Animal Oppression and Capitalism [2 volumes]

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 644
Publisher: Praeger Publishers Inc
Published: 08 Sep 2017
ISBN 10: 1440850739
ISBN 13: 9781440850738
Book Overview: This collection of essays from an international community of stellar scholar-activists in Critical Animal Studies is nothing less than a shock to our present ways of being with animals. Each chapter reveals, with extraordinary clarity and force, new, unbearable insights into how capitalism works through animal and human bodies, with disastrous effects on both. Collectively, the contributions show that the congruency between capitalism and speciesism is an urgent problem of global proportions, but they also form a powerful counter-movement of their own-a movement we all need to join in order to transform the condition of animals in the 21st century. -- Helena Pedersen, Associate Professor in Education, University of Gothenburg and Author of Animals in Schools: Processes and Strategies in Human-Animal Education Mainstream theorists of colonialism and capitalism have consistently omitted other animals from their analyses. This volume offers a much-needed corrective-emphasizing the systemic exploitation of other animals as internal to these structural projects and making clear that the urgent task of moving humanity beyond global capitalism is inescapably tied to dismantling the animal-industrial complex. -- Dr Richard Twine, Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences, Edge Hill University, UK Capitalist systems of value and exchange have had a devastating effect on nonhuman animals. However, to date, only a limited number of scholars have focused on what capitalism means for animals. The essays in these two volumes help to correct this imbalance, offering readers diverse perspectives on the relationship between anthropocentricism and capitalism and tracking the violent effects of capitalist relations for trillions of animals globally. -- Dr Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel, Senior Lecturer, The University of Sydney David Nibert does an outstanding job in putting together one of the most important texts in the animal liberation movement, Animal Oppression and Capitalism. This scholarly book brings together diverse voices from different perspectives for the goal of animal liberation, social justice, and to smash capitalism. If you have not read Nibert's work and you care about social justice and animal liberation, you are missing out and do not understand the full picture of critical animal studies and total liberation. -- Anthony J. Nocella II, Cofounder and Executive Director, Institute for Critical Animal Studies