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Weaving together a diverse range of scholarly-activist intersectional voices from around the world, Critical Animal Studies and Activism: International Perspectives on Total Liberation and Intersectionality co-edited by Anthony J. Nocella II and Richard J. White makes a powerful contribution to knowledge and understanding. It is essential reading for environmentalists, animal advocates, social justice organizers, policy-makers, social change-makers, and indeed for all those who care about the future of this planet. This book spans many scholar disciplines and activist social movements, and provides new insights to fundamental debates surrounding inter-species justice, liberation, and democracy. This critical theory for total liberation book expands the understanding of one struggle one fight: for human freedom, for animal rights, and for the liberation of the earth herself. Rooted in a radical praxis, the book argues that those in academia that claim critical animal studies, need to hit the streets with the protesters and the protesters need to join the theoretical conversations. Theory and practice and not binaries, but two pieces of a larger goal. Read this book and use its arguments to take the fight to smash capitalism, oppression, and domination in all its forms!
List of contents
Acknowledgements - Danni McGhee: Foreword - S. Marek Muller: Preface - Richard J. White/Anthony J. Nocella II: Introduction - Alex Hinchcliffe/Richard J. White: Bearing Witness to the Animal Condition. Exploring the Complex Motivations, Experiences and Coping- Strategies of Sheffield Save Movement Activists (UK) - María Marta Andreatta: Performing Veganism: Building Bridges amongst Academia, Activism, and Community - Anja Radaljac/Aljaz Krivec: Becoming Vegan in Slovenia: Some Reflections on Theory and Activism - Nathan Grande: Strategic Empathy, Intra-Sectional Demonstrations, and Animal Activism: In Pursuit of Total Liberation - Kiana Avlon: Challenging the Ideologies behind the Animal Agricultural Industry: A Case for Critical Animal Studies and Ecofeminism - Carlos Garcia: 'Before We Talk about Freedom: Let Us Free Our Slaves': An Activist's Reflections on Anarchism, Non-human Animals and Total Liberation - Terry Hurtado: Animal Victims in the Colombian War - Erica von Essen/Michael Allen: Cow Releases as Staged Liberations in Agri-Tourism - Tony Quintana: Afterword - Contributors' Biographies - Index.
About the author
Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., (they/he) long-time intersectional total liberation scholar-activist, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Salt Lake Community College. He is the editor of the Peace Studies Journal, Transformative Justice Journal, and co-editor of five book series including Critical Animal Studies and Theory and Hip Hop Studies and Activism. He is the National Director of Save the Kids and Executive Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies. He has published over fifty book chapters or articles and forty books. He has been interviewed by The New York Times, Washington Post, Houston Chronicles, Fresno Bee, Fox, CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, and Los Angeles Times.
Richard J. White, Ph.D., is Reader/Associate Professor in Human Geography at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Greatly influenced by anarchist praxis Richard¿s main research agenda explores a range of ethical and economic landscapes rooted in the intersectional contexts of social justice and total liberation movements. He has co-edited Vegan Geographies (2022); The Radicalization of Pedagogy, Theories of Resistance, The Practice of Freedom (all 2016); and Anarchism and Animal Liberation (2015).
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"Critical Animal Studies and Activism is a fierce call to action of humans to radically understand, act and liberate non-human animals and our Tierra Madre. To deeply ground our work of liberation and racial justice through intersectional empathy and ways of knowing. To extend our compassion and passion to non-human animals in a collective effort of a more just planet for all." -Chelsie Joy Acosta, Coordinator, National Week of Action Against School Pushout, Save the Kids
