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For too long the questions of how we treat animals and how we treat our fellow human beings have been considered separately. But the contours of the current animal crisis make it clear - the harms we are inflicting on the nonhuman world have devastating impacts on humans: zoonotic diseases caused by habitat destruction and animal exploitation have brought human life to a standstill; mass production of animals for food is poisoning the ground and contributing to catastrophic climate change.Animal Crisis responds to this fractured relationship between human beings and animals by exploring the complex social and political contexts in which animals are harmed, revealing the connections between our callous and cruel attitudes to the animal world and those same attitudes towards vulnerable human groups.Marking a stark contrast to traditional theories in animal ethics, Alice Crary and Lori Gruen argue that there can be no animal liberation without human emancipation. Borrowing from critical social theory and ecofeminism, they build a framework for understanding and combatting the structural forces that shape and enable the diminishment of some for the advantage of a few, isolating critical resources that are crucial for animal and human emancipatory struggles alike.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy

• Full title: Animal Crisis - A New Critical Theory
• Author: Alice Crary, Lori Gruen
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136
• EAN: 9781509549689
• ISBN: 1509549684
• ID: 37151339
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Weight: 248 g
• Dimensions: 138 × 214 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. May 2022

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