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Political Animals and Animal Politics, 1st ed. 2014
The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
Coordinators: Wissenburg Marcel, Schlosberg David
Language: EnglishSubjects for Political Animals and Animal Politics:
Keywords
Deliberation; Institution; parliament; political theory; politics
Political Animals and Animal Politics
Publication date: 03-2018
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 03-2018
Support: Print on demand
Political Animals and Animal Politics
Publication date: 12-2014
180 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 12-2014
180 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Hardback
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While much has been written on environmental politics on the one hand, and animal ethics and welfare on the other, animal politics is underexamined. There are key political implications in the increase of animal protection laws, the rights of nature, and political parties dedicated to animals.
Acknowledgments Notes on the Contributors 1. Introducing Animal Politics and Political Animals; Marcel Wissenburg and David Schlosberg PART I: THE POLITICIZATION OF THE ANIMAL ADVOCACY DISCOURSE 2. Rethinking the Human-Animal Divide in the Anthropocene; Manuel Arias Maldonado 3. An Agenda for Animal Political Theory; Marcel Wissenburg 4. Public Reason and Animal Rights; Chad Flanders PART II: THE RAPPROCHEMENT BETWEEN ANIMAL ETHICS AND ECOLOGISM 5. Articulating Ecological Injustices of Recognition; Christie Smith 6. Ecological Justice for the Anthropocene; David Schlosberg 7. Animal Deliberation; Clemens Driessen PART III: THE INTRODUCTION OF LAWS AND INSTITUTIONS FOR THE BENEFIT OF ANIMALS 8. Animal Party Politics in Parliament; Simon Otjes 9. The Limits of Species Advocacy; Kurtis Boyer 10. Slaughter and Animal Welfarism in Sweden 1900 1944; Per-Anders Svärd 11. The Rights of Nature: Theory and Practice; Mihnea Tanasescu
Manuel Arias Maldonado, University of Málaga, Spain Kurtis Boyer, Lund University, Sweden Clemens Driessen, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Chad Flanders, Saint Louis University School of Law, USA Simon Otjes, Groningen University, The Netherlands Christie Smith, University of Exeter, UK Per-Anders Svärd, Stockholm University, Sweden Mihnea Tanasescu, Free University, Brussels, Belgium
Investigates the specific place of animals and the non-human in the political realm
Builds bridges between mainstream and environmental political theory and animal ethics
provides a realistic assessment of the hopes and doubts of animal rights skeptics and enthusiasts
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