Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial - Averting Our Gaze

The theory of denialism proposes that people actively avoid information that threatens their established worldviews, lifestyles, and identities. Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial: Averting Our Gaze analyzes how people use denialism to avoid awareness of climate change, environmental pollution, animal abuse, and the animal industrial complex.

List of contents

Introduction: Introducing Denialism in Environmental and Animal Abuse
Tomaž Grušovnik, Reingard Spannring and Karen Lykke Syse
Chapter 1: From Denial to Moral Disengagement: How Integrating Fundamental Insights from Psychology Can Help Us Better Understand Ongoing Inaction in the Light of an Exacerbating Climate Crisis
Susanne Stoll-Kleemann
Chapter 2: Denial as a Sense of Entitlement: Assessing the Role of Culture
Arne Johan Vetlesen
Chapter 3: Skepticism and Animal Virtues: Denialism of Animal Morality
Tomaž Grušovnik
Chapter 4: Human Uniqueness, Animal Minds, and Anthropodenial
Adam See
Chapter 5: Suffering Animals: Creaturely Fellowship and its Denial
Craig Taylor
Chapter 6: Brave New Salmon: From Enlightened Denial to Enlivened Practices
Martin Lee Mueller and Katja Maria Hydle
Chapter 7: The Animal that Therefore was Removed from View: The Presentation of Meat in Norway, 1950-2020
Karen Lykke Syse and Kristian Bjørkdahl
Chapter 8: Political Economy of Denialism: Addressing the Case of Animal Agriculture
John Sorenson and Atsuko Matsuoka
Chapter 9: Celebrate the Anthropocene? Why "Techno-Eco-Optimism" is a Strategy of Ultimate Denial
Helen Kopnina, Joe Gray, Haydn Washington and John Piccolo
Chapter 10: The Horse in the Room: The Denial of Animal Subjectivity and Agency in Social Science Research on Human-Horse Relationships
Reingard Spannring and José De Giorgio-Schoorl
Chapter 11: Still in the Shadow of Man? Judicial Denialism and Nonhuman Animals
Opi Outhwaite

About the author

Edited by Tomaž Grušovnik; Reingard Spannring and Karen Lykke Syse - Contributions by Kristian Bjørkdahl; José De Giorgio-Schoorl; Joe Gray; Tomaž Grušovnik; Helen Kopnina; Karen Lykke Syse; Katja Maria Hydle; Atsuko Matsuoka; Martin Lee Mueller; Opi Outh

Product details

• Authors: Tomaz Grusovnik, Tomaz Spannring Grusovnik
• Assisted by: Toma¿ Gru¿ovnik (Editor), Tomaz Grusovnik (Editor), Tomaž Grušovnik (Editor), Karen Lykke Syse (Editor), Reingard Spannring (Editor), Spannring Reingard (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781793610485
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-048-5
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Environment and Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Animals & society, Conservation of the environment, Ethics and moral philosophy, Animals and society, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmental policy and protocols