Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, Intersections and Hierarchies in a Multispecies World Contributor(s): Gillespie, Kathryn (Editor), Collard, Rosemary-Claire (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1138791504 ISBN-13: 9781138791503 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Science | Earth Sciences - Geography - Social Science | Human Geography - Science | Life Sciences - Zoology - General |
Dewey: 591.5 |
LCCN: 2014031974 |
Series: Routledge Human-Animal Studies |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.45 lbs) 222 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Critical Animal Geographies provides new geographical perspectives on critical animal studies, exploring the spatial, political, and ethical dimensions of animals' lived experience and human-animal encounter. It works toward a more radical politics and theory directed at the shifting boundary between human and animal. Chapters draw together feminist, political-economic, post-humanist, anarchist, post-colonial, and critical race literatures with original case studies in order to see how efforts by some humans to control and order life - human and not - violate, constrain, and impinge upon others. Central to all chapters is a commitment to grappling with the stakes - violence, death, life, autonomy - of human-animal encounters. Equally, the work in the collection addresses head-on the dominant forces shaping and dependent on these encounters: capitalism, racism, colonialism, and so on. In doing so, the book pushes readers to confront how human-animal relations are mixed up with overlapping axes of power and exploitation, including gender, race, class, and species. |