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    The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies by Kalof, Linda;

    Series: Oxford Handbooks;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 13 April 2017

    • ISBN 9780199927142
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages640 pages
    • Size 236x160x43 mm
    • Weight 726 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies tackles the infamous "animal question": how can humans rethink and reconfigure their relationships with other animals? Over the course of five sections and thirty chapters, the contributors investigate issues and concepts central to understanding our current relationship with other animals and the potential for coexistence in an ecological community of living beings.

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    Intellectual struggles with the "animal question"-- how humans can rethink and reconfigure their relationships with other animals-- first began to take hold in the 1970s. Over the next forty years, scholars from a wide range of fields would make sweeping reevaluations of the relationship between humans and other animals.

    The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies brings these diverse evaluations together for the first time, paying special attention to the commodification of animals, the degradation of the natural world and a staggering loss of animal habitat and species extinction, and the increasing need for humans to coexist with other animals in urban, rural and natural contexts. Linda Kalof maps these themes into the five major categories that structure this volume: Animals in the Landscape of Law, Politics and Public Policy; Animal Intentionality, Agency and Reflexive Thinking; Animals as Objects in Science, Food, Spectacle and Sport; Animals in Cultural Representations; and Animals in Ecosystems. Written by international scholars with backgrounds in philosophy, law, history, English, art, sociology, geography, archaeology, environmental studies, cultural studies, and animal advocacy, the thirty chapters in this handbook investigate key issues and concepts central to understanding our current relationship with other animals and the potential for coexistence in an ecological community of living beings.

    Offering an outlook for healthier collaboration, these varied voices constitute a valuable and timely authority to consider while venturing on an animal studies project -- no matter from which discipline.

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface
    List of Contributors
    Introduction, Linda Kalof
    Part I. Animals in the Landscape of Law, Politics and Public Policy
    1. Animal Rights, Gary Francione and Anna Charlton
    2. Animals in Political Theory, Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka
    3. Animals as Living Property, David Favre
    4. The Human-Animal Bond, James Serpell
    5. Animal Sheltering, Leslie Irvine
    6. Roaming Dogs, Arnold Arluke and Kate Atema
    7. Misothery: Contempt for Animals and Nature, Its Origins, Purposes, and Repercussions, James B. Mason
    8. Continental Approaches to Animals and Animality, Ralph Acampora
    9. Animals as Legal Subjects, Paul Waldau
    10. The Struggle for Compassion and Justice through Critical Animal Studies, Carol Gigliotti
    11. Interspecies Dialogue and Animal Ethics: The Feminist Care Perspective, Josephine Donovan
    Part II. Animal Intentionality, Agency and Reflexive Thinking
    12. Cetacean Cognition, Lori Marino
    13. History and Animal Agencies, Chris Pearson
    14. What Was It Like to Be a Cow? History and Animal Studies, Erica Fudge
    15. Animals as Sentient Commodities, Rhoda Wilkie
    16. Animal Work, Jocelyne Porcher
    17. Animals as Reflexive Thinkers: The Aponoian Paradigm, Mark Rowlands and Susana Mons󞒊NTOCPart III. Animals as Objects in Science, Food, Spectacle and Sport
    18. The Ethics of Animal Research - Theory and Practice, Bernard Rollin
    19. The Ethics of Food Animal Production, Paul Thompson
    20. Animals as Scientific Objects, Mike Michael
    21. The Problem with Zoos, Randy Malamud
    22. Wolf Hunting and the Ethics of Predator Control, John Vucetich and Michael P. Nelson
    Part IV. Animals in Cultural Representations
    23. Practice and Ethics of the Use of Animals in Contemporary Art, Joe Zammit-Lucia
    24. Animals in Folklore, Boria Sax
    Part V. Animals in Ecosystems
    25. Archaeozoology, Juliet Clutton-Brock
    26. Animals and Ecological Science, Anita Guerrini
    27. Staging Privilege, Proximity, and "Extreme Animal Tourism," Jane Desmond
    28. Commensal Species, Terry O'Connor
    29. Lively Cities: People, Animals, and Urban Ecosystems, Marcus Owens and Jennifer Wolch
    30. Animals in Religion, Stephen R. L. Clark
    Index

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