The Human and the Meat : Animal Domination in Capitalist Societies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stefanoni, Chiara.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Over 85 billion animals are killed in slaughterhouses yearly to sustain a profit-driven meat production system devastating animals, workers, and the environment.How did we get here?How has capitalist society reshaped human-animal relations?.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Theoretical Foundations

1. Framing Critical Animal Studies

1.1 The Emergence of CAS: A Historical Overview

1.1.1 Before CAS: Animal Rights and the Left

1.2 CAS and Intersectionality

1.2.1 Ecofeminism: A Cultural Logic for Intersectionality

1.3 CAS and Anti‐Capitalism: Marxist Approaches

1.3.1 CAS and the Frankfurt School

1.3.2 CAS and (Post‑)Operaismo

2. A Materialist Logic for Capitalist Societies

2.1 Reading Marx Anew

2.2 The Method of Form‐Analysis and Social Forms

2.3 Dispositifs and Politics

Part II: Operationalization

3. The Anthropological Form of Producing Individuals

3.1 Filling the Lacuna: Forms of Production of Individuals

3.2 Anthropological Form: Producing Individuals as Human

4. The Dietary Dispositif

4.1 Dispositifs of the Anthropological Form

4.2 The Dietary Dispositif: Beginning with the Slaughterhouse

4.2.1 Excursus: Abattoir or Packinghouse? A False Dilemma

4.3 Industrial Farming: An Interlude

4.4 Notes on Pre‐Capitalist Slaughter

4.5 Forming the Dietary Dispositif: Context and Knowledges

4.5.1 Context Analysis: slaughterhouse reforms in the conflict between health and wealth

4.5.2 Knowledge I: Meat and Nutrition Science

4.5.3 Knowledge II: Animals and Miasma Theory

4.5.4 Knowledge III: Meat, Animals, and Bacteriology

4.6 Politics: Actor Analysis in the Struggle for Slaughterhouse Reforms

4.6.1 The National‐Social Hegemony Project: Hygienists and Animal Advocates

4.6.2 The Conservative Hegemony Project: Butchers

4.6.3 The Liberal Hegemony Project: Meatpacking Companies

4.6.4 Escape Strategies: Animals

4.6.5 Process Analysis

Conclusion

Bibliography.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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ISBN:

3-8394-4063-7

9783839440636