Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction

Dawne McCance

ISBN 10: 1438445350 / ISBN 13: 9781438445359

Published by State University of New York Press, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1438445350
• ISBN 13: 9781438445359
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 408 grams

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Synopsis

Comprehensive overview of key theoretical approaches and issues in the field.

Having roots as a specialized philosophical movement at Oxford University in the early 1970s, critical animal studies is now taking shape as a wide-open, multidisciplinary endeavor through which scholars across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, and others ranging from creative writers to architects, are joining together to address issues related to today's unprecedented subjection of animals. Introducing this emerging field, Dawne McCance describes the wide range of analysis and approaches represented, looking at much-debated practices such as industrialized or "factory" farming of animals, handling and slaughter, animal experimentation, wildlife management, animal captivity, global genomics, meat-eating, and animal sacrifice. McCance equally focuses on many of the theoretical and ethical problems that recur across the field, raising critical questions about prevailing approaches to animal ethics, and inviting new ways of thinking about and responding to animals.

About the Author

Dawne McCance is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba. Her books include Posts: Re Addressing the Ethical and Medusa's Ear: University Foundings from Kant to Chora L, both also published by SUNY Press, and Derrida on Religion: Thinker of Differance.