Species Matters Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory

Name: Species Matters Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory
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ISBN: 9780231152839

ISBN-10: 0231152833

ISBN-13: 9780231152839

Edition: 2012

Authors: Marianne DeKoven, Michael Lundblad

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The question of the animal has preoccupied an increasing number of humanities, science, and social science scholars in recent years, and important work continues to expand the burgeoning field of animal studies. However, a key question still needs to be explored: Why has the academy struggled to link advocacy for animals to advocacy for various human groups? Within cultural studies, in which advocacy can take the form of a theoretical intervention, scholars have resisted arguments that add "species" to race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and other human-identity categories as a site for critical analysis.Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory considers whether and why…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 1/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.83" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Animality and Advocacy




Species Matters, Humane Advocacy: In the Promising Grip of Earthly Oxymorons




Humane Advocacy and the Humanities: The Very Idea




Consequences of Humanism, or, Advocating What?




Archaeology of a Humane Society: Animality, Savagery, Blackness




What Came Before The Sexual Politics of Meat: The Activist Roots of a Critical Theory




Compassion: Human and Animal




Down with Dualism! Two Millennia of Debate About Human Goodness



Addendum to Down with Dualism! Two Millennia of Debate About Human Goodness (2010)




Avoid Being Abstract When Making Policies on the Welfare of Animals



Contributors


Index