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Global
warming, acid rain, deforestation, air and water pollution are but a few
of the overwhelming indicators that the earth's health is worsening. For
decades, environmental groups have been resisting the destructive trends
set by industry and government, but as the social and political climate
has changed, popular protest movements have become less and less effective.
As the earth's situation worsens, those opposing its destruction have
out of necessity become increasingly militant. Corporate and federal properties
have been vandalized, set ablaze-even bombed-and the government is meeting
this new brand of environmental militance with an increasingly heavy hand. Includes essays by Marilyn Buck, Robert Jensen, John Zerzan, Ashanti Alston, Jeffrey "Free" Luers, Derrick Jensen, Ann Hansen, and a preface by Bron Taylor. ________________________
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What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity argues that nonhuman animals, and stories about them, have always been closely bound up with the conceptual and material work of modernity. In the first half of the book, Philip Armstrong examines the function of animals and animal representations in four classic narratives: Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travels, Frankenstein and Moby-Dick. He then goes on to explore how these stories have been re-worked, in ways that reflect shifting social and environmental forces, by later novelists, including H.G. Wells, Upton Sinclair, D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Brigid Brophy, Bernard Malamud, Timothy Findley, Will Self, Margaret Atwood, Yann Martel and J.M. Coetzee. What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity also introduces readers to new developments in the study of human-animal relations. It does so by attending both to the significance of animals to humans, and to animals’ own purposes or designs; to what animals mean to us, and to what they mean to do, and how they mean to live. ________________________
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Volume
VII, Issue 1, 2009 ESSAYS The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: Putting Theory into Action and Animal Liberation into Higher Education Bend or Break: Unraveling the Construction of Children and Animals as Competitors in Nineteenth-Century English Anti-Cruelty Movements From War Elephants to Circus Elephants: Humanity’s Abuse of Elephants Mythologies and Commodifications of Dominion in The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan Rituals of Dominionism in Human-Nonhuman Relations: Bullfighting to Hunting, Circuses to Petting The Quest for a Boundless Ethic: A Reassessment of Albert Schweitzer BOOK REVIEWS Redemption: The Myth of Pet Overpopulation and the No-Kill Revolution in America, Winograd, Nathan J. (Almaden Books 2007)
RECENT ARCHIVED ISSUES Volume
VI, Issue 1, 2008 Rhyme,
Reason, and Animal Rights: Three Fragments
from a Biopolitical History of Animals: Questions of Body, Soul, and the
Body Politic in Homer, Plato, and Aristotle ‘Most
Farmers Prefer Blondes’: The Dynamics of Anthroparchy in Animals’
Becoming Meat
Response
to Katherine Perlo’s “Extrinsic and Intrinsic Arguments: Strategies
for Promoting Animal Rights,” in Journal for Critical Animal Studies
Vol. V, Issue 1, 2007 Fundamentalism
or Pragmatism? BOOK REVIEWS: Book Review:
Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective, Kheel, Marti (Rowman Littlefield
2008) Book Review:
Confronting Cruelty: Moral orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights
Movement, Munro, Lyle (Brill Academic 2005) Book Review:
Capers in the Churchyard: Animal Advocacy in the Age of Terror, Hall,
Lee (Nectar Bat Press 2006) Book Review:
Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth, Best, Steven, and
Nocella, Anthony J., II, ed. (AK Press 2006)
Introduction Lev Tolstoy
and the Freedom to Choose One’s Own Path Jewish Ethics
and Nonhuman Animals Deliberative
Democracy, Direct Action, and Animal Advocacy Should Anti-Vivisectionists
Boycott Animal-Tested Medicines? Book Reviews: Fast Food
Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Eternal
Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust by Charles Patterson The Longest
Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA by Norm Phelps |
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search of Consistency: Ethics and Animals
