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In search of an alternative biopolitics : anti-bullfighting, animality, and the environment in contemporary Spain / Katarzyna Olga Beilin.
Van Pelt Library GV1108.7.M67 B45 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beilin, Katarzyna Olga, 1966- author.
- Series:
- Transoceanic studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bullfights--Political aspects--Spain--21st century.
- Bullfights.
- Animal rights--Spain--21st century.
- Animal rights.
- Biopolitics--Spain--21st century.
- Biopolitics.
- Bullfights--Political aspects.
- Spain.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Bulls, apes, genes, and clouds
- Bullfighting biopolitics and debates on national culture
- Anti-bullfighting activists as marginal intellectuals
- Science, politics, and animals: tiempo de silencio as an anti-bullfighting novel
- Meanings of animalization and humanity as anthropomorphism
- Animal rights movement for an alternative biopolitics
- Bullfighting and the war on terror: debates on culture and torture in Spain, 2004-11
- Die or laugh: biopolitical crisis in Biutiful and Nocilla experience
- Debates on GMOs in Spain and Rosa Montero's Lágrimas en la lluvia (with Sainath Suryanarayanan)
- Conclusion: In search of alternative biopolitics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-295) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814212905
- 0814212905
- 9780814251966
- 081425196X
- OCLC:
- 907147381
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