Animal Oppression and Human Violence - Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict

By comparing practices of animal exploitation for food and resources in different societies over time, David A. Nibert finds in the domestication of animals, which he renames "domesecration," a perversion of human ethics, the development of large-scale acts of violence, disastrous patterns of destruction, and epidemics of infectious disease.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Nomadic Pastoralism, Ranching, and Violence
2. Domesecration and the Americas
3. Ranching and Violence in North America
4. Domesecration in the Western Plains
5. Capitalist Colonialism and Ranching Violence
6. Social Construction of the "Hamburger" Culture
7. The "Hamburger" Culture and Latin America
8. Domesecration and Impending Catastrophe
9. New Welfarism
Notes
Index

About the author

David A. Nibert worked as a tenant organizer and community activist before becoming a professor of sociology at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. He teaches courses on animals and society and global change and is the author of Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation.

Summary

By comparing practices of animal exploitation for food and resources in different societies over time, David A. Nibert finds in the domestication of animals, which he renames “domesecration,” a perversion of human ethics, the development of large-scale acts of violence, disastrous patterns of destruction, and epidemics of infectious disease.

Product details

• Authors: David Nibert, David (Professor Nibert, David A Nibert, David A. Nibert, David Alan Nibert
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.05.2013
• EAN: 9780231151894
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15189-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law; Critical Perspectives on Animals; Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law; Critical Perspectives on Animals
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Sociology, NATURE / Animal Rights, HISTORY / Civilization, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Ethics and moral philosophy, Animals and society, Earth Sciences