Intervention or Protest: Acting for Nonhuman Animals Contributor(s): Garmendia Da Trindade, Gabriel (Editor), Woodhall, Andrew (Editor), Meijer, Eva (Author) |
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ISBN: 1622730623 ISBN-13: 9781622730629 Publisher: Vernon Press OUR PRICE: $86.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Political Science |
Series: Critical Perspectives on Social Science |
Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6" W x 9" (1.55 lbs) 412 pages |
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Publisher Description: Within current political, social, and ethical debates - both in academia and society - activism and how individuals should approach issues facing nonhuman animals, have become increasingly important, 'hot' issues. Individuals, groups, advocacy agencies, and governments have all espoused competing ideas for how we should approach nonhuman use and exploitation. Ought we proceed through liberation? Abolition? Segregation? Integration? As nonhuman liberation, welfare, and rights' groups increasingly interconnect and identify with other 'social justice movements', resolutions to these questions have become increasingly entangled with questions of what justice and our ethical commitments demand on this issue, and the topic has become increasingly significant and divisive. The book considers how this question, and contemporary issues facing nonhumans (such as experimentation, hunting, and factory farming) should be answered by drawing on both theory and practice in order to provide grounded, yet actionable, ways forward. Indicatively, the book covers topics such as: The book is therefore intended not only to provide new and interesting insight into the area and important contemporary discussions, but also to constructively aid the nonhuman movement and unite theory and practice on the crucial issues. With the nonhuman movement and its past approaches currently being questioned as a success, more nonhumans than ever being harmed and exploited, and a growing gulf between activists and scholars, this book will not only be a timely addition to the literature, but an attempt to bridge these gaps and move both theory and practice - and thus the movement and field - forward. |
Contributor Bio(s): Garmendia Da Trindade, Gabriel: - Gabriel works on the intersection between interspecies ethics and the ethics of war and self-defence. He is the author of Animais como Pessoas: A Abordagem Abolicionista de Gary L. Francione (Animals as Persons: Gary L. Francione's Abolitionist Approach) and author/ co-author of more than 30 peer-reviewed papers and book reviews in Brazilian Philosophy Journals. He is also currently working on a Brazilian-Portuguese translation of Tom Regan's seminal work The Case for Animal Rights.Woodhall, Andrew: - Andrew works on anthropocentrism and global interspecies ethics, and has presented on these subjects at the Minding Animals Conference 3 in New Delhi and at the MANCEPT Political Workshops. He has published a review of Anna L. Peterson's Being Animal in the journal Ethical Theory and Moral Practice and a chapter on anthropocentrism in Animals in Human Society, edited by Daniel Moorehead. |