
Animal Oppression and Capitalism
[2 volumes]
David Nibert(Editor)
Praeger Publishers Inc
Published on 8. September 2017
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Hardback
688 pages
978-1-4408-5073-8 (ISBN)
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This important two-volume set unapologetically documents how capitalism results in the oppression of animals ranging from fish and chickens to dogs, elephants, and kangaroos as well as in environmental destruction, vital resource depletion, and climate change.
Most traditional narratives portray humanity's use of other animals as natural and necessary for human social development and present the idea that capitalism is generally a positive force in the world. But is this worldview accurate, or just a convenient, easy-to-accept way to ignore what is really happening-a systematic oppression of animals that simultaneously results in environmental destruction and places insurmountable obstacles in the path to a sustainable and peaceful future?
David Nibert's Animal Oppression and Capitalism is a timely two-volume set that calls into question the capitalist system at a point in human history when inequality and the imbalance in the distribution of wealth are growing domestically and internationally. Expert contributors show why the oppression of animals-particularly the use of other animals as food-is increasingly being linked to unfavorable climate change and the depletion of fresh water and other vital resources. Readers will also learn about the tragic connections between the production of animal products and global hunger and expanded regional violence and warfare, and they will understand how many common human health problems-including heart attacks, strokes, and various forms of cancer-develop as a result of consuming animal products.
Most traditional narratives portray humanity's use of other animals as natural and necessary for human social development and present the idea that capitalism is generally a positive force in the world. But is this worldview accurate, or just a convenient, easy-to-accept way to ignore what is really happening-a systematic oppression of animals that simultaneously results in environmental destruction and places insurmountable obstacles in the path to a sustainable and peaceful future?
David Nibert's Animal Oppression and Capitalism is a timely two-volume set that calls into question the capitalist system at a point in human history when inequality and the imbalance in the distribution of wealth are growing domestically and internationally. Expert contributors show why the oppression of animals-particularly the use of other animals as food-is increasingly being linked to unfavorable climate change and the depletion of fresh water and other vital resources. Readers will also learn about the tragic connections between the production of animal products and global hunger and expanded regional violence and warfare, and they will understand how many common human health problems-including heart attacks, strokes, and various forms of cancer-develop as a result of consuming animal products.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
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With dust jacket
Illustrations
13 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 51 mm
Weight
1474 gr
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978-1-4408-5073-8 (9781440850738)
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David Nibert, a former tenant organizer and community activist, is an award-winning writer and professor at Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH, where he teaches courses on animals and society, global change, and social stratification.
Content
Volume 2 The Oppressive and Destructive Role of Capitalism
Cruel, Sue Coe
Chapter 1
Capitalism and Speciesism
John Sanbonmatsu
Chapter 2
Property, Profit, and (Re)Production: A Bird's-Eye View
pattrice jones
Circus Train Crash, Sue Coe
Chapter 3
Slaves to Entertainment: Manufacturing Consent for Orcas in Captivity
Nuria Almiron
Chapter 4
ZooBiz: The Conservation of Business?
Rob Laidlaw
Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die, Sue Coe
Chapter 5
The ABCs of Vivisection: (Nonhuman) Animals, Brutality, and Capitalism
Carol L. Glasser
Unwanted, Sue Coe
Chapter 6
"Wild Animals" as Goods, Chattel, and Perpetual Victims in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Michele Pickover
Chapter 7
Capitalism and Masculinity: Kangaroo Killing in Australia
Lara Drew
Chapter 8
The Roots of the Sixth Mass Extinction
Julie Andrzejewski
Triumph of Capitalism, Sue Coe
Chapter 9
Toward a Vegan Feminist Theory of the State
Corey Wrenn
Chapter 10
Nonhuman Animal Metaphors and the Reinforcement of Homophobia and Heterosexism
Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues
Workers of the World, Sue Coe
Chapter 11
Ideological Monkey Wrenching: Nonhuman Animal Politics beyond Suffering
Lauren Corman
Chapter 12
Capitalism and the Commodification of Animals: The Need for Critical Vegan Praxis, Animated by Anarchism!
Richard J. White
Liberator or Terrorist? Sue Coe
Chapter 13
The Business of Revolution is Counterrevolutionary
Roger Yates
Afterword: Animals, Capitalism, and Liberation
John Sorenson
Index
About the Contributors
Cruel, Sue Coe
Chapter 1
Capitalism and Speciesism
John Sanbonmatsu
Chapter 2
Property, Profit, and (Re)Production: A Bird's-Eye View
pattrice jones
Circus Train Crash, Sue Coe
Chapter 3
Slaves to Entertainment: Manufacturing Consent for Orcas in Captivity
Nuria Almiron
Chapter 4
ZooBiz: The Conservation of Business?
Rob Laidlaw
Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die, Sue Coe
Chapter 5
The ABCs of Vivisection: (Nonhuman) Animals, Brutality, and Capitalism
Carol L. Glasser
Unwanted, Sue Coe
Chapter 6
"Wild Animals" as Goods, Chattel, and Perpetual Victims in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Michele Pickover
Chapter 7
Capitalism and Masculinity: Kangaroo Killing in Australia
Lara Drew
Chapter 8
The Roots of the Sixth Mass Extinction
Julie Andrzejewski
Triumph of Capitalism, Sue Coe
Chapter 9
Toward a Vegan Feminist Theory of the State
Corey Wrenn
Chapter 10
Nonhuman Animal Metaphors and the Reinforcement of Homophobia and Heterosexism
Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues
Workers of the World, Sue Coe
Chapter 11
Ideological Monkey Wrenching: Nonhuman Animal Politics beyond Suffering
Lauren Corman
Chapter 12
Capitalism and the Commodification of Animals: The Need for Critical Vegan Praxis, Animated by Anarchism!
Richard J. White
Liberator or Terrorist? Sue Coe
Chapter 13
The Business of Revolution is Counterrevolutionary
Roger Yates
Afterword: Animals, Capitalism, and Liberation
John Sorenson
Index
About the Contributors