Book Release: Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination: Essays in Solidarity and Total Liberation

Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination: Essays in Solidarity and Total Liberation

by Nathan Poirier (Volume editor) Sarah Tomasello (Volume editor) Amber E. George (Volume editor)
©2024 Textbook XVI, 218 Pages
Science, Society & Culture
Series: Radical Animal Studies and Total Liberation, Volume 12
Pages XVI, 218
Publication Year 2024
ISBN (PDF) 9781636670751
ISBN (ePUB) 9781636670768
ISBN (Hardcover) 9781636672229
ISBN (Softcover) 9781636672236
DOI 10.3726/b21322

Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination: Essays in Solidarity and Total Liberation pushes critical animal studies forward and outward by making new connections to movements and ideas that have been little engaged with in publication to the present. This book challenges critical animal studies adherents to expand their efforts of solidarity, mutual aid, and activism. Contributors to this volume extend invitations to those not familiar with critical animal studies to welcome them in with gestures of solidarity towards total liberation. Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination does not shy away from controversial topics but critically engages with them using care and tact. This is not controversy for the sake of being provocative, but not being afraid to target root causes of oppression. This book works toward coalition building to resist the current violence and build peaceful communities.

Nathan Poirier is a professional tutor at Lansing Community College, has a graduate specialization in women’s and gender studies, master’s degrees in anthrozoology and mathematics, and is co-editor of Emerging New Voices in Critical Animal Studies: Vegan Studies for Total Liberation.

Sarah Tomasello received her B.A. in Anthropology and Religious Studies and an M.S. in Anthrozoology from Canisius College. She has published in Green Theory and Praxis, and book chapters in Gender and Sexuality in Critical Animal Studies and Emerging New Voices in Critical Animal Studies.

Amber E. George, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Galen College. Dr. George is a board member for Critical Animal Studies and editor of Journal for Critical Animal Studies. Dr. George has co-edited numerous books on critical animal studies.

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Introduction: Imagining with Abandon
• Part I. New Movement Connections: Trans Liberation and Human Population
• 1 Connecting Transgender Studies and Critical Animal Studies
• 2 Anthropogenic Monsters: A CAS and Liberating Perspective on the Contemporary Production of Human and Nonhuman Monsters
• 3 Animal Liberation through Procreative Justice
• 4 Antinatalism, Veganism, and the Imperative of a Total Liberationist Perspective
• 5 Procreation and Aviation: The Elephants in the Vegan Room
• Part II. New Convergences and Extensions
• 6 Infrastructural Approach to Urban Street Animals of Istanbul: Contestation, Violence, Affectivity, and Spatial Visibility in Metropolis
• 7 Ida B. Wells’ Historical and Contemporary Legacy, and Relevance to Critical Animal Studies
• 8 Listening to and Learning with African Anarchism, Black Anarchism, and Anarcho-Blackness
• 9 Vegan Mutual Aid: Anarchist Solidarity in Times of Crisis
• 10 Create Meat Though the World May Perish: A Vegan Critique of In Vitro Meat and Clean Milk
• 11 The Others Called ‘Humans’ Amidst the Many: Anthroponomy and the Planetary Problem
• 12 Post-Scarcity Veganarchism
• Afterword
• Notes on Contributors
• Index
• Series Index