Full Description
Traditional cultural practices involving animals are being seriously questioned, heavily regulated, and, in some cases, even abolished in Spain. This essential and timely text brings together prominent scholars working in the ever-expanding field of animal studies in Spain, drawing from a variety of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences to provide an interdisciplinary look at the animal question. In choosing an angle to approach the study of ethical, aesthetic considerations, and cultural representations of animals, this collection moves away from the ideology of human exceptionalism that is still predominant but progressively losing force in the field of animal ethics in Spain. It instead includes contributions by scholars who have chosen to look at animals, to a lesser or greater degree, through an antispeciesist lens, displaying the committed attention to and respect for animal life that characterizes critical animal studies.
Contents
Contents Foreword-Jorge Riechmann Preface: Winds of Change in Spanish Thinking about Animals Acknowledgments Part 1. Animals in Literature Affection, Literature, and Animal Ideation - José Manuel Marrero Henríquez Antispeciesism and Environmentalism in the Spanish Fable: The Case of José Antonio Jáuregui's Juicio a los humanos - Diana Villanueva-Romero She Is Not Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf: Concha López Llamas's Loving Eye for Wolves - Carmen Flys-Junquera Part 2. Animal Ethics and Aesthetics Animals as Ornaments: On the Aesthetic Instrumentalization of Animals - Marta Tafalla A Passionate Call for Murder: Dying and Suff ering Animals in Spanish Film and Filmmaking - Claudia Alonso-Recarte and Ignacio Ramos-Gay Usurped Strength, Stolen Nature: The Literature on the Fighting Bull - José Marchena Domínguez Wear My Eyes: Driving Empathy through Artistic Creation - Verónica Perales Blanco Part 3. Huma/nimal Bodies and Violence That Obscure Object of Desire: Body and Violence - Alicia H. Puleo Failed Arguments in Defense of Bullfighting - Jesús Mosterín Ortega y Gasset's Thoughts on Animals - Lydia de Tienda Part 4. The Fight against Speciesism Animals in Spanish Law: Changing the Legal Paradigm to Consider Animals as Sentient Beings - Nuria Menéndez de Llano Defending Equality for Animals: The Antispeciesist Movement in Spain and the Spanish-Speaking World - Estela Díaz and Oscar Horta The Literature in Spanish on the Question of Speciesism: An Annotated Bibliography - Daniel Dorado Contributors Index
