Full Description
The staggering rate of environmental pollution and animal abuse despite constant efforts to educate the public and raise awareness challenges the prevailing belief that the absence of serious action is a consequence of a poorly informed public. In recent decades alternative explanations of social and political inaction have emerged, including denialism. Challenging the information-deficit model, denialism proposes that people actively avoid unpleasant information that threatens their established worldviews, lifestyles, and identities. Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial: Averting Our Gaze analyzes how people avoid awareness of climate change, environmental pollution, animal abuse, and the animal industrial complex. The contributors examine the theory of denialism in regards to environmental pollution and animal abuse through a range of disciplines, including social psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, cultural history and law.
Contents
Introduction: Introducing Denialism in Environmental and Animal Abuse
Tomaž Grušovnik, Reingard Spannring and Karen Lykke Syse
Chapter 1: From Denial to Moral Disengagement: How Integrating Fundamental Insights from Psychology Can Help Us Better Understand Ongoing Inaction in the Light of an Exacerbating Climate Crisis
Susanne Stoll-Kleemann
Chapter 2: Denial as a Sense of Entitlement: Assessing the Role of Culture
Arne Johan Vetlesen
Chapter 3: Skepticism and Animal Virtues: Denialism of Animal Morality
Tomaž Grušovnik
Chapter 4: Human Uniqueness, Animal Minds, and Anthropodenial
Adam See
Chapter 5: Suffering Animals: Creaturely Fellowship and its Denial
Craig Taylor
Chapter 6: Brave New Salmon: From Enlightened Denial to Enlivened Practices
Martin Lee Mueller and Katja Maria Hydle
Chapter 7: The Animal that Therefore was Removed from View: The Presentation of Meat in Norway, 1950-2020
Karen Lykke Syse and Kristian Bjørkdahl
Chapter 8: Political Economy of Denialism: Addressing the Case of Animal Agriculture
John Sorenson and Atsuko Matsuoka
Chapter 9: Celebrate the Anthropocene? Why "Techno-Eco-Optimism" is a Strategy of Ultimate Denial
Helen Kopnina, Joe Gray, Haydn Washington and John Piccolo
Chapter 10: The Horse in the Room: The Denial of Animal Subjectivity and Agency in Social Science Research on Human-Horse Relationships
Reingard Spannring and José De Giorgio-Schoorl
Chapter 11: Still in the Shadow of Man? Judicial Denialism and Nonhuman Animals
Opi Outhwaite
