The biopolitical animal / edited by Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cimatti, Felice, editor.

Salzani, Carlo, 1972- editor.

Series:

Animalities (Series)

Animalities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals (Philosophy).

Humanism.

Biopolitics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

Summary:

The two issues around which this collection revolves are that it is impossible to address biopolitics without taking the animal question into account, and that the animal question inherently concerns the politics of life beyond species barriers. Although biopolitical theories are necessarily structured around animal metaphors, they predominantly refer to human corporeality. On the other hand, the animal question is typically treated as an ethical issue, that is, a question of how human beings, the dominant species, ought to learn how to live peaceably with and respect other forms of life. This collection of essays by leading scholars in the fields of biopolitics and animal studies problematises, reconceptualises, and redefines these categories in order to realise the full potential of the biopolitical framework of analysis in the context of animal studies and praxis.

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:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 17, 2025).

ISBN:

9781399526005

1399526006