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

Violence and Harm in the Animal Industrial Complex

Human-Animal Entanglements

By: Gwen Hunnicutt (Editor), Richard Twine (Editor), Kenneth Mentor (Editor)

Paperback | 12 November 2024

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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 socio-economic 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.

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"Violence, of course, is not only found on the streets, in pubs and taverns, or in domestic/household settings. It is frequently directed at different types of nonhuman animals (NHAs). However, critical criminologists have not been fleet at foot in addressing this major world-wide problem. Thus, this ground-breaking anthology helps fill a major research gap. It is destined to become a classic that should be mandatory reading for all progressive criminologists concerned about the protection and preservation of NHAs." - Dr. Walter S. DeKeseredy, Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Center on Violence and Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University

"The volume strikes the right balance between theoretical and applied content and showcases the impressive expertise of scholars across multiple disciplines and countries. This volume will be of interest to many, including (critical) animal studies scholars, ecofeminists, and political economists (to name but a few), and more generally, anyone interested in developing a future where human actions no longer threaten the species and environments around us." - Professor Amy Fitzgerald, University of Windsor

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