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Animals as Experiencing Entities: Theories and Historical Narratives Edited by Michael J. Glover and Les Mitchell
PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan
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ISBN-10 : 3031464559
ISBN-13 : 978-3031464553
INFORMATION
This volume explores the experiences of those with little or no
power―usually, although not exclusively, animals. The theme of animals as
experiencing entities is what links the chapters and characterises the
volume. Broadly each author in this volume contributes in one of two ways.
The first group, in Section 1, theoretically engages animal subjectivity,
animal experiences, and ways in which these are to some extent accessible
and knowable to humans. The second group of authors, in Section 2, offer
narrative accounts about specific animals or groups of animals and explore
to some extent their subjective historical experiences. In summary, the
first section diversely theorises about animal experiences, while the second
section’s authors assume animals’ subjective experiences and construct
narratives that take into account how animals might have subjectively
experienced historical phenomena.
REVIEWS
“In an era when the collective human footprint threatens not only the future
of other species, but our own, we need a radical reassessment of our place
in the pantheon of life. Specifically, we need a rebuke of anthropocentrism.
This book―with contributions from a variety of academic
disciplines―delivers.”
~ Jonathan Balcombe, author of
What a Fish Knows and
Super Fly
“Science clearly shows that numerous nonhuman animals are sentient, feeling
beings who care about their own well-being and quality of life along with
that of their family and friends. For decades we've known that animals'
inner lives are complex, rich, and deep and this book makes the inarguable
case that it's high time to use what we know on their behalf.”
~ Marc Bekoff, author of
The Animals' Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and
Coexistence in the Human Age and
The Emotional Lives of Animals)
“A groundbreaking collection of works that foreground the treatment,
experiences, and standpoints of other animals inhistory. A brilliant and
much needed advance in scholarship promoting a just and non-oppressive world
for all.”
~ David Nibert, author of
Animal Oppressionand Human Violence:
Domesecration, Capitalism and Global ConflictABOUT THE EDITORS
Michael Glover is an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal
Ethics and a member of the Australasian Animal Studies Association.
Les Mitchell is a Research Fellow at the International Studies Group,
University of the Free State. He is also a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for
Animal Ethics.
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