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Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory

Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory

Dekoven, Marianne
Lundblad, Michael

Paperback

General AnimalsArt & Popular CultureZoology

ISBN10: 0231152833
ISBN13: 9780231152839
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Dec 20 2011
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

Why has the academy struggled to link advocacy for animals to advocacy for various human groups? Within cultural studies, in which advocacy can take the form of a theoretical intervention, scholars have resisted arguments that add species to race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and other human-identity categories as a site for critical analysis.

Species Matters considers whether cultural studies should pay more attention to animal advocacy and whether, in turn, animal studies should pay more attention to questions raised by cultural theory. The contributors to this volume explore these issues particularly in relation to the humane treatment of animals and various human groups and the implications, both theoretical and practical, of blurring the distinction between the human and the animal. They address important questions raised by the history of representing humans as the only animal capable of acting humanely and provide a framework for reconsidering the nature of humane discourse, whether in theory, literary and cultural texts, or current advocacy movements outside of the academy.

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