Why We Love and Exploit Animals: Bridging Insights from Academia and Advocacy

Synopsis

This unique book brings together research and theorizing on human-animal relations, animal advocacy, and the factors underlying exploitative attitudes and behaviors towards animals. Why do we both love and exploit animals? Assembling some of the world’s leading academics and with insights and experiences gleaned from those on the front lines of animal advocacy, this pioneering collection breaks new ground, synthesizing scientific perspectives and empirical findings. The authors show the complexities and paradoxes in human-animal relations and reveal the factors shaping compassionate versus exploitative attitudes and behaviors towards animals. Exploring topical issues such as meat consumption, intensive farming, speciesism, and effective animal advocacy, this book demonstrates how we both value and devalue animals, how we can address animal suffering, and how our thinking about animals is connected to our thinking about human intergroup relations and the dehumanization of human groups. This is essential reading for students, scholars, and professionals in the social and behavioral sciences interested in human-animal relations, and will also strongly appeal to members of animal rights organizations, animal rights advocates, policy makers, and charity workers.

Copyright:

2020

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781351181426

Related ISBNs:

9781351181440, 9780815396642, 9780815396642, 9780815396659, 9780815396659

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

12/12/19

Copyrighted By:

Kristof Dhont, Gordon Hodson

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Science, Animals, Psychology, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Kristof Dhont

Edited by:

Gordon Hodson