ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the various chapters of this book. This book calls for taking seriously the suffering and deaths of humans and animals together and, in drawing these connections, to ask the hard questions about how violence that we may or may not readily acknowledge in human contexts also gets reproduced, normalized, and invisibilized when the subjects are nonhuman. It discusses how we live, what choices we make, and how we respond to political economic conditions, inequality, hierarchy, privilege, and power. The book explores what ethical commitments we make and carry through in our lives and work. It also discusses the moment of response and resistance, about driving cracks into the dominant order of violence and killing and imagining new ways of being, relationally, in the world.
