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Animals in the Anthropocene: Critical perspectives on non-human futures (Animal Publics) by Human Animal Research Network Editorial Collective (ed.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Animals in the Anthropocene: Critical perspectives on non-human futures (Animal Publics) about?

Much of the discussion on the Anthropocene has centred upon anthropogenic global warming and climate change and the urgency of political and social responses to this problem. Animals in the Anthropocene: critical perspectives on non-human futures shows that assessing the effects of human activity on the planet requires more than just the quantification of ecological impacts towards the categorisation of geological eras. It requires recognising and evaluating a wide range of territories and terrains, full of non-human agents and interests and meanings, exposed to the profound forces of change that give their name to the Anthropocene. It is from the perspective of 'the animal question' - asking how best to think and live with animals - that Animals in the Anthropocene seeks to interrogate the Anthropocene as a concept, discourse, and state of affairs. The term Anthropocene is a useful device for drawing attention to the devastations wreaked by anthropocentrism and advancing a relational model for human and non-human life. The effects on animals of human political and economic systems continue to expand and intensify, in numerous domains and in ways that not only cause suffering a

Who reads Animals in the Anthropocene: Critical perspectives on non-human futures (Animal Publics)?

Author

Human Animal Research Network Editorial Collective (ed.)

Publisher

Sydney University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781743324400

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Nature, Science, Stem