The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 736
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ISBN-10 : 9780199927159
ISBN-13 : 0199927154
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies by : Linda Kalof

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies written by Linda Kalof and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intellectual struggles with the "animal question"-- how humans can rethink and reconfigure their relationships with other animals-- first began to take hold in the 1970s. Over the next forty years, scholars from a wide range of fields would make sweeping reevaluations of the relationship between humans and other animals. The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies brings these diverse evaluations together for the first time, paying special attention to the commodification of animals, the degradation of the natural world and a staggering loss of animal habitat and species extinction, and the increasing need for humans to coexist with other animals in urban, rural and natural contexts. Linda Kalof maps these themes into the five major categories that structure this volume: Animals in the Landscape of Law, Politics and Public Policy; Animal Intentionality, Agency and Reflexive Thinking; Animals as Objects in Science, Food, Spectacle and Sport; Animals in Cultural Representations; and Animals in Ecosystems. Written by international scholars with backgrounds in philosophy, law, history, English, art, sociology, geography, archaeology, environmental studies, cultural studies, and animal advocacy, the thirty chapters in this handbook investigate key issues and concepts central to understanding our current relationship with other animals and the potential for coexistence in an ecological community of living beings.


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