Reading and Media Resources

Examination of the social and cultural meaning of animals expressed through acquisition, use, and other consumer processes, becoming commodities and possessions at an important moment in the...

Artist, social critic and disability rights and animal rights advocate Sunaura Taylor examines the question of how physical and mental capabilities contribute to our understanding of what it means to...

A deep dive into one of the thorniest questions in contemporary animal activism: What are the differences, and similarities, between violent animal exploitation and abortion of human fetuses and how...

Reacting to the treatment of animals and the environment as mutually exclusive objects of concern, sets forth a nature ethic that conceives of nonhuman animals as active subjects who are...

This critique of the prevailing view within the animal protection movement regarding the need for more attention from the criminal justice system regarding crimes against animals and more severe...

This brief monograph, though dated, is still relevant in describing the ways in which the welfare of farmed animals has been removed as a subject of legal regulation in the United States. Also in Law...

Bestselling observational reporting of animal behavior, along with reportage on neurological discoveries. Emphasizes the similarity between human and nonhuman consciousness, self-awareness...

Offers analysis and commentary on the main topics in Canadian animal law, highlighting its intersections with other practice areas like family, criminal, and environmental law.

Collection of essays  examining the legal and ethical considerations of animal treatment and rights in Canada, including topics such as animal cruelty laws, indigenous peoples' rights, and...

An analysis of the question of animal life under capitalism rooted in Laruellean non-philosophy, Marxism, feminism, and Lacanian psychoanalysis that concludes that human emancipation requires animal...