Violence and Harm in the Animal Industrial Complex: Human-Animal Entanglements

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Synopsis
This book grapples with multispecies violent exploitations embedded in corridors of power within the animal-industrial complex (A-IC). The A-IC is a useful framework for understanding how exploitative human-animal relations are central to capitalist relations and profit accumulation. ‘A-IC-related-violence’ – killing animals for economic gain – has a ripple effect which results in profound consequences for humans as well.This collection of international scholarship explores topics as varied as how A-IC-related-violence is reproduced and sustained through rapidly changing discursive strategies, ideological architecture, and particular cultural forms that elide and legitimize animal cruelty. Several chapters expose collusion between governments, corporations, and academia as central to maintaining dominance of A-IC-related-violence. Other scholars explore the trouble with making the conditions of “meat” production visible – of de-fetishizing meat commodities. The scholarship critically explores dynamic components of an apparatus that enables A-IC-related-violence and harm but is situated within the capitalist order and charts A-IC-related-violence as the key profit-generating practice in select domains of the A-IC.The book unmasks inherent cruelties in a proliferation of social forms that ultimately reflect a socioeconomic system that centralizes capitalist life characterized by endless growth, competitiveness, and profligate consumption. This is essential reading for those engaged in critical criminology, green criminology, violence studies, peace and conflict studies, critical animal studies, or animal rights-oriented scholars.
Copyright:
2025

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ISBN-13:
9781040254400
Related ISBNs:
9781032579771, 9781003441908, 9781040254370, 9781032579788
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
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Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Gwen Hunnicutt, Richard Twine and Kenneth Mentor
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Animals, Cooking, Food and Wine, Outdoors and Nature, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Earth Sciences, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Gwen Hunnicutt
Edited by:
Richard Twine
Edited by:
Kenneth Mentor

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