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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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