Animals in Our Midst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bovenkerk, Bernice.

Contributor:

Keulartz, Jozef.

Series:

The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics

The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics ; v.33

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (574 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This Open Access book brings together authoritative voices in animal and environmental ethics, who address the many different facets of changing human-animal relationships in the Anthropocene. As we are living in complex times, the issue of how to establish meaningful relationships with other animals under Anthropocene conditions needs to be approached from a multitude of angles. This book offers the reader insight into the different discussions that exist around the topics of how we should understand animal agency, how we could take animal agency seriously in farms, urban areas and the wild, and what technologies are appropriate and morally desirable to use regarding animals. This book is of interest to both animal studies scholars and environmental ethics scholars, as well as to practitioners working with animals, such as wildlife managers, zookeepers, and conservation biologists.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgments

Contents

Editors and Contributors

1 Animals in Our Midst: An Introduction

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Animal Ethics in the Anthropocene

1.3 The Netherlands as Mirror of Biodiversity Problems

1.3.1 The Recovery of Wildlife

1.3.2 Exotic Species and Climate Refugees

1.3.3 The Sixth Mass Extinction

1.3.4 Rewilding and De-extinction

1.3.5 Intensive Livestock Farming

1.3.6 The Ecological Impact of Large-Scale Hunting

1.3.7 Companion Animals

1.3.8 The 'Liminalisation' of Wildlife

1.3.9 The Struggle for Nature Between People

1.4 Overview of the Volume

1.4.1 Part 1: Animal Agents

1.4.2 Part 2: Domesticated Animals

1.4.3 Part 3: Urban Animals

1.4.4 Part 4: Wild Animals

1.4.5 Part 5: Animal Artefacts

References

2 Animal Conservation in the Twenty-First Century

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Viable Populations

2.3 Sufficiently Large Numbers and the Amount of Area They Require

2.4 Challenges

2.5 Trophic Downgrading: "When the Cat Is Away, the Mice Will Play"

2.6 Conservation in Twenty-First Century: 'Cores, Corridors and Carnivores' Meets 'Nature Needs Half'

2.7 Viable Ecosystems with Red Deer and Wolf in the Netherlands

2.7.1 Current Population of Red Deer in the Netherlands

2.7.2 Current Population of Wolf in the Netherlands

2.7.3 Predator-Prey Relation Between Wolf and Red Deer

2.8 The Netherlands in 2120

2.9 Change

2.10 Further Reading

Part I Animal Agents

3 Taking Animal Perspectives into Account in Animal Ethics

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Conceptualizing Animal Agency: Two Models

3.2.1 Propositional Agency

3.2.2 Materialist Agency

3.2.3 A Working Definition of Agency

3.3 Taking into Account Relational Agency in Animal Ethics on the Micro- and Macro Level

3.3.1 Relational Agency and Animal Ethics.

3.3.2 Taking into Account Macro-Relations in Thinking About Agency and Ethics

3.4 Risks for Relational Approaches to Ethics

3.5 Further Directions

3.5.1 Research

3.5.2 Animal Cultures

3.5.3 Animal Workers

3.5.4 Further Directions

4 Turning to Animal Agency in the Anthropocene

4.1 The Centrality of Agency

4.2 On Animal Agency and Self-Judging Obligations

4.3 Standpoint Acknowledgement and How to Ask the Right Questions

4.4 Calling for an "Animal Agency Turn"

5 Animal Difference in the Age of the Selfsame

5.1 Progressivist Anti-naturalism

5.2 Sameness and Anthropocentrism

5.3 Violence Against Otherness

5.4 A Proposal for an Ethic of Animal Difference

5.5 Sameness and the Anthropocene

5.6 Conclusion

6 Should the Lion Eat Straw Like the Ox? Animal Ethics and the Predation Problem

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Utilitarianism

6.2.1 Piecemeal Engineering

6.2.2 The Balance of Nature and the Argument from Ignorance

6.2.3 Paradise Engineering

6.3 Rights Theories

6.3.1 Lack of Moral Agency

6.3.2 Non-human Victims

6.4 The Capabilities Approach

6.4.1 The Other Species Capability

6.4.2 Broadening the Capabilities Approach

6.5 Political Theory of Animal Rights

6.5.1 Similarities and Dissimilarities with the Capabilities Approach

6.5.2 Competence and Risk

6.5.3 Positive and Negative Duties

6.5.4 The Limits of a Place-Based Approach

6.5.5 Blurring Boundaries

6.5.6 Learning to Hunt and to Avoid Predators

6.6 Concluding Remarks

7 Justified Species Partiality

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Species-Membership Views of Moral Status

7.3 Strategy One: Moral Status Equality and Moral Considerability Diversity

7.4 Strategy Two: Equal Moral Status Without Equal Political Status.

7.5 Strategy Three: Differential Epistemic Position

7.6 Conclusion

8 Humanity in the Living, the Living in Humans

8.1 Introduction: Animals, Plants and Humans

8.2 Food Makes the World Go Around

8.3 Values in Animal Plant Interactions

8.4 Do They Communicate with Each Other?

8.5 Collaboration as a Mechanism of Co-evolution

8.6 Tree of Life or Network?

8.7 Symbiosis, Symbionts, Holobionts and Place

8.8 Different Types of Relations Inter- and Intra-species

8.9 Matter and Meaning

Philosophical Questions

8.10 Barriers: Classifications, Anthropocentrism and Hubris

8.11 Philosophical Challenges: Pandora's Box Versus New Skills

8.12 Conclusion

9 Comment: The Current State of Nonhuman Animal Agency

9.1 Changing Perspectives Within Animal Ethics

9.2 The Problem of Predation

9.3 Human and Nonhuman Animals

9.4 The Future of Agency

Part II Domesticated Animals

10 An Introduction to Ecomodernism

10.1 Introduction

10.2 The Optimal Role of Animals in Our Food System

10.3 The Case for Intensification

10.4 How History Shapes the Way We Think About Animal Farming

10.5 The Future of Animal Farming

10.6 The Future of Animal Eating

10.7 Conclusion

11 Place-Making by Cows in an Intensive Dairy Farm: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Nonhuman Animal Agency

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Language and the Politics of Human Exceptionalism

11.3 Cows as Social and Linguistic Beings

11.4 Linguistic Place-Making in an Intensive Dairy Farm

11.4.1 The Fieldwork Site

11.4.2 Place-Making Through Practices of Sociality and Multilingualism

11.5 Conclusion

12 The Vanishing Ethics of Husbandry

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Industrial Animal Production

12.3 Reforming Husbandry in Industrial Animal Production.

12.4 Philosophers and Animal Husbandry

12.5 Animal Husbandry and Animal Activism

12.6 The Eclipse of Husbandry and the Rise of Narcissism

12.7 Conclusion

13 Reimagining Human Responsibility Towards Animals for Disaster Management in the Anthropocene

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Animal Disaster Ethics: Developing Disaster Frameworks

13.3 Animal Disaster Ethics: Revealing Animal Vulnerabilities

13.4 Animal Disaster Management: A Reimagining

13.5 Animal Disaster Management: Humanitarian Impulse and Animal Welfare Science

13.6 Animal Disaster Management: Aims and Recommendations for Ethically Responsible Caretaking

13.7 Recommendations

14 The Decisions of Wannabe Dog Keepers in the Netherlands

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Animal Ethicists' Views on Dog Ownership

14.3 Pedigree Pups

14.4 Pups Without Pedigree

14.5 Shelter Dogs

14.6 Discussion

15 Comment: Animals in 'Non-Ideal Ethics' and 'No-Deal Ethics'

15.1 Non-ideal Animal Ethics and the Meat Industry

15.2 Non-ideal Animal Ethics and Disaster Management

15.3 Non-ideal Ethics and Ethnographic Animal Studies

15.4 Towards a No-Deal Animal Ethics

Part III Urban Animals

16 Stray Agency and Interspecies Care: The Amsterdam Stray Cats and Their Humans

16.1 Introduction

16.2 The Amsterdam Stray Cat Foundation

16.3 Degrees of Agency

16.4 Networks of Care

16.5 Cat Politics

16.5.1 Stray Cat Rights

16.5.2 Democratic Agency

16.6 Cat-Human Relations at the SAZ as a Model for Future Interactions

16.6.1 Ecologies of Care

16.6.2 Sharing the City

16.6.3 Interspecies Resistance as the Foundation for New Relations

17 "Eek! A Rat!"

17.1 Introduction

17.2 From the Lab to the Liminal

17.3 How Fear and Disgust Impair Moral Judgment.

17.4 Rat Politics

17.5 Failure of Imagination

17.6 Sympathy for the Rat

17.7 Compassion: A Stepping Stone?

17.8 Compassion: Cornerstone of Interspecies Morality

17.9 From Anthropocentric to Multispecies Epistemologies

17.10 From Philosophical Deliberation to Compassionate Engagement

17.11 Conclusion

18 Interpreting the YouTube Zoo: Ethical Potential of Captive Encounters

18.1 Introduction

18.2 Interpreting the YouTube Zoo

18.3 YouTube Orangutans Unsettling Binary Concepts

18.4 The YouTube Zoo: Increasing Encounter Value or Enabling a Moral Gaze?

18.5 Conclusion

19 Wild Animals in the City: Considering and Connecting with Animals in Zoos and Aquariums

19.1 Introduction

19.2 Animal Welfare

19.3 Human-Animal Interactions

19.4 Wildness in Zoos

19.5 Compassionate Education Programs

19.6 Real Connections with Artificial Means

19.7 Conclusion

20 Comment: Encountering Urban Animals: Towards the Zoöpolis

20.1 The Urban, the Animal

20.2 Urban Animal Encounters and the Politics of Spatial Access

20.2.1 The Home

20.2.2 The Zoo

20.2.3 The Streets/Parks/Margins

20.3 Towards the Zoöpolis

20.3.1 'Articulating With' Animals

20.3.2 Making Visible Relationalities

20.3.3 Re-Storying the City to Imagine Otherwise

20.4 Conclusion

Part IV Wild Animals

21 Should We Provide the Bear Necessities? Climate Change, Polar Bears and the Ethics of Supplemental Feeding

21.1 Introduction

21.2 Some Basic Premises of This Paper

21.3 The Situation of Polar Bears

21.4 Possible Responses to Abrupt Polar Bear Starvation

21.5 Ethical Reasons for Supplemental Feeding of Starving Bears

21.6 Ethical Reservations About Feeding Bears

21.6.1 Would Feeding Bears Harm the Bears Themselves?.

21.6.2 Would Feeding Bears Harm Other Sentient Animals?.

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ISBN:

3-030-63523-6

OCLC:

1255228855

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access