Species matters : humane advocacy and cultural theory / edited by Marianne DeKoven and Michael Lundblad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeKoven, Marianne, 1948-

Lundblad, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speciesism.

Animal rights.

Human rights.

Human beings.

Compassion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 considers whether cultural studies should pay more attention to animal advocacy and whether, in turn, animal studies should pay more attention to questions raised by cultural theory. The contributors to this volume explore these issues particularly in relation to the "humane" treatment of animals and various human groups and the implications, both theoretical and practical, of blurring the distinction between "the human" and "the animal." They address important questions raised by the history of representing humans as the only animal capable of acting humanely and provide a framework for reconsidering the nature of humane discourse, whether in theory, literary and cultural texts, or current advocacy movements outside of the academy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Animality and Advocacy / Lundblad, Michael / DeKoven, Marianne

1. Species Matters, Humane Advocacy / Haraway, Donna

2. Humane Advocacy and the Humanities / Wolfe, Cary

3. Consequences of Humanism, or, Advocating What? / Cavalieri, Paola

4. Archaeology of a Humane Society / Lundblad, Michael

5. What Came Before The Sexual Politics of Meat / Adams, Carol J.

6. Compassion / Nussbaum, Martha C.

7. Down with Dualism! / Waal, Frans de

Addendum to Down with Dualism! / Waal, Frans de

8. Avoid Being Abstract When Making Policies on the Welfare of Animals / Grandin, Temple

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9786613792204

9781281862891

1281862894

9780231526838

0231526830

OCLC:

818856669