Full Description
An essential read for activists, community organizers, justice scholars, and academic administrators, Critical Animal Studies and Social Justice: Critical Theory, Dismantling Speciesism, and Total Liberation is a collection that combines scholarship and activism in nine ground-breaking and provocative chapters. The book includes contributions from around the world influenced by critical theory, feminism, social justice, political theory, media studies, environmental justice, food justice, disability studies, and Black liberation. By promoting total liberation and liberatory politics, these essays challenge the reader to think about new approaches to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion . The contributors also examine and disrupt many of the exclusionary assumptions and behaviors by those working toward justice and liberation, encouraging the reader to reflect on their own thoughts and actions. They emphasize the direct links between exploitation of animals, the planet, and people, the significance of which we can no longer afford to ignore.
Contents
Introduction: From Fascism to Total Liberation: Getting to Know What You Think You Know Amber E. George and Anthony J. Nocella II
Chapter One: Towards the Footsteps of Nimrod: Positive Animal Representation in Saki's Short Fiction by Samantha Orsulak
Chapter Two: Making No Appeal to the State: Ending Animal Abuse through Total Liberation and Direct Action by Will Boisseau
Chapter Three: The Lamb with Ear Tag #8710: Suffering as "Good Welfare" in Animal Science by Nathan Poirier
Chapter Four: On the Dharma of Critical Animal Studies: Animal Spirituality and Total Liberation by Michael Allen and Erica Von Essen
Chapter Five: Teaching Public Activism in the Humanities: Navigating a Classroom Climate in Crisis by Jessica Holmes
Chapter Six: The Preservation of Injustice: Human Supremacy, Domination, and Privilege
by Paislee House and Amanda R. Williams
Chapter Seven: Manufacturing the Line Between Brutality and Best Practice in the Animal-Industrial Complex by Ellyse Winter
Chapter Eight: Animal Rescue on Facebook: About the Rescuer or the Rescued? by Tatjana Marjanovic
Chapter Nine: Women, Nonhuman Animals, and the Notion of Marginalization in Bengali Literature by Swatilekha Maity
