Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, Intersections and Hierarchies in a Multispecies World

Kathryn Gillespie (Curatore)

Rosemary-Claire Collard (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015

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.

• Curatore: Kathryn Gillespie, Rosemary-Claire Collard
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Human-Animal Studies Series
• Anno: 2015
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 222 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 476 gr.
• EAN: 9781138791503

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