ISSN: 1948-352X
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VOLUME I, ISSUE I (2003)
Edited By: Steven Best, Chief Editor
The History and Philosophy of the Center on Animal Liberation Affairs (Now ICAS)
The Editorial Board
The Son of Patriot Act and the Revenge Against Democracy
Steven Best
Teaching Animal Rights at the University: Philosophy and Practice
Julie Andrzejewski
Towards Ecopedagogy: Weaving a Broad-based Pedagogy of Liberation for Animals, Nature, and the Oppressed People of the Earth
Richard Kahn
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Species as a Social Construction: Is Species Morally Relevant?
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VOLUME II, ISSUE I (2004)
Introduction
Steven Best, Chief Editor
The Role of Radical Animal Activists as Information Providers to Consumers
Joshua Frank
Two Movements and Human-Animal Continuity: Positions, Assumptions, Contradictions
Barbara Noske
Who is the Legally Defined Terrorist: HLS or SHAC?
Tim Phillips
(Im)possible Witness: Viewing PETA’s “Holocaust on Your Plate”
Nathan Snaza
Defining Terrorism
Steven Best and Anthony J. Nocella, II
Listen To Us!: A Dialogue For Solidarity With Lawrence Sampson, American Indian Movement Spokesperson
Anthony J. Nocella, II and Richard Kahn
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VOLUME II, ISSUE II (2004)
Introduction
Steven Best, Chief Editor
A Tale of Two Holocausts
Karen Davis
Hunting Tradition: Treaties, Law, and Subsistence Killing
Lisa Kemmerer
The Failure Of the Kantian Theory of Indirect Duties to Animals
Heather Fieldhouse
A Critique of the Kantian Theory of Indirect Moral Duties to Animals
Jeffrey Sebo
Utilitarianism, Animals, and the Problem of Numbers
Stephen Hanson
Trial By Fire: The SHAC7, Globalization, and the Future of Democracy
Steven Best and Richard Kahn
Response to Nathan Snaza’s “(Im)possible Witness: Viewing PETA’s “Holocaust on Your Plate,’” (published in ‘Animal Liberation Philosophy and Policy Journal,’ Volume II Issue 1)
Kathy Guillermo
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VOLUME III, ISSUE I (2005)
Edited by: Steven Best, Chief Editor
The Power of the Visual
Kathie Jenni
Beyond Orthodoxy
Susanna Flavia Boxall
Luddites or Limits? Animal Rights Activists Attitudes Towards Science
Nikola Taylor
Reconsidering Zoë and Bios: A Brief Comment on Nathan Snaza’s (Im)possible Witness” and Kathy Guillermo’s “Response”
Richard Kahn
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VOLUME IV, ISSUE I (2006)
Introduction
Steven Best, Chief Editor
Animals in Disasters: Issues for Animal Liberation Activism and Policy
Leslie Irvine
Transparency and Animal Research Regulation: An Australian Case Study
Siobhan O’Sullivan
The Rights of Animal Persons
David Sztybel
BOOK REVIEWS
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Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues, by Marc Bekoff
Lisa Kemmerer
The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter, by Peter Singer and Jim Mason (2006)
Richard Kahn
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VOLUME V, ISSUE I (2007)
Introduction
Steven Best, Chief Editor
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Introducing Critical Animal Studies
Steven Best, Anthony J. Nocella, II, Richard Kahn, Carol Gigliotti, and Lisa Kemmerer
Extrinsic and Intrinsic Arguments: Strategies for Promoting Animal Rights
Katherine Perlo
Animal Rights Law: Fundamentalism versus Pragmatism
David Sztybel
Unmasking the Animal Liberation Front Using Critical Pedagogy: Seeing the ALF for Who They Really Are
Anthony J. Nocella, II
The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: New, Improved, and ACLU-Approved
Steven Best
BOOK REVIEWS
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In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave, by Peter Singer ed. (2005)
Reviewed by Matthew Calarco
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy, by Matthew Scully (2003)
Reviewed by Lisa Kemmerer
Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?: Reflections on the Liberation of Animals, by Steven Best and Anthony J. Nocella, II, eds. (2004)
Reviewed by Lauren E. Eastwood
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VOLUME V, ISSUE II (2007)
Introduction
Steven Best, Chief Editor and Carol Gigliotti, Guest Editor
Lev Tolstoy and the Freedom to Choose One’s Own Path
Andrea Rossing McDowell
Jewish Ethics and Nonhuman Animals
Lisa Kemmerer
Deliberative Democracy, Direct Action, and Animal Advocacy
Stephen D’Arcy
Should Anti-Vivisectionists Boycott Animal-Tested Medicines?
Katherine Perlo
A Note on Pedagogy: Humane Education Making a Difference
Piers Bierne and Meena Alagappan
BOOK REVIEWS
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, by Eric Schlosser (2005)
Reviewed by Lisa Kemmerer
Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust, by Charles Patterson (2002)
Reviewed by Steven Best
The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA, by Norm Phelps (2007)
Reviewed by Steven Best
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VOLUME VI, ISSUE I (2008)
Edited by: Anthony J. Nocella, II
Rhyme, Reason, and Animal Rights:
Elizabeth Costello’s Regressive View of Animal Consciousness and its Implications for Animal Liberation
Norm Phelps
Pp. 1 – 16
Three Fragments from a Biopolitical History of Animals: Questions of Body, Soul, and the Body Politic in Homer, Plato, and Aristotle
Dinesh Wadiwel
Pp. 17 – 31
‘Most Farmers Prefer Blondes’: The Dynamics of Anthroparchy in Animals’ Becoming Meat
Erika Cudworth
Pp. 32 – 45
DIALOGUE
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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
David Sztybel
Pp. 46 – 52
Fundamentalism or Pragmatism?
Katherine Perlo
Pp. 53 – 60
BOOK REVIEWS
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Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective, by Marti Kheel, (2008)
Lynda Birke
Pp. 61 – 67
Confronting Cruelty: Moral orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement, by Lyle Munro (2005)
Nik Taylor
Pp. 68 – 70
Capers in the Churchyard: Animal Advocacy in the Age of Terror, by Lee Hall (2006)
Sarat Colling
Pp. 71 – 78
Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth, by Steven Best, and Anthony J. Nocella, II, eds. (2006)
Sarat Colling
Pp. 79 – 82
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VOLUME VII, ISSUE I (2009)
Steven Best
Pp. 9 – 52
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“Bend or Break”: Unraveling the Construction of Children and Animals as Competitors in Nineteenth-Century English Anti-Cruelty Movements
Monica Flegel
Pp. 53-73
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From War Elephants to Circus Elephants: Humanity’s Abuse of Elephants
Mike Jaynes
Pp. 74-106
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Mythologies and Commodifications of Dominion in The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan
Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
Pp. 107 – 131
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Rituals of Dominionism in Human-Nonhuman Relations: Bullfighting to Hunting, Circuses to Petting
Roger Yates
Pp. 132 – 171
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The Quest for a Boundless Ethic: A Reassessment of Albert Schweitzer
Norm Phelps
Pp. 172 – 193
BOOK REVIEW
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Redemption: The Myth of Pet Overpopulation and the No-Kill Revolution in America, by Nathan J. Winograd (2007)
Reviewed by Adam J. Kochanowicz
Pp. 194 – 201
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VOLUME VII, ISSUE II (2009)
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Editorial Board, ICAS Report, and Editorial
Richard J. White, Chief Editor
Pp. 1-8
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The Animal Voice Behind the Animal Fable
Namma Harel
Pp. 9-21
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The Broken Promises of Monsters: Haraway, Animals and the Humanist Legacy
Zipporah Weisberg
Pp. 22-62
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The Great Unity: Daoism, Nonhuman Animals, and Human Ethics
Lisa Kemmerer
Pp. 63-83
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Normative Sociology: The Intuitionist Crisis and Animals as Absent Referents
Part I of II essays on animals and normative sociology
David Sztybel
Pp. 84-128
BOOK REVIEW
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Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World: A Guide for Activists and their Allies, by pattrice jones (2007)
Reviewed by: Lisa Kemmerer
Pp. 129-137
FILM REVIEWS
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Behind the Mask (2006) Uncaged Films and ARME
Reviewed by: Sarat Colling and Anthony J. Nocella, II
Pp. 138-143
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Winged Migration (2001) Sony Picture Classics
Reviewed by: Nicole R. Pallotta
Pp. 144-152
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