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This book offers ethical and political approaches to issues that nonhuman animals face. The recent 'political turn' in interspecies ethics, from ethical to political approaches, has arisen due to the apparent lack of success of the nonhuman animal movement and dissatisfaction with traditional approaches. Current works largely present general positions rather than address specific issues and principally rely on mainstream approaches. This book offers alternative positions such as cosmopolitan, libertarian, and left humanist thought, as well as applying ethical and political thought to specific issues, such as experimentation, factory farming, nonhuman political agency, and intervention. Presenting work by theorists and activists, insights are offered from both ethics and politics that impact theory and practice and offer essential considerations for those engaging in interspecies ethics within the political turn era.
List of contents
1.Introduction; Andrew Woodhall & Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade.-2. Making Light of the Ethical?; Mark Rowlands.- 3. Far-persons; Gary Comstock.- 4. Evolution to Liberation; Steve F. Sapontzis.- 5. Robert Nozick on Nonhuman Animals; Josh Milburn.- 6. Reinventing Left Humanism; Zipporah Weisberg.- 7. Justice for Animals in a Globalizing World; Angie Pepper.- 8. Animal Rights and the Distorting Power of Anthropocentric Prejudice; Gary Steiner.- 9. Interspecies Encounters and the Political Turn; Eva Meijer.- 10. Gandhian Satyagraha and Open Animal Rescue; Tony Milligan.- 11. Shame; Elisa Aaltola.- 12. Are We Smart Enough to Know When to Take the Political Turn for Animals?; Kim Stallwood.- 13. Interspecies Atrocities and the Politics of Memory; Guy Scotton.- 14. Animal Research and the Political Theory of Animal Rights; Gardar Arnason.- 15. Cross-Species Comparisons of Welfare; Tatjana Visak.- 16. Population Dynamics Meets Animal Ethics; Oscar Horta.- 17. Afterword; Carol J. Adams.- Index.
About the author
Andrew Woodhall is an independent researcher working on anthropocentrism and global interspecies ethics. His works include: Anthropocentrism and the Issues Facing Nonhuman Animals, Intervention or Protest, and Saving Nonhumans: Drawing the Threads of a Movement Together
Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade is a Doctoral Researcher in Global Ethics at the University of Birmingham, UK, working on the intersection between interspecies ethics and the ethics of war and self-defence. He co-edited Intervention or Protest with Andrew Woodhall.
Summary
This book offers ethical and political approaches to issues that nonhuman animals face. The recent ‘political turn’ in interspecies ethics, from ethical to political approaches, has arisen due to the apparent lack of success of the nonhuman animal movement and dissatisfaction with traditional approaches. Current works largely present general positions rather than address specific issues and principally rely on mainstream approaches. This book offers alternative positions such as cosmopolitan, libertarian, and left humanist thought, as well as applying ethical and political thought to specific issues, such as experimentation, factory farming, nonhuman political agency, and intervention. Presenting work by theorists and activists, insights are offered from both ethics and politics that impact theory and practice and offer essential considerations for those engaging in interspecies ethics within the political turn era.
