ABSTRACT

Prefaced with a brief introduction to the field of animal studies, the text explores the key influential terms, topics and debates which have had a major impact on the field, and that students are most likely to encounter in their animal studies classes.

Animal Studies provides a guide to key concepts in the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of animal studies, laid out in A-Z format. While Human–Animal Studies and Critical Animal Studies are the main frameworks that inform the bulk of the writings in animal studies and the key concepts discussed in the volume, other approaches such as anthrozoology and cognitive ethology are also explored. The entries in the volume attend to the differences in ongoing debates among scholars and activists, showing that what is commonly called “animal studies” is far from a unified body of work. A full bibliography of sources is included at the end of the book, along with an extensive index.

The book will be a valuable guide to undergraduate and postgraduate students in geography, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, women’s studies, and other related disciplines. Seasoned researchers will find the book helpful, when researching topics outside of their specialization. Outside of academia, it will be of interest to activists, as well as professional organizations.

 

entry |2 pages

Abolitionism

entry |3 pages

Absent Referent

entry |4 pages

Activism

entry |3 pages

Agency

entry |1 pages

Animal–Industrial Complex

entry |3 pages

Animal Liberation

entry |3 pages

Animal Welfare and Animal Rights

entry |3 pages

Animot

entry |4 pages

Anthropocene

entry |3 pages

Anthropocentrism

entry |3 pages

Anthropological Machine

entry |2 pages

Anthropomorphism

entry |2 pages

Art

entry |4 pages

Becoming-Animal

entry |4 pages

Biopolitics

entry |4 pages

Cafo

entry |3 pages

Capitalism

entry |2 pages

Captivity

entry |3 pages

Carnophallogocentrism

entry |3 pages

Climate Change

entry |4 pages

Colonialism

entry |4 pages

Companion Species

entry |3 pages

Death

entry |3 pages

Dehumanization

entry |2 pages

Disability

entry |2 pages

Empathy

entry |2 pages

Entertainment

entry |4 pages

Environmentalism

entry |2 pages

Equal Consideration

entry |4 pages

Ethics

entry |3 pages

Ethology

entry |3 pages

Evolutionary Theory

entry |4 pages

Experimentation

entry |3 pages

Extinction

entry |4 pages

Feminism

entry |4 pages

Human/Animal Distinction

entry |2 pages

Hunting

entry |4 pages

Intersectionality

entry |3 pages

Invasive Species

entry |4 pages

Language

entry |3 pages

Law

entry |4 pages

Meat

entry |4 pages

Mind

entry |2 pages

More-Than-Human

entry |2 pages

Ontology/Ontological

entry |3 pages

Pets

entry |3 pages

Play

entry |4 pages

Posthumanism

entry |4 pages

Queer

entry |4 pages

Race

entry |4 pages

Rewilding

entry |3 pages

Roadkill

entry |2 pages

Sentience

entry |3 pages

Shelters and Sanctuaries

entry |2 pages

Speciesism

entry |3 pages

Total Liberation

entry |4 pages

Veganism and Vegetarianism

entry |3 pages

War

entry |3 pages

Wildlife

entry |3 pages

Work

entry |3 pages

World

entry |2 pages

Zoopolis

entry |3 pages

Zoos