ABSTRACT
Speciesism concerns normalized repressive attitudes and practices of humans towards other species, and it relates to other forms of oppression, such as sexism and racism. Speciesist practices often involve or lead to 'theriocide', a term coined by Piers Beirne to describe human killing of non-human animals. Speciesism is a central concept in green and eco-global criminologies, which include not only environmental harms and human victimization, but also non-human animals as victims of harm and foci of study. The focus on speciesism as an oppressive social phenomenon has created a tension between the animal welfarist movement and animal rights advocates and activists. Nibert understands speciesism to be part of a repressive ideology that sustains industrialized exploitation and the increased use of nonhuman animals that far exceeds practices pre-industrialization. Both speciesism and theriocide are concepts that express 'opposition to human dominion over animals'.
