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This book grapples with multispecies violent exploitations embedded in corridors of power within the Animal-Industrial Complex (A-IC). The A-IC is a useful framework for understanding how exploitative human-animal relations are central to capitalist relations and profit accumulation.
List of contents
List of Contributors
1. Towards Multi-Species Justice: Unveiling Violence and Exploitation in the Animal- Industrial Complex
2. Meat scientists fight back! What the Dublin declaration tells us about the role of academia in the animal-industrial complex
3. Displaying Compassion to Hide Harms: An Analysis of the Visual Communication Strategies of the Spanish Animal Industrial Complex
4. 'But Bacon!' The Performative Violence of Anti-Vegan Trolling
5. The Politics of Smell and The Morality of Sight: Challenging "Slaughterhouses with Glass Walls" in Animal Advocacy
6. Beef, Bible, Bullets: Suicidal Cows and the Ecological Imaginings of Brazil
7. Reexamining the Meatpacking-Methamphetamine Hypothesis
8. Selfie Safaris: The Violence of Contemporary Camera Hunting & Trophy Shot Selfies
9. Following the Cultural Traces of Normalized and Legitimized Violence by Israeli Kosher Slaughterers toward Nonhuman Animals
10. The Arena of Controversy: Bullfighting and Its Implications in Modern Spanish Society
11. Horseracing as regulated cruelty: A nonhuman animal victimology perspective.
12. Non-human animals as property: what this means when companion animals are stolen
13. "They have literally given up on life;" A review of the experiences of nonhuman animals subject to reproductive violence and coercion on factory and puppy farms.
14. Which Animals Did Noah Eat?An Animal-Centric Focus on Food Crime
15. Inside the Spanish Zoological Park Industry: Worker Insights on Human-Animal Relationships and Shared Vulnerabilities
16. "If I Broke Down the Wall of Flesh:" Blurring the Human/Animal Distinction in the Slaughterhouse through Ivano Ferrari's Poetry"
17. Embodying Non-speciesism through Altered States of Consciousness
18. A Time to Kill: Cruelty and Compassion with Companion Animals and Urban Wildlife
19. The Lennie Small Paradox: Loving Animals to Death
Index
About the author
Gwen Hunnicutt is Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She studies gender violence - its varieties, causes, consequences, interspecies entanglements, and politicizations. She is the author of
Gender Violence in Ecofeminist Perspective.Richard Twine is Reader in Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Human-Animal Studies (CfHAS) at Edge Hill University, UK. He is the author of
The Climate Crisis and Other Animals (2024),
Animals as Biotechnology - Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies (2010) and he co-edited (with Nik Taylor)
The Rise of Critical Animal Studies - From the Margins to the Centre (2014). He has also published several articles on ecofeminism, vegan transition, the food system, and the animal-industrial complex.
Kenneth Mentor is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His published research includes peer-reviewed papers in the disciplines of criminology, organizational behavior, public administration, law and society, and online learning.
Summary
This book grapples with multispecies violent exploitations embedded in corridors of power within the Animal-Industrial Complex (A-IC). The A-IC is a useful framework for understanding how exploitative human-animal relations are central to capitalist relations and profit accumulation.
