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Radial Animal Studies: Beyond Respectability Politics, Opportunism, and Cooptation is a scholar-activist book emerging out of the field of Critical Animal Studies (CAS). Radical Animal Studies (RAS) edited by Anthony J. Nocella II and Kim Socha recognizes and values the goal of total liberation and the importance of underground revolutionary direct action. RAS is a complement to, not in conflict with, CAS. Indeed, RAS is dedicated to two of the ten CAS principles: seven (total liberation) and nine (radical politics and strategies). This book is an essential read for social justice community organizers, animal liberation activists, and intersectional total liberation scholars.
List of contents
Acknowledgements - David Naguib Pellow: Foreword: Burn, Baby(lon), Burn - Aaron Zellhoefer: Preface: Radicals Help Make It Practical - Kim Socha and Anthony J. Nocella II: Introduction: Outside the Realm of Negotiation: From Underground to Battleground - Kim Socha: Make- Believe Revolutions Make Make- Believe Revolutionaries - Will Boisseau: Listening to and Learning from Leftist Critiques of Animal Liberation - Erika Cudworth and Richard J. White: Bringing Down the Animal Abuse Industry by Any MeansNecessary: State- corporate- media Alliance and the Fear of Counter- cultural Intervention - Kyle Ramsey- Sumner and Piper Ramsey- Sumner: Radicalizing Animal Theology: Moving toward a Revolutionary Praxis - Michael Loadenthal: Days of War, Knights of Tempeh: Anarchism, Animal Liberation & Social War - Index.
About the author
Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., international total liberation scholar-activist, is Assistant Professor of Criminology at Salt Lake Community College, Director of Save the Kids, and Executive Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies. He had published over forty books and co-founded six journals and five book series.
Kim Socha, Ph.D., is author of Animal Liberation and Atheism: Dismantling the Procrustean Bed and is employed as a social emergency response worker for those facing family violence, housing instability, addiction, and mental health crises.
Summary
This scholar-activist book emerging out of the field of Critical Animal Studies (CAS) recognizes and values the goal of total liberation and the importance of underground revolutionary direct action.
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"In recent years, the importance of social movements has become more of an important part of advancing critical animal studies toward what Socha and Nocella propose as radical animal studies. Radical Animal Studies: Beyond Respectability Politics, Opportunism, and Cooptation offers a timely collection of thoughtful essays that center diversity in activist-scholarship and teach of the importance of radical theory and action through (and with) social movements that include animal liberation together with social justice." -Johnny Lupinacci, Associate Professor, Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education, Washington State University
