Heterotopia, Radical Imagination, and Shattering Orders : Manifesting a Future of Liberated Animals / edited by Paula Arcari.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arcari, Paula, editor.

Series:

Routledge human-animal studies series.

Routledge Human-Animal Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships.

Human-animal relationships in literature.

Animal welfare--Moral and ethical aspects.

Animal welfare.

Animal welfare in literature.

Utopias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, England : Routledge, [2025]

Summary:

This volume takes ending the oppression of other animals seriously and confronts the question, 'What would happen to all the animals?' by showcasing real, promissory, and imagined counter-sites or heterotopia where animals 'happen' in different ways, free of anthropocentric orders of value and purpose.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsements

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

About the Editor

List of Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Section 1 Relational Reconfigurations in Present Futures

1 Sites of Vegan Placemaking: A Celebration of Multispecies Alliances at the Borderlands

2 Careful Care Towards Animal Liberation for Feral Pigeons and Beyond

3 Unveiling Shared Histories: Crafting Sanctuary and the Work of Care in Troubled Domestic Domains

4 Non-ridden Horses, Implanted Chickens, and Vegan Sanctuaries: The Liberatory Promises and Limits of Animal Heterotopias

Section 2 Conceptual and Political Re-ordering

5 The Magpies: Reflections on Liminality, Domestication, and Animal Agency

6 Dog Proposals: Participatory Design, Playfulness, and Multispecies Futures

7 The Radical Praxis of Equity: Mutual Interdependence and an Ethic of Responsibility

Section 3 Subversion Through Radical Storytelling and Restorying

8 Opening Aquaria

9 Beyond the Farm - Towards Multispecies Anarcho-communities

10 The Post-human Ontology of Gothic Enviro-toons: Defying Anthropo-denial in Watership Down, The Plague Dogs and Padak

11 Laugh to Liberate: Futurabilities of Posthumanist Comedy

Section 4 Personal Shifts and Transformations

12 Love Beyond the Species Divide in Nizami Ganjavi's Layla and Majnun

13 Choosing Snakes: Towards Unhampered Hospitality

14 A New Pedagogy of Sharing Multispecies Sentience: Coexisting in Spaces of Love and Compassion

Afterword: A Methodological Side-note

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-36670-8

1-04-026328-3

9781003366706

OCLC:

1459698464