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Political Animals and Animal Politics

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Investigates the specific place of animals and the non-human in the political realm
  • Builds bridges between mainstream and environmental political theory and animal ethics
  • provides a realistic assessment of the hopes and doubts of animal rights skeptics and enthusiasts

Part of the book series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series (PMAES)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Introducing Animal Politics and Political Animals

    1. Introducing Animal Politics and Political Animals

      • Marcel Wissenburg, David Schlosberg
      Pages 1-14
  3. The Politicization of the Animal Advocacy Discourse

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
    2. An Agenda for Animal Political Theory

      • Marcel Wissenburg
      Pages 30-43
    3. Public Reason and Animal Rights

      • Chad Flanders
      Pages 44-57
  4. The Rapprochement between Animal Ethics and Ecologism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
    2. Ecological Justice for the Anthropocene

      • David Schlosberg
      Pages 75-89
    3. Animal Deliberation

      • Clemens Driessen
      Pages 90-104
  5. The Introduction of Laws and Institutions for the Benefit of Animals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
    2. Animal Party Politics in Parliament

      • Simon Otjes
      Pages 107-122
    3. The Limits of Species Advocacy

      • Kurtis Boyer
      Pages 123-134
    4. The Rights of Nature: Theory and Practice

      • Mihnea Tanasescu
      Pages 150-163
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 164-180

About this book

While much has been written on environmental politics on the one hand, and animal ethics and welfare on the other, animal politics is underexamined. There are key political implications in the increase of animal protection laws, the rights of nature, and political parties dedicated to animals.

Reviews

“This collection of articles is the first edited book attempting to get to grips with it, and because of this it is a welcome addition to the literature. … The editors are to be congratulated, then, on putting together this collection. … All in all, then, this book is a useful first-step in articulating the field of animal politics.” (Robert Garner, Environmental Values, Vol. 25 (4), August, 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Marcel Wissenburg

  • University of Sydney, Australia

    David Schlosberg

About the editors

Manuel Arias Maldonado, University of Málaga, Spain Kurtis Boyer, Lund University, Sweden Clemens Driessen, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Chad Flanders, Saint Louis University School of Law, USA Simon Otjes, Groningen University, The Netherlands Christie Smith, University of Exeter, UK Per-Anders Svärd, Stockholm University, Sweden Mihnea Tanasescu, Free University, Brussels, Belgium

Bibliographic Information

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