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The Biopolitical Animal / edited by Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Animalities (Series)
- Animalities Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animal welfare--Political aspects.
- Animal welfare.
- Biopolitics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2024]
- Summary:
- Explores the intersection of biopolitics and the animal question, pushing the debate in new directions.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: What is a Biopolitical Animal?
- Part I: The Animal of Biopolitics
- 1. Turning Back to Nature: Foucault and the Practice of Animality
- 2. Community and Animality in the Ancient Cynics
- 3. Biopolitics of Covid-19 and the Space of Animals: A Planetary Perspective
- 4. How to Chirp like a Cricket: Agamben and the Reversal of Anthropogenesis
- 5. Animality and Inoperativity: Interspecies Form-of-Life
- Part II: Tales of Biopolitics and Animality
- 6. Restraining Biopolitics: On Dino Buzzati's Living Animals
- 7. Cages and Mirrors: Mr. Palomar and the Albino Gorilla
- 8. Bunnies and Biopolitics: Killing, Culling and Caring for Rabbits
- 9. Deading Life and the Undying Animal: Necropolitics After the Factory Farm
- 10. Factory Farms for Fishes: Aquaculture, Biopolitics and Resistance
- Part III: Reconceptualising Biopolitics
- 11. Imagining Liberation beyond Biopolitics: The Biopolitical 'War against Animals' and Strategies for Ending It
- 12. Animal Magnetism: (Bio)Political Theologies Between the Creature and the Animal
- 13. Creaturely Biopolitics
- 14. A Dog's Life: From the Biopolitical Animal to the Posthuman
- Afterword: Locating Race and Animality amidst the Politics of Interspecies Life
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781399526005
- 1399526006
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