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With attention to central questions about life in 'the now normal', this book presents studies of multispecies engagements that challenge the perceived distinction between the social worlds of humans and other animals, exploring themes of crisis in relation to climate, environment and zoonotic disease transmission.
List of contents
Notes on contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction
Zoei Sutton and Josephine Browne
Part I: Animals in everyday life
1 The chicken city: Urban interspecies sociabilities
Catherine Oliver
2 Fairweather friends? Rethinking multispecies companionship in the new normal
Zoei Sutton
3 Power, politics and representation in research with (other) animals in the ‘new normal’
Nik Taylor and Heather Fraser
Part II: Activism
4 (Not so) hidden barriers to a vegan-inclusive norm: The struggle against speciesism for compassionate children who could change the world
Lynda M. Korimboccus
5 Incorporating a structural approach into animal advocacy
Nick Pendergrast
6 Selling veganism in the Age of COVID: Vegan representation in British newspapers in 2020
Corey Wrenn
Part III: Species(ist) relations
7 Food animals as an economic class: Animals as commodities under capitalism
Dinesh Wadiwel
8 Resisting Zoopolis: bordering species relations as a response to COVID-19
Erika Cudworth
9 That killing joke isn’t funny anymore: Rebranding speciesism after Brexit
Matthew Cole
10 Dystopian or utopian fiction? The sociological imagination and the representation of pandemic futures in The Animals in That Country
Josephine Browne
Index
About the author
Josephine Browne is a sociologist who has most recently held positions at Griffith and Southern Cross Universities, where she brings critical approaches to animal studies and gender in her teaching and research.
Zoei Sutton is a lecturer in Sociology at Flinders University pursuing critical, non-human animal-centric research.
Summary
With attention to central questions about life in ‘the now normal’, this book presents studies of multispecies engagements that challenge the perceived distinction between the social worlds of humans and other animals, exploring themes of crisis in relation to climate, environment and zoonotic disease transmission.
