Book Release: Building Multispecies Resistance Against Exploitation

November 5, 2024

Building Multispecies Resistance Against Exploitation: Stories from the Frontlines of Labor and Animal Rights

by Zane Mcneill (Volume editor)
©2024 Textbook XII, 194 Pages
Science, Society & Culture
Series: Radical Animal Studies and Total Liberation, Volume 13

Pages XII, 194 Publication Year 2024
ISBN (PDF) 9781636675619
ISBN (ePUB) 9781636675626
ISBN (Softcover) 9781636675602

Zane McNeill is a scholar-activist from West Virginia and was co-manager of the collective, Rights for Animal Rights Activists (RARA). They have published edited collections with Lantern Publishing & Media, PM Press, and Routledge.

Cover
Title
Copyright
About the author
About the book
This eBook can be cited
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section 1 The Necropolitics of Laboring in the Abattoir
Unfulfilled Resistance: The Labor of Not Surviving
Violence Begets Violence: The Necessity of Solidarity with U.S. Slaughterhouse Workers
Section 2 The Animal Advocacy Nonprofit Sector and the Reification of Carceral and Racial Capitalism
Undercover Investigations and Carceral Veganism: The Limitations of “Removing the Veil”
Death or Deportation: A Nebraska-Based Study of the Exploitation of Immigrant Workers in Meatpacking Facilities and the Immigration Consequences of the Animal Protection Movement
Laboring for Nonhumans: An Autoethnography of an Animal Rights Non-Government Organization
Horses of a Different Color: Reckoning with Race in the March for Animal Rights
Section 3 Moving towards Multispecies Liberation
Abolish the Meat Industry: A Roadmap for Transforming Animal Liberation from a Single-Issue Cause into a Mass Movement
Animal Liberation, Class and Direct Action for Total Liberation
An Essay on Total Liberation: Marcusean Insights for Catalyzing Transformation
Concluding Thoughts
Notes on Contributors
Series Index

This collection posits three questions. 1) What structures of violence and oppression are experienced and shared by human and nonhuman laborers working and dying in these necropolitical facilities? 2) If there is an intersection between class and species, which, in turn incorporates race, gender, abilities, and other categories of oppression, in which ways is the contemporary Animal Activist Nonprofit Sector (AANS) reifying or disrupting these hierarchies in its mission towards animal liberation? 3) If there are classist and racist biases in AANS, how can the AANS incorporate social class in dialogue with the liberation of nonhuman animals in order to build strategic alliances and coalitions between social movements and political subjects? This book not only envisions a world without these hierarchies but offer tangible steps the AANS can take to achieve liberation for human and nonhuman animals.