   1551305631
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   30 April 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

* Introduction: Thinking the Unthinkable - John Sorenson* Section 1: Why Animals Matter*1. Animals, Immigrants, and Profits: Slaughterhouses and the Political Economy of Oppression - David Nibert*2. The War on Compassion - Carol J. Adams*3. The Animal of Bad Faith: Speciesism as an Existential Project - John Sanbonmatsu*4. Fragments of an Animalist Politics: Veganism and Liberation - Kris Forkasiewicz* Section 2: Academic Contradictions*5. The Role of Evolutionary Thought in Animal Ethics - Rod Preece*6. Animals as Subjects and the Rehabilitation of Humanism - Gary Steiner*7. The Trouble With Posthumanism: Bacteria Are People Too - Zipporah Weisberg*8. Your Dog or Your Child - Ray Greek* Section 3: Justice and Captivity*9. Looking at Fragments of Nature: A Perspective on Zoo and Aquarium Captivity - Rob Laidlaw*10. Gay Penguins and Other Inmates in the Canadian Legal System - Lesli Bisgould* Section 4: Animals, Food, Power and Human Identity*11. Anthropomorphic Visions of Chickens Bred for Human Consumption - Karen Davis*12. Animal Welfare Issues in the Canadian Dairy Industry - Olivier Berreville*13. Spinning the Pig: The Language of Industrial Pork Production - Dana Medoro*14. Crocodile Tears, Compassionate Carnivores and the Marketing of Happy Meat - Vasile Stanescu*15. Too Sexy for Your Meat : Vegan Sexuality and the Intimate Rejection of Carnism - Annie Potts and Jovian Parry* Section 5: Activism and Education*16. Simplicity, Complexity, and Chaos in ABC: Obstacles to the Successful Implementation of Dog Population Management in India - Lisa Warden*17. Expanding My Universe : Critical Animal Studies Education as Theory, Politics, and Practice - Tobias Linne and Helena Pedersen*18. A Mute Yet Eloquent Protest : Visual Culture and Anti-Vivisection Activism in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - J. Keri Cronin*19. Animal Rights: Moral Crusade or Social Movement? - Kim Stallwood*20. Let's Not Give Up Before We Even Get Started: Why Today's Animal Advocates Should Be Inspired by the English Anti-Slavery Movement - James LaVeck* Contributor Biographies* Copyright Acknowledgements* Index

Reviews

Critical Animal Studies: Thinking the Unthinkable is a very important contribution to the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of critical animal studies. -- Marc Bekoff, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado

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John Sorenson is Professor of Sociology at Brock University.

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